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The UK's FCA plans to lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors “to support UK growth and competitiveness” (www.coindesk.com)
2025-6-6 Retail Ban

Thailand files charges against, and orders the blocking of crypto exchanges Bybit, CoinEx, OKX, 1000X, and XT.com from June 28 for operating without a license (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-30 Thailand

Pavel Durov says Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-28 Equity

Stablecoin operator Circle files for an NYSE IPO and plans to offer 24M shares at $24 to $26 each, raising up to nearly $250M; Cathie Wood's ARK may buy $150M (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-27 IPO

World Network raised $135M in a token sale to a16z and Bain Capital Crypto “to meet increasing demand for Orb-verified World IDs”; WLD jumped 14% on the news (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-22

The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-21

Filing: Cantor Equity Partners bought $458.7M in BTC as part of a pending merger with Twenty One Capital, the BTC investment vehicle backed by Tether and others (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-14 Equity

Coinbase reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $2B, vs. $2.1B est., trading volume up 26% YoY to $393B, and earnings per share of $0.24, vs. $1.93 est. (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-9 Coinbase

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that supports USDT and Bitcoin payments without a central point of failure (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-5 Bitcoin AI

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs calls crypto an “untested investment” and vetoes a bill that would have allowed the state to invest in bitcoin using seized funds (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-4 Bitcoin

Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 50% YoY to $927M, vs. $920.1M est., crypto transaction revenue up 100% to $252M, increases share buyback authorization by $500M (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-1

Stripe plans to test a stablecoin payments product aimed at companies outside the US, the UK, and the EU, using tech from Bridge, which Stripe acquired recently (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-27

Mantra's CEO begins burning $80M worth of his OM tokens and plans to burn $80M worth from partners, after a 90% collapse on April 13 erased $5B+ in market value (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-23

At the request of South Korean regulator, Apple blocked 14 and Google blocked 17 crypto apps, including exchanges KuCoin and MEXC, from their app stores (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-15 Korea Google Apple

BlackRock's crypto ETFs saw $3B in net inflows in Q1 2025, down 83% QoQ; BlackRock had ~$50.3B in digital assets at the end of Q1, or 0.5% of its total assets (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-12 ETF Asset

Trump signs measure eliminating IRS rules treating DeFi platforms as brokers, requiring them to report user data, the first pro-crypto effort to clear Congress (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-11 Trump

The US Senate confirms former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, succeeding Gary Gensler; Atkins is widely expected to support crypto-friendly policies (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-10 Senate

Ripple agrees to acquire prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25B; Hidden Road plans to use Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as collateral across its platform (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-9

Sources: Justin Sun bailed out Techteryx's TrueUSD after $456M in reserves, managed by First Digital, became illiquid; Techteryx says it was a victim of fraud (www.coindesk.com)
2025-4-3

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-28

The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-22

The US SEC says proof-of-work crypto mining doesn't trigger federal securities laws and mining operators do not need to register their transactions with the SEC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-21

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the US SEC is set to drop an appeal in its case against Ripple, ending a long-standing legal battle over XRP (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-20 XRP

Utila, which offers a multi-party computation crypto wallet service, raised an $18M Series A led by Nyca Partners, taking its total funding to $30M (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-20

21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-16 Bitcoin ETF

Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-12

Sam Altman's World Network unveils World Chat, a “mini app” in the World App wallet for messaging and sending and receiving crypto, in beta on Android and iOS (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-7 Android IOS

DoubleZero, which is coordinating a global network of fiber optic cables to improve blockchains, raised $28M in a token round, sources say at a $400M valuation (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-7

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Sam Bankman-Fried says he was becoming closer to the GOP before his arrest and that played a role in his sentencing (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-7 Interview Republican

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou says 77%+ of the funds stolen remain traceable, including 417,348 ETH, and 20% have “gone dark”; the hackers converted 83% of the ETH to BTC (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-4 ETH

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