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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…
AI agent platform ai16z officially rebrands to ElizaOS
Ai16z, an open-source platform for building and managing AI agents, has undergone a rebranding to ElizaOS.
Blockchain Startup BTQ Proposes More Energy Efficient Alternative to Crypto's Proof of Work
A new paper proposes using a method called "coarse-grained boson-sampling" to validate the proof of work process and …
The Daily: French authorities escalate probe into Binance, US Senate confirms pro-crypto Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Symbiotic launches first fully permissionless and modular restaking protocol to go into production on Ethereum mainnet
Symbiotic is launching on Ethereum, marking the first fully permissionless restaking protocol to go live in a product…
New Layer 1 network developer Pod raises $10 million in seed funding
Pod aims for transaction speeds as fast as a Google search. Investors in the seed round include a16z CSX, 1kx and Fla…
Analog reaches $300 million valuation in $5 million round ahead of token launch
Analog is set to launch its token on Feb. 6, following its recent mainnet debut, co-founder Victor Young, told The Bl…
Maple Finance launches ‘Lend + Long’ product that buys bitcoin call options using revenue from its high-yield lending pool
The decentralized lending platform launched a “first-of-its-kind” onchain structured yield product targeted towar…
Rune drops 30% as THORChain suspends THORFi operations amid ‘restructuring’ efforts
THORChain has paused THORFi services as it faces financial uncertainties with allegations of insolvency swirling around.
Ethereum-based lending protocol Litquity’s newest version wants you to fork it
Liquity V2, which enables borrowers to pick their own interest rates, will direct 100% of its revenues to grow the BO…
Frax community discusses proposal to invest $5 million in Trump-backed WLFI token
The protocol has put up a governance proposal for a temperature check on potentially investing $5 million in World Li…
Corn raises $8.3 million in community funding to push Bitcoin’s use on its Ethereum Layer 2
Corn, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to use tokenized bitcoin in DeFi, raised $8.3 million in a community fund…
Real-world asset TVL rises to $7.3 billion as government securities dominate
This shift suggests increasing confidence in regulated, government-backed digital assets and indicates a maturing mar…
Crypto wallet Keplr raises $5 million seed round at $50 million valuation
Keplr, a crypto wallet provider, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round after four years of operating as a boo…
US court rules against Tornado Cash sanctions, TORN cryptocurrency surges 140%
A U.S. District Court has reversed a previous District Court decision that supported sanctions on crypto mixer Tornad…
Uniswap version 4 deployments to begin rolling out this week
Uniswap Labs said its v4 deployment would start this week so developers can test hooks, and full deployment is expect…
Obol Collective to airdrop OBOL tokens to thousands of solo stakers and node operators
The airdrop will account for 7.5% of the total OBOL supply. There are “three main buckets” of recipients, Thomas …
Abu Dhabi-backed VC firm invests $5 million in ZKsync-based crypto exchange GRVT
Crypto exchange GRVT has raised $5 million in equity funding from Further Ventures, a VC firm backed by Abu Dhabi's s…
Hyperliquid reports record-high $22 billion in 24-hour volume
The exchange recently listed official memecoins from U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.
Linea filters over half a million Sybil addresses from upcoming token airdrop
Linea partnered with Nansen to detect 'Sybil' behavior, which included automated and coordinated activities across re…
Winklevoss twins’ Gemini exchange selects Malta as Europe MiCA hub
The biggest challenge in MiCA compliance was allocating resources to build the required infrastructure, Gemini’s he…
Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings immortalizes portrait of Trump as block art
The publicly traded company formerly known as Marathon Digital mined a portrait of Donald Trump using a strategy of o…
Orbiter Finance unveils OBT token details amid plans for Inauguration Day launch and airdrop
Orbiter Finance's OBT will have a total supply of 10 billion tokens and launch on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Base.
SoSoValue set to airdrop 49 million tokens in first season
SoSoValue, a crypto market data provider, is set to airdrop a total of 49 million SOSO tokens for the first season.
Solana-based social graph protocol Tapestry raises $5.75 million in Series A funding
Solana protocol Tapestry raised $5.75 million in a Series A round co-led by Union Square Ventures and Fabric Ventures.
Jito Labs hires crypto legal veteran Rebecca Rettig as first chief legal officer
Jito's new Chief Legal Officer Rebecca Rettig will help the firm navigate the changing legal and regulatory landscape.
Coinbase launches Bitcoin-backed onchain loans via DeFi protocol Morpho
Coinbase has launched Bitcoin-backed onchain loans through Morpho, a decentralized lending protocol available on Ethe…
30% of Ethereum validators signal higher block gas limit, data shows
Over 30% of Ethereum validators have signaled support for increasing the block gas limit, according to data compiled …
Pyth launches new oracle ‘Lazer’ to offer price feeds to latency-sensitive apps
Pyth Network has introduced Lazer, a new oracle solution designed to complement its existing Pyth Core offering.
Fetch.ai launches $10M accelerator for AI agent startups
Fetch.ai has launched a $10 million accelerator program to empower startups in AI agents, quantum computing and high-…