Event

Event3 relations Solana Memecoin Season 2024In 2024, Solana established itself as the primary platform for memecoin activity. BONK, dogwifhat (WIF) and BOOK OF MEME (BOME) were among the tokens that generated substantial trading… 3 sources Event3 relations Wormhole Bridge ExploitWormhole, a token bridge linking Solana to Ethereum and other networks, suffered an exploit on 2 February 2022. The attacker stole 120,000 wrapped ether (wETH), valued at approximately… 3 sources Event2 relations Bhutan Sovereign Bitcoin Mining HaltedDruk Holding and Investments, the sovereign wealth fund of Bhutan, previously operated a state-run bitcoin mining initiative using the country’s hydroelectric power. On-chain data… 3 sources Event2 relations dYdX v4 launchA new proof-of-stake blockchain, built with the Cosmos SDK and named the dYdX Chain, went live when its validators produced a genesis block on 26 October 2023. This version 4 release… 3 sources Event2 relations Eigencloud LaunchEigen Labs introduced EigenCloud on 17 June 2025, a service that applies EigenLayer’s restaking model to general-purpose verifiability-as-a-service. The platform allows developers to… 3 sources Event2 relations El Salvador Bitcoin Law Reform Under IMF DealEl Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved a revision to its Bitcoin Law in January 2025, following a December 18, 2024 staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a… 3 sources Event2 relations HYPE airdropHyperliquid conducted its HYPE token genesis airdrop on 29 November 2024, distributing approximately 310 million tokens, representing around 31% of the total supply. Allocations were… 2 sources Event2 relations Ronin Bridge $625M HackOn 23 March 2022, attackers removed approximately 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC, valued at around $620–625 million, from the Ronin bridge. The bridge is an Ethereum sidechain developed… 3 sources Event2 relations Van Loon v. Treasury - 5th Circuit overturns Tornado Cash sanctions (2024-11)The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the Treasury Department's sanctions against Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts in the case Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury. On… 1 source Event1 relations Abu Dhabi MGX Invests $2B in BinanceBinance has received a $2 billion minority investment from MGX, an Abu Dhabi-based firm, in what the exchange described as its first institutional funding round since its founding roughly… 3 sources Event1 relations Acala aUSD Depeg ExploitA misconfiguration in Acala's iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool, which had only recently gone live, allowed the creation of unbacked aUSD tokens on the Polkadot network in August 2022. The… 2 sources Event1 relations Bitcoin All-Time High $109,114Bitcoin reached a fresh record price of approximately $109,350 during early trading on January 20, 2025, the same day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th US president. The… 2 sources Event1 relations Bitcoin Crosses $100,000On December 4-5, 2024, bitcoin surpassed $100,000 for the first time, breaking the barrier late on December 4 Eastern Time and climbing further the next day. The milestone followed a steep… 4 sources Event1 relations Bitcoin Hashrate ATH 725 EH/s October 2024In October 2024, the Bitcoin network’s hashrate reached a new record, exceeding 700 exahashes per second for the first time during the week ending October 21, 2024, representing an… 2 sources Event1 relations BlackRock IBIT Reaches $50B AUMBlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) surpassed $50 billion in assets under management approximately eleven months after its January 2024 launch, making it the quickest ETF to achieve… 2 sources Event1 relations CLARITY Act passes HouseOn July 17, 2025, the US House of Representatives approved the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act with a tally of 294 to 134. Every Republican present—216 in total—voted yes,… 3 sources Event1 relations CoW Protocol LaunchGnosis, the organisation behind the Gnosis Chain, first deployed a batch-auction decentralised exchange mechanism called Gnosis Protocol in 2020. An upgraded version, Gnosis Protocol v2,… 3 sources Event1 relations crvUSD LaunchCurve Finance introduced crvUSD, a native stablecoin backed by collateralised debt positions, on Ethereum mainnet on 3 May 2023, with a broader public release on 17 May 2023. Users… 3 sources Event1 relations Curve WarsThe term 'Curve Wars' refers to the rivalry between decentralised finance protocols vying for veCRV tokens, the vote-locked version of Curve's CRV token. Holders of veCRV determine the… 3 sources Event1 relations dYdX v3 sunsetThe StarkEx-based Ethereum layer-2 exchange operated by dYdX Trading, known as dYdX v3, was decommissioned in October 2024 as the firm shifted focus to its own dYdX Chain. On October 28,… 3 sources Event1 relations Eigenlayer Points Farming (2024)From late 2023 through 2024, EigenLayer operated a points-based incentive scheme for restaking, where participants earned points by depositing ETH and liquid staking tokens, widely… 3 sources Event1 relations Eigenlayer Slashing LiveEigenLayer introduced slashing on Ethereum mainnet on April 17, 2025, fulfilling the protocol's intended functionality. The mechanism enables an AVS to specify compliance criteria for its… 3 sources Event1 relations El Salvador Volcano Bond Regulatory ApprovalEl Salvador’s National Commission for Digital Assets (CNAD) granted regulatory approval on December 12, 2023, to the country’s Volcano Bond, a bitcoin-denominated sovereign debt… 3 sources Event1 relations Firedancer Mainnet Beta LaunchJump Crypto's Firedancer, a Solana validator client built from the ground up, aims to improve throughput and client diversity on the network. A hybrid version called Frankendancer,… 2 sources Event1 relations FTX CollapseThe downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange occurred in November 2022. A CoinDesk article had disclosed that Alameda Research, a trading firm linked to the exchange, had its… 2 sources Event1 relations HyperEVM launchThe HyperEVM, an Ethereum Virtual Machine execution environment developed by the Hyper Foundation, launched on mainnet on 18 February 2025. It operates within the same HyperBFT consensus… 2 sources Event1 relations Mango Markets ExploitAvraham Eisenberg extracted approximately $114 million from Mango Markets, a Solana-based decentralised exchange, on 11 October 2022. He used two accounts under his control to trade MNGO… 4 sources Event1 relations Metaplanet Bitcoin Treasury PivotA Tokyo-listed firm that formerly operated in hospitality and technology has pivoted to using Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset. The company, Metaplanet, executed its initial… 2 sources Event1 relations MicroStrategy $21B ATM Equity OfferingMicroStrategy disclosed on 30 October 2024 an at-the-market equity programme to sell up to $21 billion of its Class A common stock on a rolling basis. The initiative constitutes the equity… 3 sources Event1 relations MicroStrategy Joins Nasdaq-100On 13 December 2024, Nasdaq stated that MicroStrategy would be added to the Nasdaq-100 Index as part of its yearly rebalancing. The adjustment takes effect prior to the market open on 23… 3 sources Event1 relations MicroStrategy Stock ATH $543On 21 November 2024, MicroStrategy (MSTR) recorded an intraday peak of $543.00, a new all-time high. This occurred while Bitcoin was approaching fresh record levels and the firm was… 2 sources Event1 relations Nomad Bridge ExploitMore than 300 distinct wallets participated in draining roughly $190 million from the Nomad cross-chain bridge on 1 August 2022, after a contract upgrade inadvertently set a trusted root… 3 sources Event1 relations Penpie $27M HackOn 3 September 2024, Penpie, a yield-boosting protocol built on Pendle, was exploited for approximately $27 million. The attacker leveraged an unprotected pool-registration function to… 2 sources Event1 relations Penpie Exploit (2024)On 3 September 2024, Penpie, a yield-enhancement layer built atop Pendle, suffered an exploit resulting in losses of approximately $27 million. The attacker exploited an unprotected… 2 sources Event1 relations Pump.fun Exceeds $500M Cumulative RevenueAs of February 2025, Pump.fun, a Solana-based platform for launching memecoins, had generated approximately 2.9 million SOL in fees, equivalent to more than $500 million, since its debut… 2 sources Event1 relations Pump.fun LaunchBaton Corporation Ltd, a UK-registered entity, launched Pump.fun on Solana on January 19, 2024. The platform, which enables token creation and trading, was founded by Alon Cohen (publicly… 2 sources Event1 relations Pyth AirdropOn November 1, 2023, Pyth Network, a decentralised oracle for market price data, disclosed a retroactive token distribution of its PYTH token. The claim window opened on November 20, 2023,… 3 sources Event1 relations Radiant Capital Exploit 2024A cross-chain lending platform, Radiant Capital, suffered a theft of approximately $50 million on October 16, 2024. The exploit targeted its multisignature wallet, draining assets from its… 4 sources Event1 relations Record Bitcoin Fees Post-Halving Runes LaunchBitcoin transaction fees remained persistently high for several days after the network's halving on 20 April 2024, driven by heavy minting activity on the Runes protocol, which had just… 3 sources Event1 relations Renzo Depeg (2024)EzETH, the liquid restaking token from Renzo Protocol, temporarily fell to about $688 on Uniswap on April 24, 2024, as it decoupled from ether's value before rebounding. The incident… 3 sources Event1 relations Runes Protocol Launch at HalvingCasey Rodarmor, the developer behind Ordinals, introduced Runes as a fungible token protocol for Bitcoin. First announced in September 2023, the protocol became operational at block… 3 sources Event1 relations SEC v. Kraken (Enforcement Action)The SEC announced on February 9, 2023 that it had settled charges with Payward Ventures, Inc. and Payward Trading, Ltd., the firms behind the Kraken exchange, over their failure to… 2 sources Event1 relations Tether Purchases 8,888 BTC in Q1 2025Tether, the company behind the USDT stablecoin, said it acquired 8,888 bitcoin during the first three months of 2025, at a cost of approximately $735 million. The transfer to its reserve… 2 sources Event1 relations Trader Joe Rebrand to LFJThe Avalanche-based decentralised exchange formerly known as Trader Joe underwent a rebranding in September 2024, adopting the name LFJ, an acronym for "Let's F***ing Joe." Alongside the… 3 sources Event1 relations Trump Signs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Executive OrderAn executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 6, 2025, mandates that bitcoin already seized by the U.S. government through criminal and civil forfeiture proceedings — an… 3 sources Event1 relations Twenty One Capital AnnouncedA new bitcoin-focused entity, Twenty One Capital, was unveiled on April 23, 2025, following a merger with Cantor Equity Partners, a special-purpose acquisition company backed by a Cantor… 3 sources Event1 relations UNI AirdropUniswap introduced its UNI governance token on September 17, 2020, distributing it retroactively via airdrop to over 250,000 addresses that had interacted with the protocol. Addresses that… 3 sources Event1 relations Worldcoin Global LaunchWorldcoin became publicly available on 24 July 2023, after enrolling approximately two million participants during a preliminary testing period. The initiative was established by Sam… 2 sources Event0 relations Avalanche 9000The Etna upgrade brought Avalanche9000 to the Avalanche mainnet on 16 December 2024, marking the protocol's most extensive update. Central to the changes was ACP-77, which reclassified… 2 sources Event0 relations Bitcoin ATH $73,737 March 2024Bitcoin reached a fresh all-time high on 13 March 2024, surpassing $73,000 and eclipsing the prior record from November 2021. The advance was fuelled largely by unprecedented capital flows… 2 sources Event0 relations Blockfi SEC Settlement (2022)BlockFi Lending LLC reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, announced on 14 February 2022, resolving charges related to its BlockFi Interest Accounts. These… 2 sources Event0 relations Brazil ANPD Worldcoin OrderBrazil's national data protection authority, the ANPD, issued an order on 24 January 2025 directing Tools for Humanity, the firm operating the Worldcoin/World iris-scanning identity… 2 sources Event0 relations Certora Secures $196.5B TVL in 2025A formal-verification and smart-contract security company, Certora, released a Year-in-Review report in January 2026 covering its 2025 operations. The firm stated it safeguarded… 2 sources Event0 relations Cftc Tether Settlement 2021The Commodity Futures Trading Commission imposed a $41 million civil monetary penalty on Tether on October 15, 2021, alongside a cease-and-desist directive, stemming from false… 2 sources Event0 relations Circle Launches CCTP v2On March 11, 2025, Circle introduced the second iteration of its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2), deploying it first on Ethereum and Avalanche. The protocol transfers native USDC… 3 sources Event0 relations Circle MiCA EMT licensingCircle disclosed on 1 July 2024 that it had obtained an electronic money institution licence from France's ACPR for its local entity, Circle Mint France (also known as Circle Mint Europe… 3 sources Event0 relations Coinbase S&P 500 InclusionCoinbase Global was added to the S&P 500 index effective May 19, 2025, following an announcement by S&P Dow Jones Indices on May 12, 2025. The company became the first crypto-native firm… 3 sources Event0 relations Digital EuroThe European Central Bank's retail central bank digital currency initiative, the digital euro, advanced on October 30, 2025 when its Governing Council approved progression from the… 2 sources Event0 relations Dot Supply CapIn September 2025, the Polkadot community approved Referendum 1710 via the network's "Wish For Change" mechanism, with roughly 81% support, to replace DOT's unlimited issuance with a fixed… 3 sources Event0 relations Epic Sat Sold Apr 2024The first satoshi mined in a block immediately following a Bitcoin halving is termed an "epic sat"; such outputs are limited in number. The epic sat associated with block 840,000 — the… 3 sources Event0 relations Halving Fee Record 2024 04 20On April 20, 2024, ViaBTC mined block 840,000, which enacted Bitcoin's fourth halving. That block set a record for transaction fees, totaling roughly 37.6 BTC (around $2.4 million), in… 2 sources Event0 relations Halving Fees Normalize Apr 2024Elevated Bitcoin transaction fees that accompanied the April 20, 2024 halving subsided quickly. By April 21, the average fee had dropped to approximately $34.80, following a record near… 2 sources Event0 relations Hashprice Record Low 2024A key metric for Bitcoin miners, hashprice, which measures daily revenue per unit of computing power in dollars per petahash per second, declined to unprecedented levels in 2024. The drop… 2 sources Event0 relations Hodlnaut CollapseSingapore-based crypto lender Hodlnaut suspended customer withdrawals in August 2022 during the broader crypto credit crunch. Interim judicial managers subsequently found the company had… 3 sources Event0 relations HYPE Token AirdropHyperliquid conducted its genesis token distribution for the HYPE token on 29 November 2024. Approximately 310 million HYPE, representing about 31% of the total supply, was allocated to… 2 sources Event0 relations Jam Testnet LaunchThe Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM), which is intended to replace the Polkadot Relay Chain, repositions the network as a distributed computer that executes services across multiple cores. In… 1 source Event0 relations Kelp DAO LayerZero Bridge ExploitOn 18 April 2026, an exploit of Kelp DAO’s rsETH bridge, built on LayerZero, drained approximately $292 million, or 116,500 rsETH. The incident became the largest crypto theft of 2026 at… 4 sources Event0 relations Kenya ODPC Worldcoin SuspensionKenya became the first nation to completely stop Worldcoin's operations after the government ordered a halt in early August 2023. Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki announced the… 2 sources Event0 relations Ledger Recover May 2023The hardware wallet firm Ledger introduced on 16 May 2023 a paid optional subscription called Ledger Recover. The service encrypts a user's seed phrase, divides it into three shards and… 3 sources Event0 relations Merge 2022Ethereum's proof-of-work era ended on 15 September 2022 around 06:43 UTC when the network merged its execution layer with the Beacon Chain consensus layer, completing a shift to… 3 sources Event0 relations Merlin Chain Mainnet Launch February 2024A Bitcoin layer-2 protocol, Merlin Chain, went live with its mainnet in February 2024. This followed a five-day staking event called 'Merlin's Seal', which ran from 5 to 10 February 2024… 3 sources Event0 relations MiCA Phase 1 (ART/EMT) enters into forceFrom 30 June 2024, the first operational phase of the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation took effect. This stage, comprising Titles III and IV, focuses on… 3 sources Event0 relations MiCA Phase 2 (CASP) enters into forceOn 30 December 2024, the second stage of the European Union's MiCA regulation came into force, six months following the entry into effect of the stablecoin provisions. From this date, the… 3 sources Event0 relations OpenSea SEC Wells NoticeThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its probe into OpenSea without filing charges, months after the NFT marketplace disclosed it had received a Wells notice. In late… 2 sources Event0 relations Orthogonal DefaultCredit trading outfit Orthogonal Default failed to repay approximately $36 million in borrowings across eight facilities on the DeFi lending platform Maple Finance in early December 2022.… 2 sources Event0 relations Pendle Boros Launch (2025)A new derivatives venue called Boros went live on Arbitrum on 6 August 2025, built by the Pendle team. The platform applies Pendle’s yield-tokenisation approach to perpetual futures… 2 sources Event0 relations Pendle Vependle Governance LaunchPendle introduced vePENDLE, a vote-escrowed governance token, as part of its V2 upgrade on 29 November 2022. The mechanism follows Curve's veCRV framework: holders lock PENDLE for a… 2 sources Event0 relations Phala Eth MigrationPhala Network, a confidential-computing protocol that initially operated as a parachain on Polkadot, has transitioned its activities to an Ethereum layer-2 network. The migration unfolded… 2 sources Event0 relations Pyusd Solana Launch 2024PayPal stated on May 29, 2024 that PYUSD became available on the Solana blockchain, marking the stablecoin's second network following its initial deployment on Ethereum in August 2023. The… 3 sources Event0 relations Ribbon Finance rebrands to AevoThe structured-products protocol Ribbon Finance has been absorbed into Aevo, an options and perpetual futures exchange developed by the same team on an Optimism-stack layer-2 rollup. A… 3 sources Event0 relations Runes Fee Spike Halving DayThe activation of Casey Rodarmor’s Runes protocol coincided with Bitcoin’s fourth halving at block 840,000 on 20 April 2024. Competition to mint runes in that block made it the costliest… 3 sources Event0 relations Sec Crypto Task Force 2025On January 21, 2025, Acting SEC Chairman Mark T. Uyeda established a Crypto Task Force aimed at creating a coherent regulatory regime for digital assets. Commissioner Hester Peirce, who… 3 sources Event0 relations SEC v. Binance dismissed/settled 2025The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Binance filed a joint motion on May 29, 2025, to terminate the regulator's civil lawsuit in the District of Columbia federal court. The case… 3 sources Event0 relations Stripe Bridge Acquisition 2024On October 20, 2024, Stripe disclosed its purchase of Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure provider, for $1.1 billion. This transaction set a record as both Stripe's largest-ever… 3 sources Event0 relations Terra Luna Collapse (2022)The Terra blockchain ecosystem suffered a catastrophic failure in May 2022. Its algorithmic stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST), lost its dollar peg on 7 May 2022. The stablecoin's mechanism relied… 3 sources Event0 relations The Merge 2022Ethereum's consensus mechanism shifted from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake on September 15, 2022 at 06:43 UTC, an event known as The Merge. The Beacon Chain, which went live in December… 3 sources Event0 relations Unichain MainnetUniswap Labs introduced Unichain, its proprietary Ethereum layer-2 network, to mainnet on February 11, 2025, following a testnet phase initiated in October 2024. The network functions as… 2 sources Event0 relations US Spot Bitcoin ETF SEC ApprovalThe US Securities and Exchange Commission authorised eleven spot bitcoin exchange-traded products on 10 January 2024, a reversal from its rejection of over twenty similar filings in the… 2 sources Event0 relations Vauld BankruptcyVauld, a crypto lending and trading platform headquartered in Singapore, ceased operations during the credit crisis that affected digital assets in 2022. On 4 July 2022 it halted all… 3 sources Event0 relations Wormhole HackOn 2 February 2022, the Wormhole token bridge — linking Solana to Ethereum and other networks — was drained of 120,000 wrapped ether (wETH), valued at approximately $320 million at the… 3 sources Event0 relations Zellic Acquires Code4renaBlockchain security company Zellic completed its first acquisition in August 2024, purchasing Code4rena, a competitive smart-contract auditing platform backed by Paradigm. The acquisition… 3 sources