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BlackRock sees AI driving crypto’s next bull phase as altcoin interest fades
The asset management giant's Robbie Mitchnic said clients are focused on bitcoin, ether and only a few other tokens, …
'Fortnite' Maker Epic Games Reveals Mass Layoffs, Says AI Isn’t to Blame
Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 employees as Fortnite engagement falls, but CEO Tim Sweeney says it's not AI…
The Daily: Balancer Labs to wind down, Bernstein calls bitcoin bottom with $150K target for 2026, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Circle (CRCL) Crashes Below $100 After Senate Revises Crypto Bill To Ban Stablecoin Rewards
Circle Internet Financial, the issuer behind the USDC stablecoin — the second-largest dollar-pegged cryptocurrency …
Silo V3 launches new liquidation mechanism opening door to new forms of crypto collateral
Silo V3, unveiled Tuesday, adds a protocol-level insolvency protection mechanism to reduce the dependency on DEX liqu…
Tether hires Big Four auditor for first full reserves audit
Tether has hired a Big Four accounting firm for its first full USDT stablecoin audit after years of scrutiny over its…
Solana Foundation taps Mastercard, Western Union, Worldpay for institutional developer platform
The platform is a toolkit that lets enterprises create and scale financial applications on Solana without deep crypto…
Mastercard, Western Union tap Solana Foundation’s new enterprise developer toolbox
The platform offers three API modules to help issue RWAs, support payments, and enable onchain swaps supported by 20 …
New York Stock Exchange taps Securitize to build its tokenized stock platform
The move comes as the race to bring equities to always-on blockchain markets is heating up after Nasdaq obtained regu…
Invesco joins tokenization race as it takes over Superstate’s $900 million onchain fund
The $2.2 trillion asset manager is stepping into the rapidly-growing tokenized Treasury market, joining global financ…
MoonPay Launches Open-Source Wallet Standard for AI Agents
The payments infrastructure firm has unveiled an open-source framework enabling AI agents to manage crypto funds acro…
Zama and T-REX Network launch privacy layer for tokenized assets targeting Wall Street institutions
Zama and T-REX Network introduced a confidentiality layer for tokenized real-world assets, aiming to enable broader i…
Fund services giant Apex to tokenize Bitcoin mining note on Coinbase’s Base platform
Apex will tokenize the Omnes Mining Note “OMN,” an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin hashrate.
Balancer Labs will shut down as corporate entity became 'a liability' after $110 million exploit
Co-founder Fernando Martinelli said he considered winding down the entire protocol but decided the team deserved a ch…
Bitcoin's mining concentration just showed up in a rare 2-block reorg
A 2-block reorg at height 941,881 saw Foundry's chain overwrite blocks from AntPool and ViaBTC, coming days after min…
Protesters Rally Outside OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI Offices Over Industry Concerns
Protesters marched between the San Francisco offices of major AI developers, calling for a pause in the development o…
Solana Foundation targets institutions with new privacy framework
The organization argued that the next phase of crypto adoption will depend less on transparency alone and more on giv…
Fake Influencers to Compete for Real Money in 'AI Personality of the Year' Challenge
OpenArt and Fanvue have launched a four-week global challenge with a $90K+ prize pool to find the best AI personality…
The Daily: Lawmakers move to ban sports betting on prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi CEOs back a new $35 million venture fund, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
BlackRock is betting billions that tokenized funds will do for Wall Street what the internet did to mail
In his annual letter, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink argues that digital wallets and tokenized assets could modernize marke…
MoonPay releases open-source cross-chain wallet standard for AI agents
MoonPay has introduced the Open Wallet Standard, a framework that lets AI agents hold assets, sign transactions, and …
Lawmakers move to ban sports betting on prediction markets in bipartisan Senate push: WSJ
The proposal comes as prediction markets face mounting legal pressure from several states alongside rapid growth and …
Fidelity urges SEC to refine rules for broker-dealers handling crypto assets
Fidelity said broker-dealers need more clarity to offer, custody and trade crypto assets, and facilitate crypto-secur…
The Funding: Is a token-to-equity shift emerging in crypto?
Across Protocol’s recent temp check proposal raises a bigger question about the future of DAOs and tokens in crypto.
Ethereum faces make-or-break moment in high-stakes balancing act as scaling, quantum and AI pressures mount
While upgrades have improved efficiency and lowered costs, the ecosystem faces deeper structural questions around fra…
How AI Is Being Used to Clear Court Backlogs in LA
The Los Angeles Superior Court is pilot testing whether Learned Hand’s curated AI can help manage rising workloads.
Crypto finally got SEC clarity. Why didn’t the market care?
The SEC and CFTC just gave crypto its clearest and most straightforward regulatory guidance in years. Most crypto ass…
Crypto firms cut hundreds of jobs in weeks, blaming weak markets, strong AI
A wave of crypto job cuts in early 2026 exposes the gap between two convenient narratives: macro headwinds and AI tra…
‘Replacing humans is not close’: BlockSec challenges EVMBench on AI auditing
“The real question is not ‘Can AI replace humans?’ but ‘How should humans and AI work together?’” BlockSe…
OpenAI Plans to Merge ChatGPT, Codex and Atlas Into One 'Superapp': WSJ
OpenAI will consolidate its fragmented desktop products into a single superapp, a report claims, as rival Anthropic g…