Spot Bitcoin ETFs Approved After a Decade-Long Fight
The SEC cleared eleven spot Bitcoin ETFs for trading, ending years of denials and unlocking the most consequential structural change in Bitcoin's market history.
Maya Reyes//Jan 11, 2024//5m
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Bitcoin's Fourth Halving Cuts the Block Reward to 3.125 BTC
The protocol's pre-programmed issuance cut activated at block 840,000, slowing daily issuance to roughly 450 BTC and tightening miner economics overnight.
Daniel Otieno//Apr 20, 2024//4m
Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade Lands With Blobs, L2 Fees Crash
The largest upgrade since the Merge introduced EIP-4844 'blob' transactions, immediately collapsing rollup transaction fees by an order of magnitude.
Theo Schmid//Mar 13, 2024//5m
Spot Ether ETFs Begin Trading After SEC's Surprise Pivot
U.S. spot Ether ETFs from BlackRock, Fidelity, Bitwise, Franklin and Grayscale began trading after the SEC reversed course earlier in the year, though early flows are notably cooler than Bitcoin's.
Ava Sundberg//Jul 23, 2024//4m
Solana's Firedancer Client Activates on Mainnet
After three years of development, Jump Crypto's independent validator client started producing blocks on mainnet, beginning Solana's slow march toward real client diversity.
Idris Yamamoto//Dec 12, 2024//5m
Bitcoin Crosses $100,000 for the First Time
The round-number milestone fell in a single overnight session, less than two months after the U.S. election results re-priced the macro and regulatory backdrop.
Maya Reyes//Dec 5, 2024//4m
Hashdex and Franklin Templeton Win First Combo BTC/ETH ETFs
The SEC quietly approved the first U.S. ETPs holding both spot Bitcoin and spot Ether in a single basket, with launches scheduled for January.
Ava Sundberg//Dec 20, 2024//4m
Bitwise Joins the Combo BTC+ETH ETF Race
The third U.S.-approved Bitcoin-and-Ether ETF launches on the NYSE, this time from Bitwise, signaling a thaw in regulatory posture under the new administration.
Helena Cross//Jan 30, 2025//4m
Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade Ships, Changing Staking Economics
Pectra activated at epoch 364,032 with eleven EIPs, lifting the validator balance ceiling to 2,048 ETH, doubling blob throughput, and unlocking account abstraction primitives.
Theo Schmid//May 7, 2025//6m
SEC Approves In-Kind Creation/Redemption for Crypto ETPs
The agency cleared in-kind creates and redeems for spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, eliminating an awkward cash-only friction that issuers have flagged since launch.
Ava Sundberg//Jul 29, 2025//4m
Solana Validators Approve Alpenglow Finality Upgrade
More than 98% of voting stake backed Alpenglow, an overhaul that targets sub-second finality and dramatically reworks Solana's consensus mechanics.
Idris Yamamoto//Sep 22, 2025//5m
Bitcoin Pushes Past $126,000, Setting a Fresh All-Time High
Sustained ETF inflows and a softer dollar combined to push Bitcoin to a new cycle peak, extending its rally to more than 30% above the December 2024 highs.
Maya Reyes//Oct 7, 2025//5m
Spot Solana ETFs Begin Trading on NYSE Arca
Seven issuers including Bitwise, VanEck, Fidelity, Grayscale, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares and Canary launched products giving investors regulated SOL exposure in a single ticker.
Ava Sundberg//Oct 28, 2025//5m
Spot XRP ETFs Pull $58M Day-One Volume on Debut
Canary Capital's XRPC became the largest U.S. ETF launch of 2025 by day-one volume, beating even Bitwise's Solana product, in a clear sign of pent-up XRP demand.
Ava Sundberg//Nov 13, 2025//4m
Strategy's CEO Floats 'Bitcoin Winter' Risk in Reset Memo
Phong Le acknowledged on a podcast that a multi-quarter price freeze remains a real possibility — a notable change of tone from the firm's usual unalloyed bullishness.
Helena Cross//Nov 18, 2025//5m
The Post-Halving Supply Shock Finally Shows Up On-Chain
Twelve months after the fourth halving, exchange balances have collapsed and long-term holder accumulation is back near record levels.
Daniel Otieno//Apr 20, 2025//5m
The 'Bitcoin Treasury' Strategy Spawns a Wave of Public Imitators
More than a dozen smaller listed companies have rebranded around large Bitcoin holdings, hoping to capture the equity premium MicroStrategy turned into a category.
Helena Cross//Aug 14, 2025//6m
Layer-2 Fees Collapse as Blob Throughput Finally Clears Demand
Post-Pectra blob expansion has dropped median rollup transaction costs below one cent across the largest L2s.
Priya Sundaram//Jun 12, 2025//5m
Restaking TVL Passes a Key Milestone, but Systemic Risk Questions Linger
EigenLayer-style protocols now secure tens of billions in restaked ETH, raising fresh concerns from researchers about correlated slashing.
Anya Verma//Sep 4, 2025//6m
Bitcoin's Inverse Correlation With the Dollar Hits a 4-Year Extreme
The 30-day correlation between BTC and the U.S. Dollar Index touched -0.90 this month, the most extreme level since 2022, as macro dominates crypto-specific drivers.
James Thornton//Apr 22, 2026//5m
Aave Labs Wins MiCA Approval, Push GHO Ramps Go Live
The Central Bank of Ireland authorized Aave Labs' fiat-to-crypto subsidiary, enabling zero-fee euro conversions for GHO and other supported stablecoins.
Olivia Chen//Sep 25, 2025//5m
PENGU Token Airdrop Lands on Solana
The Pudgy Penguins token launched on Solana with an 88.8 billion-coin supply, marking one of the largest IP-aligned NFT-to-token distributions in crypto history.
Lena Park//Dec 17, 2024//4m
Magic Eden Acquires Slingshot Memecoin App
The acquisition extends Magic Eden's strategic move beyond NFTs into broader 'crypto entertainment,' with token trading and packs as core verticals.
Jordan Kim//Apr 15, 2025//5m
Magic Eden Launches Pokémon Card Packs Platform
The marketplace's first crypto-entertainment product offers tokenized digital packs containing physical Pokémon cards, opening a new on-chain collectibles category.
Lena Park//Jun 4, 2025//5m
CryptoPunks Floor Holds Even As Other Blue Chips Bleed
The collection that essentially invented the NFT category has shown striking relative stability while peers have lost 80–95% from cycle peaks.
Jordan Kim//Feb 25, 2025//5m
Magic Eden Launches 'Dicey' Crypto Casino and Sportsbook
The marketplace formally entered crypto gambling with a vertically integrated casino product, completing its pivot away from a pure NFT focus.
Theresa Volkov//Nov 4, 2025//5m
Solana Saga Phone NFT Holders Keep Getting Drops
The original Solana Saga handset — distributed at a loss in 2023 — has produced one of the highest-return on-chain consumer experiments in crypto history.
Lena Park//Jan 30, 2025//5m
Bitcoin Plunges on Trump Tariff Announcement
Crypto and equities fell together after the administration unveiled sweeping tariffs, sending BTC down nearly 15% in a single 48-hour stretch.
James Thornton//Apr 9, 2025//5m
Standard Chartered Cuts Bitcoin Forecast Below $100k
The bank's crypto research desk, long an aggressive bull, formally cut its year-end target to below the round number, citing macro headwinds.
Helena Cross//Oct 30, 2025//5m
AI-Stock Crypto Correlation Climbs Amid Bubble Fears
The correlation between Bitcoin and a basket of large AI stocks has reached multi-year highs, with both responding to the same Fed-and-bubble-risk narrative.
James Thornton//Oct 14, 2025//5m
Crypto VC Funding Returns After Multi-Year Drought
Quarterly venture investment in crypto startups has crossed $4 billion for the first time since 2022, led by infrastructure, payments, and stablecoin-rail bets.
Theresa Volkov//Oct 8, 2025//5m
Coinbase Quarterly Earnings Show Trading Revenue Rebound
The largest U.S. crypto exchange's Q3 earnings beat estimates on a sharp recovery in retail trading volumes, with derivatives and custody emerging as quietly significant revenue lines.
Theresa Volkov//Nov 8, 2025//5m
CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate Banking Committee
Repeatedly cancelled markup sessions and a narrow Senate calendar have raised real doubts about whether comprehensive crypto market structure legislation can pass before the 2026 midterms.
Marcus Webb//Mar 18, 2026//5m
Trump Crypto Executive Order Establishes Strategic Working Group
The early-2025 executive order created an inter-agency working group on digital asset policy and explicitly disavowed any U.S. CBDC.
Marcus Webb//Jan 23, 2025//5m
MiCA's Second Phase Takes Effect, European Issuers Feel the Squeeze
The full Markets in Crypto-Assets framework entered into force on January 1, 2025, completing a multi-year rollout and forcing widespread CASP licensing.
Sofia Marchetti//Jan 2, 2025//5m
Tornado Cash Developer Conviction Overturned on Appeal
An appeals court overturned key parts of the conviction against a Tornado Cash developer, narrowing federal money-transmission liability for open-source crypto contributors.
Marcus Webb//Aug 13, 2025//5m
SEC Drops Cases Against Multiple Major Crypto Firms in 2025 Reset
Under new leadership, the SEC formally dismissed enforcement actions against Consensys, Robinhood Crypto, Uniswap Labs, and several other prominent industry firms.
Marcus Webb//Mar 8, 2025//5m
CFTC Asserts Jurisdiction Over Spot Crypto Markets
Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham testified that the agency stands ready to assume primary jurisdiction over digital commodity spot markets if the CLARITY Act passes.
Marcus Webb//Sep 17, 2025//5m
Singapore MAS Tightens Crypto Marketing Rules
The Monetary Authority of Singapore expanded restrictions on retail crypto promotion, banning influencer endorsements and requiring tighter risk-disclosure standards.
Sofia Marchetti//Jun 9, 2025//5m
India's Crypto TDS Burden Drives Volume Offshore
Three years after India imposed a 1% transaction-deducted-at-source rate on crypto trades, the bulk of Indian retail crypto activity has migrated to offshore venues.
Sofia Marchetti//May 22, 2025//5m
The Real Scaling Frontier Is User Experience, Not TPS
Crypto has spent a decade optimizing the wrong metric. Throughput is solved at the protocol level. The hard problem now is consumer experience, and we're losing that race.
Quinn Bradley//Jun 25, 2025//6m
Account Abstraction Is the First Real Opt-Out From Wallets-as-Crypto
EIP-7702 isn't just a technical upgrade. It's the first credible path to letting users transact on-chain without ever thinking about a wallet.
Quinn Bradley//May 21, 2025//5m
The Case Against a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Even crypto-friendly observers should be skeptical of putting a volatile speculative asset on the federal balance sheet, regardless of which side benefits politically.
James Thornton//Apr 4, 2025//6m
Crypto Has an AI Problem and Doesn't Want to Talk About It
The rapid rise of AI agents creates several first-order risks for crypto's market structure that the industry has notably underdiscussed.
Sofia Marchetti//Nov 13, 2025//6m
The CLARITY Act Won't Save Crypto From Itself
Even if the bill passes, it addresses only one specific source of regulatory dysfunction. The industry's other self-inflicted problems will not solve themselves.
Marcus Webb//Apr 19, 2026//6m