Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: El Salvador has split its 6,000+ bitcoin across 14 wallets, describing the move as a precaution against quantum attacks, a merely theoretical threat for now — El Salvador has transferred its 6,274 Bitcoin into 14 new wallet addresses as part of a security measure to protect against the threat of quantum attacks.
Amin Haqshanas / Cointelegraph: Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused onboarding crypto exchange Gemini after he criticized the bank's data access fees for fintech and crypto companies — Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank's data access fees, calling the move anti-competitive.
Martin Young / Cointelegraph: The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including one recategorizing DeFi protocols and one about digital asset custody — The SEC has withdrawn over a dozen rules the agency proposed under Joe Biden, including two crypto-related rules targeting DeFi and digital asset custody.
Martin Young / Cointelegraph: Gemini and Glassnode research: centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs, and public companies, hold and control 30.9% of bitcoin's circulating supply — Centralized treasuries, including governments, ETFs and public companies, now control approximately $668 billion of Bitcoin's circulating supply.
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90% — Average NFT loan sizes have tanked, which DappRadar's Sara Gherghelas says means users are borrowing against low-value assets or being conservative with leverage.
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: A Fireblocks survey of 295 finance executives: 49% say their institutions use stablecoins in payments, 23% are testing them, and 18% are in the planning stages — A report from enterprise-grade digital assets platform Fireblocks shows that 90% of institutional players are using or exploring the use of stablecoins in their operations.
Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph: Polygon Labs spinout Miden, a zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain project focused on high scalability, raised a $25M seed led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC — A16z Crypto led a $25 million investment round into Miden, an independent blockchain project spun out of Polygon Labs.
Martin Young / Cointelegraph: Filing: PayPal discloses that the US SEC said in February 2025 that it was closing its investigation into the PayPal USD stablecoin “without enforcement action” — PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant's US-dollar stablecoin.
Vince Quill / Cointelegraph: Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging the exchange is selling unregistered securities; Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal says it's a “copycat case” of SEC's now-dropped lawsuit — While winning legal victories at the federal level, the crypto industry still faces regulatory hurdles at the state level in the United States.
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases — US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures — The civil case between the US financial regulator and Gemini Trust Company was initially scheduled to go to trial before Donald Trump's inauguration.
Zoltan Vardai / Cointelegraph: Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of USDC issuer Circle, says the company is moving its global HQ to One World Trade Center in New York City, ahead of a planned IPO — 2025 could bring stablecoins into the mainstream, after 2024 introduced a “turning point year in crypto,” according to Circle's Allaire.
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Tune.fm, a music streaming service with an integrated NFT marketplace that offers blockchain micropayments to artists, raised $50M from Global Emerging Markets — The fresh capital brings Tune.fm's total funding to $80 million. The funds will be used to reward artists and users within the platform.
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds — The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume — Launched in November 2018, Uniswap took 42 months to breach the $1 trillion trading volume milestone. It's now doubled again from that just 24 months later.
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: Securities watchdog IOSCO concludes its report on crypto rules, identifying six critical domains covering market manipulation, insider trading, fraud, and more — According to the report, these expectations can be addressed by applying existing rules or creating new ones, depending on the jurisdiction.
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Binance plans to stop accepting deposits in Russian rubles starting November 15, 2023 and withdrawals on January 31, 2024, advises users to withdraw rubles — Binance Russia users will have slightly more than two months to withdraw their rubles from the exchange or until Jan. 31, 2024. — Total views
David Attlee / Cointelegraph: 47 countries including all 38 OECD member states issue a joint pledge to “swiftly transpose” OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework into their domestic laws — The Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework is the new international standard for the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities.
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Nansen: ~90% of PYUSD is held in issuer Paxos Trust's wallets, indicating a “lack of demand from crypto users” for PayPal's stablecoin that launched on August 7 — PayPal's stablecoin debut raised hopes for broader adoption and an introduction of cryptocurrencies to the masses.
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Nansen: ~90% of PayPal's stablecoin is held in issuer Paxos Trust's wallets, suggesting a “lack of demand from crypto users for PYUSD” that launched on August 7 — PayPal's stablecoin debut raised hopes for broader adoption and an introduction of cryptocurrencies to the masses.
Gareth Jenkinson / Cointelegraph: Crypto.com says it has received approval from the Netherlands' central bank to offer its services in the country, after a comprehensive review — The exchange received the green light from De Nederlandsche Bank to offer services in the country. … Join us on social networks
Amaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: The US SEC acknowledges BlackRock's and Bitwise's spot bitcoin ETF applications, indicating the commencement of the official review process for the proposals — The SEC's acknowledgment indicates the commencement of the official review process for BlackRock's ETF proposal. — 2279 Total views
Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: The US Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief on May 9 in the Coinbase v. SEC case, slamming the regulator for its “haphazard, enforcement-based approach” — The largest business organization in the world has thrown its weight behind Coinbase in its fight against the SEC.
Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC — South Korean prosecutors have contacted Binance to request a halt on withdrawals linked to Do Kwon. — 6397 Total views
Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: Kresus, which is developing a Web3 app to let users buy NFTs, access financial services, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Liberty City Ventures — Kresus' SuperApp aims to bridge more everyday consumers to digital goods, NFTs and other Web3 products and services. — 259 Total views
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, stolen from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC linked to the hackers — In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend. — 75 Total views
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Three Arrows Capital liquidators subpoena founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, who have resisted cooperation, via Twitter, seeking documents on the fund's collapse — 3AC founders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies have been ordered to provide all documents in their possession or control …
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: Luke Dashjr, one of the original core BTC developers, says someone stole “basically” all his BTC by compromising his PGP key; a wallet shows ~217 BTC were moved — A Bitcoin OG and core developer Luke Dashjr claims his PGP key was compromised, resulting in virtually all his Bitcoin being stolen from him on Dec. 31.
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Twitter rolls out $Cashtags, offering stock, ETF, and crypto prices within search results using data from TradingView and adds a View on Robinhood link — Twitter searches for “$Bitcoin,” “Bitcoin price” and “BTC price” pulls up a price chart, with equivalent searches working for Ethereum too.
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: Some NFTs minted on FTX are broken, showing only blank images, because metadata points to an FTX.US domain now used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm's collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views
Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions — FTX's collapse is one of the reasons why countries in the region should adopt regulation, noted the monetary fund. — 120 Total views
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Hours after announcing an emergency deal with Binance, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried deletes a Twitter thread saying the exchange and assets were “fine” — Sam Bankman-Fried has deleted a Twitter thread where he tried to assure customers that FTX and the assets on the platform were “fine.”
Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph: Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on October 29 after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, and is up 150% since October 25 — DOGE price could drop 60% by the end of this year as it reaches its most overbought level since April 2021. — 5093 Total views
Savannah Fortis / Cointelegraph: Changpeng Zhao says the National Bank of Kazakhstan plans to integrate its CBDC on the BNB Chain; Kazakhstan gave Binance a license to operate on October 6 — Officials in Kazakhstan continue their close relationship with Binance, as the National Bank plans to integrate its CBDC on the BNB Chain.
Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: Toronto-based ChainSafe, the developer of an SDK for connecting games built on the Unity platform to the blockchain, raised a CA$25.7M Series A led by Round13 — The Canadian company is focused on multi-chain R&D and blockchain gaming, which is a growing industry that's expected to achieve multi-billion-dollar valuations.
Zhiyuan Sun / Cointelegraph: Nansen: users spent ~$2.7B worth of ether to mint NFTs in H1 2022; 50.7% of the ETH raised stayed with the NFT projects and 45.7% went to non-entity wallets — Over 1 million unique wallet addresses were involved in the minting process, signaling that nonfungible token market activity remained strong.
Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: Hackers drain nearly the entire $190.7M in crypto from the Nomad token bridge, which raised an April 2022 seed from Coinbase, OpenSea, and five other companies — Hundreds of potential exploiters appear to have drained all of the bridge's $190 million in TVL in just a matter of hours. — 57 Total views
Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: OpenSea freezes 16 Ape NFTs, worth ~$2.3M, after they were reportedly stolen, leading some to point out the lack of decentralization in the NFT space — Art gallery owner Todd Kramer had his valuable NFT collection stolen from his hot wallet yesterday, so OpenSea froze the stolen assets worth about $2.2 million.
Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: Ethereum scaling project Polygon says it quietly fixed a bug that put $23.6B in MATIC tokens at risk, but not before $2.04M in tokens was stolen — “Considering how much was at stake, I believe our team has made the best decisions possible given the circumstances,” said Polygon's co-founder Jaynti Kanani.
Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: South Korea tells Apple and Google to remove play-to-earn games, which require in-app purchases before playing, from their app stores — The Games Committee has strengthened its stance against P2E games by saying those games should not receive an age rating needed to get listed on app marketplaces.
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Multichain, which offers interoperability tools for blockchains including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Avalanche, raises a $60M seed led by Binance Labs — Shortly after rebranding from Anyswap last week, Multichain raised $60 million in a seed round led by Binance Labs. — 389 Total views
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: AMC Theatres now accepts bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and litecoin for online payments; CEO Adam Aron says dogecoin will be accepted next — AMC Theaters now accepts online payments in Bitcoin, Ether, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin, with Dogecoin coming next. — 279 Total views — 4 Total shares
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi says it will shut down operations in Singapore by March 2022, after exiting China in September — All Huobi clients in Singapore should close active positions and withdraw their digital assets before March 31, 2022. — 213 Total views — 26 Total shares
Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: Neon Labs, which aims to create an Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana, raises $40M via a private token sale led by Jump Capital — Venture capital continues to flood the cryptocurrency market, with Neon Labs securing a considerable fundraise via its NEON token sale. — 59 Total views
Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: Chainalysis: Africa's crypto market grew 1,200%+ in value between July 2020 and June 2021 to reach $105.6B; retail-sized transfers made up 7%+ of overall volume — P2P platforms, the need for remittances to circumvent restrictions from banks, and putting savings into crypto as a means …
Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph: Report: 55 of the top 100 banks by assets under management have invested in crypto or a blockchain company; Barclays and Citigroup are the most active investors — Over half of the 100 largest banks by assets under management are reportedly investors in major crypto and blockchain technology-based companies and projects.
Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: FalconX, a cryptocurrency exchange focused on institutional investors, raises $50M from Tiger Global and B Capital, and says net revenue grew 46x over past year — Tiger Global and B Capital are the primary investors in the latest round. They join Coinbase Ventures, Accel, FMR LLC and others in backing FalconX.
Andrew Thurman / Cointelegraph: Synthetix, which develops a DeFi protocol for trading derivatives, raises $12M after three VC firms purchased its native tokens directly from its DAO treasury — As the community debates VCs participating in DAOs, Synthetix welcomes three new community members
Osato Avan-Nomayo / Cointelegraph: The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered all banks to close accounts belonging to crypto exchanges or businesses transacting in cryptocurrencies in the country — Nigeria's central bank has prohibited commercial banks from providing account services to crypto exchanges. — 4326 Total views
Joshua Mapperson / Cointelegraph: 1M South Koreans, about 3% of the population, have opted for a blockchain-based digital driver's license since the program's launch this past May — The program was only launched in May but already one million South Koreans have opted for a blockchain based license. — 13311 Total views