SEC proposed a crypto safe harbor and exemptions for network development
The proposal sought comment on pathways between capital formation, decentralization and a mature network.
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The archive.
Source-dated reporting documents the cryptocurrency record from December 2017 onward. Historical datelines identify when each underlying event occurred; every article separately displays its actual first-publication time on Coinburn.
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Archive chronology
Beginning with the newest source-dated files.
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SEC commissioner flagged questions around crypto vaults and lending strategies
The statement examined structures that combine custody, strategy execution and yield-like products.
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UK and U.S. backed cross-border stablecoin coordination
A joint statement supported regulated stablecoins in payments, settlement and tokenized financial markets.
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FCA set final crypto rules ahead of the UK's 2027 authorization regime
The framework covered financial resilience, market integrity, stablecoins, custody and staking-related firms.
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Bank of England proposed a £40 billion guardrail for each systemic stablecoin
Draft rules paired an issuance limit with reserve, redemption and central-bank-deposit requirements.
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Federal banking agencies proposed customer-identification rules for stablecoin issuers
The proposal would apply bank-like identification requirements to supervised payment-stablecoin issuers.
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CFTC staff opened a path to convert perpetual-style futures into true digital-commodity perpetuals
A no-action letter addressed conversion procedures for designated contract markets.
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CFTC set policy for perpetual contracts and approved a bitcoin perpetual submission
The agency paired a policy statement with staff interpretations and an approval involving a BTCPERP contract.
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Ethereum security group launched an open clear-signing standard
The initiative used ERC-7730 descriptors and a shared registry to make transaction approvals more understandable.
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Ethereum teams reported a multi-client Glamsterdam devnet milestone
A protocol-cluster update said ePBS had stabilized enough for an external-builder pipeline test across nearly all clients.
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SEC commissioner addressed when crypto user interfaces implicate registration
The statement focused attention on the boundary between software interfaces and regulated intermediary activity.
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Ethereum's April checkpoint exposed the hard parts of Glamsterdam
Developers reported steady but difficult work on proposer-builder separation, access lists and gas repricing.
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CFTC staff published operational FAQs for crypto and blockchain activities
The answers followed tokenized-collateral and digital-asset margin letters with additional implementation detail.
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SEC and CFTC issued a joint crypto-asset taxonomy and securities interpretation
The framework addressed investment contracts, non-security crypto assets, stablecoins, airdrops, mining, staking and wrapping.
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Tether backed Ark Labs in a $5.2 million funding round
The investment targeted programmable stablecoin infrastructure built around Bitcoin.
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SEC and CFTC signed a memorandum to coordinate oversight
The agencies created a Joint Harmonization Initiative spanning definitions, clearing, collateral, reporting and crypto assets.
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Ethereum Foundation began staking about 70,000 ETH from its treasury
The foundation published its software, client-diversity and withdrawal-credential choices alongside the initiative.
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Ethereum Foundation made DeFi support an explicit 2026 priority
The foundation described security, openness, privacy and builder relationships as initial focus areas.
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SEC staff allowed a 2% haircut treatment for qualifying payment stablecoins
A broker-dealer FAQ drew a sharp distinction from the 100% treatment some firms had considered using.
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SEC leaders outlined an incremental crypto innovation-exemption agenda
At ETHDenver, the chairman and a commissioner discussed tokenized trading, custody, privacy and coordination with the CFTC.
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CFTC staff expanded a payment-stablecoin definition to include national trust banks
The revised no-action position addressed stablecoins accepted as margin collateral by futures commission merchants.
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Fidelity launched its Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin
FIDD entered the market for eligible retail and institutional customers with one-dollar purchase and redemption described by the issuer.
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SEC and CFTC leaders put crypto harmonization on a joint stage
The agencies used a January 29 event to frame coordination as a central part of their digital-asset agenda.
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SEC staff separated issuer and third-party models for tokenized securities
A cross-divisional statement explained that tokenization changes recordkeeping and representation, not the underlying status of a security.
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Tether launched USA₮ for the U.S. stablecoin market
The company introduced a separate dollar token under the new federal stablecoin framework, with Anchorage Digital Bank named as issuer.
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Ethereum developers narrowed Glamsterdam while opening the Hegotá process
A January protocol checkpoint described progress after Fusaka and identified the next upgrade sequence.
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CFTC launched a new Innovation Advisory Committee
The committee expanded the agency's formal channel for input on financial technology, including digital assets and market infrastructure.
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CFTC staff issued a no-action letter addressing event contracts
The January action became an early marker in the agency's 2026 approach to prediction-market oversight.
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Ethereum's second blob-parameter fork raised capacity for layer-two data
The scheduled change lifted Ethereum's blob target to 14 and maximum to 21 without waiting for a full network upgrade.
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Bitcoin's genesis block reached its seventeenth anniversary
The January 3 milestone marked seventeen years since the first block established Bitcoin's chain history.
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Bitcoin opened 2026 near $87,500 as the market tried to stabilize
The first session established a clear starting mark for a year that would soon deliver a deeper first-quarter drawdown.