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Celsius's token CEL fell 70% in one hour after the DeFi lending giant suspended withdrawals, now at about 20 cents amid a broader crypto market slump
South Korean crypto exchanges Bithumb and Upbit plan to delist Litecoin, saying the token's new privacy features violate the country's anti-money laundering law
Ethereum's proof-of-stake Merge upgrade goes live on Ropsten, Ethereum's oldest testnet for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet
The Solana blockchain was down for about four hours on Wednesday after a bug blocked consensus; network validators disabled the feature to restart the network
As Terra blockchain reboots, freshly minted new LUNA tokens started trading on a number of exchanges and swiftly plummeted about 70% from the opening price
Binance, FTX, Crypto.com, Bitfinex, and other exchanges have pledged support for Do Kwon's Terra 2.0, set to launch on Friday by airdropping tokens
DeFi-focused startup Common raises $20M from Spark Capital, Polychain, Jump, Wintermute, and others for Commonwealth, its community management platform for DAOs
Zora, which offers an open-source NFT marketplace protocol, raises a $50M seed at a $600M valuation led by Katie Haun's new fund
Dune: OpenSea set a daily trading record of $476M+ in Ethereum after Yuga Labs' Otherside metaverse launch; the previous record was nearly $323M in August 2021
An anonymous crypto trader seems to have bought $400K of tokens that were later listed on Coinbase, before the list was public; the tokens are now worth $572K+
OpenSea adds Solana NFT trading support in beta; a marketplace search shows 865K NFTs minted on Solana
Hivemapper, which wants to build a decentralized digital mapping network on Solana, raises an $18M Series A led by Multicoin Capital
Third-party vendor HubSpot says it was hacked, leading to customer data breach notifications at Circle, BlockFi, Pantera Capital, NYDIG, and other crypto firms
Bored Ape Yacht Club's $APE token hit a peak of $39.40 per token during its airdrop, but later sank as low as $7.50
The SEC charges two siblings with defrauding investors out of $124M through their Ormeus Coin offering, alleging they acted as "modern-day snake-oil salesmen"
Coinbase says it has blocked 25K+ addresses related to Russian entities believed to be engaged in illicit activity and shares them with the US government
FTX announces Future Fund, planning to invest between $100M and $1B in 2022 in projects that "improve humanity's long-term prospects", like safer AI development
DOJ indicts BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, who remains at large, alleging he and his co-conspirators obtained ~$2.4B from investors in a Ponzi scheme
Coinbase partners with Remitly on a pilot to let people in Mexico receive and convert crypto transfers into pesos at 37K+ stores, for free until April
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021
Coinbase adds Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke to its board, citing Lütke's early support for crypto
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