Bitcoin closed 2022 near $16,530 on Coinbase after a 64.2% annual fall
The BTC-USD market ended a year shaped by monetary tightening and a succession of digital-asset failures far below its opening level.
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365 source-dated archive files document the cryptocurrency record for 2022. Each article displays its historical event date and separate actual publication time.
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FTX Debtors Challenged Bahamas Regulator’s $3.5 Billion Crypto Valuation
The bankrupt exchange’s new management valued the disputed wallet at approximately $167 million, exposing a consequential conflict over asset ownership, liquidity and jurisdiction.
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Bahamas Court Opens Limited Path for FTX Wallet Disclosure
A Bahamian court authorized confidential information sharing about assets held by the securities regulator, while a new filing disclosed a contested valuation exceeding $3.5 billion.
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MicroStrategy Disclosed Its First Bitcoin Sale but Increased Its Holdings
The company sold approximately 704 BTC while pursuing a potential tax benefit, repurchased approximately 810 BTC and reported a larger overall treasury position.
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Mango Markets manipulation charges became public in federal court
The unsealed complaint accused Avraham Eisenberg of commodities fraud and manipulation over approximately $110 million withdrawn from the Solana-based trading protocol.
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Vauld Said Nexo Deal Talks Had Failed as Nexo Made a Final Offer
The distressed lender moved toward a fund-managed restructuring while its would-be buyer publicly disputed how the proposed acquisition had been handled.
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DeGods and y00ts Announced Plans to Leave Solana
Two prominent Solana NFT collections chose different destination networks, turning blockchain competition into a test of whether established communities could move safely across chains.
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Bitcoin hash-rate estimate drops 38% amid North American freeze
A severe winter storm pushed major U.S. miners to curtail operations, exposing Bitcoin’s dependence on geographically concentrated energy infrastructure without stopping the network.
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Court Entered SEC and CFTC Orders Against Two FTX Insiders
The judgments imposed antifraud injunctions and established CFTC liability for Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, while reserving monetary remedies and parts of the sanctions process.
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Brazil Published a National Virtual-Asset Framework
Law No. 14,478 created an authorization framework for crypto service providers, expanded financial-crime provisions and left key rules to a future federal regulator.
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Core Scientific Filed for Chapter 11 as Bitcoin-Mining Pressures Converged
The publicly traded miner pursued a creditor-backed reorganization after falling bitcoin prices, higher electricity costs and customer-payment failures strained its liquidity.
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Greenidge warned of bankruptcy while negotiating NYDIG debt overhaul
The bitcoin miner proposed transferring substantial mining capacity to NYDIG for a $57 million to $68 million debt reduction, but said it still needed additional liquidity.
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Voyager Named Binance.US in Conditional $1.022 Billion Asset Deal
The headline valuation largely represented Voyager’s existing cryptocurrency portfolio, while court approval, a creditor vote and closing conditions still separated customers from distributions.
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Argentina’s fan token plunged as the team won the World Cup
ARG’s reversal showed how a blockchain-based fan asset could trade as a speculative event contract even when the real-world result favored its namesake team.
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Reports Said Bankman-Fried Would Drop His Extradition Fight
The reported reversal could accelerate the FTX founder’s transfer from Bahamian custody to Manhattan, but no formal consent or court order was public on December 17.
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Mazars Paused Crypto Proof-of-Reserves Work
The accounting firm stopped producing reserve reports for exchanges including Binance, Crypto.com and KuCoin, exposing the limits of an industry transparency campaign.
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New York Set a 90-Day Path for Banks’ Crypto Plans
Final NYDFS guidance told covered institutions how to seek activity-specific approval, including the business, risk, governance, consumer and financial evidence supervisors expected.
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Warren and Marshall Unveiled a Sweeping Crypto Anti-Money-Laundering Bill
The bipartisan proposal would have extended Bank Secrecy Act obligations beyond exchanges to wallet providers, miners, validators and other network participants, opening an immediate dispute over surveillance, privacy and technical feasibility.
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U.S. Unsealed Eight FTX Counts as SEC and CFTC Filed Civil Cases
The parallel actions turned FTX’s collapse into public criminal, securities and commodities-fraud cases while leaving guilt, losses and customer recoveries unresolved.
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Bahamian Police Arrest Sam Bankman-Fried After U.S. Files Charges
The former FTX chief’s detention turned a sprawling bankruptcy and regulatory crisis into an active cross-border criminal proceeding, although the U.S. indictment remained sealed on December 12.
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Binance Restricted Withdrawals During Abnormal Altcoin Trading Review
The exchange investigated unusual activity involving five tokens, restricted some profitable accounts and then reversed course after finding no apparent links among them.
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U.S. prosecutors reportedly examined FTX transfers around its bankruptcy
The reported criminal inquiry placed FTX’s cross-border movement of funds under scrutiny, but no public charge or finding had established wrongdoing by December 10, 2022.
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Crypto.com published reserve ratios for nine customer assets
Mazars found ratios of 101% to 106% at a December 7 snapshot, but its agreed-upon procedures were expressly not a financial audit or assurance engagement.
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SEC Staff Put Crypto-Market Exposure on the Corporate Disclosure Agenda
A sample comment letter asked companies to examine material exposure to bankrupt counterparties, suspended withdrawals, collateral stress and safeguarding failures.
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Mazars Put Binance’s Bitcoin Coverage at 101%—Within a Narrow Test
The accountant matched specified bitcoin assets and customer liabilities at one timestamp but expressly delivered neither an audit opinion nor a verdict on Binance’s solvency.
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Chainlink Opened Staking v0.1 Early Access on Ethereum Mainnet
The limited beta let eligible LINK holders and node operators commit tokens to an initial alerting and reputation system for Chainlink’s ETH/USD feed.
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Circle and Concord Terminated Their $9 Billion SPAC Combination
The USDC issuer’s planned public listing ended after its registration statement failed to become effective before the transaction’s approaching deadline.
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Bybit announced across-the-board workforce cuts as the crypto downturn deepened
CEO Ben Zhou confirmed a broad restructuring on December 4, while contemporaneous reports put the planned reduction at 30% of the cryptocurrency exchange’s staff.
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Gemini Earn Creditors Organized Around a Reported $900 Million Genesis Exposure
The engagement of Kirkland & Ellis and the first public estimate of frozen customer assets showed that Genesis’s withdrawal suspension had become a major restructuring problem.
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Ankr halted aBNB tokens after estimating $5 million exploit loss
A compromised developer key enabled unauthorized minting on BNB Chain, draining decentralized-exchange liquidity and exposing the systemic risk of privileged smart-contract access.
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India Opens Retail Digital Rupee Pilot in Four Cities
The Reserve Bank of India moved sovereign digital currency into consumer and merchant wallets through a limited test involving four banks and four cities.
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Kraken Announced a 30% Workforce Cut as Crypto Winter Deepened
The exchange said approximately 1,100 employees would leave, reversing an expansion plan it had defended less than six months earlier.
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Brazil’s Lower House Passed a Crypto Framework but Left Custody Protection Unresolved
Lawmakers sent a licensing and financial-crime framework to the president while declining to restore an explicit requirement to segregate customer assets.
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BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 as FTX exposure became a liquidity crisis
The crypto lender and eight affiliates entered bankruptcy in New Jersey after Alameda defaulted on approximately $680 million of loans and an FTX credit commitment failed.
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Ethereum proposal put developers on notice over SELFDESTRUCT
EIP-6049 proposed formally deprecating the opcode while leaving its behavior unchanged, warning developers that a breaking protocol change could follow.
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BitGo defended WBTC reserves as the token traded below bitcoin
Wrapped Bitcoin remained below its intended one-for-one value as its custodian said every burn request had been completed, exposing how quickly post-FTX distrust could disrupt wrapped-asset arbitrage.
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Binance Opens Bitcoin Reserves to Merkle-Tree Verification
The exchange reported 582,485.9302 BTC in on-chain reserves against a customer net balance of 575,742.4228 BTC, but its first disclosure was limited to one asset and lacked completed third-party verification.
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Binance Commits $1 Billion to Post-FTX Industry Recovery Initiative
The exchange structured its November 24, 2022 response as a six-month co-investment program, not a centralized bailout fund, with capital assigned to public blockchain addresses.
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DBS said it completed Asia's first Onyx intraday repo
The November 23, 2022 transaction moved secured U.S.-dollar funding through J.P. Morgan's blockchain infrastructure within hours, while leaving its value, collateral and economics undisclosed.
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FTX’s First Bankruptcy Hearing Exposed a Four-Silo Estate
Court filings divided the collapsed group into four operating silos and disclosed $481.874 million of beginning available cash under a tightly qualified five-week forecast.
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Senators Asked Bank Regulators to Review SoFi’s Crypto Business
Four Senate Banking Committee Democrats questioned whether SoFi’s digital-asset operations complied with its bank-approval conditions, prompting a same-date corporate response filed with the SEC.
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FTX filing put creditor count above one million as top claims reached $3.1 billion
The bankruptcy record exposed the scale of FTX’s customer liabilities while warning that inaccessible data and unreliable books made the early figures provisional.
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FTX Began a Global Asset Review as Bankruptcy Managers Sought to Preserve Viable Businesses
The Chapter 11 debtors prepared selected subsidiaries for sale or reorganization while asking the Delaware bankruptcy court for authority to maintain critical services.
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Grayscale withheld wallet addresses as GBTC’s discount reached 43%
The asset manager cited security concerns while its flagship bitcoin trust traded at a record gap to the stated value of its underlying holdings.
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FTX’s First-Day Filing Exposed a Control Vacuum
New chief executive John J. Ray III told the bankruptcy court that unreliable records, weak custody controls and concentrated authority left the estate struggling to identify and secure assets.
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Genesis Suspended Redemptions as FTX Contagion Reached Crypto Credit
The institutional lender said withdrawal requests exceeded its liquidity, forcing a halt that also left Gemini Earn unable to meet its five-business-day redemption standard.
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New York Fed Joined Banks in 12-Week Tokenized-Money Test
The proof of concept put simulated bank-deposit tokens and central-bank reserves on a shared ledger without committing the Federal Reserve to a digital dollar.
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BlockFi disclosed significant FTX exposure as withdrawals remained frozen
The lender identified three links to the failed FTX group but did not quantify the exposure or provide a timetable for restoring customer access.
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Crypto.com Disclosed a 320,000-ETH Transfer Error
The exchange said assets intended for cold storage were mistakenly sent to its Gate.io account and subsequently recovered, exposing the limits of wallet disclosures as evidence of custody controls.
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FTX Confirms Unauthorized Access as Assets Move to Cold Storage
The bankrupt exchange restricted platform functions and began securing identifiable digital assets as the Bahamas regulator rejected claims that it had ordered preferential withdrawals.
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FTX Enters Chapter 11 as Bankman-Fried Steps Down
FTX, Alameda Research and a vast network of affiliates moved into bankruptcy proceedings after a liquidity crisis overwhelmed rescue efforts.
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Bahamas Froze FTX Unit’s Assets and Suspended Its Registration
The regulator restricted FTX Digital Markets and placed it into provisional liquidation as the exchange group’s liquidity crisis became a formal institutional intervention.
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Binance Abandoned Its Proposed Rescue of FTX.com
The exchange withdrew from a non-binding acquisition one day after announcing it, removing FTX’s most visible liquidity backstop as cryptocurrency prices fell sharply.
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Binance and FTX announced a non-binding rescue deal amid a liquidity crunch
On November 8, 2022, Binance announced a conditional agreement to acquire FTX.com after the rival exchange sought help meeting a liquidity crunch.
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Federal court ruled LBRY’s LBC offerings were unregistered securities
The district court applied the Howey framework to LBRY’s token offerings, rejected its utility and fair-notice defenses, and left remedies unresolved.
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Binance Said It Would Liquidate Its Remaining FTT Holdings
Changpeng Zhao’s exit announcement and Alameda Research’s $22-per-token offer turned questions about an affiliated trading firm’s balance sheet into an immediate test of FTT liquidity and confidence.
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Google Cloud began validating Solana and mapped out managed-node support
The cloud provider disclosed a live block-producing validator while outlining prospective Solana support for Blockchain Node Engine and BigQuery.
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SEC announced charges over Trade Coin Club’s alleged $295 million bitcoin scheme
The regulator alleged that the international program collected 82,648 bitcoin while withdrawals were funded almost entirely by other investors’ deposits.
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Coinbase’s Q3 transaction revenue fell 44% as trading slowed
The exchange reported $365.9 million in transaction revenue and a $544.6 million net loss, documenting how sharply the 2022 crypto contraction had reached its core business.
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Alameda Balance-Sheet Report Exposed Its Concentration in FTT
A private financial document reportedly listed $14.6 billion of assets, including $5.82 billion in FTX-issued tokens, exposing the risks of valuing an affiliate through its own exchange token.
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MoneyGram Adds Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin Trading to U.S. App
The remittance company launched app-based cryptocurrency buying, selling and storage through Coinme, extending its digital-asset strategy beyond cash access points.
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Hong Kong Set a New Virtual-Asset Policy and Opened a Futures-ETF Route
The October 31, 2022 policy invited global crypto businesses to Hong Kong while regulators opened applications for tightly constrained bitcoin and ether futures ETFs.
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Dogecoin reached 14 cents as Twitter takeover speculation reordered crypto’s top tier
DOGE gained 64.43% in the 24-hour window ending at 06:00 UTC on October 30, far outpacing bitcoin and ether as traders speculated about Elon Musk’s newly acquired Twitter.
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Dogecoin Jumped 44.94% as Traders Bet on Musk’s Twitter Takeover
DOGE rose to eighth place by market capitalization, but the rally reflected speculation about Twitter integration rather than an announced product plan.
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Huobi ended HUSD trading and began converting balances to USDT
The exchange stopped HUSD trading, deposits and withdrawals while replacing customer balances with USDT at a one-for-one ratio, exposing the divide between exchange users and external token holders.
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Google Cloud announced managed node hosting for Ethereum
Blockchain Node Engine promised single-operation provisioning and Google-managed infrastructure, but access remained limited to a private preview.
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Bitcoin topped $21,000 and ether neared $1,600 in a broad rebound
Coinbase spot data recorded six-week highs for both assets as traders weighed a smaller-than-expected Canadian rate increase and regulators emphasized crypto’s financial-stability risks.
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UK bill committee opened a route to regulate crypto beyond stablecoins
A House of Commons bill committee agreed that cryptoassets could fall within a proposed designated-activities regime, giving the Treasury a legislative route to address trading and investment activities.
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MakerDAO’s Endgame package cleared its ratification thresholds
The MKR-weighted vote advanced plans for MetaDAO clusters and a protocol-owned vault while intensifying questions about concentrated governance power.
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Freeway halted Supercharger buybacks as FWT plunged
The centralized yield platform stopped redeeming its simulated assets without providing a restart date, effectively blocking users’ principal and rewards.
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BUSD reached record stablecoin share after Binance’s auto-conversion
A source snapshot reported BUSD at 15.48% of stablecoin supply on October 21, 2022, illustrating how an exchange’s trading and conversion policies could reshape digital-dollar competition.
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Gavin Wood handed Parity’s CEO role to Björn Wagner
Polkadot’s architect stepped away from Parity Technologies’ executive leadership while remaining its majority shareholder and chief architect, separating corporate management from protocol-focused work.
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Digital assets drove more than one-fifth of CFTC enforcement actions
The commodities regulator counted 18 crypto-related actions among 82 cases, spanning fraud, registration failures, token manipulation and decentralized trading protocols.
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Aptos Opened APT Trading With a 23.45 Million-Token Airdrop
The new layer-one network distributed tokens to early participants as exchanges opened APT markets, exposing uncertainty about the asset’s immediately tradable supply.
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Five amicus briefs widened Grayscale’s challenge to the SEC’s bitcoin-fund rejection
Coinbase, NYSE Arca, the U.S. Chamber and cryptocurrency policy groups asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse the agency’s decision on Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.
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Mastercard and Paxos Unveiled Crypto Source for Banks
The proposed service divided trading and custody from bank-interface integration, offering financial institutions a route into crypto without building the entire stack themselves.
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Société Générale’s Forge Joined France’s Digital-Asset Provider Register
The bank subsidiary’s registration covered custody and three-way exchange services, bringing a major regulated financial institution further into France’s crypto framework without constituting a blanket product approval.
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Mango Markets said $67 million was returned after DAO settlement
The negotiated recovery followed a governance vote that let the party behind the protocol’s drain retain roughly $47 million under a disputed “bug bounty” characterization.
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Binance Pool Announces $500 Million Lending Project for Bitcoin Miners
The collateralized credit initiative targeted mining and infrastructure companies as record network difficulty and a major operator’s bankruptcy exposed the industry’s financing strain.
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Hot U.S. inflation sent bitcoin below $18,200 before a sharp rebound
Bitcoin fell to its lowest price since September 21 after the September CPI release, then recovered above $19,000 as risk markets abruptly reversed.
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Mango Markets froze v3 after price manipulation drained its liquidity
The Solana-based protocol said on October 12, 2022 that two accounts exploited a rapid MNGO price increase to withdraw crypto assets it valued at approximately $100 million.
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BNY Mellon put bitcoin and ether custody live for select U.S. clients
The major traditional custodian moved from planning to operating digital-asset infrastructure, although its launch record disclosed neither client balances nor transaction volumes.
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OECD Published a Global Crypto Tax-Reporting Framework
CARF outlined annual cross-border reporting for transactions handled by crypto service providers, but implementation still required domestic laws and exchange agreements.
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Bitcoin’s estimated hash rate hit a record as miner pressure mounted
Luxor’s seven-day estimate reached 262 EH/s while low revenue per unit of computing power and an approaching difficulty increase tightened mining economics.
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Huobi’s controlling shareholder sold its entire stake to an About Capital vehicle
The change of control gave the Hong Kong fund manager’s buyout vehicle a majority stake in the exchange, although the price, ownership percentage and transaction structure remained undisclosed.
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BNB Chain hard-forked after Token Hub exploit withdrew 2 million BNB
Validators halted BNB Smart Chain and adopted an emergency release that blocked identified accounts while leaving cross-chain transfers suspended.
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MakerDAO scheduled first step in $500 million bond strategy
An on-chain governance action queued a 1 million DAI pilot for a real-world-asset vault intended to move as much as 500 million DAI into Treasury and investment-grade bond strategies.
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EU Member-State Envoys Endorsed MiCA’s Final Compromise
COREPER accepted the negotiated crypto framework and sent Parliament a route toward matching legislation, while formal adoption and application remained ahead.
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SEC Opened Formal Review of VanEck Bitcoin Trust
The Commission sought evidence on manipulation and market surveillance before deciding whether Cboe could list shares of the proposed spot-backed bitcoin product.
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SEC’s Kardashian Settlement Put Crypto Promotions on Notice
Kim Kardashian agreed to pay $1.26 million over an EthereumMax promotion, giving the SEC a prominent test of disclosure rules for paid crypto endorsements.