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An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking SEC's X account in 2024 and posting a false announcement that the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs (www.theblock.co)
18 hours ago Bitcoin ETF

Coinbase Derivatives, the company's CFTC-regulated derivatives arm, launches 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures trading for retail and institutional users (www.theblock.co)
7 days ago Bitcoin Retail Ethereum Coinbase CFTC

The US OCC says banks can buy and sell customers' crypto assets on their behalf and can outsource crypto custody and trade execution services to third parties (www.theblock.co)
9 days ago Asset

New Hampshire becomes the first US state to pass a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill, permitting public fund investment in BTC, either directly or through an ETF (www.theblock.co)
10 days ago Bitcoin ETF

DeFi company IntoTheBlock and financial services company Trident Digital announce they are merging to form Sentora and have raised a $25M Series A (www.theblock.co)
10 days ago

Several Senate Democrats, key to the passage of a landmark stablecoin bill, withdraw support for the bill “as it currently stands” (www.theblock.co)
12 days ago Democrat Senate

Tether says its “total exposure” to US Treasurys had neared $120B at the end of March, and reports $1B+ in Q1 operating profit from traditional investments (www.theblock.co)
15 days ago

Symbiotic, which is building a “universal staking” platform after starting as a restaking protocol on Ethereum, raised a $29M Series A led by Pantera Capital (www.theblock.co)
21 days ago Ethereum

Interfax: Russia's Central Bank and Finance Ministry plan to launch a crypto exchange for “highly qualified investors” under an experimental legal regime (www.theblock.co)
23 days ago Russia

Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it's fixed (www.theblock.co)
24 days ago XRP

Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance (www.theblock.co)
28 days ago

Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group (www.theblock.co)
30 days ago Bitcoin AI Equity

Crypto exchange Kraken begins rolling out commission-free trading for over 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs, initially in nine US states and DC (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-15 ETF

Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for critical gaps in its AML program, particularly concerning risk-based controls and customer due diligence (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-11

The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-5

FDUSD stablecoin depegs 9% after Justin Sun raises concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust's solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-3 Hong Kong

Tether acquired 8,888 bitcoin worth $735M in Q1 2025, taking its total holdings to $7.8B and making it the sixth-largest bitcoin holder in a single wallet (www.theblock.co)
2025-4-1 Bitcoin

PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-31

Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-28

Immunefi: crypto industry lost a record $1.64B in Q1 2025 across 40 incidents, including $1.46B from the Bybit hack, vs. $348.3M across 63 incidents in Q1 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-28

Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-25

The daily amount of ETH burned on Ethereum due to transaction fees hit an all-time low on March 22, amid dips in other network metrics like active addresses (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-24 Ethereum ETH

The TON Foundation raises over $400M from Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, and others via a sale of its Toncoin cryptocurrency, and says there are now 40M+ active users (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-21 Cryptocurrency

Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-19

Solana deleted a social media ad for its conference in May 2025 after the crypto community criticized it for insensitivity towards gender issues (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-18

A US bankruptcy court lets 3AC raise its claim against FTX from $120M to $1.53B, despite FTX's objection that it was too late; 3AC originally filed in June 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-14

Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Iron, an API-focused stablecoin infrastructure company, a source says in a “nine-figure” deal (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-14

Nansen: Trump's World Liberty Financial bought Ether worth $10M, WBTC worth $10M, and MOVE worth $1.5M ahead of the White House Crypto Summit (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-7 Trump

Coinbase is reviving ambitions to introduce security tokens, digital assets that represent venture investments, amid a relaxed regulatory environment (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-6 Asset Coinbase

Daily trading volume for graduated Pump.fun tokens fell 94% from January 2025 peaks of $3B to ~$170M, as the memecoin mania cools following rug pulls and more (www.theblock.co)
2025-3-5

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