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Articles from www.theblock.co

The US SEC announces the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit to protect investors from bad actors in crypto and AI, replacing the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-21 AI Asset

Nansen: 86% of traders lost $251M in total on the Solana memecoin Libra that Argentine President Milei promoted, while the remaining traders profited $180M (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20

The seven-day moving average of Ethereum transaction fees fell to $0.77 on February 15, a 70% week-over-week drop from $2.57 and the lowest since July 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20 Ethereum

Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20

Nikkei: Japan's financial regulator asks Apple and Google to remove apps from Bybit, MEXC Global, LBank Exchange, KuCoin, and Bitget; Apple has removed the apps (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-8 Japan Google Apple

MicroStrategy announces a new name, Strategy, a new logo with a stylized “B”, signifying its bitcoin strategy, and orange as the brand's primary color (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-6 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards raised $30M to expand work on OP_CAT, a scripting capability for Bitcoin to enable automated, customizable transactions (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-5 Bitcoin

Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-1 Decentralize

Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-1 Facebook Coinbase

Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again and to the Layer 2 protocol Lightning Network, following USDT expansions to Celo and other networks (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin

Irreducible, which provides zero-knowledge proof generation services powered by FPGA chips, raised a $24M Series A co-led by Paradigm and Bain Capital Crypto (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-31

A Texas District Court rules against Tornado Cash sanctions, ordering a previous decision to be reversed; the US sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-22 Texas

Crypto.com launches its institutional exchange service for US customers; it had closed the service in June 2023 due to “limited demand” (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-22

MicroStrategy bought 11,000 bitcoin for ~$1.1B, an average of $101,191, between January 13 and 20, taking its holding to 461,000, worth $48B+, or 2%+ of supply (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-22 Bitcoin

A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other unofficial coins called “official” (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-21 Trump

Blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer reports scams luring crypto investors into malicious Telegram groups jumped 2,000% between November 2024 and January 2025 (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-20 Blockchain

Vitalik Buterin outlines “large changes” to Ethereum Foundation leadership structure, after fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new EF leadership (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-19 Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

Digital Currency Group agrees to settle and pay $38M to the US SEC over allegations that it misled investors via crypto lender Genesis Global (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-18

BitMEX is fined an additional $100M for US Bank Secrecy Act violations between 2015 and 2020; it pleaded guilty in July 2024 and previously agreed to pay $110M (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-16

Backpack Exchange, an exchange founded by former FTX and Alameda employees, acquires FTX EU and takes responsibility for distributing FTX bankruptcy claims (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-8

The GMCI Meme index, which tracks leading memecoins by market cap, delivered 320% returns in 2024, outpacing AI at 91% and the top 30 cryptocurrencies at 88% (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-4 AI

Three industry groups sue the IRS, challenging a rule that would require some DeFi brokers to report users' personal information to the agency starting in 2027 (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-29

Memecoin MIRA, created to fund research into a brain tumor affecting tech CEO Siqi Chen's daughter, hit an $80M market cap before falling as Chen began selling (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-27

Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week; it averaged just $2.5B per day in November 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-26 Coinbase

Justin Sun's BiT Global, which became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-15 Coinbase

A Texas man gets a two-year sentence for underreporting capital gains from selling $3.7M in bitcoin, the first such prosecution based entirely on cryptocurrency (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-14 Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Texas

Layer 1 blockchain project Avalanche raised $250M via a locked token sale co-led by Galaxy Digital, Dragonfly, and ParaFi, to support its Avalanche9000 upgrade (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-13 Blockchain

RTFKT, the digital wearables NFT startup Nike acquired in 2021, is shutting down by the end of January 2025; DefiLlama: RTFKT brought in ~$50M in total earnings (www.theblock.co)
2024-12-3 Startup

MicroStrategy bought 55,580 bitcoin for ~$5.4B at an average price of $97,862 between November 18 and November 24, taking its holdings to 386,700 bitcoin (www.theblock.co)
2024-11-26 Bitcoin

Polymarket blocks users in France from placing trades, as the country's gaming regulator investigates the platform's compliance with local gambling laws (www.theblock.co)
2024-11-23 France

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