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The UK's Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime (www.coindesk.com)
2 days ago

The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
9 days ago

The US SEC says proof-of-work crypto mining doesn't trigger federal securities laws and mining operators do not need to register their transactions with the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
10 days ago

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the US SEC is set to drop an appeal in its case against Ripple, ending a long-standing legal battle over XRP (www.coindesk.com)
11 days ago XRP

Utila, which offers a multi-party computation crypto wallet service, raised an $18M Series A led by Nyca Partners, taking its total funding to $30M (www.coindesk.com)
11 days ago

21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month (www.coindesk.com)
15 days ago Bitcoin ETF

Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network (www.coindesk.com)
19 days ago

Sam Altman's World Network unveils World Chat, a “mini app” in the World App wallet for messaging and sending and receiving crypto, in beta on Android and iOS (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago Android IOS

DoubleZero, which is coordinating a global network of fiber optic cables to improve blockchains, raised $28M in a token round, sources say at a $400M valuation (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP before his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing (www.coindesk.com)
24 days ago Interview Republican

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says 77%+ of the funds stolen remain traceable, including 417,348 ETH, and 20% have “gone dark”; the hackers converted 83% of the ETH to BTC (www.coindesk.com)
26 days ago ETH

President Trump names XRP, Solana, and Cardano as three assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, but does not mention Bitcoin or Ethereum (www.coindesk.com)
28 days ago Trump Bitcoin Asset Ethereum XRP

The Ethereum Foundation selects two new co-executive directors, and Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi becomes president, following calls for new leadership (www.coindesk.com)
29 days ago Ethereum

Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
30 days ago

Chainalysis estimates $40B worth of illicit crypto transactions took place in 2024; criminals shifted from mostly using bitcoin in 2021 to using stablecoins now (www.coindesk.com)
30 days ago Bitcoin

Sources: BitMEX, which pleaded guilty in 2024 to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act, is looking for a buyer (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-28

Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-26

Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-25

DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-23

Source: the US Marshals Service is struggling to come up with a rough estimate of its bitcoin holdings, complicating plans for a US Bitcoin reserve (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-22 Bitcoin

ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-22 Hacker ETH

Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei due to payments to Milei's sister (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-19

Arkham: FTX users with claims below $50K have started to receive funds via Kraken and BitGo, expected to total $1.2B; users with $50K+ claims will be paid in Q2 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-19

Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-16

Plasma, which is developing a bitcoin-based network designed to handle stablecoin transactions efficiently with zero-fee USDT transfers, raised a $20M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-14 Bitcoin

Nineteen US states have bills to invest public money in crypto, many focus on retirement funds; MI, WI already have crypto in public employees' retirement funds (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-11

Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles; one trader made a $550K profit from Eagles bets (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-11

CCData: the supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1B, as the launch of the TRUMP memecoin caused a wave of inflows (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-1 Trump

Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-1 Bitcoin

Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building a Bitcoin DeFi protocol called BeL2, raised $20M from private investment company Rollman Management (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin Decentralize

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