In May 2021, Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz stated that acquiring BitGo was intended to make Galaxy Digital a single platform for institutions entering cryptocurrency

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BitGo received full, unconditional approval for its national trust bank charter on January 29, 2026, shortly after going public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BTGO at $18 per share

Approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency would allow Galaxy Digital LP to hold and manage client digital assets and act as a qualified custodian under federal supervision

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency conditionally approved national trust bank charter applications for Circle, Ripple, Paxos, BitGo, and Fidelity Digital Assets in December 2025

Proposed Galaxy National Bank, filed by Galaxy Digital, plans to consolidate cryptocurrency custody, trading, staking, and investment advisory services under a single federal regulatory framework

On June 9, 2023, Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster dismissed BitGo's lawsuit seeking a $100 million reverse break fee from Galaxy Digital, ruling Galaxy exercised a valid termination right

Galaxy Digital terminated its acquisition agreement with BitGo on August 15, 2022, citing BitGo's failure to deliver audited 2021 financial statements by a July 31 deadline

In May 2021, Galaxy Digital agreed to acquire BitGo in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion, which involved issuing 33.8 million Galaxy shares and paying $265 million in cash

In a Canton Network pilot program with HSBC, Uber Technologies Inc. purchased Franklin Templeton tokenized money market fund shares on Thursday and redeemed them Sunday instead of Friday, generating 1.5 additional days of corporate cash yield

Uber Technologies Inc. completed a corporate treasury Canton Network pilot program using HSBC Holdings Plc tokenized bank deposits to purchase Franklin Templeton tokenized money market fund shares through Tradeweb Markets, with Fireblocks supplying wallet infrastructure

Digital asset prime broker FalconX surpassed a $1 billion valuation before executing its first institutional tri-party custody transaction with a hedge fund

Citigroup partnered with Coinbase to integrate blockchain-based stablecoins into its institutional financial infrastructure

The initial coin offering market between 2017 and 2020 raised an estimated $10 billion to $20 billion in total capital

In 2012, Brian Armstrong and Namil Dharod both participated in the Y Combinator startup accelerator when Coinbase was founded

A Bitget cryptocurrency exploit in September 2026 resulted in a loss of $387 million

Chainalysis reported on October 30, 2026, that attackers in the $6.3 billion Binance hack on October 29, 2026 used automated wallet loops and dense transaction networks across hundreds of interconnected addresses to circulate stolen assets

Chainalysis reported that Russia received $376.3 billion in cryptocurrency transactions between July 2024 and June 2025, exceeding Britain's $273.2 billion over the same timeframe

The Binance cryptocurrency platform suffered a major cyberattack on October 29, 2026, resulting in estimated losses between $6.3 billion and $6.4 billion

The average loss per suspected North Korea-linked hack increased from $50.65 million in 2021 to $185.65 million in 2026 year-to-date, according to Chainalysis

Between 2021 and October 29, 2026, total reported cryptocurrency hack losses reached an estimated $22.34 billion, with suspected DPRK-linked hacks accounting for $13.24 billion, or approximately 59%, according to Chainalysis

The TraderTraitor cyber group, linked to North Korea, was tied by investigators to both the $6.3 billion Binance attack on October 29, 2026, and the $387 million Bitget exploit in September 2026