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Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an “active attack” on its protocol; Arkham data said over $250M had moved from Drift to an interim wallet (www.coindesk.com)
3 days ago

Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (www.coindesk.com)
10 days ago Blockchain Singapore Sony

Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield (www.coindesk.com)
11 days ago Coinbase

Sources: Kraken has paused its IPO plans, amid the downturn in crypto markets since October, and may revisit a listing when market conditions improve (www.coindesk.com)
17 days ago IPO

An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30+ countries (www.coindesk.com)
18 days ago

Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (www.coindesk.com)
18 days ago

Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services (www.coindesk.com)
18 days ago

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago Blockchain

The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago CFTC

Binance.US named Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago

Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions (www.coindesk.com)
25 days ago Dow Jones Iran New York

Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine (www.coindesk.com)
30 days ago

Polymarket removes long-running markets letting users bet on the chances of a nuclear weapon detonating amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 market had $1.7M in volume (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-4 Iran

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (www.coindesk.com)
2026-3-4 Trump

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-25

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-25

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-18

Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-18

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-12 Ethereum

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO Stephanie Lemmerman ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-11 IPO

UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-11 Blockchain

Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-7

Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-6

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-4 Darknet

Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-30 Asset

Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-30 Russia Retail Ban Monero

The US SEC clarifies its tokenized stock rules, saying they are subject to securities and derivatives rules and issuer approval is required for true ownership (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-29

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-25

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 “liquidation cascade” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-19 4Q

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds ~4M ETH valued at ~$13.6B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-16 ETH

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