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Huobi, a top-10 crypto exchange by trading volume, has agreed to be acquired by Hong Kong-based About Capital; terms of the deal were not disclosed (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-8 Hong Kong

Bitcoin Mining Is About to Get Tougher With Difficulty Primed for Another Sharp Rise (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-7 Bitcoin

Binance Smart Chain suspends transactions due to a bridge exploit, estimating that $100M to $110M in assets were moved off chain, of which $7M has been frozen (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-7 Asset

Court filing: Celsius ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon, and CTO Nuke Goldstein withdrew ~$56M between May and June 2022 before the lender's bankruptcy (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-6

A federal court rules that the CFTC appropriately served Ooki DAO through a website help bot and forum post, in a lawsuit over violating federal trading laws (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-4 CFTC

Exponential, a DeFi investment discovery and risk assessment service, raised a $14M seed led by Paradigm, with Haun Ventures, FTX's VC arm, others participating (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-4

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Temporarily Halts Payments and Withdrawals From US Bank Accounts (www.coindesk.com)
2022-10-3 Coinbase

Chainalysis: sub-Saharan Africa crypto usage is driven by everyday necessity; 80% of crypto payments in the region are under $1K, the world's highest proportion (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-30 Africa

Meta opens NFT sharing to Facebook users in the US and to all Instagram users in 100 countries where digital collectibles are available (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-30 Facebook Instagram

Block's bitcoin-focused TBD subsidiary partners with Circle to build infrastructure for cross-border, dollar-linked stablecoin transfers and savings (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-29 Bitcoin

SWIFT is working with blockchain data provider Chainlink on a cross-chain interoperability protocol to let SWIFT messages instruct on-chain token transfers (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-29 Blockchain

Luxury auction house Christie's launches Christie's 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for NFT art in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-28 Ethereum

MPCH Labs, which is developing a cryptographic technique to split and store private keys for multiple users, raised a $40M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-28

Chicago-based Strike, a bitcoin payment service that uses the Lightning network for faster transactions, raised an $80M Series B led by Ten31 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-28 Bitcoin

Robinhood releases its non-custodial, Polygon-based crypto wallet, Robinhood Wallet, in beta to 10,000 users who signed up in May (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-27

Study: in January 2022, 62.4% of bitcoin mining electricity came from fossil fuels, contradicting the Bitcoin Mining Council's estimate that ~59% is sustainable (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-27 Bitcoin

CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO | Coin Desk (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-27 Blockchain CFTC

Governor Newsom vetoes a crypto regulation bill that required licenses to facilitate transactions; the bill was passed by the California Assembly last month (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-24 California

Estonia-based 3Commas, an automated crypto trading and portfolio management service, has raised a $37M Series B (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-23

Bernstein: Arbitrum Has Strongest User Momentum Among Leading Blockchains (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-22

Binance Hires Big-Name Former Government Officials to Set Up Advisory Board (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-22

Dubai's crypto regulator grants Binance a license to offer domestic bank accounts, an asset exchange, payments and custody services, and more (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-22 Asset Dubai

Switzerland-based GRNGrid, a Layer 1 DeFi blockchain that allows users to use nodes running on renewable energy for transactions, raised $50M from GEM Digital (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-22 Blockchain Energy Switzerland Renewable

A leaked draft of the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets legislation urges a “substance over form” enforcement approach, meaning the rules could apply to some NFTs (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-21 Asset

Push to Cut Ethereum Network Fees Opens Funds-Draining Bug in Scaling Tool Arbitrum (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-21 Ethereum

A New York judge orders Tether to produce documents related to the backing of USDT in a lawsuit claiming Tether conspired to issue USDT to pump bitcoin prices (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-21 Bitcoin New York

On-chain data: Wintermute, recently hacked for $160M, has $200M in outstanding DeFi debt, including a $92M Tether loan to TrueFi that matures on October 15 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-21

Robinhood adds USDC as the first stablecoin in its crypto lineup, while Binance and WazirX exchanges say they will delist USDC in favor of other stablecoins (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-21

Pan-African crypto exchange Yellow Card raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain Capital, following a $15M Series A in September 2021 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-19 Africa

The European Central Bank selects Amazon, the European Payments Initiative, CaixaBank, Worldline, and Nexi to prototype digital euro user interfaces by Q1 2023 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-17 Europe Amazon

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