Institutional & Corporate Moves
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BlackRock’s Massive Movements: Logged several high-value transactions, including receiving 4,309 BTC ($289.6M) and depositing over 2,900 BTC and 32,000 ETH across various Coinbase Prime accounts.
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MARA Holdings Q4 Results: Reported strong Bitcoin holdings for the end of 2025, maintaining its aggressive “HODL” strategy.
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MicroStrategy Acquisition: Added 592 BTC to its treasury, bringing its total monumental holdings to 717,722 BTC.
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Coinbase Expansion: Continued integration of stock trading within the U.S. via Yahoo Finance partnerships.
Funding & Venture Capital
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Zetrix AI: Secured $40M from the IFC ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing for its AI unit.
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JPYC Inc: Raised $11.9M (1.78B Yen) in a Series B first close led by Asteria to scale its Japanese Yen stablecoin.
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STS Digital: Closed a $30M strategic funding round to expand digital asset liquidity services.
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Based: Raised $11.5M in Series A funding led by Pantera Capital.
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T54 Labs: Secured $5M seed round for AI agent trust infrastructure.
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Finrob: Raised $3.9M to develop AI-driven research tools for finance and crypto.
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Bluprynt: Secured $4.25M in a seed round led by Coinbase Ventures.
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Tether & Whop: Tether invested in Whop to integrate stablecoin payments into their social commerce platform.
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Kash: Raised $2M pre-seed for social-based prediction markets.
Security Breaches & Exploits
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Blend Protocol/YieldBlox: Suffered a major $10.8M exploit via oracle manipulation on the Stellar network.
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Foom Club: Lost $1.8M due to a smart contract misconfiguration.
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Holdstation: Confirmed a security breach resulting in $462,000 USDT stolen.
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Ploutos Money: Exploited for 187.36 ETH following a price oracle misconfiguration.
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Stakenova: Hit by a $137K smart contract exploit just before a hackathon submission.
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IoTeX Bridge: Suffered a hack leading to a detailed on-chain analysis report of the vulnerabilities.
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XAUT Phishing: A malicious “permit” transaction resulted in the theft of $3.2M worth of Tether Gold (XAUT).
Investigations & Regulation
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ZachXBT’s Axiom Expose: The renowned sleuth detailed an insider trading scheme by Axiom Exchange staff, leading to a massive resolution of $40M in Polymarket bets.
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Telegram/Pavel Durov: Russia initiated a criminal case against Durov, while Telegram throttling hit 55% in the region.
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RedotPay IPO: The Hong Kong stablecoin fintech is reportedly weighing a $1B+ U.S. IPO.
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Better & Framework Ventures: Launched a $500M stablecoin-backed credit partnership.
Network & Ecosystem Development
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Ethereum Foundation: Launched “Strawmap” to guide future protocol development.
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Vitalik Buterin Sales: ETH sales by the co-founder reached 17,196 ETH, surpassing previous benchmarks.
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FG Nexus: The Ethereum treasury firm liquidated 7,550 ETH.
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Step Finance: Announced the shutdown of SolanaFloor and Remora Markets following a devastating hack.
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