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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.
Binance employee hunted down in botched France home invasion as crypto “wrench attack” spike spreads
A botched home invasion in the Paris suburbs on Feb. 12 marked a tactical shift in crypto's physical-threat or “wre…
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…
US debt to hit WWII-era extremes with $64 trillion owed, but one market price decides whether Bitcoin benefits
The fiscal mathematics of the United States are drifting toward a threshold that markets can no longer afford to igno…
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…
Standard Chartered slashes XRP price target by 65% as whales send millions of tokens to Binance
XRP is sliding even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) rolls out features that supporters have long framed as a bridge to insti…
Loss-making DeFi lender ZeroLend to shut down after 98% TVL drop
ZeroLend will wind down after operating losses as TVL fell 98% to $6.6 million and the ZERO token plunged.
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…
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…
Bitcoin has 6 weeks to avoid 2026 being the most bearish period in history – one price matters now
The scoop: Bitcoin is on pace for a fifth straight monthly drop if February closes red, its longest losing streak sin…
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.
From Wall Street to Web3: This is crypto’s year of integration, Silicon Valley Bank says
From bank-led stablecoins to tokenized T-bills and AI-powered wallets, digital assets will move from pilot projects t…
Wall Street is out of cash to “buy the dip” but $7.7T could rotate into Bitcoin if prices stay beaten down
I came across some analysis this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark cl…
deBridge launches MCP, enabling AI agents to execute non-custodial cross-chain transactions
deBridge has launched MCP, enabling AI agents to carry out non-custodial cross-chain swaps, bridging, and multi-step …
CLARITY Act is turning into a proxy war over who pays Americans for holding “digital dollars”
The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a cle…
XRPL holds 63% of this T-bill token supply but barely any of the trading, and that’s a problem
Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and uti…
Wall Street is desperate to copy crypto’s prediction markets as Cboe files for “Yes/No” options
Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays z…
Bitcoin hit $60,000 because two different groups finally surrendered — on-chain data shows who blinked
Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom. But the…
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…
Bitcoin shorts just hit their most extreme level in years as BTC defiantly holds above $70k
Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leadin…
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…
Tether quietly stacked 27 tons of gold, now it’s wiring $150M to sell it to crypto users
Gold back over $5,000 is a market tell: fear is back. Tether just paid $150 million for the last mile. By taking ~12%…
Galaxy’s Steve Kurz sees ‘great convergence’ driving crypto’s long-term outlook
The firm's asset-management chief says the recent crypto selloff reflects healthy deleveraging, while infrastructure …
Bitcoin refuses to lose $70,000 this weekend. Was my $49k bottom call wrong?
Bitcoin is holding its ground this weekend. After Friday’s soft CPI rally, price keeps leaning into the same overhe…
Bitcoin down $20k, recession odds fade, stocks rip higher — but bottom signals are flashing early this year
Bitcoin bottom signals: ETF outflows, miner stress, and why a 2026 recession looks like the outlier Bitcoin could be …
Bitcoin spikes 6% on softer US inflation but the CPI record still has holes after the shutdown
At 8:30 a.m. in New York, the world paused for the January U.S. inflation data, and it landed with a soft thud. Headl…
Tether invests in Hyperliquid frontend Dreamcash, offering perps markets for TSLA, gold and more using USDT0 collateral
Dreamcash said Tether made a strategic investment in the project in the wake of its 10 RWA perps deployments.
If the CFTC “only does Bitcoin,” why did it just invite crypto’s biggest CEOs into the room?
CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOs Most cr…
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…
Are spot Bitcoin ETFs at risk after custodian Coinbase reports $667M loss? The 1.5M BTC question
Coinbase just posted the kind of earnings report that makes two groups of people sweat at the same time. The first gr…