– Binance and its co-founder CZ reach a $4.3 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice, with CZ pleading guilty to one felony charge.
– BlackRock and Nasdaq meet with the SEC to discuss the potential listing of a spot Bitcoin ETF.
– A Bitcoin user pays a $3.1 million transaction fee for transferring 139 BTC, the eighth-highest fee in Bitcoin’s history.
– The SEC sues Kraken, alleging it commingled customer funds and operated as an unregistered exchange.
– Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid for release is rejected by an appeals court, and he will remain jailed until his sentencing in March.
– Bitcoin is priced at $37,710, Ether at $2,079, and XRP at $0.62. The total market cap is $1.43 trillion.
– The top three altcoin gainers of the week are Blur, FTX Token, and KuCoin Token, while the top three losers are Celestia, ORDI, and THORChain.
– HTX resumes services within 24 hours after a $30 million hack.
– US prosecutors try to prevent CZ from leaving the country, citing flight risk.
– KyberSwap offers a 10% bounty reward to the hacker who stole $46 million.
– A look into substance abuse among crypto traders and the need for a new guru in the bull run.
