2025-07-19
🇺🇸 JUST IN: President Trump jests that the GENIUS act was named after him. [video]
Bloomberg
President Trump signs the GENIUS Act, and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will “secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency”
President Donald Trump signed the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins, hailing it as a “giant step …
2025-05-02
UPDATE: @worldlibertyfi's @ZachWitkoff teased more $USD1 partnerships in the future. “We have a lot on the way at World liberty....we are working really hard on getting integrations into traditional retail point of sale systems.” he added. https://www.coindesk.com/...
New York Times
President Trump's World Liberty Financial says Abu Dhabi's MGX fund is investing $2B in Binance using World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, raising ethical concerns
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president's son …
2025-02-23
Bybit experienced a major bank run after the $1.4 billion heist, with “about 50%” of users' funds being withdrawn, according to CEO @benbybit. However, it survived it despite a major liquidity crunch @FranciscoMemor reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn
Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
Bybit experienced a major bank run after the $1.4 billion heist, with “about 50%” of users' funds being withdrawn, according to CEO @benbybit. However, it survived it despite a major liquidity crunch @FranciscoMemor reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
New York Times
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.
2024-05-23
Taiwan's former Minister of Digital Affairs @audreyt talks open source governments, collaborative technologies and the new philosophy she cooked up with @glenweyl called “plurality.” By: @danielgkuhn https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Q&A with Taiwan's ex-Digital Minister Audrey Tang on Plurality, a book on collaboration-enhancing tech she wrote with Microsoft's internal economist Glen Weyl
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk : X: @vitalikbuterin , @ebothorel , @coindesk , and @chrisblanduk X: @vitalikbuterin : Glen @glenweyl and Audrey @audreyt , two people whose thinking I high...
2024-02-01
.@CelsiusNetwork to distribute $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency to creditors via PayPal and Coinbase as the firm emerges from bankruptcy. @jesseahamilton reports. https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Celsius emerges from bankruptcy and plans to distribute $3B+ to its creditors, who will also get a stake in the company's new Ionic Digital mining operation
The distribution will be made through PayPal and Coinbase. — Register Now — Celsius will be shipping out more than $3 billion …
2023-12-15
At least $484k has been stolen following an exploit to Ledger's popular Connect Kit software library. The hack comes after a Ledger employee was “phished,” and blockchain security experts say DeFi users “remain at risk.” Reporting by @oknightcrypto https://www.coindesk.com/...
Decrypt
Crypto wallet maker Ledger updates Connect Kit, saying a former employee “fell victim to a phishing attack” that let a hacker insert malicious code
Crypto wallet manufacturer Ledger has confirmed an exploit that led it to warn users to “stop using dapps” started because a former employee fell for a phishing scam.
2023-10-29
BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried can mention the role lawyers played at FTX, but only somewhat, his judge rules. “I held the hearing yesterday so that I could hear from Mr. Bankman-Fried's mouth what he had to say,” the judge said. “The witness had his shot.” https://www.coindesk.com/...
Financial Times
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of his companies' full financial state and was “very surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022
Bankman-Fried Testifies About FTX's Operations and Alameda The Block : SBF paints alternative view of his knowledge of the Fiat@ account in court Vinicius Barbosa / Finbold : FTX f...
2023-10-28
BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried can mention the role lawyers played at FTX, but only somewhat, his judge rules. “I held the hearing yesterday so that I could hear from Mr. Bankman-Fried's mouth what he had to say,” the judge said. “The witness had his shot.” https://www.coindesk.com/...
Financial Times
SBF testifies that he only understood “pieces” of the full financial state of his companies and was “surprised” by FTX's $8B balance-sheet hole in October 2022
Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
2023-09-22
Damoon, a @Tether_to subsidiary in which bitcoin miner @NorthernDataAG acquired a stake, has purchased some $427 million worth of @nvidia chips for generative AI cloud computing, the companies said Thursday. @sndr_krisztian reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
Forbes
Tether spent ~$420M on 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs and a 20% stake in Frankfurt-based bitcoin miner Northern Data, which plans to rent the chips to AI startups
A $40,000 computer chip has become one of the hottest commodities in the tech industry. Startups are scrambling to buy up Nvidia's H100 …
2023-08-12
Frenzied activity around @friendtech has caused newly released layer 2 blockchain @BuildOnBase to overtake @optimismFND in daily active users. Reports @oknightcrypto. https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk :
2023-07-26
. @worldcoin, the crypto-meets-AI project co-founded by @sama, has ambitious plans to create a worldwide basic income based on its own token. Is this how we mitigate the impact of automation, or one big panopticon? @jeffwilser meets the main players. https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
A look at the origins of Worldcoin's eye-scanning orb, how the company is trying to safeguard user privacy, its tokenomics, policy challenges, and more
Jeff Wilser / CoinDesk :
2023-07-08
Tokens $FTM, $MOVR and $DC slumped over 10% despite these networks not being directly impacted by the @MultichainOrg bridge exploit. By @shauryamalwa https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain confirms an exploit impacted $130M in user-supplied tokens and recommends “all users suspend the use of Multichain services”
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk :
2023-07-05
Creditors of bankrupt crypto financial firm Genesis propose $1.5 billion package of forbearance payments and loans denominated in dollars, bitcoin $BTC and ether $ETH, per tweet from Gemini co-founder @cameron https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Cameron Winklevoss makes a $1.465B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert does not agree
Bradley Keoun / CoinDesk :
2023-07-04
Creditors of bankrupt crypto financial firm Genesis propose $1.5 billion package of forbearance payments and loans denominated in dollars, bitcoin $BTC and ether $ETH, per tweet from Gemini co-founder @cameron https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Cameron Winklevoss makes a ~$1.47B “final offer” to DCG CEO Barry Silbert for Genesis' bankruptcy restructuring and threatens lawsuits if Silbert fails to agree
Creditors of the crypto financial firm Genesis propose a package $1.5 billion of forbearance payments and loans denominated …
2023-06-16
Crypto lender @AbraGlobal has been insolvent since at least March 31, 2023, state securities regulators alleged on Thursday. @nikhileshde reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
In a cease-and-desist order, Texas' securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent for months and accuses the company of securities fraud
State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars' worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms.
2023-06-10
As part of @KrakenNFT's public launch, the platform has pledged to include not only blue-chip projects like CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club, but also more affordable collections that can be bought for under $100. @RosiePerper reports: https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Kraken launches Kraken NFT, a marketplace with 250+ NFT collections on the Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon blockchains, after a public beta debut in November 2022
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk :
2023-05-11
The United States IRS has filed $43.8 billion in claims in FTX's ongoing bankruptcy. @0x_tracy reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX's companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda for partnership taxes
Tracy Wang / CoinDesk :
2023-05-08
The bewildering rise of $PEPE is minting giant profits, including a pseudonymous crypto trader who has earned almost 5,000,000% in just three weeks, despite warnings. @sndr_krisztian reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April 2023, has a $1B+ market cap despite concentrated ownership concerns; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into ~$12.8M in profit
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
2023-05-07
The bewildering rise of $PEPE is minting giant profits, including a pseudonymous crypto trader who has earned almost 5,000,000% in just three weeks, despite warnings. @sndr_krisztian reports https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits
A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million …