CRYPTO HISTORY · SOURCES MATTER
A sourced timeline of crypto milestones and failures, separate from the game’s fictional prices and random outcomes.
A curated, expandable archive. It does not claim to cover every event worldwide.
82 · Historical record
Cointelegraph’s 4 November report relayed statements from CZ and Giggle Academy that GIGGLE was community-initiated and was not an official coin launched by the Academy, amid sharp market swings.
Cointelegraph reported on 22 September that community GIGGLE trading fees were being sent to Giggle Academy as BNB. Donations do not make the token an official Academy issuance.
Cointelegraph’s 4 November report dates Giggle Fund (GIGGLE) to September 2025 on BNB Smart Chain. It is a community token; Giggle Academy did not issue it.
DOJ announced Do Kwon’s guilty plea in the Terra-related fraud case. This is the plea date, not the 2022 collapse date.
Prague and Electra combined execution and consensus improvements for accounts, staking and scalability.
Ethereum.org: protocol history and forksThe Treasury announced removal of Tornado Cash’s economic sanctions after a legal and policy review.
U.S. Treasury: Tornado Cash DelistingThe FBI’s 26 February notice attributed the theft of about $1.5 billion from Bybit on or about 21 February to North Korean actors.
FBI IC3: North Korea Responsible for $1.5 Billion Bybit HackBybit’s 17 February retrospective dates the tutorial that created Test (TST) on Four.meme to 5 February. It describes an educational token that drew unintended market speculation, rather than an official Binance investment product.
Kraken’s 16 July announcement scheduled FLOKI trading for 17:00 UTC that day, alongside several other assets.
A July 2024 launch release introduced Four.meme as a meme-token platform on BNB Chain. The month is retained because the release’s publication time does not establish an exact launch timestamp.