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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

President Trump names XRP, Solana, and Cardano as three assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, but does not mention Bitcoin or Ethereum (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-3 Trump Bitcoin Asset Ethereum XRP

The Ethereum Foundation selects two new co-executive directors, and Executive Director Aya Miyaguchi becomes president, following calls for new leadership (www.coindesk.com)
2025-3-2 Ethereum

Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024 (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-28

Chainalysis estimates $40B worth of illicit crypto transactions took place in 2024; criminals shifted from mostly using bitcoin in 2021 to using stablecoins now (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin

Sources: BitMEX, which pleaded guilty in 2024 to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act, is looking for a buyer (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-28

Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-26

Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-25

DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-23

Source: the US Marshals Service is struggling to come up with a rough estimate of its bitcoin holdings, complicating plans for a US Bitcoin reserve (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-22 Bitcoin

ZachXBT: crypto exchange Bybit has experienced $1.46B worth of “suspicious outflows”; Bybit CEO confirms hacker took control of cold ETH wallet (www.coindesk.com)
2025-2-22 Hacker ETH

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

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