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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)
8 days ago

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)
15 days ago 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)
28 days ago 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

NFT marketplace Magic Eden and Yuga Labs plan to launch an Ethereum platform, which will be “contractually obligated” to pay royalties on NFT sales (decrypt.co)
2023-11-5 Ethereum

OpenSea lays off 50% of staff and says it is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; the NFT marketplace said it had 230 staff after laying off 20% of workforce in July 2022 (decrypt.co)
2023-11-4

BlockFi says it has emerged from bankruptcy and has begun the process of repaying its creditors according to the terms of its bankruptcy plan (decrypt.co)
2023-10-25

DappRadar: blockchain gaming projects raised $600M in Q3 2023, down 38% YoY, and $2.3B so far in 2023, which is only 30% of what was raised for all of 2022 (decrypt.co)
2023-10-15 Blockchain

Yuga Labs, the creator of Bored Ape Yacht Club and other prominent NFTs, restructures, lays off some US staff, and is still evaluating its international teams (decrypt.co)
2023-10-9

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that aims to address creatives' concerns over AI, raised over $54M led by Andreessen Horowitz (decrypt.co)
2023-9-6 Blockchain AI

Crypto exchange Bitstamp says it is ending its Ethereum staking service for US customers from September 25, citing “current regulatory dynamics in the US” (decrypt.co)
2023-8-24 Ethereum

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