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Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (www.coindesk.com)
3 days ago Blockchain

The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (www.coindesk.com)
3 days ago CFTC

Binance.US named Stephen Gregory as CEO, replacing Norman Reed; Gregory was previously CEO of Currency.com and held compliance roles at Gemini and CEX.IO (www.coindesk.com)
3 days ago

Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions (www.coindesk.com)
3 days ago Dow Jones Iran New York

Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine (www.coindesk.com)
9 days ago

Polymarket removes long-running markets letting users bet on the chances of a nuclear weapon detonating amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 market had $1.7M in volume (www.coindesk.com)
10 days ago Iran

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being “threatened and undermined” by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (www.coindesk.com)
11 days ago Trump

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (www.coindesk.com)
18 days ago

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (www.coindesk.com)
18 days ago

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (www.coindesk.com)
25 days ago

Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ (www.coindesk.com)
25 days ago

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-12 Ethereum

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO Stephanie Lemmerman ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-11 IPO

UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-11 Blockchain

Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-7

Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-6

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-4 Darknet

Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-30 Asset

Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-30 Russia Retail Ban Monero

The US SEC clarifies its tokenized stock rules, saying they are subject to securities and derivatives rules and issuer approval is required for true ownership (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-29

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-25

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 “liquidation cascade” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-19 4Q

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds ~4M ETH valued at ~$13.6B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-16 ETH

Coinbase pulls support from the US Senate's crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote; CEO Brian Armstrong says there are “too many issues” with the bill (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-15 Senate Coinbase

Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-14

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-19 Senate

Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-18 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-12 Conspiracy

VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-11 Korea Asia

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-12-11 China Xiaomi

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