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JPMorgan increases crypto holdings via ETFs, but stays cautious at $1 million
In its recent 13F form, JPMorgan reported $1 million in crypto exposure through exchange-traded funds (ETF) as of Dec…
Powell says Fed has no intention of preventing banks from offering crypto services
The Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman, Jerome Powell, said that the central bank regulator does not want to prevent bank…
The Daily: Trump to tap a16z’s Brian Quintenz for CFTC chief, Elon Musk-related memecoin dumps and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Starknet-based zkLend seeks return of over $8 million in ETH stolen from platform
Lending protocol zkLend acknowledged a hack resulting in a loss of over $9 million and requested the hacker to return…
Bank of England gov warns digital pound must not undermine commercial banks
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey expressed skepticism about the role of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)…
Powell guarantees no CBDC as long as he leads the Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that the US will never have a central bank digital currency (CBDC) whil…
BitGo plans to go public via IPO as early as this year: Bloomberg
Major U.S.-based crypto custodian BitGo plans to go public via an initial public offering as early as Q2 2025, accord…
ECB empowers fintechs with direct access to Europe’s central bank payment systems
The European Central Bank (ECB) has introduced a regulatory framework allowing non-bank payment service providers (NB…
Lido unveils V3, introducing customizable ‘stVaults’ that support advanced Ethereum staking strategies
The upgraded protocol could bring institutions with the need for compliance and provide operational controls into the…
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.
Trump’s crypto ventures raise conflict of interest, insider trading questions
Legal experts say Trump’s crypto ventures push legal and ethical boundaries around potential conflicts of interests…
Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter’s X account hacked, promotes fake memecoin
In a series of now-deleted posts, Jupiter’s X account promoted what appeared to be a scam memecoin with the ticker …
Ethereum L2s will be interoperable ‘within months’: Complete guide
Ethereum is finally about to solve the interoperability problems that have plagued the ecosystem since it embraced th…
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.
Ransomware extortion drops 35% in 2024 amid crypto exchange crackdowns and increasing refusal to pay: Chainalysis
Sanctions on dozens of Russian centralized exchanges and a decline in onchain payments made by victims helped reduce …
XRP Ledger’s hour-long halt sparks debate over consensus tradeoffs
Ripple CTO David Schwartz confirmed the XRP Ledger network is now back up and running, with no loss of user funds.
Olas raises $13.8 million to launch Pearl, an ‘app store’ for autonomous AI agents in crypto
The app store will allow users to directly own and control their AI agents on-chain for various use cases, including …
The Daily: What’s next for crypto after the Trump tariff tantrum, South Korea’s ‘kimchi premium’ soars to 10-month high and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Weekend Wrap: Ether Strategy’s wrong address, El Salvador’s Satoshi statue and more
A project that describes itself as an onchain MicroStrategy for Ethereum blamed a UI fault that caused users to send …
Crypto gang jailed for over 76 years after kidnapping and torture in a $124,000 extortion plot
A gang who extorted a vulnerable man for £100,000 in cryptocurrency over several months has been sentenced to over 7…
Ethereum client Geth releases ‘Schwarzschild’ update to fix a vulnerability in previous version
This Geth update addresses an issue in the peer-to-peer (p2p) layer that could potentially lead to denial of service …
Bitcoin Suisse, Steakhouse Financial and Block Analitica join as validators for oracle provider Chronicle Protocol
Chronicle, which was spun out of MakerDAO’s “oracle team,” secures about 23% of total value locked on Ethereum.
Paradigm co-leads $24 million Series A for ZKP infrastructure startup Irreducible
Irreducible provides zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) generation services powered by FPGA chips.
Crypto kicks off 2025 with $74 million lost to hacks in January: Immunefi
The crypto industry lost a further $73.9 million in January due to exploits, representing a ninefold increase month-o…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell says banks can serve crypto clients if risks are managed adequately
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stated that banks are free to serve with crypto, provided they effectively manage…
Banks can serve crypto clients as long as they can manage the risk, Fed Chair Jerome Powell says
"The threshold has been a little higher for banks engaging in crypto activities and that's because they're so new," P…
Pectra hard fork explained — Will it get Ethereum back on track?
Ethereum’s upcoming Pectra hard fork brings huge improvements for users — but the single most important scaling u…
DCG spins out new ‘self-mining’ subsidiary, Fortitude Mining, from Foundry bitcoin mining unit
The unit, originally a part of the largest Bitcoin mining pool Foundry, will focus on mining bitcoin and other "high-…
Paradigm commits $1.25 million to aid Tornado Cash co-founder in continued legal battle
Storm faces a maximum prison sentence of 45 years for money laundering related charges in his part in developing cryp…
You should ‘go and build’ your own AI agent: Jesse Pollak, X Hall of Flame
Base creator Jesse Pollak says AI + Crypto is “just getting started” and users can easily build an AI agent to ma…