Source-dated reporting reconstructs the cryptocurrency record from December 2017 onward. Historical datelines identify when the underlying event occurred; every article separately displays its actual first-publication time on Coinburn.
31 reconstructed files currently identify both their historical source date and their actual first-publication date. Archive stories are indexable but excluded from Google News recency feeds and current-news RSS.
The newest 30 archive records added to the public ledger.
Japan’s financial authorities reportedly planned to study near-real-time securities settlement using blockchain, extending experiments involving central-bank money and Japanese government bonds. The initiative remained preliminary, with no approved system or implementation timetable.
Grayscale converted its nine-year-old Zcash trust into ZCSH, giving brokerage accounts access to spot ZEC exposure while retaining important distinctions from a 1940 Act-registered ETF.
A determination effective August 24, 2026 applied Executive Order 13902 to Iran’s digital-asset sector, widening the grounds on which the United States could sanction foreign operators and service providers.
Two on-chain proposal executions removed 2,841.7435 WETH and 1,679,639.29 USDC, an estimated $8.46 million at the contemporaneous ETH price used in the reconstruction.
A change in long-dated Treasury buybacks became the catalyst for a macro-driven bitcoin breakout amplified by forced short covering.
Laser Digital Japan became the country’s first newly registered crypto-asset exchange provider in about four years, creating a regulated route toward domestic liquidity and institutional trading services.
Michael Selig directed staff to explore a federal registration framework for crypto exchanges and compliant paths for onchain protocols, while emphasizing that legislation remained the preferred outcome.
The regulator sought no additional monetary relief from the cooperating executives, while court orders preserved trading restrictions and continuing cooperation duties.
The proposal sought comment on pathways between capital formation, decentralization and a mature network.
The proposal defined issuance, U.S. market access and due-diligence expectations for domestic platforms and foreign payment-stablecoin issuers, but remained subject to public comment.
Bitcoin remained confined to a roughly 1% UTC-day range as subdued weekend trading preserved the preceding week’s decline and an SEC policy meeting remained cancelled.
A single BNB Chain transaction used flash liquidity and Fox Market’s LP-bond accounting to extract at least 112,976 USDT, according to a later reproducible trace.
The commission did not hold its scheduled meeting on a tailored crypto-asset offering regime, leaving the proposed rulemaking unopened and its substance undisclosed on August 14.
The network said its patch had blocked further unauthorized ONE creation, but the disputed supply, exchange freezes and potential rewriting of chain history remained unresolved.
A conditional no-action position opened a path for Franklin Templeton funds to hold shares of an affiliated onchain government money-market fund while replacing physical-custody procedures with recordkeeping, reconciliation and oversight controls.
The regulators filed separate civil complaints against Goliath Ventures and Christopher Delgado, alleging that hundreds of millions of dollars raised for crypto liquidity pools were never invested as represented.
The 191-megawatt Rockdale agreement gave Riot a contracted use for mining-era power infrastructure, but its revenue and profit estimates remained long-range forecasts.
The proposed restrictions on arbitrary transaction data produced a minority branch that had advanced only two blocks by August 9, exposing the gap between node enforcement and network-wide consensus.
Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, preserving a path for the digital-asset market-structure bill while leaving its substantive disputes and 60-vote hurdle unresolved.
The parties abandoned a proposed public company designed to accumulate CRO, ending its prospective token contributions, financing facilities and validator strategy before closing.
First Data was assigned the issuer and primary-market roles, while BKN301 would connect Tether’s tokenization platform to banking, payments and compliance infrastructure. No asset, issuance value, blockchain, regulator or launch date was disclosed.
BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard, Visa and other financial institutions joined Arc’s founding validator cohort as Circle targeted September 16 for public launch.
Coinkite said the threat remained active and urged affected users to migrate from seeds created by flawed firmware. Galaxy Research’s event-day accounting identified 1,596 BTC across about 7,300 addresses, while a possible fourth wave remained unconfirmed.
The payment network brought BVNK’s fiat and on-chain payment infrastructure in-house after agreeing to pay $1.5 billion plus as much as $300 million in contingent consideration.
Two transactions moved bitcoin valued at about $165 million from publicly attributed wallets, but the blockchain record did not establish a sale or reveal the company’s complete holdings.
The July 31 publication of an SEC approval order expanded the circumstances in which qualifying commodity-based trust shares could begin trading without a separate product-by-product rule filing.
The exchange operator reported a $359.5 million loss while presenting stablecoins, subscriptions and newer markets as counterweights to weaker crypto trading.
Bitcoin and ether briefly weakened after the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 vote exposed pressure for higher rates, but neither asset broke decisively from its pre-announcement range.
Executed leases covered approximately 529 megawatts, while an AMD reservation right supported the companies’ headline potential of up to 2.5 gigawatts.
Federal prosecutors asked to dismiss the indictment against Matthew Goettsche with prejudice, leaving a major cryptocurrency-mining fraud case awaiting the court’s decision.