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Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US to buy up to 1M BTC (decrypt.co)
19 days ago Bitcoin Republican Senate

Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC for exchange trading, with both available in Thailand on March 16, signaling growing stablecoin adoption (decrypt.co)
20 days ago Thailand

Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the company without taking enforcement action, adding “NFTs are not securities” (decrypt.co)
25 days ago

Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B “over three years” (decrypt.co)
2025-1-18 Trump

Sony launches Soneium Ethereum L2 platform for creators, after a four-month test that drew 14M+ users; Blockscout: Soneium testnet processed ~47M transactions (decrypt.co)
2025-1-14 Sony Ethereum

Court filing: the US government got final approval in the Northern District of California to liquidate 69,370 BTC, worth $6.5B, seized in its Silk Road probe (decrypt.co)
2025-1-9 California

El Salvador agrees to scale back its bitcoin efforts, including making acceptance of bitcoin voluntary for the private sector, in exchange for a $1.4B IMF loan (decrypt.co)
2024-12-19 Bitcoin IMF

Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry (decrypt.co)
2024-11-15

Detroit plans to accept crypto, including BTC and ETH, for tax and fee payments starting mid-2025 via a PayPal-managed platform, the largest US city to do so (decrypt.co)
2024-11-8 Tax Detroit ETH

Arkham Intelligence: hackers returned $19.3M of $20M+ worth of crypto they stole from US government-controlled wallet on Thursday (decrypt.co)
2024-10-26 Intelligence

Uniswap Labs unveils Unichain, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism tech, to enable faster, cheaper transactions and better liquidity across chains (decrypt.co)
2024-10-15 Blockchain Ethereum

Researchers detail an AI model that they claim can solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 challenges with 100% accuracy using a similar number of attempts as human users (decrypt.co)
2024-9-25 Google AI

The SEC charges BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji of raising $257M+ from unregistered offers and sales of BTCLT and lying to investors about personal compensation (decrypt.co)
2024-7-31

Consensys says the US SEC is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0 and “will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions” (decrypt.co)
2024-6-19 Ethereum ETH

Telegram launches Stars, a new in-app currency for the purchase of digital goods and services in Telegram mini apps; developers can convert Stars into TON (decrypt.co)
2024-6-7

The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets (decrypt.co)
2024-5-23 Asset

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev decries the “regulatory onslaught” and calls SEC's actions “another improper attempt by the administrative state to stifle innovation” (decrypt.co)
2024-5-8

Unredacted parts of Consensys' lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC internally issued an order to probe Ethereum 2.0 last April that explicitly called ETH a security (decrypt.co)
2024-4-30 Ethereum ETH

Starbucks is shutting Odyssey, which launched in December 2022 in closed beta offering NFT-based rewards minted on the Polygon blockchain, on March 31, 2024 (decrypt.co)
2024-3-16 Blockchain Starbucks

Yuga Labs co-founder Greg “Garga” Solano announces he's returning as CEO of the company, replacing Daniel Alegre, who spent less than a year in the role (decrypt.co)
2024-2-22

The US plans to sell about $117M worth of Bitcoin seized from Ryan Farace, a convicted drug trafficker who operated on the Silk Road dark web marketplace (decrypt.co)
2024-1-26 Bitcoin Darknet

The Treasury and IRS say they aren't enforcing a rule requiring businesses to report the receipt of digital assets worth $10K+ within 15 days of receiving them (decrypt.co)
2024-1-17 Asset

GameStop plans to shut down its NFT marketplace on February 2, 2024, due to “continuing regulatory uncertainty”, after launching the platform in October 2022 (decrypt.co)
2024-1-13

Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit, saying a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” that let a hacker insert malicious code (decrypt.co)
2023-12-15 Hacker

Amazon Prime Is Giving Out Free Card Packs for NFT Game 'Gods Unchained' - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
2023-12-7 Amazon

Coinbase reports receiving 13,079 law enforcement requests between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023, up 6% YoY and 3x since 2020; ~50% were from the US (decrypt.co)
2023-12-1 Coinbase

A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 (decrypt.co)
2023-11-26 Bitcoin

Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility (decrypt.co)
2023-11-13 Layoffs

Justin Sun's crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole more than $126M worth of crypto assets and it's working with other exchanges to recover funds (decrypt.co)
2023-11-11 Asset

Game developers, voice actors, writers, and others criticize Inworld AI and Xbox partnering to create AI game development tools, after layoffs in the industry (decrypt.co)
2023-11-9 AI Layoffs Xbox

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