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Do Kwon's criminal fraud trial in the US is scheduled for January 2026; prosecutors expect challenges accessing encrypted devices and translating communications (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-9

The T3 Financial Crime Unit says it has frozen $100M of USDT used by illicit actors since the unit was formed in September 2024 by Tron, TRM Labs, and Tether (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-3

US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth $308M, from Japanese exchange DMM in May 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-25 Japan Korea Bitcoin

Tass: the Russian government bans crypto mining in 10 regions from January 1 to March 15, 2031, citing power consumption, after legalizing mining in July 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-24 Russia

Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-21

Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-16 Blockchain

Coinbase publishes FDIC documents, obtained via a lawsuit, that it says prove crypto businesses were systematically walled off from banking by the regulator (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-7 Coinbase

Popular NFT project Pudgy Penguins plans to launch a Solana-based token called PENGU within this year, with 23.5% of the 88B tokens reserved for its NFT holders (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-6

Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-20 Trump

Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-19

An interview with El Salvador's top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-18 Interview

Zero Gravity Labs, which is building a decentralized AI operating system, raised a $40M seed round and says it secured a $250M “token purchase commitment” (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-14 AI Decentralize

Bitcoin touches a record-high $85K, adding almost $20K in a week; Tesla is up 7%+ today, while Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are down slightly (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-12 Bitcoin Amazon Microsoft Apple Tesla Nvidia

FTX sues crypto trader “Humpy the Whale” alleging margin trading market manipulation from January 2021 to September 2022, leading to FTX and Alameda losing $1B (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-11

Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-9 Ethereum ETH

Block says it is investing less in music streaming app Tidal and winding down decentralized “Web5” venture TBD to focus on bitcoin mining and its crypto wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-8 Bitcoin Decentralize

Galaxy Digital signs a non-binding deal with a US-based hyperscaler company to use its 800MW of mining capacity for hosting high-performance computers (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-8

JPMorgan rebrands its Onyx blockchain unit as Kinexys and plans to add on-chain foreign exchange capabilities as early as Q1 2025, starting with USD and EUR (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-7 Blockchain JPMorgan

As Trump nears a US election win, Polymarket, Kalshi, PredictIt, and other prediction betting markets, which heavily favored Trump, are seemingly vindicated (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-6 Trump

Crypto firm Immutable says it received a Wells notice from the SEC related to the sale of its IMX tokens in 2021, accuses the SEC of “regulation by enforcement” (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-1

Tether reports Q3 net profits of $2.5B, driven by gains in its US Treasury and gold holdings and bringing YTD profit to $7.7B, as USDT market cap nears $120B (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-1

Filing: Trump's World Liberty Financial plans to raise ~$30M from investors, down from the $300M it had originally sought, after WLFI token sales fell short (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-1 Trump

Glassnode data shows the number of bitcoin whales, network entities holding at least 1,000 bitcoin, has jumped to 1,678, the highest level since January 2021 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-24 Bitcoin

Stripe announces it has finalized a deal to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge; Michael Arrington says the deal was worth $1.1B (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-22

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-16 Trump

An investigation finds over a dozen crypto companies unknowingly hired IT workers, who used fake IDs and successfully navigated interviews, from North Korea (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-3 Korea

The SEC files a notice of appeal in its Ripple case, seeking to reverse a July 2023 ruling that XRP sales on retail exchanges didn't violate securities law (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-3 Retail XRP

The UK FCA says a man pleaded guilty to illegally operating a crypto ATM network, which processed £2.6M across various locations, as it cracks down on such ATMs (www.coindesk.com)
2024-10-1

Mango DAO, Mango Labs, and Blockworks Foundation agree to destroy MNGO tokens and ask crypto exchanges to stop trading them as part of an SEC settlement (www.coindesk.com)
2024-9-28

Coinbase launches its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, on the Ethereum and Base networks, supported by various DeFi services for trading, lending, and as collateral (www.coindesk.com)
2024-9-12 Bitcoin Ethereum Coinbase

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