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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)
14 hours ago 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)
1 day ago

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)
4 days ago

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)
5 days ago

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)
7 days ago

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)
8 days ago 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)
12 days ago 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)
14 days ago

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)
14 days ago

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)
18 days ago

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

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)
26 days ago Trump

Coinbase is reviving ambitions to introduce security tokens, digital assets that represent venture investments, amid a relaxed regulatory environment (www.theblock.co)
27 days ago 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)
27 days ago

Across Protocol, focused on connecting Ethereum with Layer 2 networks, raised $41M in a token round led by Paradigm, following a $10M token round in Nov. 2022 (www.theblock.co)
28 days ago Ethereum

French crypto trading company Flowdesk raised ~$92M in equity and $10.2M in debt led by HV Capital, after a $50M Series B at a $250M valuation in January 2024 (www.theblock.co)
28 days ago France Equity

A trader used $6M to open a 50x leveraged long position on both BTC and ETH before Trump's crypto reserve announcement and closed their position for a $7M gain (www.theblock.co)
30 days ago Trump ETH

MetaMask Head of Security Taylor Monahan says the Bybit hackers have moved at least 209,384 ETH, of ~400,000 stolen, onto Bitcoin, largely using THORChain swaps (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-28 Bitcoin ETH

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-25 Bitcoin

Arkham says ZachXBT submitted proof that North Korea's Lazarus Group is behind Bybit's $1.5B hack, which is the largest single theft in crypto history (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-22 Korea

The US SEC announces the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit to protect investors from bad actors in crypto and AI, replacing the Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-21 AI Asset

Nansen: 86% of traders lost $251M in total on the Solana memecoin Libra that Argentine President Milei promoted, while the remaining traders profited $180M (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20

The seven-day moving average of Ethereum transaction fees fell to $0.77 on February 15, a 70% week-over-week drop from $2.57 and the lowest since July 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20 Ethereum

Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-20

Nikkei: Japan's financial regulator asks Apple and Google to remove apps from Bybit, MEXC Global, LBank Exchange, KuCoin, and Bitget; Apple has removed the apps (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-8 Japan Google Apple

MicroStrategy announces a new name, Strategy, a new logo with a stylized “B”, signifying its bitcoin strategy, and orange as the brand's primary color (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-6 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards raised $30M to expand work on OP_CAT, a scripting capability for Bitcoin to enable automated, customizable transactions (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-5 Bitcoin

Web3 domain infrastructure firm D3 Global raised a $25M Series A led by Paradigm, and plans to launch a decentralized network called Doma Protocol (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-1 Decentralize

Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys (www.theblock.co)
2025-2-1 Facebook Coinbase

Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again and to the Layer 2 protocol Lightning Network, following USDT expansions to Celo and other networks (www.theblock.co)
2025-1-31 Bitcoin

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