Montenegro Hands Terraform Co-Founder Do Kwon to U.S. Authorities
The December 31, 2024 transfer ended a prolonged extradition contest and moved the criminal case arising from Terraform’s collapse into U.S. custody.
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366 source-dated archive files document the cryptocurrency record for 2024. Each article displays its historical event date and separate actual publication time.
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MiCA’s remaining rules became applicable across the European Union
The legal milestone introduced common requirements for crypto-asset service providers, token disclosures and market conduct, although national transition periods prevented an immediate uniform licensing switch.
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Bitcoin slid below $94,000 as the year-end rally lost momentum
A 1.73% decline on the December 29 UTC candle left bitcoin 13.61% below its December peak, although fragmented spot markets and holiday trading limit causal conclusions.
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Solana Led a Holiday-Weekend Crypto Rebound
SOL gained 6.08% in CoinMarketCap’s historical snapshot as bitcoin returned above $95,000, although fragmented markets limit claims about a universal close or the cause.
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Montenegro Chooses U.S. Extradition for Terraform Co-Founder Do Kwon
Justice Minister Bojan Božović approved the U.S. request and rejected South Korea’s competing claim, advancing the criminal case arising from Terra’s collapse.
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KULR Disclosed a $21 Million Bitcoin Treasury Purchase
The energy-management company reported acquiring 217.18 BTC while separately preserving access to another $50 million of at-the-market common-stock issuance.
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Russia says firms are using Bitcoin in foreign trade
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Russian companies had begun settling international transactions with Bitcoin and other digital currencies under an experimental legal regime.
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Russia published multi-year cryptocurrency mining bans across power-constrained regions
Decree No. 1869 prohibited mining across ten listed regions and imposed seasonal restrictions in parts of three others, turning electricity constraints into a boundary on Russia’s newly regulated mining industry.
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MicroStrategy entered the Nasdaq-100 with 444,262 bitcoin
The index addition brought a bitcoin-heavy corporate balance sheet into a major equity benchmark as the company disclosed another $561 million purchase financed through stock sales.
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Trump named Bo Hines to lead a planned White House crypto council
The president-elect assigned Hines to run a proposed digital-assets advisory group under incoming AI and crypto policy chief David Sacks.
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Bitcoin rebounded toward $100,000 after post-Fed selloff
Bitcoin reached approximately $99,500 on Bitstamp after falling near $92,000, even as U.S. spot bitcoin funds recorded a second consecutive session of net outflows.
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Tether agreed to invest $775 million in Rumble
The USDT issuer’s investment arm agreed to buy 103.3 million Rumble shares, directing $250 million toward growth and $525 million toward a shareholder tender offer.
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SEC approved exchange rules for two bitcoin-ether index ETFs
Nasdaq and Cboe BZX received approval to list proposed Hashdex and Franklin funds combining spot bitcoin and ether, although neither product was cleared to begin trading solely by the order.
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Bitcoin slid toward $101,000 as Fed signaled slower 2025 cuts
A quarter-point rate cut was overshadowed by higher inflation projections and a policy path implying only two additional quarter-point reductions during 2025.
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Ripple USD enters the stablecoin market on XRP Ledger and Ethereum
RLUSD reached its first distribution platforms under New York oversight, giving Ripple a dollar-denominated settlement asset distinct from XRP—but leaving adoption, liquidity and reserve performance unproven.
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FCA outlined UK crypto disclosure and market-abuse framework
The December 16 discussion paper proposed due diligence, inside-information disclosures and cross-platform surveillance while leaving binding rules for a later consultation.
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Bitcoin Crossed $105,000 in December 15 UTC Trading
The record extended bitcoin’s post-election rally while MicroStrategy’s planned Nasdaq-100 admission strengthened the market’s connection to mainstream index capital.
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Bitcoin held a $2 trillion valuation as large-cap crypto weakened
The December 14 UTC snapshot showed bitcoin nearly unchanged above $101,000 while ether, XRP, solana and other large non-stablecoin assets lost more ground.
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Coinbase restricted six stablecoins for European retail customers
The exchange curtailed services for USDT, PAX, PYUSD, GUSD, GYEN and DAI as Europe’s MiCA framework began reshaping product access.
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Australian Court Imposed A$8 Million Penalty on Kraken Operator
The judgment applied Australia’s product-design rules to a crypto margin service and marked ASIC’s first penalty for failing to make a target market determination.
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Coincheck’s Nasdaq debut linked Japanese crypto trading to U.S. public markets
Coincheck Group shares began trading under CNCK on December 11, 2024 after a SPAC combination, giving U.S. public-market investors an equity route into a regulated Japanese crypto-exchange business.
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Microsoft Shareholders Rejected a Bitcoin Investment Assessment
The vote did not order or reject a Bitcoin purchase. It rejected a request for a dedicated board assessment while Microsoft said its treasury team already considered cryptocurrencies.
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MicroStrategy Used $2.13 Billion of Share Sales to Buy Bitcoin
The company disclosed on December 9, 2024 that it had acquired 21,550 BTC, demonstrating how demand for its shares was being converted into a larger corporate bitcoin reserve.
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Bitcoin Logged Its First UTC Daily and Weekly Close Above $100,000
Coinbase’s BTC-USD market ended December 8 at $101,174.99, converting bitcoin’s earlier intraday breach into its first completed UTC day and week above six figures.
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Ether held $4,000 as U.S. fund inflows reached a 10-session streak
Ether traded above $4,000 on December 7, 2024 as newly completed U.S. market data showed spot ether products attracting an estimated $836.8 million over five sessions.
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FDIC pause letters exposed barriers to banks’ crypto plans
A court exhibit revealed 23 supervisory communications asking banks to pause or defer digital-asset activities, while heavy redactions limited broader claims about a coordinated campaign.
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Bitcoin crossed $100,000 for the first time
The six-figure milestone arrived during a post-election rally supported by heavy U.S. spot-bitcoin fund inflows, but bitcoin had already retreated below the threshold by the U.S. market close.
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Trump said he would nominate Paul Atkins to lead the SEC
The president-elect’s selection of a former commissioner with digital-asset policy experience signaled a possible change in SEC priorities, but it was not yet a formal nomination or a change in law.
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South Korea’s martial-law declaration jolted won crypto markets
Bitcoin and other digital assets fell sharply on Korean exchanges as a constitutional crisis exposed the limits of venue liquidity and continuous trading during a national emergency.
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MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Holdings Crossed 400,000 BTC
The company sold $1.48 billion of stock and used equity-offering proceeds to acquire 15,400 bitcoin, demonstrating the scale of its capital-markets-driven treasury strategy.
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XRP displaced Solana as its December 1 rally reshaped crypto rankings
XRP crossed $2 and moved above SOL by circulating market capitalization, while conflicting late-session snapshots showed why crypto rankings require precise timestamps and supply definitions.
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Bitcoin closed November up 37.15% at 96,407.99 USDT
The November 30 month-end record captured a 26,115.98-USDT advance on Binance as U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs logged $6.46 billion of net inflows during the month’s securities sessions.
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Russia enacted a tax framework for cryptocurrency mining and transactions
Federal Law No. 418-FZ classified digital currency as property for tax purposes and established valuation, reporting and tax rules taking effect principally in 2025.
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EU adopted transparency standards for crypto trading platforms
The European Commission specified how MiCA-regulated platforms would disclose orders and transactions, advancing a common market-data framework before the broader regime’s December application date.
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Singapore disclosed entry into global crypto tax-reporting pact
The financial hub joined a multilateral framework for exchanging tax information about crypto-asset transactions, while domestic implementation and exchange relationships remained unfinished.
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Fifth Circuit Ruled Tornado Cash’s Immutable Contracts Were Not Sanctionable Property
The appeals court held that OFAC exceeded its statutory authority by treating autonomous Ethereum privacy contracts as property that could be blocked under emergency-powers law.
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MicroStrategy disclosed a record $5.4 billion bitcoin purchase
The November 25 filing showed how rapidly the software company was converting equity and convertible-debt proceeds into a concentrated corporate bitcoin position.
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Crypto Liquidations Crossed $500 Million as Bitcoin Retreated From $100,000
A rolling CoinGlass snapshot showed leveraged longs absorbing most of the closures, even as bitcoin recovered from its intraday low to finish the UTC date slightly higher.
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Zcash activated NU6 as its second halving cut issuance in half
The upgrade reduced the block subsidy to 1.5625 ZEC and replaced direct development-funding streams with an 8% grants allocation and a 12% protocol lockbox.
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Cboe Set December 2 Launch for Cash-Settled Bitcoin ETF Index Options
Cboe called CBTX and MBTX the first cash-settled index options related to spot Bitcoin, extending regulated derivatives infrastructure as Bitcoin traded just below $100,000.
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Gary Gensler set January 20 departure from the SEC
The announcement fixed an end date for the chair most closely associated with the agency’s enforcement-centered approach to crypto, but it changed no law, case or token classification on November 21.
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Bitcoin Set a Record Just Below $95,000
Coinbase’s BTC-USD market reached $94,989.99 during the November 20 UTC session as new ETF derivatives and expectations of a friendlier U.S. policy environment reshaped price discovery.
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IBIT options opened a regulated derivatives market for spot-bitcoin fund shares
Options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust began trading on Nasdaq and generated 353,716 contracts during their opening session.
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MicroStrategy Disclosed a Record $4.6 Billion Bitcoin Purchase
The company sold approximately 13.6 million shares to finance the acquisition, then proposed another convertible-note offering intended partly for additional bitcoin purchases.
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Polish Presidential Candidate Pledged a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Sławomir Mentzen proposed holding bitcoin in Poland’s reserves, but supplied no acquisition plan and could not implement the policy unilaterally as president.
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XRP crossed $1 as regulatory expectations drove a three-year high
XRP gained 25.45% over CoinMarketCap’s rolling 24-hour window and ranked sixth by market value, but the rally reflected expectations about future U.S. policy rather than a completed regulatory change.
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HKEX launched Asia-time benchmarks for Bitcoin and Ether
The exchange operator introduced real-time reference indices and daily dollar fixing rates intended to give Asian investors and product issuers common Bitcoin and Ether prices.
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18 States Sued the SEC Over Its Crypto Enforcement Authority
The federal complaint challenged the agency’s treatment of secondary digital-asset transactions and sought to block registration-based enforcement against trading platforms.
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Bitcoin set a fresh record at $93,495 as the post-election rally accelerated
Coinbase’s BTC-USD market reached a new high while U.S. spot bitcoin funds recorded another positive-flow session, connecting political repricing with an active institutional channel.
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Canary Capital Filed the First Proposed U.S. Spot HBAR ETF
The preliminary registration statement proposed a fund holding Hedera’s native asset directly, extending the U.S. crypto-product pipeline beyond bitcoin and ether without securing approval or naming an exchange.
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MicroStrategy Announced a $2.03 Billion Bitcoin Purchase
The company sold nearly 7.9 million shares to acquire approximately 27,200 BTC, expanding its reported holdings to 279,420 BTC as bitcoin set new records.
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Bitcoin crossed $80,000 for the first time as the post-election rally accelerated
Coinbase’s BTC-USD market reached $81,534.28 during the November 10 UTC session as traders repriced the political and institutional outlook for bitcoin.
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Bitcoin held near $76,800 as the post-election rally entered the weekend
The muted Saturday session preserved bitcoin’s election-week breakout while policy expectations and weekday ETF demand supplied the institutional context.
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Bitcoin Fog operator sentenced to 12½ years over darknet mixer
Roman Sterlingov received a 150-month prison term and a $395.6 million forfeiture judgment in a case that tested how criminal law and blockchain tracing apply to cryptocurrency mixers.
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U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs drew a record $1.37 billion as bitcoin reset its high
The first full U.S. session after the election paired unprecedented demand for regulated bitcoin funds with another venue-specific price record.
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Bitcoin broke $76,000 as Trump’s election victory reset crypto expectations
The BTC-USD market established a record on November 6 as traders priced the possibility of a friendlier U.S. regulatory and legislative environment. Campaign promises had not yet become policy.
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Paxos and six partners launched the Global Dollar Network
Anchorage Digital, Bullish, Galaxy Digital, Kraken, Nuvei, Paxos and Robinhood formed a distribution network around USDG, pairing a Singapore-issued stablecoin with shared reserve economics.
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Michigan pension filing disclosed $11.19 million in spot Ether products
The state retirement manager reported 460,000 shares apiece of Grayscale’s ETHE and ETH, placing a modest public-pension allocation into newly launched spot Ether wrappers.
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Bitcoin retreated to 68,775.99 USDT as election volatility climbed
The Binance BTC/USDT market fell 0.86% during the November 3 UTC session while options traders prepared for a potentially sharp move around the U.S. presidential election.
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Aragon’s one-year ANT redemption window closed
The deadline ended holders’ ability to exchange ANT for ETH at a fixed rate, closing the financial chapter of Aragon’s original token-governance structure while its software mission moved to a new organization.
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UBS launched its first tokenized investment fund on Ethereum
The bank moved beyond a controlled tokenization pilot with uMINT, an institutional money-market product distributed through authorized partners.
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Gotbit Founder Indicted in Alleged Crypto Wash-Trading Scheme
A federal grand jury charged Aleksei Andriunin alongside Gotbit and two directors, alleging that artificial volume helped client tokens appear more actively traded than they were.
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MicroStrategy set a $42 billion capital plan to expand its bitcoin treasury
The 21/21 Plan paired an active $21 billion equity program with a separate fixed-income fundraising target, proposing an unprecedented pipeline from public capital markets into corporate bitcoin holdings.
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Visa and Coinbase connected eligible debit cards to real-time funding
The Visa Direct integration shortened a key fiat-to-crypto access path, although eligibility, geography and participating financial institutions limited its reach.
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CME added closing-index basis trading to weekly bitcoin futures
The regulated exchange made its smaller weekly contract eligible for trades priced against a 4 p.m. New York bitcoin benchmark, tightening the connection between futures and the U.S. institutional trading day.
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Bullish Exchange Joined CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index
The venue became the sixth contributor to XBX, the benchmark used to calculate the net asset value of Grayscale’s two U.S.-listed spot bitcoin products.
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Buterin mapped an Ethereum “Purge” to curb node storage and protocol bloat
The October 26 roadmap essay examined history expiry, state expiry and feature removal, while stopping short of proposing an approved upgrade or activation schedule.
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FCA counted 1,702 alerts in first year of UK crypto-promotion rules
The British regulator said its actions also led to more than 900 scam websites being taken down and 56 apps being removed, documenting the reach—and limits—of its new marketing regime.
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Microsoft Put a Bitcoin Treasury Assessment on Its Shareholder Ballot
An October 24, 2024 proxy filing disclosed that shareholders would vote on evaluating Bitcoin for Microsoft’s balance sheet, while the board said its treasury team had already considered cryptocurrencies and recommended rejecting the proposal.
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Nigeria Dropped Its Money-Laundering Case Against Binance Executive Tigran Gambaryan
A federal court ordered Tigran Gambaryan released after prosecutors withdrew the case against him on medical and diplomatic grounds. The October 23, 2024 action ended his personal prosecution but did not resolve Nigeria’s case against Binance.
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CoreWeave Expanded Its Core Scientific AI Contract to 500 Megawatts
The bitcoin miner said its CoreWeave hosting agreements could generate $8.7 billion over 12 years, underscoring how AI demand was changing the economics of mining infrastructure.
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Stripe agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure provider Bridge
The conditional acquisition put tokenized-dollar infrastructure inside a major payments company, although Stripe did not verify the widely reported $1.1 billion price on the announcement date.
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Bitcoin Ended October 20 Near $69,000 After a 9.79% Weekly Advance
CoinMarketCap’s 23:59 UTC snapshot placed bitcoin at $69,001.71 as ether, solana and other major assets also completed a strong seven-day recovery.
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ApeChain Goes Live at ApeFest, Giving APE a Native Network Role
The Arbitrum Orbit chain turned ApeCoin into a native gas asset and placed a DAO-funded ecosystem strategy onto public infrastructure.
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SEC cleared options on five bitcoin funds for NYSE American and Cboe
October 18 orders covered GBTC, BTC, BITB, FBTC and ARKB, subject to 25,000-contract position limits and exclusions from FLEX trading.
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SEC defined the scope of its appeal in the Ripple XRP case
The regulator asked the Second Circuit to revisit Ripple’s exchange-based XRP sales, non-cash distributions and executives’ personal sales, preserving a major test of transaction-specific crypto regulation.
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Italy floated a 42% tax on bitcoin gains
Deputy Economy Minister Maurizio Leo announced a proposed increase from 26%, but the press-conference figure was not enacted law and left key details unresolved.
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Canary filed to bring spot litecoin into a U.S. exchange-traded product
The S-1 extended 2024’s crypto-fund push beyond bitcoin and ether, but left the exchange, ticker, fee, custodian and listing-rule process unresolved.
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Spot bitcoin funds drew $555.9 million as BTC crossed $66,000
Fidelity’s FBTC led the strongest U.S. spot-bitcoin fund session since June 4, while the breadth of positive flows showed demand extending across competing products.
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Powerledger said its energy platform completed its move to Solana
The energy-market software company reported moving its products from a separate SVM-based chain to Solana mainnet while keeping POWR available on Ethereum.
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Bitcoin retook $63,000 as ETF inflows broke a three-session skid
The weekend advance extended Bitcoin’s recovery from $60,000 while newly reported fund data showed $253.6 million entering U.S. spot-bitcoin products during the October 11 securities session.
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Metaplanet added 108.999 bitcoin in another ¥1 billion treasury purchase
The Tokyo-listed company increased its reported Bitcoin holdings by 17% in four days, extending a treasury strategy designed around repeated accumulation.
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SEC targeted Cumberland DRW’s crypto trading in unregistered-dealer case
The regulator alleged that the institutional liquidity provider handled at least $2 billion in five crypto assets while operating without securities-dealer registration.
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FBI-created token exposed alleged crypto wash-trading services
Operation Token Mirrors used the Ethereum-based NexFundAI token in an undercover investigation that produced criminal and civil market-manipulation cases.
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Crypto.com sued the SEC after receiving a Wells notice
The exchange challenged a threatened enforcement action and asked a federal court to reject the agency’s treatment of ten tokens as securities.
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FTX won court approval for its cash-based creditor repayment plan
The confirmed Chapter 11 plan established a route toward distributing an estimated $14.7 billion to $16.5 billion, while tying recoveries to allowed dollar claims rather than restored crypto holdings.
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UAE’s retroactive crypto VAT exemption drew global industry attention
The amendment exempted qualifying transfers and conversions of virtual assets from VAT, with retroactive application to transactions dating from January 1, 2018.
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Fake ‘LEGO Coin’ promotion hijacked LEGO.com
An unauthorized banner used LEGO’s brand and official website to direct visitors toward a purported cryptocurrency, demonstrating how compromised institutional trust could be repurposed for token fraud.
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Coinbase set a MiCA deadline for stablecoin services in Europe
The exchange said it intended to restrict services involving stablecoins that did not meet MiCA requirements for European Economic Area customers by December 30, 2024.
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Swift planned live digital-asset trials with global banks
The financial-messaging cooperative said banks across three regions would test digital currencies and tokenized assets through their existing Swift connections beginning in 2025.