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2026
January
2025
December
- Bitcoin Miners Thrive Off a New Side Hustle: Retooling Their Data Centers for AI (WSJ)
- Coinbase adds prediction markets and stock trading in push to be one-stop trading app (CNBC)
- Alleged Insider Nets $1 Million On Polymarket In 24 Hours (Forbes)
November
- Polymarket Secures CFTC Approval for Regulated U.S. Return (CoinDesk)
- In Las Vegas, Kalshi Is King (The Information)
- Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round (TechCrunch)
- Crypto market sheds $1.2tn as traders shun speculative assets (FT)
- CRYPTO: Realm of the Coin
- Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings (WSJ)
- AI models given $10K to compete in first-of-its-kind crypto-trading competition — and most crashed and burned (NYPost)
- Citadel Securities and Fortress take stakes in Ripple at $40bn valuation (FT)
October
- Coinbase Strikes Deal for Crypto-Investing Platform Echo (WSJ)
- Crypto Miners Riding the AI Wave Are Leaving Bitcoin Behind (Bloomberg)
- Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins (Decrypt)
- NYSE Owner to Invest Up to $2 Billion in Polymarket (WSJ)
September
- Stablecoin issuer Circle examines ‘reversible’ transactions in departure for crypto (FT)
- Coinbase CEO: We Want To Become A Super App (CoinDesk)
- PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto (ZDNet)
- Nasdaq makes push to launch trading of tokenized securities (Reuters)
- Trump family’s World Liberty Financial token falls in trading debut (FT)
August
- Google Cloud is developing its own blockchain for payments, currently in private testnet (The Block)
- Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto (NYTimes)
July
- PayPal to Roll Out ‘Pay With Crypto’ Feature for Merchants (Bloomberg)
- Companies load up on niche crypto tokens to boost share prices (FT)
- Donald Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments (FT)
June
- Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (WSJ)
- Why we should worry about the rise of stablecoins (FT)
- How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream (FT)
- Pump.fun plans $1B token sale at $4B valuation: Sources (Blockworks)
May
- Stablecoin Bill Advances in US Senate in Big Win for Crypto (Bloomberg)
- Crypto High-Rollers Go Big on Bodyguards to Deter Kidnappers (Bloomberg)
- Meta Explores Stablecoin Integration as US Senate Blocks Key Crypto Bill (Coinpaper)
- Celsius Founder Mashinsky Gets 12 Years for Crypto Fraud (Bloomberg)
- Tether CEO says the firm’s AI product will enable peer-to-peer network of AI agents (The Block)
April
- Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out (WSJ)
- Coinbase in hot water over $12 million ‘content coin’—but exec tells haters to lean in (Fortune Crypto)
March
- Crypto’s Trumpian Embrace Is Leaving Bitcoin’s Big Rival Behind (Bloomberg)
- Fidelity plans to launch stablecoin in digital assets push (FT)
- One Man’s Crypto Windfall Is Funding a $1 Billion Space Station Dream (Bloomberg)
- Donald Trump signs executive order for Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (CoinTelegraph)
- Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Says SEC Closing Investigation in ‘Huge Win’ for NFT Sector (Decrypt)
- Donald Trump Names Components Of Crypto Reserve (CoinDesk)
February
- SEC says most meme coins are not securities (CNBC)
- Illicit Crypto Volume in 2024 Hit a Record $40B in 2024 (CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin ETFs Are Hit by a Record $1 Billion Outflow in One Day (Bloomberg)
- How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history (Ars Technica)
- Bybit Hit by Crypto’s Worst Hack With Almost $1.5 Billion Stolen (Bloomberg)
- Bybit Hack (CoinDesk)
- Polymarket Bettors Punt $1.1B on Superbowl Results, Despite Regulatory Overhang (CoinDesk)
- Stablecoins are finding product-market fit in emerging markets (TechCrunch)
January
- Trump signs executive order promoting crypto, paving way for digital asset stockpile (CNBC)
- Co-founder of French Crypto Startup Freed After Kidnapping (Bloomberg)
- President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official (TechCrunch)
2024
December
- Banks Want In on Tether’s Billions in Stablecoin Profits (Bloomberg)
- Tether Sees $10 Billion in Net Profits for 2024 (Bloomberg)
- Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch (Cointelegraph)
- Crypto Trading Volume Surged to $10 Trillion for the First Time in November (Bloomberg)
- Ripple-Linked XRP Soars to Third-Largest Token After Trump Win (Bloomberg)
November
- Howard Lutnick, Tether’s Wall Street Banker, Is Trump’s Pick for Commerce Chief, Not Treasury Secretary (CoinDesk)
- FTX Sues Binance, Ex-CEO Zhao Seeking $1.8 Billion Clawback (Bloomberg)
- FTX Sues Scaramucci to Recoup Money for Creditors (Bloomberg)
- Jack Dorsey’s Square to Invest More in Bitcoin Mining and Shut Decentralized ‘Web5’ Venture (CoinDesk)
October
- Sequoia to Rake in More Than $100 Million From Crypto Acquisition (Bloomberg)
- Crypto Company Tether Talking to Commodity Traders About Lending Them Its Billions (Bloomberg)
- Unmasking Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto—Again (Wired)
September
- Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for her role in FTX scandal (Axios)
- Suspects behind $230 million cryptocurrency theft arrested in Miami (BleepingComputer)
- Adam Neumann’s Climate Company Is Issuing Refunds After Failing To Launch Crypto Token (Forbes)
- Payments in Singapore With Stablecoins Rise to Almost $1 Billion (Bloomberg)
- When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me (The Atlantic)
- Pump.fun surpasses $100 million in revenue as Polymarket outshines NFTs in August (The Block)
August
- Celsius targets Tether, Badger DAO, Compound, and Netanyahu’s niece and nephew in lawsuits (The Block)
- Bitcoin tumbles below $50,000 for the first time since February (CNBC)
- Tether Nets $5B Profits This Year, Says Its US Debt Holdings Surpassed Germany’s (CoinDesk)
July
- A Digital Coin Based on Baby Trump? Yup. (NYTimes)
- Spot Ethereum ETFs get final sign off to begin trading Tuesday (The Block)
- WazirX Hacked for $230M, Largely in SHIB, as Elliptic Says North Korea Behind Attack (CoinDesk)
- $235 million lost by WazirX in North Korea-linked breach (Elliptic)
- ‘Boring’ Bitcoin Sends Weekend Trading Volume to All-Time Lows (Bloomberg)
June
- Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase (Coindesk)
- Tether Announces a New Synthetic Dollar That Is Backed by Gold (Bloomberg)
May
- US SEC approves exchange applications to list spot ether ETFs (Reuters)
- Humanity Protocol Becomes Crypto’s New Digital Identity Unicorn (Bloomberg)
- FTX Has Billions More Than Needed to Pay Bankruptcy Victims (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase’s First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Top Forecasts (Bloomberg)
- Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in prison (The Verge)
April
March
- Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud (Reuters)
- Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says (Bloomberg)
February
- Crypto exits remain low but investors remain unfazed (TechCrunch)
- Crypto venture funding climbs for first time in nearly 2 years after bitcoin’s stellar run (CNBC)
- Celsius to Distribute $3B Crypto to Creditors as Firm Emerges From Bankruptcy (CoinDesk)
January
- US bitcoin ETFs see $4.6 billion in volume in first day of trading (Reuters)
- US SEC approves bitcoin ETFs in watershed for crypto market (Reuters)
- SEC Has Not Approved Bitcoin ETFs, but Its Hacked X Account Briefly Said Otherwise (CoinDesk)
- Fidelity sets Bitcoin ETF fee at 0.39% ahead of expected SEC approvals (Fortune)
- Bitcoin climbs above $45,000 to 21-month peak as new year kicks off (Reuters)
2023
December
November
- It’s not just electricity — Bitcoin mines burn through a lot of water, too (The Verge)
- Key Witness at Sam Bankman-Fried Trial to Launch New Crypto Exchange (WSJ)
- Coatue Cuts Value of OpenSea Stake by 90% as Fund’s Returns Sag (The Information)
October
- They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird (Wired)
- Worldcoin to pay orb operators in WLD rather than USDC (The Block)
- Worldcoin to cease paying Orb operators in USDC as early as November (CoinTelegraph)
- U.S. Treasury Seeks to Name Crypto Mixers as ‘Money Laundering Concern’ (CoinDesk)
- SEC Drops Charges Against Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, Chairman Larsen (CoinDesk)
- Chainalysis says some reports might be overestimating crypto’s role in terrorist financing (The Block)
- NY Attorney General sues Gemini, Genesis and DCG for allegedly defrauding crypto investors of over $1B (TechCrunch)
- Israel orders freeze on crypto accounts in bid to block funding for Hamas (FT)
- Caroline Ellison, Adviser to Sam Bankman-Fried, Says He ‘Directed’ Her to Commit Crimes (NYTimes)
September
- Can FTX Be Revived—Without Sam Bankman-Fried? (Wired)
- Coinbase Role in Crypto Firm Celsius’s Bankruptcy Plan Questioned by SEC (Bloomberg)
- Defi Project Mixin Network Suspends Services After $200 Million Crypto Hack (Bloomberg)
- Judge Allows Bankrupt FTX to Sell Its Crypto Holdings, Including BTC and SOL (CoinDesk)
- Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame Could Forfeit $1.5B as Part of Guilty Plea (CoinDesk)
- Vitalik Buterin co-authors paper on regulation-friendly Tornado Cash alternative (The Block)
- There are just six bitcoin billionaires in the world, new crypto super-rich report says (CNBC)
August
- SEC takes first action against an NFT project as an unregistered security (The Verge)
- Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market (CoinDesk)
- Coinbase obtains regulatory approval to offer crypto futures trading to eligible clients (The Block)
- PayPal Launches a Stablecoin in Latest Crypto Payments Push (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase argues it doesn’t trade securities, so the SEC’s lawsuit should be dismissed (The Verge)
- Bitcoin launderer pleads guilty, admits to massive Bitfinex hack (CNBC)
- NFT Trading Volume Is Sinking, But It’s Not Stopping Developers From Entering Web3 (Coindesk)
- Kenya suspends Worldcoin’s crypto project over safety concerns (Reuters)
- Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (Rest of World)
July
- SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says (FT)
- Sequoia Capital Slashes Crypto Fund as It Downsizes Amid Startup Crunch (WSJ)
- Prosecutors want Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail after witness-tampering allegations. Judge issues gag order (CNN)
- Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchanges Lose Ground in Shrunken Market (Bloomberg)
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin crypto project begins international rollout (FT)
- SEC accepts BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF application, signaling regulatory review (CoinTelegraph)
- Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky Charged in Latest DOJ Crypto Case (Bloomberg)
June
- Fidelity Joins Spot-Bitcoin ETF Race With Fresh SEC Filing (Bloomberg)
- FTX Halts Sale of Its $500 Million Stake in AI Startup Anthropic (Bloomberg)
- FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B (CoinDesk)
- FTX paid over $120 million in advisor fees between February 1 and April 30 (The Block)
- BlackRock files for bitcoin ETF in push into crypto (Reuters)
- Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto’s future may be in the U.K. (Axios)
- Binance.US Set to Be Cut Off From Banking System After SEC Lawsuit (Bloomberg)
- SEC says Binance and US affiliate redirected billions in customer assets to Zhao’s funds (The Block)
- The SEC Comes for Crypto (Bloomberg)
- US Crypto Crackdown Reaches Fever Pitch as SEC Sues Coinbase (Bloomberg)
- Elon ‘The Dogefather’ Musk Accused of Insider Trading (Gizmodo)
- Multichain team says it can’t contact CEO amid protocol problems (The Block)
May
- Paradigm broadening crypto-only focus to areas including AI (The Block)
- A husband hid $500,000 in bitcoin during a divorce — and got busted by a crypto hunter (CNBC)
- Sanctioned Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Hijacked by Hackers (Bloomberg)
- Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital predicts 35% customer payout (Reuters)
- The digital euro: a solution seeking a problem? (FT)
- Coinbase CEO says SEC is on ‘lone crusade,’ dials back on suggestion exchange may relocate (CNBC)
- Ripple will have spent $200 million fighting SEC lawsuit, CEO says (CNBC)
- U.S. Crypto Exchange Bittrex Files for Bankruptcy in Delaware (CoinDesk)
- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin rolls out app as token launch looms (The Block)
- Is the Federal Government Trying to Kill Off Crypto? (New York Magazine)
April
- Binance Faces Mounting Pressure as U.S. Crypto Crackdown Intensifies (NYTimes)
- Coinbase gets Bermuda license, plans to launch offshore exchange in coming weeks (FortuneCrypto)
- Coinbase Could Move Away From U.S. if No Regulatory Clarity: CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)
- Ethereum’s (ETH) Shanghai, Shapella Upgrade Looks ‘Stable,’ Developer Beiko Says (Bloomberg)
- Ethereum Unstaking Requests Pile Up After Shanghai Upgrade, Now at 2-Week Wait (CoinDesk)
- Crypto VC Funding Plunges by 80% in Dire Quarter for Startups (Bloomberg)
- Winklevoss Twins Lend $100 Million to Their Gemini Crypto Platform (Bloomberg)
- The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin (NYTimes)
- Crypto enthusiasts go after New York Times for its BTC mining report (Cryptopolitan)
- The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS (Waxy.org)
March
- North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot (Wired)
- Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao violated compliance rules to attract U.S. users, CFTC alleges (CNBC)
- NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped (BBC News)
- Do Kwon Charged With Fraud by US Prosecutors in New York (Bloomberg)
- SEC charges Tron founder Justin Sun, celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul with crypto violations (CNBC)
- Multicoin Capital’s Hedge Fund Lost 91.4% Last Year, Investor Letter Reveals (CoinDesk)
- Silvergate Stock Drops Over 50% as Crypto Clients Flee Beleaguered Bank (CoinDesk)
- Coinbase is no longer accepting, initiating payments with Silvergate (The Block)
February
- Visa, Mastercard pause crypto push in wake of industry meltdown - sources (Reuters)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club Creator Yuga Labs Reveals First Bitcoin NFT Project (Decrypt)
- Coinbase Launches Layer 2 Blockchain Base to Provide On-Ramp for Ethereum, Solana and Others (CoinDesk)
- Spotify Is Testing Token-Enabled Music Playlists (CoinDesk)
- SEC Sues Over TerraUSD Stablecoin That Rocked Crypto (Bloomberg)
- SEC Proposal Could Bar Investment Advisers From Keeping Assets at Crypto Firms (CoinDesk)
- Banks Are Breaking Up With Crypto During Regulatory Crackdown (WSJ)
- US Crackdown Seeks to Push Crypto Back to the Fringes of Finance (Bloomberg)
- Regulator Orders Crypto Firm Paxos to Stop Issuing Binance Stablecoin (WSJ)
- PayPal Pauses Stablecoin Work Amid Regulatory Scrutiny of Crypto (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase CEO Armstrong Decries Rumors of Possible US SEC Ban on Crypto Staking (Bloomberg)
- A16z votes against proposal to deploy latest Uniswap iteration on BNB Chain (The Block)
January
- Amazon NFT Initiative Coming Soon: Exclusive (Blockworks)
- Crypto Lender Genesis Files for Bankruptcy as Crisis Spreads (Bloomberg)
- Genesis creditors negotiating prepackaged bankruptcy: Sources (The Block)
- Crypto Media Outlet CoinDesk Taps Bankers for Potential Sale (WSJ)
- Web 3 Startup Funding Q4 Drop (Crunchbase)
- Sam Bankman-Fried sticks to his script (Axios)
- Coinbase to slash 20% of workforce in second major round of job cuts (CNBC)
- Bankruptcy judge rules that Earn account assets belong to Celsius (Axios)
- Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to Fraud, Conspiracy Charges (CoinDesk)
- Shiba Inu-Themed BONK Tokens Are Yielding Nearly 1,000% for Solana Liquidity Providers (CoinDesk)
- Gemini’s Cameron Winklevoss Slams Crypto Exec Barry Silbert Over Frozen Funds (Bloomberg)
2022
December
- Alameda Research wallets swap several crypto tokens for bitcoin (The Block)
- Solana’s Top NFT Projects DeGods and Y00ts to Migrate Chains (CoinDesk)
- Two Bankman-Fried colleagues plead guilty to fraud (Washington Post)
- Twitter adds BTC and ETH price indexes to search function (CoinTelegraph)
- Bitcoin Addresses Tied to Defunct Canadian Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Wake Up (CoinDesk)
- Coinbase’s Value Is $1 Billion Below ‘Joke’ Token Dogecoin’s (Bloomberg)
- Binance.US to Buy Voyager Assets in $1.022 Billion Deal (Bloomberg)
- Bankman-Fried is ready to ‘face the music,’ prison official says (Washington Post)
- Accountant That Vetted Binance Reserves Halts Crypto Work (Bloomberg)
- FTX Investor Impact: Timeline of Realized Cryptocurrency Gains and Losses Shows FTX Hit Investor Wallets Less Than Previous Crises (Chainalysis)
- Binance CEO Zhao Warns Bumpy Road Ahead in Message to His Staff (Bloomberg)
- Federal prosecutors, SEC unveil charges against Sam Bankman-Fried (Washington Post)
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges (CNBC)
- Jim Edwards thread summarizing the SEC complaint (Twitter)
- Binance CEO addresses USDC outflows: ‘feel free to withdraw any other stablecoin’ (The Block)
- Binance Is Trying to Calm Investors, but Its Finances Remain a Mystery (WSJ)
- ‘Abnormal’ Altcoin Trading on Binance ‘Just Market Behavior,’ Says CEO (Decrypt)
- US Prosecutors Look to Charge Binance, Executives on Possible Money Laundering Violations: Reuters (Coindesk)
- FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried agrees to testify at U.S. House hearing on Tuesday (CNBC)
- How CoinDesk’s FTX scoop left a hole in its corporate overlord (The Verge)
- FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Said to Face Market Manipulation Inquiry (NYTimes)
- Coinbase CEO Sees Revenue Falling 50% or More on Crypto Rout (Bloomberg)
- FTX held talks with Taylor Swift over $100mn sponsorship deal (FT)
- Crypto broker Genesis owes Winklevoss exchange’s customers $900mn (FT)
- Why Hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet? (Intelligencer)
- Payments giant Stripe jumps into Web3 with tool that helps companies turn cash to crypto (Fortune Crypto)
- FTX Missing Billions Remain Mystery After Bankman-Fried Grilling (Bloomberg)
November
- Binance clarifies initial $1 billion recovery fund deposit came from own assets (The Block)
- Crypto Lender BlockFi Filing for Bankruptcy and Conducting Major Layoffs as FTX Contagion Claims Another: Source (Decrypt)
- Binance releases proof-of-reserves system, starting with bitcoin (The Block)
- Crypto Brokerage Genesis Is Said to Warn of Bankruptcy Without Funding (Bloomberg)
- Hedge funds left with billions stranded on FTX (FT)
- Exclusive: Bankman-Fried’s FTX, parents bought Bahamas property worth $121 million (Reuters)
- Grayscale won’t share proof of reserves, citing ‘security concerns’ (The Block)
- Grayscale refuses to share proof of reserves due to ‘security concerns’ as shares trade at a 45% discount to bitcoin (CNBC)
- New FTX Boss Condemns Management of the Crypto Exchange During Sam Bankman-Fried’s Tenure (CoinDesk)
- FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad (Bloomberg)
- Nike to Open Its Own Virtual Sneaker Store and Trading Platform (Bloomberg)
- Nike Launches Web3 Platform Offering Virtual Apparel and Other NFT-Based Products (CryptoNews)
- Binance Starts Recovery Fund for Crypto Projects Facing Liquidity Crisis (CoinDesk)
- Sam Bankman-Fried steps down as FTX CEO as his crypto exchange files for bankruptcy (CNBC)
- FTX US Warns of Trading Halt Hours After Bankman-Fried Says It’s ‘100% Liquid’ (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Lender BlockFi Pauses Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse (CoinDesk)
- Can Crypto’s Richest Man Stand the Cold? (Bloomberg)
- Binance Walks Away From Deal to Rescue FTX (WSJ)
- SBF Tweet Storm This Morning (Twitter)
- FTX’s Collapse Spurs $10 Billion Drop in Decentralized Finance (Bloomberg)
- The Story of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Backroom Deal With Binance’s CZ (CoinDesk)
- Lucas Nuzzi (Twitter Thread) (Twitter)
- FTX Venture Investors Fear Total Wipeout in Binance Rescue Deal (The Information)
- Binance to Sell Rest of FTX Token Holdings as Alameda CEO Defends Firm’s Financial Condition (CoinDesk)
- OpenSea Breaks Silence on NFT Royalties, But Creators Don’t Like What They Hear (Decrypt)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club tell all: The untold story of the $4 billion crypto startup (Fast Company)
- Meta’s Instagram Plans NFT Minting, Trading Tools (Decrypt)
October
- India’s Central Bank to Start Wholesale CBDC Pilot Nov. 1 (CoinDesk)
- The Crypto Story (Bloomberg)
- Google’s new service helps Web3 developers build for blockchain-based platforms (ZDNet)
- Aptos Token Plummets 40% After APT Airdrop for ‘Early Network Participants’ (Decrypt)
- Decentralized Solana-based trading platform Mango reportedly hit by $100 million exploit (Fortune)
- America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now (WSJ)
- Google selects Coinbase to take cloud payments with cryptocurrencies and will use its custody tool (CNBC)
- It’s Lonely in the Metaverse: DappRadar Data Suggests Decentraland Has 38 ‘Daily Active’ Users in $1.3B Ecosystem (CoinDesk)
- Binance-linked blockchain hit by $570 million crypto hack (Reuters)
- Kim Kardashian pays over $1 million to settle SEC charges linked to a crypto promo on her Instagram (CNBC)
- Celsius Network founder withdrew $10mn ahead of bankruptcy (FT)
September
- SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play (CoinDesk)
- NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak (Bloomberg)
- Crypto Exchange FTX Wins Bankrupt Firm Voyager’s Assets (Bloomberg)
- CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO (CoinDesk)
- Helium Founders, T-Mobile Launch Crypto-Powered 5G Mobile Service (Decrypt)
- Crypto market maker Wintermute hacked for $160 million (The Block)
- Nasdaq is preparing to launch an institutional crypto custody service (The Block)
- South Korean prosecutors ask Interpol to issue red notice for Do Kwon (FT)
- ‘No One Is Profitable’: GPU Mining Faces Dark Days After Ethereum Merge (PCMag)
- Ethereum activates The Merge as it shifts to proof of stake (The Block)
- Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Faces Arrest Warrant in South Korea (Bloomberg)
- Starbucks details its blockchain-based loyalty platform and NFT community, Starbucks Odyssey (TechCrunch)
- They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down (Rest of World)
- Inside the World’s First No-Coiner Conference
- Y Combinator is doubling down on crypto founders despite market volatility (TechCrunch)
- Mysten Labs, creator of the Sui blockchain, closes $300 million raise led by FTX Ventures (The Block)
- Binance, Issuer of Third-Biggest Stablecoin, to Stop Supporting Larger Rival USDC (CoinDesk)
- Interview: Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum
August
- A16z Wants to Standardize NFTs by Giving You a License for Your Token (CoinDesk)
- Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets (TechCrunch)
- Crypto.com Sues Woman After Sending Her $10 Million by Mistake: Report (Decrypt)
- MTV VMAs: Eminem and Snoop Dogg Perform as Bored Apes in the Metaverse (CNET)
- Looks bare: OpenSea turns into NFT ghost-town after volume plunges 99% in 90 days (CoinTelegraph)
- The Crypto World Can’t Wait for ‘the Merge’ (NYTimes)
- Ethereum Overhaul Risks Creating a New Class of Kingpins (Bloomberg)
- Ethereum Foundation confirms September dates for the Merge (The Block)
- Crypto’s massive marketing efforts have drawn few new investors (Washington Post)
- NFTs Turn Out to Be a Great Channel of Revenue for Businesses, Ask Nike (NFT Gators)
- FTX grew revenue 1,000% during the crypto craze, leaked financials show (CNBC)
- Stablecoin issuers hold $80bn of short-dated US government debt (FT)
- The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars (New York Magazine)
- Mid-year Crypto Crime Update: Illicit Activity Falls With Rest of Market, With Some Notable Exceptions (Chainalysis)
- Google invested a whopping $1.5B into blockchain companies since September (CoinTelegraph)
- Galaxy Digital terminates its acquisition of BitGo (The Block)
- Ethereum’s final proof-of-stake ‘test merge’ is live on Goerli (The Block)
- Someone Is Trolling Celebs by Sending ETH From Tornado Cash (CoinDesk)
- The endless search for a crypto use case
- Solana, USDC Drained From Wallets in Attack (Decrypt)
- Michael Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO, shift to executive chairman role (The Block)
- Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs (The Guardian)
July
- Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings; Shares Tumble (Bloomberg)
- Voyager Responds to FTX’s Offer, Calling It a ‘Low-Ball’ Bid (Bloomberg)
- Ex-Coinbase Manager Arrested in US Crypto Insider-Trading Case (Bloomberg)
- Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt)
- @CryptoKaleo Tweet (Twitter)
- Leaked emails: Crypto exchange Coinbase is ‘temporarily shutting down’ its US affiliate-marketing program (Insider)
- Coinbase stirs rumors of liquidity woes as it halts affiliate-marketing program (Insider Bitcoins)
- Crypto Crash Stalls WeWork Founder Adam Neumann’s Climate Venture (WSJ)
- Celsius Discloses $1.19 Billion Deficit in Bankruptcy Filing (Bloomberg)
- How Three Arrows Capital Blew Up and Set Off a Crypto Contagion (Bloomberg)
- Embattled crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy protection (CNBC)
- Inside Celsius: how one of crypto’s biggest lenders ground to a halt (FT)
- Three Arrows Founders’ Whereabouts Unknown, Liquidators Say (Bloomberg)
- Reddit is launching a new NFT avatar marketplace (TechCrunch)
- Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Mining Giant Dumped Most of Its Bitcoin Holdings in June (Bloomberg)
- How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown (NYTimes)
- Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawls, trading and deposits amid financial challenges. (TechCrunch)
- Meta to Shut Down Novi Service in September in Crypto Winter (Bloomberg)
June
- Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources (CoinDesk)
- Did Razzlekhan and Dutch Pull Off History’s Biggest Crypto Heist? (Bloomberg)
- Crypto Crash Widens a Divide: ‘Those With Money Will End Up Being Fine’ (NYTimes)
- Crypto crash threatens North Korea’s stolen funds as it ramps up weapons tests (Reuters)
- More Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down (WSJ)
- Dissecting the DAO: Web3 Ownership is Surprisingly Concentrated (Chainalysis)
- Breaking: Harmony’s Horizon Bridge hacked for $100M (CoinTelegraph)
- Web3 Use Cases: Today
- Where are all the crypto use cases?
- Crypto lender Babel Finance announces steps to improve its liquidity situation (The Block)
- New Solend vote invalidates governance decision to take over whale account (The Block)
- A Billion-Dollar Crypto Gaming Startup Promised Riches and Delivered Disaster (Bloomberg)
- Samsung Wallet is back to organize your ID, keys, and crypto (The Verge)
- After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidations, Three Arrows Capital’s future is uncertain (The Block)
- Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze (WSJ)
- Celsius bid to rival Wall St with crypto lending scuppered by risky bets (FT)
- Coinbase is laying off 1,100 employees as Bitcoin prices continue to fall (The Verge)
- Celsius Tanks 70% in 1 Hour After Company Pauses Withdrawals to ‘Stabilize Liquidity’ (Decrypt)
- Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin venture TBD unveils proposal for decentralized Web platform (The Block)
- Jack Dorsey’s TBD Announces Web 3 Competitor: Web 5 (CoinDesk)
- Seth Green’s Stolen Bored Ape Is Back Home (BuzzFeed News)
- Ethereum’s Merge Upgrade Goes Live Today on Ropsten Testnet (Decrypt)
- ApeCoin Owners Vote Against Leaving the Ethereum Blockchain (Bloomberg)
- The NFT slump is real (TechCrunch)
- Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources (CoinDesk)
- Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud (TechCrunch)
- US Probes Binance Over Token That Is Now World’s Fifth Largest (Bloomberg)
- US Charges Ex-OpenSea Exec With NFT Insider Trading (CoinDesk)
May
- Someone Stole Seth Green’s Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show (Buzzfeed News)
- Andreessen Horowitz bets on crypto ‘golden era’ with new $4.5bn fund (FT)
- Do Kwon’s plan to rebirth the Terra blockchain gets approved (The Block)
- Terra Collapse Triggers $83 Billion Decentralized Finance Slump (Bloomberg)
- ‘Move-to-earn’ Solana app StepN is latest crypto gaming craze (TechCrunch)
- Stablegains Faces Lawsuit After Losing $44M on UST (CryptoBriefing)
- Coinbase Slashes Costs, Freezes Hiring Amid Crypto Crash (The Information)
- FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading (The Block)
- Defiant Chinese netizens skirt lockdown censorship using blockchain (FT)
- China Makes a Comeback in Bitcoin Mining Despite Government Ban (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase Expands Features, Allowing Some App Users to Access Ethereum-Based Dapps (CoinDesk)
- Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn (The Block)
- LFG Reserves Dwindle to Just 313 Bitcoins From 80K After UST Crash (CoinDesk)
- Exclusive: Spotify tests letting artists promote NFTs on their profiles (MusicAlly)
- OpenSea is adding NFT copy detection and verification features (The Verge)
- Terraform Again Halts Blockchain Behind UST Stablecoin, Luna (Bloomberg)
- Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus launches Bitcoin payments startup backed by a16z and Paradigm (TechCrunch)
- Terra: To the Moon and Back
- Why financial engineering has gone full circle with Terra
- Terra Crunch Shakes Foundations of Crypto Stablecoin Complex (Bloomberg)
- As Luna holders watch the token slide, many won’t be able to cash out for weeks (The Block)
- Coinbase revenue drops 27% from a year ago, stock slides (CryptoWorld)
- UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg for Second Time in 48 Hours, LUNA Market Cap Falls Below UST’s (CoinDesk)
- Crypto’s Audacious Algorithmic Stablecoin Experiment Crumbles (Bloomberg)
- Bitcoin’s Unraveling Hits 50% From Peak With Drop Below $33,000 (Bloomberg)
- Meta to start testing digital collectibles on Instagram (The Block)
- Exclusive: Crypto.com passes the 50 million user mark (Axios)
- NFT Sales Are Flatlining (WSJ)
- Bored Ape Metaverse Frenzy Raises Millions, Crashes Ethereum (Bloomberg)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain (The Verge)
- Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool (CoinDesk)
April
- Bitcoin becomes official currency in Central African Republic (BBCNews)
- Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts (WSJ)
- Bored Ape Instagram account hacked: NFTs worth $2.8 million stolen (The Block)
- a16z Crypto is launching an academic research lab focused on web3 (The Block)
- ApeCoin & the death of staking
- Cutting-Edge Crypto Coins Tout Stability. Critics Call Them Dangerous. (WSJ)
- Coinbase NFT marketplace goes live in beta for select customers (The Block)
- Crypto Stocks Perform Worse Than Cryptocurrencies (WSJ)
- Stablecoins Are in a War for Dominance and It’s Getting Ugly (Vice)
- How Chris Dixon’s Dive Down The Crypto Rabbit Hole Made Him The World’s Top Venture Capitalist (Forbes)
- ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280 (CoinDesk)
- Meta’s New 47.5% Fee on Metaverse Items Has NFT Twitter Pissed (CNET)
- Ethereum Undergoes Another Stress Test Ahead of Software Change (Bloomberg)
- Bored Apes Go Hollywood With Coinbase-Produced Movie Trilogy (CoinDesk)
- Robinhood widens user access for crypto wallet transfers, unveils plan to support Lightning payments for bitcoin (The Block)
- SCOOP: Crypto Fund Paradigm’s Assets Under Management Climb 343% to $13.2 Billion
- This Startup Promised People Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs. Now People Feel They’ve Been Scammed.
- Facebook owner Meta targets finance with ‘Zuck Bucks’ and creator coins (FT)
- Solana NFTs Can Now Be Traded on OpenSea (Decrypt)
- Crypto Startup Wyre Being Acquired by Payments Company Bolt for $1.5 Billion (WSJ)
- Sky Mavis raises $150 million to reimburse Ronin hack victims (The Block)
- MicroStrategy Funds Latest Purchase With Bitcoin-Backed Loan (Bloomberg)
- The Hottest NFT Marketplace is Mostly Users Selling to Themselves (Bloomberg)
- NFTs to be launched by the Treasury later this year in crypto push (City AM)
March
- Axie Infinity’s Ronin Network Suffers $625M Exploit (CoinDesk)
- Axie Infinity Owner ‘Fully Committed’ to Reimbursing Players After Hack (Bloomberg)
- NFT Collection Failures Begin to Mount in Flashback to ICO Bust (Bloomberg)
- Metaverse Fashion Week Draws Big Brands, Startups (WSJ)
- The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto’s Future
- There’s something off about ApeCoin
- El Salvador postpones bitcoin bond issue, expects better conditions (Reuters)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club creator raises $450 million to build an NFT metaverse (The Verge)
- Crypto investor Katie Haun raises $1.5 billion, the largest debut fund ever by a female VC (CNBC)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club Ethereum NFT Sales Surge as ApeCoin Price Pops, Then Drops (Decrypt)
- Razzlekhan: The Untold Story Of How A YouTube Rapper Became A Suspect In A $4 Billion Bitcoin Fraud (Forbes)
- Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling (Rest of World)
- Bored Apes NFT project gets official ‘ApeCoin’ token (TechCrunch)
- Proposal Limiting Proof-of-Work Is Rejected in EU Parliament Committee Vote (CoinDesk)
- Stripe launches payments support for crypto businesses, partners with FTX (The Block)
- The great NFT sell-off: has the digital collectibles craze hit its peak? (FT)
- Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries (Motherboard)
- NFT Mania Show Signs of Cooling as Average Price and Sales Decline (Bloomberg)
- These women are staking their claim to Web3 and the metaverse (Fast Company)
- Ukraine cancels crypto airdrop, plans to sell NFTs instead (The Block)
- Crypto Powerhouse ConsenSys Faces Action by Former Employees (Bloomberg)
- The Metaverse Finally Has a Killer App: Poker (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Crypto Exchanges Refuse to Freeze All Russian Accounts (Motherboard)
- BitConnect’s Indicted Founder Kumbhani Vanished, SEC Says (Bloomberg)
February
- Crypto Donations to Ukraine Jump to $20M (CoinDesk)
- Crypto Scammers’ New Target: Dating Apps (NYTimes)
- Stablecoins Soar in Value as Everything Else in Crypto Shrinks (Bloomberg)
- OpenSea NFT Heist Likely Triggers Drop in Activity (Bloomberg)
- Exclusive: Austrian Programmer And Ex Crypto CEO Likely Stole $11 Billion Of Ether (Forbes)
- FTX Enters Gaming as Backlash Grows Against Crypto’s Incursion (Bloomberg)
- OpenSea Investigating ‘Exploit Rumors’ as Users Complain of Missing NFTs (CoinDesk)
- Circle valued at $9 billion under revamped SPAC deal terms (The Block)
- Sequoia Capital launches crypto token fund (Axios)
- Sequoia Capital is launching a $500-600 million crypto fund to invest in tokens (The Block)
- Coalition of US crypto firms unveils travel rule compliance platform, TRUST (The Block)
- Crypto apps soar in popularity after Super Bowl splurge (The Block)
- Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper (Motherboard)
- Ethereum Name Service Removes Core Team Member Brantly Millegan Over 2016 Tweet (CoinDesk)
- Mapping the celebrity NFT complex (Read Max)
- HOW ONE COMPANY TOOK OVER THE NFT TRADE (The Verge)
- Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole hacked for an estimated $322 million (The Record)
- Bored Ape start-up in investment talks with Andreessen Horowitz (FT)
January
- Facebook parent Meta joins crypto group promoting open patents (The Block)
- LooksRare Has Reportedly Generated $8B in Ethereum NFT Wash Trading (Decrypt)
- Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs (YouTube)
- Three things web3 should fix in 2022
- The NFT Art World Wouldn’t Be the Same Without This Woman’s ‘Wide-Awake Hallucinations’ (Rolling Stone)
- Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Venture to Wind Down, Sell Assets (WSJ)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Stablecoin Ambitions Unravel With Diem Sale Talks (Bloomberg)
- Solana Slides 17% to Lead Losses Amid Crypto Market Plunge (CoinDesk)
- Despite the Drop in Crypto Prices, Weekly NFT Sales Reach $4.7 Billion, Increasing 81% (Bitcoin.com)
- Twitter Embraces NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature (WSJ)
- Facebook owner Meta dives into NFT digital collectibles craze (FT)
- Google Forms Blockchain Group Under Newly Appointed Executive (Bloomberg)
- Web3 ‘Proof of attendance’ startup raises $10M to mint shared memories as NFTs (TechCrunch)
- Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard (Decrypt)
- OpenSea confirms acquisition of Dharma, sets sights on fiat onramps (The Block)
- Michael Jordan, Multicoin Back Solana NFT Firm Metaplex in $46M Round (Decrypt)
- Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum (Decrypt)
- Crypto Exchange FTX Sets Up $2 Billion Venture Fund (WSJ)
- “You Don’t Own Web3”: A Coinbase Curse and How VCs Sell Crypto to Retail (Startups And Econ)
- China to create own NFT industry based on state-backed blockchain infrastructure, main developer says (South China Morning Post)
- The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism (The Verge)
- My first impressions of web3 (Moxie.org)
- Response From Vitalic Buterin on Reddit
- Mozilla pauses accepting crypto donations following backlash (The Verge)
- Crypto Crime Trends for 2022: Illicit Transaction Activity Reaches All-Time High in Value, All-Time Low in Share of All Cryptocurrency Activity (Chainalysis)
- OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in new round of venture funding. (NYTimes)
- Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support (The Verge)
- OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes (CoinTelegraph)
- How NFTs became a $40bn market in 2021 (FT)
2021
December
- ‘Blockchain Rock’: Gibraltar moves to become world’s first cryptocurrency hub (The Guardian)
- Decentralized exchanges saw over $1 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
- Centralized crypto exchanges saw over $14 trillion in trading volume this year (The Block)
- Everything You Need to Know About OpenDAO’s SOS Token Airdrop for OpenSea Users (Decrypt)
- Justin Kan’s NFT platform suffers rocky debut as scammer makes off with $150K in user funds (TechCrunch)
- Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog (BBCNews)
- Elon Musk: metaverse isn’t ‘compelling’ and Web3 ‘more marketing than reality’ (The Verge)
- Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists’ Plaything (Bloomberg)
- The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups (NYTimes)
- Players invest $54M in Molyneux’s NFT game Legacy in hopes of earning even more (Ars Technica)
- The ‘To the Moon’ Crash Is Coming (Motherboard)
- Adidas Originals launches NFTs and buys a plot in the Sandbox metaverse (VentureBeat)
- Scoop: Crypto investor Katie Haun leaving Andreessen Horowitz (Axios)
- Nike acquires NFT collectibles studio RTFKT (TechCrunch)
- Bored Ape Yacht Club: Someone accidentally sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 (CNET)
- Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens (BBC News)
- Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker)
- What we learned at Congress’ much-anticipated summit of crypto execs (The Block)
- WhatsApp launches cryptocurrency payment in the US with Novi (9to5Mac)
- Kickstarter Will Move Its Crowdfunding Platform to Blockchain (Bloomberg)
- Crypto exchange BitMart confirms hack resulting in loss of $150 million in crypto (The Block)
- Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms (WSJ)
- Jack Dorsey’s Square changes corporate name to Block (CNBC)
- Meta’s David Marcus, Creator of Embattled Diem Project, to Leave Company (Bloomberg)
November
- China’s exiled crypto machines fuel global mining boom (FT)
- Texas Plans to Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All (Bloomberg)
- Crypto Investors Lose Out In $43.2 Million Sale Of Rare Copy Of U.S. Constitution (Forbes)
- Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden (Forbes)
- Crypto Group’s Bid for Constitution Faces Real-World Snags—Who Picks It Up? (WSJ)
- Goodbye, Staples Center. Hello, Crypto.com Arena (LA Times)
- Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Auction (Variety)
- Right-clickers vs. the monkey JPG owners (Garbage Day)
- A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know (CNBC Make It)
- A crypto group has raised nearly $3 million in Ether to bid on a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution (Fortune)
- The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution (Wired)
- The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noahpinion)
- Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash (TechCrunch)
- The World’s Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group (Bloomberg)
- NFT games are fun. Filing taxes afterward is a nightmare. (Protocol)
October
- Robinhood shares tank as revenue falls way short of expectations on lighter crypto trading (CNBC)
- Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon (The Verge)
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency (CNBC)
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Crypto Exchange Adds $7 Billion of Value in Three Months (Bloomberg)
- Fanatics’ NFT company is worth $1.5 billion, and NFL legend Peyton Manning now owns a stake (CNBC)
- First Bitcoin Futures ETF Rises in Trading Debut (WSJ)
- Facebook’s Novi Taps Paxos, Coinbase Ahead of Diem Rollout (CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin Comes to the Big Board (NYTimes)
- Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work (The Verge)
- Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Coinbase Follows FTX.US Into NFT Trading (CoinDesk)
- Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support (CoinDesk)
- ‘Fantasy equity’ NFT game wants you to spend real money buying fake shares of real startups (TechCrunch)
- ‘Fantasy startup investing’ NFT platform Visionrare shuts down paid marketplace after a day in open beta (TechCrunch)
- Investors Spent Millions on ‘Evolved Apes’ NFTs. Then They Got Scammed. (Motherboard)
- TikTok announces NFT collection led by top creators (The Block)
- DeFi bug accidentally gives $90 million to users, founder begs them to return it (CNBC)
September
- Coinbase dives deeper into banking by letting users deposit paychecks into their accounts (CNBC)
- Would-Be NFT Millionaires Throw Darts And Hit Duds (Bloomberg)
- Robinhood to launch cryptocurrency wallets as bitcoin becomes a bigger part of business (CNBC)
- Fantasy soccer NFT platform Sorare scores $680 million raise led by SoftBank (The Block)
- Coinbase Drops Crypto Lending Program Plans After SEC Balks (Bloomberg Wealth)
- A Very, Very Crypto Insider-Trading Scandal (Intelligencer)
- What is Bored Ape Yacht Club? The Celebrity NFT of Choice (Decrypt)
- Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend (Bloomberg)
- Solana Has Been Down for Hours Due to ‘Resource Exhaustion’ (Decrypt)
- Spain’s Football League Seals Digital Player Card Deal With Sorare (Bloomberg)
- Brian Armstrong responds to SEC threats to shut down Coinbase yield product (The Block)
- El Salvador Buys Its First 200 BTC a Day Before Its Bitcoin Law Becomes Effective (Coindesk)
- Ethereum Rival Solana Climbs to Seventh in Crypto Top 10 (Bloomberg)
- Record Doge NFT Sale Highlights Growing Demand for Fractionalization (CoinDesk)
- The Latest NFT Fad Is a Text-Based Fantasy Game Building Block (Coindesk)
- Gimme the Loot! (Collisions)
- NFTs, DeFi Boost for Ethereum Dims Clamor of Bitcoin Maximalists (Bloomberg)
August
- CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges (TechCrunch)
- Paradigm and Founders Fund lead $16 million investment in 3LAU’s NFT music platform Royal (The Block)
- Cryptocurrency Companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’ (WSJ)
- El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment (WSJ)
- Poly Network says it has recovered all $610 million it lost in cryptocurrency heist (Engadget)
- The world’s second-largest stablecoin is undergoing a massive change (CNBC)
- Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes first steps into ‘NFT commerce’ (The Block)
- Robinhood says dogecoin accounted for 62% of crypto revenue in Q2 (CNBC)
- Venture Investment In Cryptosecurity Jumps 10x Over Last Year As Sector Hits Sweet Spot With Venture Capitalists (Crunchbase News)
- Twitter taps crypto developer to lead decentralized social media initiative Bluesky (The Block)
- How Circle could create a U.S.-backed digital currency (Axios)
- Crypto platform Poly Network rewards hacker with $500,000 ‘bug bounty’ (Reuters)
- Why the Stablecoin Issuers Will Inherit the Earth (Bloomberg)
- I Joined a Penguin NFT Club Because Apparently That’s What We Do Now (NYTimes)
- Messi joins crypto craze as gets part of PSG fee in fan tokens (Reuters)
- At least $611 million stolen in massive cross-chain hack (The Block)
- Poly Network attacker returns $256 million of the stolen cryptocurrency (The Block)
- Bitcoin Lobby Loses: Senate Rejects Revised Crypto Tax Provisions in Infrastructure Bill (Decrypt)
- Crypto Platform FalconX Quintuples Valuation to $3.75 Billion (Bloomberg)
- Senators Near Deal On Crypto Oversight, But May Be Too Late (Bloomberg)
- Ethereum just activated a major change called the ‘London hard fork’ — here’s why it’s a big deal (CNBC)
July
- Bitcoin Seized by DOJ Headed to Crypto Custodian Anchorage in $6.6 Million Deal (Decrypt)
- Tesla records $23 million in bitcoin-related impairments after cryptocurrency’s second-quarter plunge (CNBC)
- Tether Executives Said to Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud (Bloomberg)
- Leaders in Cryptocurrency Industry Move to Curb the Highest-Risk Trades (NYTimes)
- Crypto Exchange FTX Valued at $18 Billion in Funding Round (WSJ)
- Visa is partnering with over 50 crypto companies to allow clients to spend and convert digital currencies (Markets Insider)
- Fake Tesla, Apple Stocks Have Started Trading on Blockchains (Bloomberg)
- Tim Berners-Lee sells web source code NFT for $5.4m (BBC)
June
- Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency (Bloomberg)
- Financial watchdog bans crypto exchange Binance from UK (FT)
- The world’s biggest crypto exchange is running into trouble everywhere (Quartz)
- The Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on Ethereum (Decrypt)
- South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
- Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals (FT)
- China to shut down over 90% of its Bitcoin mining capacity after local bans (Global Times)
- Web inventor Berners-Lee to auction original code as NFT (FT)
- Bitcoin just got its first makeover in four years (CNBC)
- When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC)
- El Salvador becomes first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after passing law (CNBC)
- Solana Labs raises $314 million in new funding led by A16z and Polychain Capital (The Block)
- The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku)
- Cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock will let customers mine crypto (CNN)
- Coinbase Lists Dogecoin on Professional Trading Platform (Coindesk)
May
- PayPal to Let Users Send Bitcoin Off PayPal (Decrypt)
- U.S. Treasury calls for stricter cryptocurrency compliance with IRS, says they pose tax evasion risk (CNBC)
- $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg)
- Nvidia is nerfing new RTX 3080 and 3070 cards for Ethereum cryptocurrency mining (The Verge)
- Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption by 99% (Crypto Briefing)
- Facebook-backed crypto project Diem abandons Swiss license application, will move to the U.S. (CNBC)
- Ethereum creator donates meme coins worth $1 billion to help India fight COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
- SNL was a good night for Elon Musk — and a bad one for Dogecoin (Protocol)
- Square gets a bitcoin boost with revenue up 266% (CNBC)
- How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? (Harvard Business Review)
- Crypto pros are getting tired of the 79 billion dollar dogecoin joke (Bloomberg)
- I’m seeing a lot of people FOMO quit their jobs to join “crypto” (Jon Syu)
- THE LAST DAYS OF SATOSHI: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BITCOIN’S CREATOR DISAPPEARED (Bitcoin Magazine)
- A new green cryptocurrency called Chia uses a less energy-intensive method of minting new coins. Here are 6 things to know about the digital asset before it starts trading on Monday. (Markets Insider)
April
- The new wave of crypto users: migrant workers (Rest of World)
- Cryptocurrency Giant Binance.US Hires Former Top Bank Regulator (WSJ)
- Dogecoin: The meme that somehow became a real cryptocurrency (Cnet)
- They were ancient internet memes. Now NFTs are making them rich (Wired)
- Revenge Of The Winklevii (Forbes)
- Coinbase Posts Blowout Q1 Profit of $730-$800 Million, Days Before Public Listing (Decrypt)
- The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
- China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
- Coinbase To Go Public on April 14, Announce Q1 Earnings Beforehand (Decrypt)
- People’s Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard)
March
- Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding (WSJ)
- ConsenSys Lines Up Damien Hirst to Launch New NFT Art Protocol (Decrypt)
- Exclusive: Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency (Reuters)
- The fuss about BitClout (Axios)
- Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch)
- The Hard Truth About Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption (Decrypt)
- Elon Musk says people can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin (CNBC)
- Jack Dorsey’s first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47 (The Verge)
- Crypto marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million to be the ‘Amazon of NFTs’ (Fortune)
- Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million (The Verge)
- Blockchain, QR codes and your phone: the race to build vaccine passports (Protocol)
- Ethereum now an option on Amazon’s managed blockchain service (The Block)
- Grimes made $5.8 million in under 20 minutes selling crypto-based artwork (Insider)
- How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million (Reuters)
- NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (Chris Dixon)
February
- Coinbase Reveals $322M in Profit For 2020 Ahead of Landmark Public Debut (Decrypt)
- NFT marketplace Sorare raises $50 million in Series A led by Benchmark (The Block)
- Ethereum scaling startup Optimism raises $25 million Series A led by a16z (The Block)
- MicroStrategy Buys $1 Billion More Bitcoin, Totalling $4.5 Billion (Decrypt)
- Inside ‘NBA Top Shot,’ the Digital Highlights Marketplace Worth Millions (Bleacher Report)
- Ethereum NFT Market Primed for Explosive Growth in 2021 (Decrypt)
- Bitcoin Jumps to $50,000 as Record-Breaking Rally Accelerates (Bloomberg)
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Beginner’s Guide (Decrypt)
- How Did A LeBron James Video Highlight Sell For $71,455? A Look At A Burgeoning Product Called NBA Top Shot. (Forbes)
- Biggest Ever NFT Sale Made as ‘Axie Land’ Goes for $1.5 Million (Decrypt)
- Tesla buys $1.5 billion in bitcoin, plans to accept it as payment (CNBC)
January
- ‘Smack It Like E. Honda’: Buying NFTs for Pleasure and Profit (CoinTalk)
- US regulator: Federally chartered banks can facilitate stablecoin payments, issue their own (The Block)
2020
December
- Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple (CoinDesk)
- SEC Sues Ripple Over 7-Year, $1.3B ‘Ongoing’ XRP Sale (CoinDesk)
- Ripple says it will be sued by the SEC, in what the company calls a parting shot at the crypto industry (Fortune)
- Bitcoin Hits Record Above $20K as Analysts Remain Confident of Future (Coindesk)
- US Lawmakers Introduce Bill That Would Require Stablecoin Issuers to Obtain Bank Charters (Coindesk)
- Libra Rebrands to ‘Diem’ in Anticipation of 2021 Launch (CoinDesk)
November
- Bitcoin Hits New Record, This Time With Less Talk of a Bubble (NYTimes)
- Ethereum 2.0’s Genesis Day Is Officially Set for Dec. 1 (Coindesk)
- Ethereum 2.0 Set to Launch on December 1 (Decrypt)
October
- PayPal in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo (Bloomberg)
- Central Bank of Bahamas Launches Landmark ‘Sand Dollar’ Digital Currency (Coindesk)
- PayPal to allow cryptocurrency buying, selling and shopping on its network (Reuters)
- ‘DeFi’ Replaces ‘Blockchain’ as the Must-Have Crypto Moniker (Bloomberg)
- Jack Dorsey’s Square purchases $50 million worth of bitcoin (The Block)
- Ethereum Dapp Volumes Hit $120 Billion in Third Quarter (Decrypt)
- What Is DeFi? (CoinDesk)
September
August
- MicroStrategy becomes first listed company to buy bitcoin as part of its capital allocation strategy (The Block)
July
- Coinbase says it prevented over 1,000 customers from sending $280,000 worth of bitcoin to Twitter hackers (The Block)
- Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 Premine (Coindesk)
- Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say (Reuters)
May
- Reddit to launch Ethereum-based tokens for cryptocurrency and Fortnite subreddits (The Block)
- Bitcoin Is Staging a Comeback Reminiscent of 2017 Bubble Frenzy (Bloomberg)
April
- Andreessen Horowitz raises $515 million for second crypto fund (Axios)
- Robinhood Is Raising New Funds at About $8 Billion Value, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
- Facebook-Backed Libra Cryptocurrency Project Is Scaled Back (NYTimes)
March
- Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
- Bitcoin Hits 10-Month Low Below $6K as Stocks Plunge in Massive Sell-Off (CoinDesk)
- Venture funding into crypto on pace to be down 40% from Q1 2019 (TheBlockGenesis)
- This Utility Heats New York State—And Mines Its Own Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
February
- Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association (TechCrunch)
- Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet)
2019
December
November
- Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations (CoinDesk)
- Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school (TechCrunch)
- THE BIG BITCOIN HEIST (Vanity Fair)
October
- Zuckerberg, in Washington to Talk Cryptocurrency, Gets Grilled on Everything (NYTimes)
- Facebook’s Libra announces board as support shrinks further (Reuters)
- Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency coalition is falling apart as eBay, Visa, Mastercard and Stripe jump ship (CNBC)
- Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress on Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
- PayPal Bails on Facebook-Led Libra Cryptocurrency Dream (Bloomberg)
- PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency (CNBC)
- Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook’s Libra Network (WSJ)
- EOS Maker Block.One Settles With SEC Over Unregistered Securities Sale (Coindesk)
September
- KIK CHAT APP SHUTS DOWN AS COMPANY GOES “ALL IN” ON KIN (Betakit.com)
- SEC sues Kik for running an unregistered Initial Coin Offering (Engadget)
- Facebook and JP Morgan meet with global central banks to discuss cryptocurrencies (CNBC)
- FACEBOOK’S LIBRA CRYPTOCURRENCY WILL BE BLOCKED IN EUROPE, FRANCE SAYS (The Independent)
- Switzerland warns Facebook’s Libra it will face extra scrutiny (Reuters)
August
- Binance enters into crypto lending space, offers interest-earning opportunities for BNB, ETC and Tethe (Reuters)
- Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from project (FT)
- Top 10 Crypto Memes (BRD)
- Binance planning to launch ‘Venus,’ similar to Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency Libra (The Block)
- Exclusive: Coinbase Buys Xapo Custody for $55 Million, Eyes Lending Business (Fortune)
June
- THE NEWEST HAVEN FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES? WYOMING (Wired)
- New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, The Creator Of Encryption Software E4M And TrueCrypt (InvestInBlockchain.com)
April
- China, home to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency mining farms, now wants to ban them completely (South China Morning Post)
- Bitcoin jumps 20 percent, mystery order seen as catalyst (Reuters)
- April Fools: Traders Chase Another Unexplainable Bitcoin Rally (Bloomberg)
- Report: ICOs Raised $118 Million in Q1 2019, Over 58 Times Less Than in Q1 2018 (CoinTelegraph)
March
- Hottest Crypto Coin’s Massive Rally Echoes Bitcoin’s Glory Days (Bloomberg)
- Coinbase Pushes Out Ex-Hacking Team Employees Following Uproar (Coindesk)
- Coinbase Users Struggle to Delete Their Accounts in Protest (Motherboard)
- Living up to our values and the Neutrino acquisition (Coinbase Blog)
February
- Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed (NYTimes)
- Coinbase Lists Controversial Cryptocurrency XRP, Price Jumps 10% (Fortune)
- HSBC forex trading costs cut sharply by blockchain - executive (Reuters)
- JP Morgan is rolling out the first US bank-backed cryptocurrency to transform payments business (CNBC)
- Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace: Sources (Cheddar)
- Crypto Exchange Says It Can’t Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password (Gizmodo)
January
- BitTorrent Tokens Sold Out in Under 15 Minutes, Netting Over $7 Mln (CoinTelegraph)
- The U.S. Government Shutdown Has Delivered A Surprise Blow To Bitcoin (Forbes)
2018
December
- Wall Street Quietly Shelves Its Bitcoin Dreams (Bloomberg)
- Layoffs Underway Amid ‘Adjustments,’ Bitcoin Miner Bitmain Confirms (CoinDesk)
- Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say (Bloomberg)
- Bitcoin scammers send bomb threats worldwide, causing evacuations (The Verge)
- Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in its Wake (Bloomberg)
- Cryptopia In Crisis: Joe Lubin’s Ethereum Experiment Is A Mess. How Long Will He Prop It Up? (Forbes)
November
- SEC charges Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled for promoting ICOs without disclosing payments (CNBC)
- WTF is happening to crypto? (TechCrunch)
- Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk)
- Bitcoin drops 12% to below $5,000 (CNBC)
- Bitcoin Cash Declares War: Why Coming Hard Fork Could Mean Another Split (CoinDesk)
- One Day After the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Takeaways and Latest Developments (Bitcoin Magazine)
- A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada (NYTimes)
October
- The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker)
- Blockchain isn’t about democracy and decentralisation – it’s about greed (The Guardian)
- Coinbase’s Active Customers Drop 80% in Crypto Slump, Study Says (Bloomberg)
- Plan to Fix Journalism With Cryptocurrency Draws Skepticism (WSJ)
September
- Coinbase now lets users buy ‘bundles (TechCrunch)
- Compound launches easy way to short cryptocurrencies (TechCrunch)
- Coinbase Wants To Be Too Big To Fail (Fortune)
- Coinbase will add cryptocurrencies more rapidly, with ratings and reviews (Yahoo Finance)
- One third of ICOs launched in the past two years aren’t listed anywhere (TNW)
- Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York’s Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception (NYTimes)
- Why a Leading Venture Capitalist Is Betting on a Decentralized Internet (Breaker)
- Olaf Carlson-Wee Rode the Bitcoin Boom to Silicon Valley Riches. Can He Survive the Crash? (WSJ)
- US Judge Rules ICO Frauds Fall Under Securities Law (CoinDesk)
- Ethereum in BigQuery: a Public Dataset for smart contract analytics (Google Cloud)
- Major cryptocurrency exchange delists Bitcoin Gold following $18M hack (TNW)
August
- ‘World Computer’ Project Dfinity Raises $102 Million (Fortune)
- The rise of crypto in higher education (Coinbase Reports)
- The Hot New Subject on Campus? It’s Blockchain (Fortune)
- The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995 (Motherboard)
- ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Is Having a Hard Time Winning Over True Believers (Bloomberg)
- Crypto crash: Despite a strong quarter, Nvidia shares fall on disappointing forecast (SiliconAngle)
- A Culture War Is Brewing Between Bitcoin’s Old and New Money (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street isn’t boosting bitcoin (Quartz)
July
- Scoop: Bitcoin Mining Company Bitmain Hit $1.1 Billion in Profits in Q1 2018 (Fortune)
- The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived (CoinDesk)
- Brock Pierce: The Hippie King of Cryptocurrency (Rolling Stone)
- $20K in Crypto: The First Bets on Prediction Market Augur Just Paid Out (CoinDesk)
June
- Digital currency sales hit $13.7 billion in first five months of 2018: report (Reuters)
- Despite Caution Over Cryptocurrency, Investors Are Bullish (NYTimes)
- INSIDE THE CRYPTO WORLD’S BIGGEST SCANDAL (Wired)
- Crypto Exchange Bithumb Halts Withdrawals After $31 Million Hack (CoinDesk)
- William Shatner’s new enterprise: A solar-powered bitcoin mining farm in southern Illinois (Chicago Tribune)
- Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (NYTimes)
- Blockchain’s Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular (CoinDesk)
- How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
May
- Buyer Beware: Hundreds of Bitcoin Wannabes Show Hallmarks of Fraud (WSJ)
- Howeycoins (SEC)
- At NYC’s Big Crypto Conference, the Lamborghinis Are Rented and Protests Are Staged (Bloomberg)
- The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers (Bloomberg)
- Tweet thread about using crypto for social networking (Parker Thompson @pt)
- Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency (NYTimes)
- CoinTalk (podcast)
- Telegram Messaging App Scraps Plans for Public Coin Offering (WSJ)