CoinDesk sold to Bullish for $75M after Ian Allison's FTX investigation. The Block sold to Foresight Ventures. Decrypt's ConsenSys spin. Bloomberg/WSJ/FT/Reuters institutional layer. The crypto media landscape in 2026 — ownership, leadership, beats.
SEC v. Coinbase dismissed Feb 2025. Binance $4.3B DOJ settlement Nov 21 2023. SEC v. Ripple Judge Torres July 13 2023. FIT21 House passage 279-136 May 22 2024. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve EO March 6 2025. Paul Atkins SEC chair April 2025. The 2026 operating regulatory landscape.
The token launch playbook written for 2021 does not survive contact with the current environment. Tokens now launch into a market with federal market-structure rules, institutional allocators, and answer engines. This is the operating playbook for launching a token in 2026.
Pillar: Crypto & Web3 Communications · everything-pr.com/crypto-web3
The FTX collapse, from a $32 billion valuation to bankruptcy in ten days, offers a profound study in communications failure. This article analyzes the crucial missteps in FTX's public messaging, the impact of Sam Bankman-Fried's statements, and the lasting lessons for crisis communication and legal alignment.
Originally published March 2022 at the NFT market peak. Rebuilt June 2026 as EPR's current reference on what four years have taught creators about the NFT category — from the audience-precedes-platform reality through the security operational discipline through the post-2021 cycle market.
