365 source-dated archive files document the cryptocurrency record for 2018. Each article displays its historical event date and separate actual publication time.
The Intercontinental Exchange-backed venture closed its first funding round, but its flagship physically settled bitcoin contract remained subject to the CFTC’s process and timeline.
A December 30 market snapshot valued circulating XRP at $15.08 billion, about $516.7 million above ether, although fragmented trading and different supply structures limited what the ranking could prove.
A year-end security review called 2018 record-breaking for exchange attacks. The strongest contemporaneous dataset documented $927 million through September—not a final full-year loss total.
Bitcoin rose from a source-recorded daily open of $3,653.13 to a $3,923.92 close, but no verified catalyst explained the sudden move.
The former exchange chief apologized for Mt. Gox’s failure but maintained his innocence as a criminal case arising from cryptocurrency’s most prominent early collapse moved toward judgment.
Bitcoin remained under a key psychological threshold while GMO Internet’s retreat from mining-machine sales illustrated the commercial damage caused by falling prices and rising competition.
Bitcoin fell roughly 5% across aggregated markets and 6.54% in Kraken’s daily report as the rebound in major cryptoassets met renewed selling.
The December 24, 2018 launch created direct TRX/XRP and XZC/XRP markets and moved Ethereum pairings into a broader ALTS menu.
BitcoinVisuals measured 496.8 BTC across visible payment channels, marking substantial growth for an experimental network that had entered mainnet beta nine months earlier.
Coinbase’s BTC-USD candle closed at $3,980.46 after reaching $4,005, while CoinMarketCap’s dated snapshot placed bitcoin above $4,000.
The case alleged that a fabricated corporate account, automated orders and wash trades made the cryptocurrency exchange appear more liquid than it was.
The Token Taxonomy Act sought to exclude qualifying digital tokens from federal securities definitions while changing custody and cryptocurrency tax rules.
The UK tax authority said most individual activity was investment subject to capital-gains rules, while mining, employment and some airdrops could produce taxable income.
Bitcoin reached $3,696.06 in CoinMarketCap’s historical snapshot as every listed top-20 crypto asset posted a positive 24-hour change, though venue and measurement differences precluded a single official market close.
The Federal Register notice sought evidence on Ethereum’s technology, governance, custody and potential derivatives without approving a product or deciding Ether’s legal status.
A dated market snapshot showed Bitcoin down 10.24% over seven days, with Ether and XRP also under pressure as the digital-asset market remained near its lowest levels since 2017.
Exchange and aggregate market records placed bitcoin in its lowest price region of 2018 to date, while ether, XRP and bitcoin cash also carried substantial weekly losses.
The Federal Council favored technology-neutral amendments covering tokenized rights, custody insolvency, DLT trading venues and anti-money-laundering obligations.
The heavily financed project abandoned its planned three-token system and said it would return capital to investors rather than launch with transfer restrictions and a centralized whitelist.
The monetary authorities were testing a fiat-backed instrument for cross-border bank settlements, not launching a publicly traded cryptocurrency.
The derivatives regulator sought evidence about Ethereum’s technology, governance, custody and markets as it considered potential products beyond bitcoin.
The mining-hardware company told all 23 employees in Ra’anana that they would be laid off, turning the cryptocurrency downturn into a visible industry contraction.
Bitcoin, ether and most other large crypto assets advanced on December 9, although seven-day losses and conflicting data windows showed that the move had not repaired the market’s broader decline.
Conflicting venue and aggregate readings still told the same larger story: bitcoin and ether remained under severe pressure after another weekly decline.
The $50,000 settlement showed that filing a Form D did not excuse a crypto fund from the solicitation and investor-verification requirements governing private securities offerings.
The Commission moved its deadline to February 27, 2019, keeping a prominent attempt to list bitcoin-backed trust shares unresolved.
The open-source application linked obligations recorded on Corda to externally verified payments, beginning with settlement through the XRP Ledger.
The Signet approval placed real-time, blockchain-based dollar transfers inside a regulated commercial bank, subject to anti-money-laundering, cybersecurity and consumer-protection controls.
The planned conversion covered more than 1,700 financial organizations across 40 markets, moving an institutional blockchain project beyond the proof-of-concept stage.
Bitcoin’s December 2, 2018 price held near $4,150, but Kraken turnover fell 31.5% from December 1 and an aggregate snapshot showed broad weakness.