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Zcash Media reveals that Edward Snowden participated in the 2016 trusted setup ceremony under the pseudonym 'John Dobbertin.' Snowden confirms this in an exclusive interview.(2022-04-27:zcash)event
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Electric Coin Company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bootstrap Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.(2020-01-01:zcash)event
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Canopy network upgrade activates. The original four-year Founders' Reward expires. ZIP 1014 takes effect, directing 20% of block rewards to ECC (7%), Zcash Foundation (5%), and Major Grants (8%).(2020-11-01:zcash)event
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The Zcash Company rebrands as the Electric Coin Company (ECC).(2019-02-21:zcash)event
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Electric Coin Company publicly discloses the counterfeiting vulnerability, approximately seven months after its discovery and four months after the patch was deployed.(2019-02-05:zcash)event
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Sapling network upgrade activates, covertly patching the counterfeiting vulnerability and significantly improving shielded transaction efficiency.(2018-10-28:zcash)event
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ECC employee Ariel Gabizon discovers a critical vulnerability allowing infinite counterfeit shielded ZEC creation via the original MPC ceremony transcript. The discovery is kept confidential.(2018-03-01:zcash)event
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Zcash mainnet launches with the Sprout protocol. Six participants conduct a trusted setup ceremony to generate zk-SNARK parameters; one participant uses the pseudonym 'John Dobbertin.'(2016-10-28:zcash)event
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Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn forms the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company (later Electric Coin Company) to develop the Zcash protocol.(2015-01-01:zcash)event
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Academic research into the Zerocoin protocol begins at Johns Hopkins University under Matthew Green, Ian Miers, and Christina Garman.(2013-01-01:zcash)event
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SEC charges Jump Crypto's offshore entity Tai Mo Shan with misleading investors over Terra UST stability and unregistered LUNA securities dealings; Jump settles for approximately $123 million.(2024-12-01:wormhole)event
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Fortune reports CFTC has launched an investigation into Jump Crypto. Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya resigns shortly after. The investigation is unrelated to the Wormhole hack but reflects regulatory scrutiny of the firm that backstopped it.(2024-06-20:wormhole)event
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W token launches on major exchanges including Binance, Bybit, OKX, and others. Wormhole debuts at approximately $3B fully diluted valuation with W priced near $1.66.(2024-04-03:wormhole)event
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Wormhole announces first airdrop of 617 million W tokens (6.17% of 10B total supply) to past protocol users.(2024-03-06:wormhole)event
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Wormhole raises $225 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, the largest crypto fundraise of 2023, from investors including Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and ParaFi.(2023-11-29:wormhole)event
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Bloomberg reports Jump Trading and Wormhole have parted ways; CEO Saeed Badreg and COO Anthony Ramirez leave Jump to run Wormhole independently.(2023-11-17:wormhole)event
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Wormhole Labs formally incorporated as an independent entity, with a team of approximately 15, primarily from Jump Crypto.(2023-05-01:wormhole)event
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Jump Crypto and Oasis execute court-ordered counter-exploit, recovering approximately $140M net from the hacker's DeFi vaults. Oasis discloses it used a previously unknown admin multisig vulnerability to carry out the operation.(2023-02-24:wormhole)event
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English High Court issues injunction ordering Oasis to retrieve assets associated with the Wormhole exploit wallet.(2023-02-21:wormhole)event
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Wormhole hacker converts 95,630 ETH into stETH and wstETH via 1inch and OpenOcean DEXes, and uses staked ETH as MakerDAO collateral to borrow DAI in a recursive collateralization strategy.(2023-01-23:wormhole)event
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Stolen funds move after approximately one year of dormancy. Exploiter activates Solana and Ethereum wallets within one hour of each other, bridging ~202,651 SOL and ~2.68M USDCet from Solana to Ethereum.(2023-01-14:wormhole)event
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Jump Crypto deposits 120,000 ETH into Wormhole bridge to replenish stolen funds, described as the largest DeFi bailout to date. Wormhole reopens.(2022-02-03:wormhole)event
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Wormhole exploited for 120,000 wETH (~$326M) via deprecated load_instruction_at function; attacker mints wETH on Solana without locking ETH collateral. Primary attacker Ethereum address: 0x629e7da20197a5429d30da36e77d06cdf796b71a.(2022-02-02:wormhole)event
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Jump Trading acquires Certus One, the original developer of Wormhole, bringing the protocol under Jump Crypto's stewardship.(2021-08-01:wormhole)event
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Final voluntary withdrawal deadline for Carrot users across Boost, Turbo, and CRT products; after this date forced deleveraging to 1x leverage begins(2026-05-14:carrot-protocol)event
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Shutdown announcement widely reported; Carrot's TVL confirmed at approximately $1.99 million, down 93% from $28 million on April 1(2026-05-01:carrot-protocol)event
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Carrot Protocol announces permanent shutdown; team states the Drift exploit 'has proven to be catastrophic for our continued operations'; Carrot becomes the first DeFi protocol to shut down permanently as a result of the Drift contagion(2026-04-30:carrot-protocol)event
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Drift Protocol states with medium-high confidence that the attack matches the profile of UNC4736, a North Korean state-affiliated hacking group previously attributed to the October 2024 Radiant Capital hack(2026-04-05:carrot-protocol)event
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Drift Protocol publicly confirms exploit; Carrot publicly confirms losses with CRT holders facing an estimated 50% loss; Elliptic flags DPRK-linked indicators(2026-04-02:carrot-protocol)event
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Carrot Protocol suspends CRT minting and redemption in immediate response to Drift exploit; CRT snapshot taken at 20:00 UTC for future IOU token entitlement(2026-04-01:carrot-protocol)event
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Drift Protocol migrates to a 2-of-5 Security Council multisig configuration with zero timelock, eliminating the detection and intervention window(2026-03-26:carrot-protocol)event
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Attackers begin creating Solana durable nonce accounts and manipulating Drift Security Council members into pre-signing dormant admin transfer transactions(2026-03-23:carrot-protocol)event
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Attackers create fabricated CarbonVote Token (CVT) with controlled supply and deploy wash trading to anchor its price at approximately $1(2026-03-12:carrot-protocol)event
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Attackers withdraw staging funds from Tornado Cash to begin funding infrastructure(2026-03-11:carrot-protocol)event
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Social engineering campaign targeting Drift Protocol contributors begins; threat actors posing as a quantitative trading firm begin building relationships with Drift team members(2025-10-01:carrot-protocol)event
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American Banker publishes 'Circle Won't Freeze. Tether Will.' comparing freeze policy philosophies and citing AMLBot data showing Tether freezes assets at approximately 30 times Circle's rate.(2026-04-27:circle-internet-financial)event
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Drift Protocol announces $147.5 million rescue package from Tether and partners, including USDC replacement with USDT as primary settlement asset on relaunch.(2026-04-16:circle-internet-financial)event
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Joshua McCollum files McCollum v. Circle class action in federal court in Massachusetts, alleging aiding and abetting, negligence, and Bank Secrecy Act violations.(2026-04-14:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire publicly states USDC freezes require a court order or law enforcement directive, describing discretionary action as a 'moral quandary.'(2026-04-13:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle Chief Policy Officer Dante Disparte publishes blog post defending court-order-only freeze policy and calling for industry 'circuit breakers.'(2026-04-10:circle-internet-financial)event
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ZachXBT publishes 'Welcome to the Circle USDC Files' on X, documenting 15 cases totaling over $420 million in alleged missed freezes since 2022.(2026-04-02:circle-internet-financial)event
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Drift Protocol exploited for approximately $285 million, attributed to North Korean state-linked actors. Approximately $232 million in USDC bridged from Solana to Ethereum via CCTP across 100+ transactions over six hours during U.S. business hours. Circle takes no freeze action despite being alerted within approximately one hour.(2026-04-01:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle freezes USDC in 16 business wallets tied to a sealed U.S. civil case (approximately case 26-cv-2327), including the DFINITY Foundation's ckETH Minter smart contract, in what critics later call an overcorrection. At least five wallets are subsequently unfrozen.(2026-03-23:circle-internet-financial)event
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Swapnet hacked for $16 million; approximately 3 million USDC accessible for two days while freeze requests are allegedly denied by Circle. Funds converted before court orders materialize.(2026-01-25:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle receives conditional OCC approval to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., a national digital currency trust bank.(2025-12-12:circle-internet-financial)event
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President Trump signs the GENIUS Act into law, establishing the first comprehensive U.S. federal stablecoin regulatory framework. Classifies stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act.(2025-07-18:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle completes IPO on NYSE (CRCL) at $31/share, raising over $1.1 billion. Shares surge approximately 168% on day one.(2025-06-05:circle-internet-financial)event
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Cetus Protocol hacked for $223 million on Sui. Attackers bridge 61 million USDC via Circle's infrastructure in 90 minutes. Circle blacklists the funds one month later, after conversion to Ether.(2025-05-22:circle-internet-financial)event
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Circle launches CCTP V2 on Ethereum and Avalanche, adding 30-second fast finality and programmable post-transfer hooks.(2025-03-11:circle-internet-financial)event
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Centre Consortium dissolved; Circle becomes sole governor of USDC.(2023-01-01:circle-internet-financial)event
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