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Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei due to payments to Milei's sister (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-19

Arkham: FTX users with claims below $50K have started to receive funds via Kraken and BitGo, expected to total $1.2B; users with $50K+ claims will be paid in Q2 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-19

Argentina's president Javier Milei backtracks on an X post promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4B market cap before plunging by 95%+ (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-16

Plasma, which is developing a bitcoin-based network designed to handle stablecoin transactions efficiently with zero-fee USDT transfers, raised a $20M Series A (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-14 Bitcoin

Nineteen US states have bills to invest public money in crypto, many focus on retirement funds; MI, WI already have crypto in public employees' retirement funds (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-11

Polymarket Analytics: users put $1.1B in volume on the outcome of the Super Bowl despite regulatory hurdles; one trader made a $550K profit from Eagles bets (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-11

CCData: the supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1B, as the launch of the TRUMP memecoin caused a wave of inflows (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-1 Trump

Tether had $13B in 2024 net profits, including ~$7B from its US Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5B from unrealized appreciation of gold and bitcoin holdings (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-1 Bitcoin

Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building a Bitcoin DeFi protocol called BeL2, raised $20M from private investment company Rollman Management (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin Decentralize

Crypto exchange Deribit reports total trading volume, including options, futures, and more, rose 95% YoY to $1.19T in 2024; options volume rose 99% YoY to $743B (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-22

Circle, which issues the USDC stablecoin, acquired Hashnote; rwa.xyz data: Hashnote's USYC token last year become the largest tokenized US Treasury product (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-22

Coinbase and Binance plan to list the TRUMP token, with Binance opening trading on Jan. 19; CoinGecko: $TRUMP is trading on Bitget, Kraken, and other exchanges (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-19 Trump Coinbase

Coinbase adds bitcoin-backed loans in the US through Morpho, a lending platform on its Base network; borrowers will post collateral and not rely on credit score (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-17 Bitcoin Coinbase

Jio Platforms partners with Polygon Labs to integrate Web3 and blockchain services into Jio's apps and services; Jio Platforms has over 450M users in India (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-16 Blockchain India

A US court rules the SEC must “explain itself” on why, when pressed by Coinbase, it failed to clarify its rules or offer clear new rules for crypto securities (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-14 Coinbase

Do Kwon's criminal fraud trial in the US is scheduled for January 2026; prosecutors expect challenges accessing encrypted devices and translating communications (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-9

The T3 Financial Crime Unit says it has frozen $100M of USDT used by illicit actors since the unit was formed in September 2024 by Tron, TRM Labs, and Tether (www.coindesk.com)
2025-1-3

US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth $308M, from Japanese exchange DMM in May 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-25 Japan Korea Bitcoin

Tass: the Russian government bans crypto mining in 10 regions from January 1 to March 15, 2031, citing power consumption, after legalizing mining in July 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-24 Russia

Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-21

Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-16 Blockchain

Coinbase publishes FDIC documents, obtained via a lawsuit, that it says prove crypto businesses were systematically walled off from banking by the regulator (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-7 Coinbase

Popular NFT project Pudgy Penguins plans to launch a Solana-based token called PENGU within this year, with 23.5% of the 88B tokens reserved for its NFT holders (www.coindesk.com)
2024-12-6

Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as his Commerce Secretary (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-20 Trump

Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, is sentenced to 18 months in prison; her husband recently got a 5-year sentence (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-19

An interview with El Salvador's top crypto regulator Juan Carlos Reyes on taking a tech-minded approach to crypto regulation, how his agency works, and more (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-18 Interview

Zero Gravity Labs, which is building a decentralized AI operating system, raised a $40M seed round and says it secured a $250M “token purchase commitment” (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-14 AI Decentralize

Bitcoin touches a record-high $85K, adding almost $20K in a week; Tesla is up 7%+ today, while Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft are down slightly (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-12 Bitcoin Amazon Microsoft Apple Tesla Nvidia

FTX sues crypto trader “Humpy the Whale” alleging margin trading market manipulation from January 2021 to September 2022, leading to FTX and Alameda losing $1B (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-11

Ethereum Foundation financial report: $970.2M in treasury as of Oct. 31, down from $1.6B in March 2022; ~80% of holdings in ETH, which declined 20%+ since 2022 (www.coindesk.com)
2024-11-9 Ethereum ETH

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