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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)
2025-3-12

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)
2025-3-7 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)
2025-3-7

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)
2025-3-7 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)
2025-3-4 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)
2025-3-3 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)
2025-3-2 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)
2025-2-28

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)
2025-2-28 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a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn (www.coindesk.com)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

Crypto exchange Deribit reports total trading volume, including options, futures, and more, rose 95% YoY to $1.19T in 2024; options volume rose 99% YoY to $743B (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-22

Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, acquired Hashnote; rwa.xyz data: Hashnote's USYC token last year become the largest tokenized US Treasury product (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-22

Coinbase and Binance plan to list the TRUMP token, with Binance opening trading on Jan. 19; CoinGecko: $TRUMP is trading on Bitget, Kraken, and other exchanges (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-19 Trump Coinbase

Coinbase adds bitcoin-backed loans in the US through Morpho, a lending platform on its Base network; borrowers will post collateral and not rely on credit score (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-17 Bitcoin Coinbase

Jio Platforms partners with Polygon Labs to integrate Web3 and blockchain services into Jio's apps and services; Jio Platforms has over 450M users in India (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-16 Blockchain India

A US court rules the SEC must “explain itself” on why, when pressed by Coinbase, it failed to clarify its rules or offer clear new rules for crypto securities (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-14 Coinbase

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