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Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects (www.coindesk.com)
5 days ago KPMG

Over 30 crypto companies, including Coinbase and Block, say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools (www.coindesk.com)
5 days ago AI Coinbase

The CFTC uses its “emergency authority” to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (www.coindesk.com)
7 days ago New York CFTC

Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates ~$70M stolen (www.coindesk.com)
17 days ago Bitcoin

Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders (www.coindesk.com)
23 days ago

India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts (www.coindesk.com)
25 days ago India GitHub

Movement Labs, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain developer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a period of upheaval that included a token scandal and Binance ban (www.coindesk.com)
27 days ago Blockchain Ban Ethereum

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered “AI-native” clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (www.coindesk.com)
28 days ago AI

Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-7-17 Singapore

Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (www.coindesk.com)
2026-7-8 Europe

EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a $76M Series C led by SBI Holdings (www.coindesk.com)
2026-7-8 Cryptocurrency

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-27 Japan

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 Blockchain AI

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-26 ETH

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-24 Ethereum

Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-18 Bitcoin Canada

Mastercard says it plans to offer on-chain settlement using several regulated USD stablecoins, initially supporting USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD, and SoFiUSD (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-3

SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-1 Bitcoin

Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (www.coindesk.com)
2026-6-1 India P2P Coinbase

The CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M settlement in January 2025, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-28 CFTC

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-19 U.S. Bitcoin

LA-based Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking and cross-border payments services across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, raised a $51M Series B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-16 Asia Africa

Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings agrees to acquire Ohio gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy & Power for $1.5B including debt, to power its AI data center expansion (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-1 Bitcoin Energy AI

Visa says its stablecoin settlement pilot supports nine networks, including Base, Polygon, Canton Network, Arc, and Tempo, and has hit a $7B annualized run rate (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-30

Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-28

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-23

Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-22 Trump

Core Scientific plans to raise $3.3B via a junk bond sale to finance its shift from crypto mining to building AI data centers and leasing them to CoreWeave (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-22 AI

Binance and Bitget to probe a rally in RaveDAO's RAVE token, which surged 4,500% in a week, after ZachXBT alleged RAVE insiders engineered a large short squeeze (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-19

Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock (www.coindesk.com)
2026-4-17 Asset

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