Important information from last night and this morning (December 17-December 18)

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has shut down a North Korean digital asset money laundering network

ESMA publishes final guidance on implementation of MiCA crypto regulation

Ohio lawmakers propose setting up a Bitcoin reserve fund in state finances

Australian regulator sues Binance Australia Derivatives for failing to protect consumer rights

Cryptocurrency company executive sentenced to 4 years in prison for embezzling $4.46 million

sBTC is now available on the Stacks mainnet, offering a 5% annualized reward

Trump has won enough electoral votes to officially win the presidency

Solana on-chain meme project Retardio's official X account has been suspended

Tether plans to provide Hadron's complete user experience through API in early February next year

Aligned sets a $50 threshold for each L2 token holder to receive the airdrop, encouraging holders at the historical lowest price

Fuel Launches FUEL Genesis Airdrop: Eligibility Check Page is Online, Application Will Be Open on December 19

Pudgy Penguins announces that PENGU is now live and open for claiming

Tether announces investment in European stablecoin provider StablR

Physicist: Quantum computers are still five years away from breaking Bitcoin

Study: Bitcoin would need more than 300 days of downtime to be adequately protected against the threat of quantum computing

The size of the US Bitcoin spot ETF has surpassed its gold ETF

ENS Labs selects Linea’s technology to build its L2 network Namechain

Renzo announced that the third quarter of the claiming period has been opened, 4% of the total supply

Big Time Studios announces $150 million Open Loot fund

Databricks valued at $62 billion in new funding round

Zhipu AI completes a new round of financing of 3 billion yuan

Tokenized securities firm Prometheum completes $20 million in funding

Stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK completes $50 million Series B financing, led by Haun Ventures

TRON chain’s monthly fee income and number of active users have reached a record high

33.1% of the PENGU airdrop has been claimed, with each wallet receiving an average of about 20,800 PENGU