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Sources: due to an accounting bug, Binance erroneously disbursed ~4.8M of Helium's HNT tokens, worth ~$19M, to some users, many of whom sold them for profit (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-17

The Ethereum Merge Is Done, Opening a New Era for the Second-Biggest Blockchain (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-16 Blockchain Ethereum

Chainalysis: emerging markets, led by Vietnam and the Philippines, drove global cryptocurrency adoption over the past year; China remained active despite a ban (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-16 China Ban Philippines Vietnam Cryptocurrency

Ownera, which wants to connect tokenized asset networks of the traditional finance, raised a $20M Series A from JP Morgan and others (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-15 Asset

Charles Schwab, Citadel, Fidelity, and others announce cryptocurrency exchange EDX Markets, that will leverage tech from US stock market MEMX (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-14 Cryptocurrency

Binance-linked crypto exchange WazirX says India's Enforcement Directorate has “unfrozen” or restarted its bank account; the ED raided its office on August 5 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-12 India

FTX Ventures buys 30% of Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge Capital for an undisclosed amount; SkyBridge will use some of the funds to buy $40M in cryptocurrencies (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-9

Source: the US Treasury will advise the federal government to issue a digital dollar if the Biden administration and Congress deem it in the “national interest” (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-9

Chainalysis says it helped the US government recover about $30M stolen from Axie Infinity by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group earlier in 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-9 Korea

NBA and NBPA partner with Sorare, which makes NFT-based sports games and claims to have 2M users, to launch a digital collectibles-based fantasy basketball game (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-8

Filing: Vermont says Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky repeatedly misled investors about the lender's finances and used its own CEL token to bolster its balance sheet (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-8

Binance will stop supporting the world's second biggest stablecoin USDC on September 29 and convert users' USDC, USDP, and TUSD into its own stablecoin BUSD (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-6

Poolin, one of the world's biggest bitcoin mining pools, suspends withdrawals from its wallet service, citing liquidity issues (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-6 Bitcoin

Bankruptcy filing: Celsius says it expects ~$70M of “proceeds from the repayment of USD denominated loans”, which could help it operate through the end of 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-3

Report: Crypto.com backed out of a five-year sponsorship deal worth $495M with the UEFA Champions League due to regulatory concerns in the UK, France, and Italy (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-2 France Italy

California Assembly passes a bill requiring crypto firms in the state to obtain a license and that stablecoins be issued by a bank; Governor Newsom must sign it (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-1 California

Washington, DC sues Michael Saylor for tax fraud and his company MicroStrategy “for conspiring to help him evade taxes” “on hundreds of millions of dollars” (www.coindesk.com)
2022-9-1 Tax

a16z releases a set of free “Can't Be Evil” licenses for NFTs, inspired by Creative Commons, available on GitHub (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-31 GitHub

Crypto coin AVAX fell 10%+ after a self-described whistleblower said Avalanche weaponized litigation against rivals; CEO calls it “conspiracy theory nonsense” (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-30 Conspiracy

Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Web Address-Owner Who Can Renew Is in Prison (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-29

Sources: Binance and FTX are among 22+ investors that indicated their interest to buy Voyager Digital's assets; source: Coinbase evaluated a deal but withdrew (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-28 Asset Coinbase

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried denies that FTX Ventures is merging with Alameda Research's VC operations (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-28

Koibanx, which wants to provide blockchain infrastructure and build payment systems for financial institutions in Central America, has raised a $22M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-19 Blockchain U.S.

Jump Crypto plans to build a new Solana validator client using C++, called Firedancer, in a bid to improve the network's frequent outages and slowdowns (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-16

Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-12 Singapore Intelligence

Coinbase disclosed in its latest quarterly report that the SEC is investigating its token listing processes, staking programs, and yield-generating products (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-11 Coinbase

Cryptocurrency exchange Nuri, previously known as Bitwala, has filed for insolvency in Berlin and says customers still have access to their deposits (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-10 Germany Cryptocurrency

CreatorDAO, a DAO providing capital and operational support to creators for a cut of future earnings, raised a $20M seed led by a16z and Initialized Capital (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-10

An anonymous Tornado Cash user sends high-profile crypto users, such as Jimmy Fallon and Brian Armstrong, ETH from a sanctioned address, likely to troll them (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-10 ETH

The DOJ says BitMEX's head of business development, Gregory Dwyer, pleaded guilty to violating US federal anti-money laundering rules and will pay a $150K fine (www.coindesk.com)
2022-8-9

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