This week, Telegram cofounder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France and is under investigation for charges relating to criminal activity on the platform he created (CNN), Maker rebrands to Sky, with DAI rebranding to USDS (Blockworks).

August 30, 2024

This week, IP blockchain, Story Protocol raises $80 million at $2.25 billion valuation in round led by a16z (CoinDesk), the SEC rejected Cboe’s filings for SOL ETFs (The Block).

August 24, 2024

This week, crypto risk management startup Chaos Labs raises $55m Series A (Coindesk), El Salvador gets $1.6bn investment from Turkish company that will support the build out of Bitcoin City (Decrypt).

August 16, 2024

This week, Ripple Labs ordered to pay $125 million in settlement with the SEC (Yahoo Finance), Celsius sues Tether for $2.4 billion (Tether).

August 10, 2024

This week, Russia passed a bill to legalize crypto to dodge international sanctions (Reuters), Lido launches "Lido Institutional", a middleware solution for enterprise level staking (X/LidoFinance).

August 2, 2024

This week, Igloo Inc, company behind Pudgy Penguins, raises 11m in round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund (Axios), Ferrari to start accepting crypto payments in Europe (Ferrari).

July 27, 2024

This week, newly announced “Solana Economic Zone” to be hosted in Buenos Aires (X/FormaCity), Sanctum, Solana liquid staking application, launches much anticipated $CLOUD at $300m FDV (X/SanctumSo)

July 19, 2024

This week, Coinbase announces new crypto wallet super-app, ETH CC conference attendees report a mixture of optimism, fragmentation, and boredom, and the US House failed to override the SAB 121 veto (The Block).

July 12, 2024

This week, ‘Decentralized’ AI network Bittensor halted in response to $8M hack (Protos), Multicoin Pledges up to $1M for Pro-Crypto Senate Candidates (Coindesk)

July 6, 2024

This week, Coinbase accuses the SEC and FDIC for improperly blocking document requests (Coindesk), Vitalik Buterin backs new blockchain MegaETH which raises $20 million at '9-figure' token valuation (TheBlock).

June 29, 2024

This week, Pantera Capital seeks to raise funds for second TON investment (The Block), US Congressman discloses purchase of VELO tokens (X/PelosiTracker_).

June 22, 2024

This week, Paradigm announces a new $850mm fund to invest in early-stage blockchain startups (Bloomberg), ether ETFs could start trading as soon as the end of the summer (Axios), MicroStrategy raises another $700m in latest convertible note offering (Coindesk).

June 14, 2024