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Event3 relations Solana Memecoin Season 20242024 was the year Solana became the dominant venue for memecoin trading. Tokens such as BONK, dogwifhat (WIF) and BOOK OF MEME (BOME) drove enormous volume — WIF reached a peak market… — Event3 relations Wormhole Bridge $325M HackOn 2 February 2022 the Wormhole token bridge, which connects Solana with Ethereum and other chains, was exploited for 120,000 wrapped ether (wETH), worth roughly $320 million at the time.… — Event2 relations Bhutan Sovereign Bitcoin Mining HaltedBhutan's sovereign wealth fund, Druk Holding and Investments, ran a state bitcoin mining programme powered by the kingdom's hydroelectricity. Reporting in April 2026, based on on-chain… — Event2 relations dYdX v4 launchdYdX v4 launched as the dYdX Chain, a standalone Cosmos SDK proof-of-stake blockchain, when validators produced its genesis block on October 26, 2023. The move took dYdX off StarkEx, the… — Event2 relations Eigencloud LaunchEigen Labs launched EigenCloud on June 17, 2025, a platform extending EigenLayer's restaking security into a general "verifiability-as-a-service" offering that lets developers run… — Event2 relations El Salvador Bitcoin Law Reform Under IMF DealOn December 18, 2024 the IMF announced a staff-level agreement with El Salvador on a roughly $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility arrangement. Securing the deal required El Salvador to… — Event2 relations HYPE airdropThe HYPE genesis airdrop was Hyperliquid's token launch distribution, executed on 29 November 2024. Roughly 310 million HYPE — about 31% of total supply — was distributed to users based on… — Event2 relations Ronin Bridge $625M HackOn March 23, 2022, attackers drained roughly 173,600 ETH and 25.5 million USDC — about $620–625 million — from the Ronin bridge, the Ethereum sidechain built by Sky Mavis to power the game… — Event2 relations Van Loon v. Treasury - 5th Circuit overturns Tornado Cash sanctions (2024-11)Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury is the case in which the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned OFAC's sanctioning of Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts. Six… — Event1 relations Abu Dhabi MGX Invests $2B in BinanceIn March 2025, Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX announced a $2 billion investment in Binance for a minority stake — Binance's first institutional funding round in its roughly eight-year… — Event1 relations Acala aUSD Depeg ExploitIn August 2022 Acala's aUSD stablecoin, on the Polkadot ecosystem, lost its dollar peg after a misconfiguration in the newly launched iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool allowed enormous quantities… — Event1 relations Bitcoin All-Time High $109,114On January 20, 2025 — the day of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President — Bitcoin set a new all-time high of about $109,350 in early trading. The price then reversed during… — Event1 relations Bitcoin Crosses $100,000Bitcoin traded above $100,000 for the first time in its history on December 4-5, 2024, crossing the mark late on December 4 US Eastern time and continuing higher the following day. The… — Event1 relations Bitcoin Hashrate ATH 725 EH/s October 2024Bitcoin's network hashrate set new all-time highs in October 2024, surpassing 700 EH/s for the first time in the week to October 21, 2024, a roughly 6% weekly increase. Mining difficulty… — Event1 relations BlackRock IBIT Reaches $50B AUMBlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which launched in January 2024, crossed $50 billion in assets under management within roughly eleven months of listing — the fastest any ETF had… — Event1 relations CLARITY Act passes HouseThe Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act passed the US House of Representatives on July 17, 2025, by a vote of 294 to 134, with all 216 voting Republicans in favour and 78 Democrats… — Event1 relations CoW Protocol LaunchCoW Protocol began life as Gnosis Protocol, a batch-auction based decentralised trading mechanism launched by Gnosis in 2020. Gnosis Protocol v2 went live in April 2021, adding a solver… — Event1 relations crvUSD LaunchCurve Finance deployed crvUSD, its native collateralised-debt-position stablecoin, on Ethereum mainnet on May 3, 2023, with a wider public launch following on May 17, 2023. Users mint… — Event1 relations Curve WarsThe "Curve Wars" is the name given to the competition among DeFi protocols to accumulate veCRV — the vote-escrowed form of Curve's CRV token — because veCRV holders direct where Curve's… — Event1 relations dYdX v3 sunsetdYdX Trading wound down its v3 perpetuals platform, the StarkEx-based Ethereum layer-2 exchange, in October 2024 in favour of the standalone dYdX Chain. Trading, oracle price updates and… — Event1 relations Eigenlayer Points Farming (2024)Through late 2023 and 2024 EigenLayer ran a restaking "points" programme in which depositors accrued points for restaking ETH and liquid staking tokens, widely assumed to be a precursor to… — Event1 relations Eigenlayer Slashing LiveEigenLayer activated slashing on Ethereum mainnet on April 17, 2025, completing the protocol's original design. Slashing lets an AVS define conditions its operators must meet and penalise… — Event1 relations El Salvador Volcano Bond Regulatory ApprovalEl Salvador's Volcano Bond — a bitcoin-backed sovereign debt instrument first announced in November 2021 and originally planned for issuance in March 2022 — received regulatory approval… — Event1 relations Firedancer Mainnet Beta LaunchFiredancer is an independent Solana validator client written from scratch by Jump Crypto to increase the network's throughput and client diversity. Its hybrid intermediate release,… — Event1 relations FTX CollapseThe FTX collapse was the November 2022 failure of Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange, triggered after a CoinDesk report revealed that affiliated trading firm Alameda Research held… — Event1 relations HyperEVM launchHyperEVM is Hyperliquid's Ethereum Virtual Machine execution environment, which went live on mainnet on 18 February 2025 following an announcement by the Hyper Foundation. Rather than… — Event1 relations Mango Markets ExploitOn 11 October 2022, Avraham Eisenberg drained roughly $114 million from Mango Markets, a Solana-based DeFi trading platform, by using two accounts he controlled to trade MNGO perpetual… — Event1 relations Metaplanet Bitcoin Treasury PivotMetaplanet, a Tokyo-listed company previously focused on hospitality and technology, adopted Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset in April 2024, making its first BTC purchase that month.… — Event1 relations MicroStrategy $21B ATM Equity OfferingOn 30 October 2024 MicroStrategy announced an at-the-market equity offering programme allowing it to issue and sell up to $21 billion of Class A common stock over time. The programme… — Event1 relations MicroStrategy Joins Nasdaq-100Nasdaq announced on 13 December 2024 that MicroStrategy would join the Nasdaq-100 Index in its annual reconstitution, with the change effective before the open on 23 December 2024. It was… — Event1 relations MicroStrategy Stock ATH $543MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares reached an intraday all-time high of $543.00 on 21 November 2024, during a period when Bitcoin was rallying toward new records and the company was aggressively… — Event1 relations Nomad Bridge ExploitOn 1 August 2022 the Nomad cross-chain bridge lost about $190 million after a contract upgrade left a trusted root set to zero, letting the bridge accept withdrawal messages that had never… — Event1 relations Penpie $27M HackThe Penpie hack refers to the 3 September 2024 exploit of Penpie, a Pendle-based yield-boosting protocol, which lost roughly $27 million. The attacker exploited an unprotected… — Event1 relations Penpie Exploit (2024)Penpie, a yield-boosting protocol built on top of Pendle, was exploited on 3 September 2024 for roughly $27 million. The attacker used an unguarded registerPenpiePool function to register… — Event1 relations Pump.fun Exceeds $500M Cumulative RevenueBy February 2025, Pump.fun — the Solana memecoin launchpad — had accumulated roughly 2.9 million SOL in fees, worth over $500 million, since launching in 2024. Revenue comes mainly from… — Event1 relations Pump.fun LaunchPump.fun launched on January 19, 2024 as a token-creation and trading platform on Solana, operated by UK-registered Baton Corporation Ltd. Its co-founders are Alon Cohen (public-facing as… — Event1 relations Pyth AirdropPyth Network, a decentralised oracle providing market price data, announced a retrospective airdrop of its PYTH token on November 1, 2023, with claiming opening on November 20, 2023 and… — Event1 relations Radiant Capital Exploit 2024On October 16, 2024, the cross-chain lending protocol Radiant Capital lost roughly $50 million after attackers compromised its multisignature wallet, draining funds from its markets on BNB… — Event1 relations Record Bitcoin Fees Post-Halving Runes LaunchIn the days immediately following Bitcoin's April 20, 2024 halving, transaction fees stayed unusually elevated as minting activity on the newly launched Runes protocol continued. Runes… — Event1 relations Renzo Depeg (2024)On April 24, 2024, ezETH — the liquid restaking token issued by Renzo Protocol — lost its peg to ether, briefly trading as low as roughly $688 on Uniswap before recovering. The drop… — Event1 relations Runes Protocol Launch at HalvingRunes is a fungible token protocol for Bitcoin created by Casey Rodarmor, who also created Ordinals. Announced in September 2023, it went live at block 840,000 on April 20, 2024 — the same… — Event1 relations SEC v. Kraken (Enforcement Action)On February 9, 2023 the SEC announced settled charges against Payward Ventures, Inc. and Payward Trading, Ltd. — the entities operating the Kraken exchange — for failing to register the… — Event1 relations Tether Purchases 8,888 BTC in Q1 2025Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, disclosed the purchase of 8,888 BTC — worth roughly $735 million — during the first quarter of 2025, with the transfer to its reserve wallet… — Event1 relations Trader Joe Rebrand to LFJIn September 2024, Trader Joe — the Avalanche-native decentralised exchange — rebranded as LFJ ("Let's F***ing Joe"). The change included a redesigned mascot, an updated token logo and… — Event1 relations Trump Signs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Executive OrderOn March 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14233, "Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile." The order directs that… — Event1 relations Twenty One Capital AnnouncedTwenty One Capital was announced on April 23, 2025 as a bitcoin-native company formed through a business combination with Cantor Equity Partners, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor… — Event1 relations UNI AirdropOn September 17, 2020, Uniswap launched its UNI governance token and retroactively airdropped it to more than 250,000 addresses that had previously used the protocol. Every address that… — Event1 relations Worldcoin Global LaunchWorldcoin publicly launched on 24 July 2023, having already signed up around two million users during a beta phase. Co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with Alex Blania and Max Novendstern… — Event0 relations Avalanche 9000Avalanche9000, activated on the Avalanche mainnet on 16 December 2024 through the Etna upgrade, was the network's largest upgrade to date. Its centrepiece, ACP-77, converted Subnets into… — Event0 relations Bitcoin ATH $73,737 March 2024On 13 March 2024 bitcoin set a new all-time high above $73,000, breaking the previous record set in November 2021. The rally was driven mainly by record inflows into the US spot bitcoin… — Event0 relations Blockfi SEC Settlement (2022)On 14 February 2022 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against BlockFi Lending LLC over its BlockFi Interest Accounts (BIAs), retail products that paid… — Event0 relations Brazil ANPD Worldcoin OrderOn 24 January 2025 Brazil's national data protection authority, the ANPD, ordered Tools for Humanity — the company behind the Worldcoin/World iris-scanning identity project — to stop… — Event0 relations Certora Secures $196.5B TVL in 2025Certora, a formal-verification and smart-contract security firm, published a 2025 Year-in-Review report stating it helped secure about $196.5 billion in DeFi total value locked over the… — Event0 relations Cftc Tether Settlement 2021On October 15, 2021, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered Tether to pay a $41 million civil penalty and issued a cease-and-desist order over misleading claims that its USDT… — Event0 relations Circle Launches CCTP v2Circle launched version 2 of its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2) on March 11, 2025, initially on Ethereum and Avalanche. CCTP moves native USDC between blockchains by burning it on… — Event0 relations Circle MiCA EMT licensingOn July 1, 2024, Circle announced it had become the first global stablecoin issuer to comply with the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. Compliance followed the… — Event0 relations Coinbase S&P 500 InclusionS&P Dow Jones Indices announced on May 12, 2025 that Coinbase Global would join the S&P 500, and the stock was added to the index effective May 19, 2025. Coinbase became the first… — Event0 relations Digital EuroThe digital euro is the European Central Bank's project for a retail central bank digital currency for the euro area. Its preparation phase ran from November 2023 to October 2025, when the… —
7 wire mentions Event0 relations Dot Supply CapThe Polkadot DAO voted to end DOT's unlimited issuance and impose a hard cap of 2.1 billion tokens by passing Referendum 1710 on the network's "Wish For Change" track, with roughly 81% in… — Event0 relations Epic Sat Sold Apr 2024An "epic sat" is the first satoshi of the first block mined after a Bitcoin halving; only a handful exist. The epic sat from block 840,000 — the fourth halving block, mined by the ViaBTC… — Event0 relations Halving Fee Record 2024 04 20Block 840,000, mined by the ViaBTC pool on April 20, 2024 and the block that triggered Bitcoin's fourth halving, set an all-time record for transaction fees in a single block: roughly 37.6… — Event0 relations Halving Fees Normalize Apr 2024The extreme Bitcoin fee levels seen at the April 20, 2024 halving proved short-lived. The average transaction fee fell to about $34.80 on April 21, 2024, down from a record of roughly… — Event0 relations Hashprice Record Low 2024Hashprice — the revenue a miner earns per unit of hashrate, usually quoted in dollars per petahash per second per day — fell to record lows during 2024 after Bitcoin's April halving cut… — Event0 relations Hodlnaut CollapseHodlnaut was a Singapore-based crypto lending platform that froze customer withdrawals in August 2022 amid the wider crypto credit crisis. Its interim judicial managers later reported that… — Event0 relations HYPE Token AirdropHyperliquid's 2024 HYPE airdrop refers to the protocol's genesis token distribution on 29 November 2024. About 310 million HYPE — roughly 31% of total supply — was allocated to more than… — Event0 relations Jam Testnet LaunchJAM (the Join-Accumulate Machine) is the proposed successor architecture to Polkadot's Relay Chain, reframing the network as a distributed computer running services across many cores. The… — Event0 relations Kelp DAO LayerZero Bridge ExploitOn 18 April 2026 Kelp DAO's LayerZero-based rsETH bridge was exploited for roughly $292 million (about 116,500 rsETH), making it the largest crypto exploit of 2026 at the time. It was not… — Event0 relations Kenya ODPC Worldcoin SuspensionIn early August 2023 the Kenyan government suspended Worldcoin's activities in the country, making Kenya the first country to fully halt the project's operations. Interior Cabinet… — Event0 relations Ledger Recover May 2023On 16 May 2023 hardware wallet maker Ledger announced Ledger Recover, an optional paid subscription that encrypts a user's seed, splits it into three shards and stores them with three… — Event0 relations Merge 2022The Merge was Ethereum's transition from proof-of-work mining to proof-of-stake consensus, completed on 15 September 2022 at approximately 06:43 UTC. It joined the existing Ethereum… — Event0 relations Merlin Chain Mainnet Launch February 2024Merlin Chain, a Bitcoin layer-2 network, launched its mainnet in February 2024 following a five-day 'Merlin's Seal' fair-launch staking event held 5–10 February 2024. The chain grew… — Event0 relations MiCA Phase 1 (ART/EMT) enters into forceThe EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) entered into force on 29 June 2023 with a phased application timetable. Its first application phase — Titles III and IV, covering… — Event0 relations MiCA Phase 2 (CASP) enters into forceThe second application phase of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) took effect on 30 December 2024, six months after the stablecoin rules. From that date the full… — Event0 relations OpenSea SEC Wells NoticeIn late August 2024 NFT marketplace OpenSea disclosed that it had received a Wells notice from the SEC, indicating staff intended to recommend enforcement action on the theory that NFTs… — Event0 relations Orthogonal DefaultIn early December 2022 credit trading firm Orthogonal Trading defaulted on roughly $36 million of loans across eight positions on the DeFi lending protocol Maple Finance — about $31… — Event0 relations Pendle Boros Launch (2025)Boros is Pendle's funding-rate derivatives venue, launched on 6 August 2025 on Arbitrum. It extends Pendle's yield-tokenisation model from staking yields to perpetual futures funding… — Event0 relations Pendle Vependle Governance LaunchvePENDLE is Pendle's vote-escrow governance token, introduced with the launch of Pendle V2 on 29 November 2022. Modelled on Curve's veCRV design, it requires users to lock PENDLE for a… — Event0 relations Phala Eth MigrationPhala Network, a confidential-computing project originally built as a Polkadot parachain, moved its operations to an Ethereum layer 2. Migration phases began in October 2024 and Phala's… — Event0 relations Pyusd Solana Launch 2024On May 29, 2024, PayPal announced that PYUSD was live on the Solana blockchain, its second chain after the original August 2023 Ethereum launch. The announcement was made at Consensus… — Event0 relations Ribbon Finance rebrands to AevoRibbon Finance, a DeFi structured-products protocol, folded itself into Aevo, the options and perpetual futures exchange spun out by the same team and built as an Optimism-stack layer-2… — Event0 relations Runes Fee Spike Halving DayBitcoin's fourth halving occurred at block 840,000 on April 20, 2024, the same block at which Casey Rodarmor's Runes protocol activated. The race to mint runes in the halving block made it… — Event0 relations Sec Crypto Task Force 2025On January 21, 2025, SEC Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda announced the formation of a Crypto Task Force to develop a clear regulatory framework for crypto assets, with Commissioner Hester… — Event0 relations SEC v. Binance dismissed/settled 2025On May 29, 2025 the SEC and Binance jointly moved to dismiss the agency's civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the case was dismissed with… — Event0 relations Stripe Bridge Acquisition 2024On October 20, 2024, Stripe announced it was acquiring Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure company, for $1.1 billion — the largest acquisition in Stripe's history and, at the time, the… — Event0 relations Terra Luna Collapse (2022)The Terra/LUNA collapse of May 2022 was one of the largest failures in crypto history. TerraUSD (UST) lost its dollar peg beginning May 7, 2022; because the peg was defended by minting… — Event0 relations The Merge 2022The Merge was Ethereum's transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake consensus, completed on September 15, 2022 at 06:43 UTC. It joined the existing Ethereum mainnet, which became the… — Event0 relations Unichain MainnetUniswap Labs launched Unichain, its own Ethereum layer-2 network, on mainnet on February 11, 2025, after a testnet phase that began in October 2024. Unichain is an optimistic rollup built… — Event0 relations US Spot Bitcoin ETF SEC ApprovalOn 10 January 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission approved eleven spot bitcoin exchange-traded products, reversing course after denying more than twenty such applications over… — Event0 relations Vauld BankruptcyVauld was a Singapore-based crypto lending and trading platform that collapsed during the 2022 crypto credit crisis. On 4 July 2022 it suspended all withdrawals, trading and deposits, and… — Event0 relations Wormhole HackOn 2 February 2022 the Wormhole token bridge, which connects Solana with Ethereum and other chains, was exploited for 120,000 wrapped ether (wETH), worth roughly $320 million at the time.… — Event0 relations Zellic Acquires Code4renaIn August 2024 blockchain security firm Zellic acquired Code4rena, the Paradigm-backed competitive smart-contract auditing platform. It was Zellic's first acquisition, and the stated… —