Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

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

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

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