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Tether says its “total exposure” to US Treasurys had neared $120B at the end of March, and reports $1B+ in Q1 operating profit from traditional investments (www.theblock.co)
1 day ago

Symbiotic, which is building a “universal staking” platform after starting as a restaking protocol on Ethereum, raised a $29M Series A led by Pantera Capital (www.theblock.co)
7 days ago Ethereum

Interfax: Russia's Central Bank and Finance Ministry plan to launch a crypto exchange for “highly qualified investors” under an experimental legal regime (www.theblock.co)
9 days ago Russia

Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed (www.theblock.co)
10 days ago XRP

Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance (www.theblock.co)
14 days ago

Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group (www.theblock.co)
16 days ago Bitcoin AI Equity

Crypto exchange Kraken begins rolling out commission-free trading for over 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs, initially in nine US states and DC (www.theblock.co)
18 days ago ETF

Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for critical gaps in its AML program, particularly concerning risk-based controls and customer due diligence (www.theblock.co)
23 days ago

The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them (www.theblock.co)
28 days ago

FDUSD stablecoin depegs 9% after Justin Sun raises concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust's solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD (www.theblock.co)
30 days ago Hong Kong

Tether acquired 8,888 bitcoin worth $735M in Q1 2025, taking its total holdings to $7.8B and making it the sixth-largest bitcoin holder in a single wallet (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-1 Bitcoin

PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-31

Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-28

Immunefi: crypto industry lost a record $1.64B in Q1 2025 across 40 incidents, including $1.46B from the Bybit hack, vs. $348.3M across 63 incidents in Q1 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-28

Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-25

The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction fees hit an all-time low on March 22, amid dips in other network metrics like active addresses (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-24 Ethereum ETH

The TON Foundation raises over $400M from Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, and others via a sale of its Toncoin cryptocurrency, and says there are now 40M+ active users (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-21 Cryptocurrency

Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-19

Solana deleted a social media ad for its conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-18

A US bankruptcy court lets 3AC raise its claim against FTX from $120M to $1.53B, despite FTX's objection that it was too late; 3AC originally filed in June 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-14

Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Iron, an API-focused stablecoin infrastructure company, a source says in a “nine-figure” deal (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-14

Nansen: Trump's World Liberty Financial bought Ether worth $10M, WBTC worth $10M, and MOVE worth $1.5M ahead of the White House Crypto Summit (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-7 Trump

Coinbase is reviving ambitions to introduce security tokens, digital assets that represent venture investments, amid a relaxed regulatory environment (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-6 Asset Coinbase

Daily trading volume for graduated Pump.fun tokens fell 94% from January 2025 peaks of $3B to ~$170M, as the memecoin mania cools following rug pulls and more (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-5

Across Protocol, focused on connecting Ethereum with Layer 2 networks, raised $41M in a token round led by Paradigm, following a $10M token round in Nov. 2022 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-5 Ethereum

French crypto trading company Flowdesk raised ~$92M in equity and $10.2M in debt led by HV Capital, after a $50M Series B at a $250M valuation in January 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-4 France Equity

A trader used $6M to open a 50x leveraged long position on both BTC and ETH before Trump's crypto reserve announcement and closed their position for a $7M gain (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-3 Trump ETH

MetaMask Head of Security Taylor Monahan says the Bybit hackers have moved at least 209,384 ETH, of ~400,000 stolen, onto Bitcoin, largely using THORChain swaps (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin ETH

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-25 Bitcoin

Arkham says ZachXBT submitted proof that North Korea's Lazarus Group is behind Bybit's $1.5B hack, which is the largest single theft in crypto history (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-22 Korea

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