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The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 (decrypt.co)
5 hours ago

X revises its developer API policies to “no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (decrypt.co)
14 days ago AI

The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (decrypt.co)
17 days ago New York

Bhutan unveils a pledge of up to 10,000 bitcoin to develop Gelephu Mindfulness City; Arkham says Bhutan holds 5,984 bitcoin, ranking 7th among sovereign holders (decrypt.co)
2025-12-17 Bitcoin

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure after posting a net loss of $46M in Q3 (decrypt.co)
2025-11-15 Bitcoin AI

The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor (decrypt.co)
2025-11-11

DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M (decrypt.co)
2025-11-4

When asked about Changpeng Zhao's pardon on 60 Minutes, President Trump says “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt” (decrypt.co)
2025-11-3 Trump

Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and “burned” the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (decrypt.co)
2025-10-16

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (decrypt.co)
2025-10-15 Coinbase

Block debuts Square Bitcoin, a BTC wallet allowing US-based SMBs to convert up to 50% of daily sales into BTC now and accept BTC payments starting November 10 (decrypt.co)
2025-10-10 Bitcoin

YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (decrypt.co)
2025-10-9 AI

Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than the past, and 99.98% accuracy (decrypt.co)
2025-9-29 Quantum

Canadian law enforcement seizes $40.5M in digital assets after shutting down TradeOgre crypto exchange, making it the largest Canadian crypto seizure to date. (decrypt.co)
2025-9-19 Canada Asset

Coinbase rolls out DEX trading in its app for US users, excluding New York state, starting with assets on the Base network, with Solana support “coming soon” (decrypt.co)
2025-8-9 Asset New York Coinbase

Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, requiring issuers to get approval from the Monetary Authority, comply with AML protocols, and more (decrypt.co)
2025-8-1 Hong Kong Monetary

The US SEC approves in-kind creations and redemptions for crypto ETFs, allowing institutional investors to exchange ETF shares for the underlying BTC or ETH (decrypt.co)
2025-7-30 ETF ETH

An over $242M Polymarket bet on whether President Zelenskyy would wear a suit before July closed as “No” despite claims he did, raising governance concerns (decrypt.co)
2025-7-9

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (decrypt.co)
2025-6-26 Ireland Coinbase

Texas becomes the third US state to approve a public crypto reserve, allowing direct purchases of assets averaging $500B+ in market cap over 24 months (decrypt.co)
2025-6-23 Asset Texas

Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be done with ~20x fewer noisy qubits than previously estimated, though still far beyond current quantum tech (decrypt.co)
2025-5-27 Quantum

Michael Arrington says Coinbase's recent data breach “will lead to people dying”, calls for KYC rules reassessment and prison for execs failing to protect users (decrypt.co)
2025-5-21 Coinbase

Solana Foundation: enough validators were able to quietly patch a 0-day bug last month that could have allowed unlimited “Token-22” minting and account draining (decrypt.co)
2025-5-6

Galaxy Digital plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on May 16; it will still have shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for some time (decrypt.co)
2025-5-1 Toronto

Hex crypto project founder Richard Heart says he has “defeated the SEC completely” after the regulator abandoned its securities fraud lawsuit against him (decrypt.co)
2025-4-24

Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US to buy up to 1M BTC (decrypt.co)
2025-3-12 Bitcoin Republican Senate

Thailand's SEC approves Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC for exchange trading, with both available in Thailand on March 16, signaling growing stablecoin adoption (decrypt.co)
2025-3-11 Thailand

Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the company without taking enforcement action, adding “NFTs are not securities” (decrypt.co)
2025-3-5

Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B “over three years” (decrypt.co)
2025-1-18 Trump

Sony launches Soneium Ethereum L2 platform for creators, after a four-month test that drew 14M+ users; Blockscout: Soneium testnet processed ~47M transactions (decrypt.co)
2025-1-14 Sony Ethereum

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