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The metrics that matter for XRP network health and how to read them without counting noise
XRP network health scorecard: wallets, trustlines, DEX volume, uptime Key takeaways Ripple and Aviva Investors said F…
Activist investor Starboard says Riot AI pivot could be worth up to $21 billion as miner lags peers
Starboard argues Riot’s Texas power assets position the company to secure large AI data center tenants if managemen…
Bitcoin May Gain If AI Job Losses Trigger Bank Stress, Hayes Says
Arthur Hayes has issued a stark market warning: he sees a growing split between his preferred risk gauge, Bitcoin, an…
Bitwise seeks SEC nod for 2028 election prediction market ETFs as Wall Street pushes to wrap bets
Bitwise filed for prediction market ETFs tied to the 2028 U.S. presidential election amid state regulatory scrutiny o…
From 2016 hack to $150M Endowment: the DAO’s second act focuses on Ethereum security
Ten years after the famous hack, the DAO Security Fund has decided to stake the untouched ETH and use the yield to fu…
XRP Ledger rolls out members-only DEX for regulated institutions
A permissioned DEX amendment creates controlled versions of XRPL’s built-in exchange, letting approved entities dec…
Moonwell's $1.12 nightmare: A pricing glitch just let bots seize millions in ETH collateral
A misconfigured Chainlink price oracle on DeFi lender Moonwell briefly valued Coinbase Wrapped ETH (cbETH) at about $…
Zora moves onto Solana with 'attention markets' for trading internet trends
The creator platform’s new product lets users trade tokens linked to social-media traction, a Polymarket-style bet …
Russia’s censorship crackdown and WhatsApp ban expose the decentralization gap the crypto industry keeps missing
Russia’s recent messaging crackdown is the cleanest real-world stress test of decentralization in years, and it pro…
Zora launches ‘attention markets’ on Solana
Zora, a socialfi platform closely associated with the Ethereum Layer 2 Base, is launching its new attention market pl…
The Daily: Logan Paul sells previously tokenized Pokemon card for $16M, Gemini parts ways with top execs, Strategy’s latest bitcoin buy, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Gemini exchange parts ways with CFO, COO and CLO in ‘big shakeup’
Gemini will not replace its COO, with co-founder Cameron Winklevoss absorbing key operational and revenue responsibil…
Crypto infrastructure project unveils LI.FI Composer, a multi-step transaction orchestrator
LiFI Composer allows users to combine different actions like swaps, bridging, deposits, and staking into a single tra…
The hardware hurdle: Cysic and Cardano clash over the future of decentralized compute
At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Leo Fan questioned Midnight’s use of Google Cloud and Azure, as Charles Hoskinson just…
Ethereum bots are burning over 50% of gas fees so ETH strangely needs privacy tech to fix it at scale
On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for…
Anthony Scaramucci’s son buys Logan Paul’s previously tokenized Pokemon card for record $16 million
In April 2022, Logan Paul raised $8 million to launch Liquid Marketplace, a platform for tokenizing physical and digi…
Crypto’s $300 billion stablecoin supply is increasingly used as ‘everyday money,’ global study finds
Stablecoin use in everyday spending, cross-border work, and savings allocation is growing rapidly among crypto-savvy …
Coinbase diamond hands vs Binance panic sellers — the $60,000 stress test
Bitcoin's recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidat…
The Daily: Kevin O’Leary wins $2.8M defamation judgment against Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong, Harvard trims bitcoin ETF holdings, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Binance Founder CZ: Privacy 'Missing Link' for Crypto Payments Adoption
Changpeng Zhao called on the industry to prioritise crypto privacy features, arguing that the gap is holding back mai…
Robinhood’s $221 million crypto revenue drop shows crypto winter isn’t on chain and retail already moved
Crypto winter has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and t…
Token Escrow on XRPL could force new XRP demand, but only if this adoption hurdle breaks
On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) m…
China plans blockchain certification for green energy tracing
China's blockchain initiative for green energy could enhance transparency, boost market efficiency, and align with cl…
Benchmark cuts Coinbase price target by 37% but says business is ‘more diversified and durable’ than ever
Benchmark's Mark Palmer cut his COIN price target to $267 from $421, citing worsening crypto market conditions, while…
Traders walked into a “free Bitcoin” trap on Bithumb and it triggered a 17% flash drop
One input mistake at South Korea’s Bithumb turned a routine promo payout into a $44 billion disaster for a simple r…
Elon Musk’s X to enable crypto and stock trading with Smart Cashtags
Integrating trading features on X could revolutionize social media's role in finance, potentially increasing user eng…
The Daily: South Korean police lose seized bitcoin, Binance France head targeted in failed home invasion attempt, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
CZ rejects ‘contradicting’ claims Binance fired investigators after Iran-linked probe findings
Independent blockchain analytics firms have recently reported growing use of stablecoins by Iranian entities to move …
Trump Media and Technology Group files two new crypto ETF proposals following SEC delay
Trump Media and Technology Group is looking to list a fund tracking the native token for Crypto.com's Cronos network,…
Bitcoin devs merge new plan to limit “quantum” exposure risk but there’s a fee and privacy tradeoff
Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quan…