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Nigeria's SEC orders that Binance halt operations in the country, deeming them illegal as the local unit is “neither registered nor regulated by the Commission” (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-11 Nigeria

Nansen and Glassnode: Binance, Binance.US, and Coinbase saw a combined net outflow of $3.1B via Ethereum and $864M in BTC from June 5-June 8, amid SEC lawsuits (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-10 Ethereum Coinbase

Kraken launches Kraken NFT, a marketplace with 250+ NFT collections across the Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon blockchains, after a beta started in November 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-10 Ethereum

US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in a Mt. Gox hack; one of them is also charged with conspiring to operate BTC-e (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-10

A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; liquidators in the Bahamas argued a local judge should oversee the process (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-9 Asset

The UK FCA plans to introduce tough crypto advertising rules, classifying crypto as “restricted mass market investments”, banning incentives to invest, and more (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-8

Filings: the SEC started its Binance.US investigation in August 2020; BAM Trading, which runs Binance.US, generated $411M revenue and $225M profit in that time (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-7

Court filing: the SEC has asked a court to grant a temporary restraining order to freeze assets tied to the holding and operating firms for Binance.US (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-7 Asset

Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which aims to provide life insurance to US citizens with BTC holdings, raised $19M across two seed rounds led by Sam Altman and others (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-7 Insurance

DeFi lending protocol MakerDAO's community votes to ditch $500M of the Paxos Dollar stable from its reserves, impacting half of the token's supply (www.coindesk.com)
2023-6-2

Transak, which wants to build payment and onboarding infrastructure for Web3 games and financial applications, raised a $20M Series A led by CE Innovation (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-31

Glassnode: 14.85% of all ether was held in exchange-controlled wallets on May 25, the lowest level since summer 2016, as staking soaks up the available supply (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-30

DappRadar: Blur's NFT lending marketplace Blend amassed 169,900 ETH, or about $308M, in volume since its May 1 launch, taking 82% of total lending volume market (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-28 ETH

SEC-backed FINRA approved two crypto-related companies, including broker-dealer Prometheum Capital, which defined tokens as securities to comply with SEC rules (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-23

Malaysia Says Crypto Exchange Huobi Global Isn't Registered, Must Cease Operations (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-22 Malaysia

Grayscale says the US SEC warned that the Filecoin token meets the definition of a security and asked Grayscale to withdraw its Filecoin Trust application (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-18

A federal judge rules the US SEC can't seal documents tied to ex-SEC official William Hinman, who said ether isn't a security in a 2018 speech, in Ripple suit (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-17

Auradine, a web infrastructure startup focused on decentralized app tech like zero-knowledge proofs, raised a $81M Series A led by Celesta Capital and Mayfield (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-17 Startup Decentralize

River, which offers Bitcoin brokerage, mining, wallet, and custody services, raised a $35M Series B led by Kingsway Capital, with Peter Thiel among investors (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-17 Bitcoin

EU states approve the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules, becoming the first major global jurisdiction with a crypto licensing regime, taking effect in 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-16 Asset

The ongoing discussion surrounding whether cryptocurrencies should be classified as securities or commodities remains unsettled. (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-14 Commodity

Binance announces exit from Canada, saying the country's “new guidance related to stablecoins and investor limits” makes the Canadian market “no longer tenable” (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-13 Canada

Tessera, the collective NFT ownership service that launched as Fractional with $20M in funding from Paradigm and others, plans to shut down (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-13

A draft bill shows the EU plans to force crypto firms to give tax authorities details of their clients' holdings, which can be shared within the 27-nation bloc (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-12 Tax

A judge rules that $300M in BlockFi's wallets belong to clients, not the bankrupt lender's estate; $375M in interest-bearing accounts belong to the estate (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-12

Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-12 4Q Asset

Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda in partnership taxes (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-11 Tax

Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-9

Crypto exchange Bittrex files for bankruptcy in Delaware; filing: the company estimates both its liabilities and assets to be between $500M and $1B (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-9

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers file pretrial motions to dismiss most criminal charges against him, but not charges tied to securities fraud and money laundering (www.coindesk.com)
2023-5-9

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