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U.S. Marshals Service Can't Say How Much Crypto It Holds, Complicating Bitcoin Reserve Plan
The agency has been plagued with procedural and organizational issues for years.
WalletConnect Foundation secures $10 million in oversubscribed token sales, including 11-second sellout on Echo
The funds include a $500,000 private sale hosted on Echo, a platform founded by crypto trader Jordan Fish (aka Cobie).
Bitcoin staking platform Acre raises $4 million at $90 million token valuation
Acre, a spin-out from Thesis, enables users to "compound" their bitcoin holdings through various methods, including s…
Crypto Exchange Deribit Still in Talks to Be Acquired by Kraken: Source
A second source said U.S.-listed exchange Coinbase has also been kicking the tires of Deribit.
Kaito token airdrop claims for ‘Yappers’ go live on Base ahead of exchange listings
The KAITO token is now live on Base for airdrop claims ahead of listing on centralized exchanges like Binance and OKX.
JPMorgan says crypto faces downside risk as bitcoin and ether futures show weak demand
JPMorgan analysts say a lack of positive catalysts and fading momentum drive lower demand for bitcoin and ether futures.
Fluent Labs raises $8 million in funding led by Polychain Capital to build blended execution network
Fluent is an Ethereum Layer 2 network that blends Wasm, EVM and SVM apps into a unified execution environment.
Mastercard Says It Has Moved Beyond Experimentation in Crypto, Focused on 'Real Solutions'
“What is stopping [crypto] from going mainstream is really that consumers need to be able to find each other using …
Curve Finance founder raises funds at $50 million token valuation for new project Yield Basis
Yield Basis aims to initially help tokenized bitcoin and ether holders earn yield from market making by mitigating im…
Monad to roll out a public testnet on Feb. 19
Monad's testnet, in development for two years, functions as a platform for developers and users to test features befo…
DeFi.app raises additional $4 million at a flat $100 million token valuation, including via Cobie’s Echo
DeFi.app also launches its public beta with a points-based trading tournament. Its HOME token is expected to launch i…
Tether CEO says ‘salty’ JPMorgan analysts discount his company’s $20 billion group equity in their analysis of its reserves
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino told The Block that JPMorgan analysts "don't understand either Bitcoin nor Tether."
JPMorgan says Tether may need to sell bitcoin to comply with proposed US stablecoin regulations
JPMorgan analysts estimate that only 66%–83% of Tether's reserves comply with proposed U.S. stablecoin regulations,…
Offchain Labs releases Arbitrum BoLD protocol on mainnet for ‘permissionless validation’
This system replaces the previously allow-listed validators on Arbitrum with a permissionless mechanism, opening up s…
Mechanism Capital leads $4 million seed round for web3 development studio Mirai Labs
Mirai Labs plans to bolster its team of engineers, specializing in AI, machine learning and programming language Rust…
Ethereum security platform Drosera raises $3.25 million in funding, brings total funding to $4.75 million
Drosera builds out "traps," or smart contracts that can detect and cancel out threats on the Ethereum network.
Tether CEO willing to explore quantum computing initiative to recover lost Bitcoin
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has shown interest in a proposal for a quantum-powered initiative aimed at retrieving lost B…
Base Team Member Refutes Claims That Its Sequencer Coinbase Has Been Selling ETH
Coinbase has accumulated $300M+ in ETH, which is more than 2x all of Base's ETH earnings over time," Base member Kabi…
Base denies selling ETH, says the network is committed to Ethereum
Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, has denied allegations of selling its Ethereum (ETH) holdings. Over the weekend, …
Base defends moving sequencer fees to Coinbase custody for ‘security and audit’ reasons
Ethereum Layer 2 Base has been transferring its sequencer fee earnings to Coinbase, which has sparked criticism.
Arweave’s computing platform AO goes live on mainnet
Arweave has officially launched the mainnet and native token of its computing platform, AO, following a year-long tes…
U.S. Regulator Pursuing Tokenization Pilot to Tap Stablecoins as Collateral
Caroline Pham, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief tapped by President Donald Trump, is hosting a CEO summ…
ConsenSys Twice Hit by Operation Chokepoint, CEO Lubin Credits Bank for Fighting Back
The MetaMask creator survived by having redundant backup accounts, said Lubin, who was also personally targeted.
Wildcat, the decentralized credit platform built by Crypto Twitter mainstay Laurence Day, launches new version on Ethereum
The protocol is designed to solve the issue of undercollateralized crypto lending by allowing borrowers to customize …
JPMorgan says Ethereum likely to keep facing ‘intense competition’ from other networks
Analysts attribute ether's underperformance to growing competition from Solana and Layer 2s, and its lack of bitcoin'…
Hong Kong’s OSL announces Japan expansion, renames CoinBest to OSL Japan
OSL said it has completed its acquisition of CoinBest and will rely on the local team to drive its expansion in Japan.
Token trading infrastructure provider Reservoir raises $14 million in Series A funding
Union Square Ventures led the round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Archetype, 1kx and others.
Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia
The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.
U.S. Bitcoin Reserve May Be Coming, But States Are Winning the Race
Millions of Americans may soon find out they're crypto investors when their states leap into the markets even before …
DeFi protocol Goldfinch brings onchain exposure to private credit giants like Apollo with ‘Prime’ launch
Investors deposit the USDC stablecoin and receive GPRIME pool tokens, representing their proportional stake in the pool.