In this weekly recap, we cover:
- Binance CEO CZ’s U.S. guilty plea is accepted.
- Montenegro’s decision to extradite Do Kwon to the U.S., escalating Terraform Labs’ legal challenges globally.
- The Bitcoin network’s congestion due to the popularity of Ordinals Coin and the introduction of Bitcoin Core v26.0 for enhanced security.
- The controversial acquittal of Platypus exploiters and the ethical hacker debate it sparked.
- SEC’s legal missteps in the Debt Box case under scrutiny.
- Congressman Patrick McHenry’s departure signaling a shift in Congress’s crypto stance.
- The resurgence of Ethereum’s NFT market, hitting a six-month trading high.
- Dogecoin’s surprising decade-long journey from a meme to a market force.
- Coinbase’s new crypto transfer feature via social media links.
- The rise of Ethereum’s layer-2 project Blast amid soaring investor risk appetite.