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The scorecard for an XRP investment thesis that separates Ripple licensing from XRPL utility signals
Ripple enters 2026 with new permissions in the UK and the EU. In January, Ripple said it received UK Financial Conduc…
Aave founder buys $30 million mansion in London’s Notting Hill amid luxury market slowdown: report
Aave founder Stani Kulechov has purchased a £22 million mansion in the pricy residential area of London’s Notting …
Inside the White House talks between crypto firms and banks on stablecoin rewards
Crypto advocacy groups called a White House meeting on Monday to discuss an intensely contested topic on how to treat…
Epstein files reveal Bitcoin’s secret war as Ripple insiders expose a decade of explosive hidden industry sabotage
A decade-old email is reviving questions about whether projects like Ripple posed a threat to Bitcoin’s development…
MultiversX integrates Google’s new AI commerce standard, adds support for Coinbase-incubated x402 payments
New transaction standards aim to let AI systems access data, services & digital assets without relying on traditional…
The Daily: Hyperliquid tests prediction markets, Solana-based DEX aggregator Jupiter integrates Polymarket, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Hyperliquid tests ‘Outcomes,’ moving into booming prediction markets and limited risk options trading
HyperLiquid is adding general-purpose Outcome trading as an expansion to Hyperliquid’s in-progress HIP-4 update.
Cboe targets prediction market with ‘all-or-nothing’ options revival: WSJ
Cboe explores reviving all-or-nothing options as prediction markets hit record volumes and draw billions in retail tr…
Arcium launches privacy-preserving Mainnet Alpha on Solana as Umbra debuts shielded finance layer
Arcium has launched its Mainnet Alpha on Solana, taking its encrypted computation network live as Umbra debuts a shie…
Zama launches token, debuts privacy metric after more than $121 million shielded on Ethereum
Zama rolled out its ZAMA token while debuting Total Value Shielded, a new privacy metric, after encrypting over $121 …
Binance commits to gigantic Bitcoin purchase as an implicit apology for October liquidation meltdown
Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair l…
CrossCurve bridge exploited for approximately $3 million across multiple chains via spoofed messages
A missing validation check seemingly allowed multiple attackers to spoof cross-chain messages and drain the protocol'…
A sudden shift in Ethereum staking is draining billions from exchanges toward a new corporate elite
By the end of 2025, a corner of the market most Ethereum traders rarely watch had built a position large enough to ma…
Quantum threat gets real: Ethereum Foundation prioritizes security with leanVM and PQ signatures
Earlier in January, the Ethereum Foundation formally elevated post-quantum security to a strategic priority, creating…
Solana DeFi platform step finance hit by $27 million treasury hack as token price craters
The platform's governance token (STEP) plummeted over 80% following the announcement amid a wider crypto market drawd…
Solana DeFi platform Step Finance investigating $29 million treasury wallet compromise
The attack sent Step Finance's native STEP token plummeting more than 60% as the protocol enlists security firms to i…
Thousands of AI agents join viral network to “teach” each other how to steal keys and want Bitcoin as payment
The next inflection point in AI agents isn't coming from frontier labs. It's coming from infrastructure, specifically…
Coinbase, crypto and bank organizations set to hash out stablecoin rewards at White House summit on Monday
Representatives from Coinbase, crypto trade groups and banking organizations are expected to meet next week to discus…
Cardano secures $70B liquidity injection that finally solves the network’s biggest missing piece for investors
On Jan. 30, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced that he has signed an integration agreement to bring USDCx, a…
The Daily: Trump names crypto-friendly Kevin Warsh as Fed chair nominee, Binance pledges $1 billion SAFU fund to bitcoin, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Lido rolls out stVaults on mainnet with Day 1 users including Linea, Nansen and several institutional stakers
stVaults, introduced in February 2025 as part of the Lido V3 upgrade, are finally rolling out in a mainnet.
Vitalik Buterin commits roughly $45 million in ETH to open-source security and privacy projects
Vitalik Buterin personally pledged 16,384 ETH to fund privacy-focused projects amid the Ethereum Foundation's shift t…
Binance seeks top spot in South Korean market, targets full GoFi repayment in 2026
Binance acquired Gopax in 2023 amid its liquidity crisis, opening a pathway for a re-entry into the South Korean market.
Binance pledges $1 billion fund to bitcoin as market tanks to months-low
Binance announced that it will turn its $1 billion SAFU fund into bitcoin over the next 30 days to support the indust…
US DOJ finalizes $400 million forfeiture tied to Helix darknet crypto mixer
The DOJ said Helix processed at least 354,468 bitcoin between 2014 and 2017, worth about $300 million at the time.
Bitcoin’s quantum risk is ‘long-dated and manageable,’ Benchmark pushes back on panic
Analysts agree only a subset of bitcoin would be vulnerable in a future quantum scenario, though estimates and timeli…
MegaETH outlines four KPIs determining release schedule for 53% of MEGA token supply
Over 50% of the MEGA supply will be released as “major milestones for the protocol are achieved," rather than a tim…
Aero DEX aims to fix liquidity fragmentation and dethrone the incumbents
The rollout of Aero, targeted for the second quarter of 2026, will take direct aim at incumbents like Uniswap and Cur…
‘The DAO is back!’: Ethereum dev Griff Green to use unclaimed hack funds for new security fund
Some funds that were initially sequestered to help refund “edge case” victims of The DAO hack will fund a new Eth…
Bitcoin's Quantum threat is ‘real but distant,’ says Wall Street analyst as doomsday debate rages on
Wall Street broker Benchmark argued the crypto network has ample time to evolve as quantum risks shift from theory to…