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The US DOJ indicts two brothers for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto via an exploit of the MEV-Boost software used by some Ethereum validators (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-16 Ethereum

Insiders detail the crypto industry's lobbying efforts ahead of the 2024 US elections, as crypto-focused PACs shape the outcome of some key congressional races (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-15

A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months; Pertsev was jailed in August 2022 over alleged money laundering (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-14 Netherlands

Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India's approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-10 India

Filing: Robinhood's crypto arm got a Wells notice from the SEC on May 4; Robinhood says it has already ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-6

Russian national Alexander Vinnik, one of the operators of crypto exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-4 Russia Conspiracy

Tether says it is working with Chainalysis to identify crypto wallets that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities like terrorist financing (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-3 Terrorism

The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ETH is a security (www.coindesk.com)
2024-5-1 ETH

New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-26

Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-26 Ethereum

US prosecutors argue Binance founder Changpeng Zhao should spend three years in prison and pay $50M for his role violating sanctions and money laundering laws (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-24

Worldcoin announces World Chain, a Layer 2 Ethereum blockchain designed to prioritize verified humans over bots, slated for release this summer (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-18 Blockchain Ethereum

Email: Galaxy Digital's venture arm, which has long invested its own money, is raising a $100M fund with outside capital, focused on early-stage crypto startups (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-7 Startup

Binance says it will stop support for Bitcoin NFTs on May 18 as it “streamlines” its offerings; Binance users won't be eligible for future Bitcoin NFT airdrops (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-5 Bitcoin

Ripple plans to launch its own stablecoin later this year “100% backed by US dollar deposits, short-term US government Treasuries, and other cash equivalents” (www.coindesk.com)
2024-4-5

HSBC releases its HSBC Gold Token, minted on its Orion digital assets platform, via its online banking and app, after testing the service in November 2023 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-27 HSBC Asset

The US DOJ charges crypto exchange KuCoin and two of its founders with violating anti-money laundering laws, failing to register with US government, and more (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-27

Crypto exchange CommEX, which bought Binance's former Russian operations in September 2023, plans to shut down its website on May 10, 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-26 Russia

BlackRock unveils its first tokenized asset fund, BUIDL, built on the Ethereum network and fully backed by cash, US Treasury bills, and repurchase agreements (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-21 Asset Ethereum

Solana meme coin SLERF raised $10M in a presale, hitting $1.7B in trading volume, but the developer claims to have “burned” tokens set aside for an airdrop (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-19

El Salvador moved ~$400M worth, or “a big chunk”, of its bitcoin into a cold wallet this week; public trackers had estimated El Salvador's trove at under $205M (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-15 Bitcoin

DCG files a motion to dismiss NY AG Letitia James' lawsuit over alleged $3B investor fraud, and CEO Barry Silbert files to dismiss accusations he hid losses (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-7

Bitcoin surpassed $69K to hit a new all-time high, eclipsing the previous record set on November 10, 2021 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-3-6 Bitcoin

Coinbase is investigating an issue causing some users to see a zero balance across their accounts, after BTC topped $60K for the first time since November 2021 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-29 Coinbase

Ethereum liquid restaking protocol ether.fi raised a $23M Series A led by Bullish Capital and CoinFund, as the total value locked on the protocol rises to $1.6B (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-29 Ethereum

Email: Revolut is testing a cryptocurrency exchange targeted at “advanced traders”, with trading fees between 0% and 0.09%, limit and market orders, more (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-17 Cryptocurrency

Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-13

Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-13 Bitcoin

Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-6

Montenegro's government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-6 Korea

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