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Celsius emerges from bankruptcy and plans to distribute over $3B to its creditors, who will also get a stake in the newly formed Ionic Digital mining operation (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-1

An FTX lawyer says the exchange expects to fully repay its customers and has abandoned efforts to restart the platform due to a lack of buyers (www.coindesk.com)
2024-2-1

Block begins layoffs under a previously disclosed plan to cut staff by up to 10%, by imposing an “absolute cap” of a 12,000 headcount, which was 13,000 in Q3'23 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-31 Layoffs

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF becomes the first of the recently launched spot bitcoin products to reach $2B in assets under management, within 10 days of its debut (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-27 Bitcoin ETF Asset

Axiom, a protocol that lets smart contract developers access historical data from Ethereum and then perform computations off-chain, raised a $20M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-26 Ethereum

A bug in Ethereum's Nethermind client took down 8% of Ethereum's validators on January 21, raising concerns about Geth, which powers ~85% of the validators (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-24 Ethereum

Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the SEC's ETF approval; BTC has tumbled since the approval (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-23 Bitcoin ETF

Manta Network was hit by a DDoS attack as it issued its MANTA token on January 18, leading to longer-than-expected withdrawal times; all funds remain safe (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-19

The EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal on Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, which will force all crypto companies to conduct user due diligence (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-18

South Korea's financial regulator says US bitcoin ETFs may conflict with the country's Virtual Asset User Protection Act and Capital Markets Act, plans a review (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-13 Korea Bitcoin ETF Asset

Some crypto advocates welcome bitcoin ETFs as an inevitable part of going mainstream, while others worry they threaten the original promise of decentralization (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-12 Bitcoin ETF Decentralize

Bitcoin ETF Approval Is Likely to Benefit Institutional Investors: Goldman Sachs (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-11 Bitcoin ETF Goldman

US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that the SEC's loss in court over rejecting Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF left it with little choice but to approve such ETFs (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-11 Bitcoin ETF

An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the SEC has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-10 Bitcoin ETF Twitter

TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is about 30% less than in 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-7 Korea

Filing: MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor begins selling $216M worth of shares, but says he remains “optimistic about MicroStrategy's prospects” (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-3

Orbit Chain, which facilitates cross-blockchain transactions, loses ~$81M after an attack on its cross-chain bridge protocol, similar to hacks by Lazarus Group (www.coindesk.com)
2024-1-3 Blockchain

Sources: India's decision to seek the blocking of the URLs of nine foreign crypto exchanges followed a request from the Indian crypto and Web3 advocacy body (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-30 India

Binance CEO Richard Teng says the crypto exchange's user base grew 30% to 170M accounts in 2023; Binance Pay, Binance Earn, and Binance's P2P platform all grew (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-29 P2P

Montenegro's Appeals Court rejects a high court order to extradite Terra founder Do Kwon to the US or South Korea, after Kwon appealed, and orders a retrial (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-19 Korea

Zcash's primary developer Electric Coin says Zooko Wilcox, the project's creator, will step down as CEO and be replaced by former SVP Growth Josh Swihart (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-19

Polygon Labs discontinues contributions to Edge, the OSS used for Dogechain, and shifts towards the Polygon CDK, which is powered by zero-knowledge cryptography (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-16

The SEC rejects a Coinbase petition for formal rules for digital assets, arguing the “existing securities regime appropriately governs crypto asset securities” (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-16 Asset Coinbase

Coinbase Asset Management debuts Project Diamond, combining Coinbase's custody tools, wallet, L2 network Base, and Circle's USDC to create a capital marketplace (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-13 Asset Coinbase

China plans to roll out RealDID, its Blockchain-based Service Network developed by China Mobile, UnionPay, and the government, to verify its 1.4B people (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-12 Blockchain China Mobile

Pudgy Penguins plans to launch an early-access version of Pudgy World, an interactive digital playground for Pudgy Penguins NFT holders, before April 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-10

A US federal judge rules Binance founder Changpeng Zhao cannot return to the UAE before his sentencing, set for February 2024, after his release on a $175M bond (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-9

Bitzlato co-founder Anatoly Legkodymov pleads guilty in the US to operating a money transmitting business for illicit funds and agrees to dissolve the exchange (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-7

On-chain data and sources: Polygon gave DraftKings millions of MATIC to run a validator; the validator underperformed, and DraftKings was kicked off the network (www.coindesk.com)
2023-12-1

A Montenegro court approves the extradition of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon; the justice minister will decide if he will go to South Korea or the US (www.coindesk.com)
2023-11-25 Korea

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