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Missouri advances bitcoin reserve bill to House committee, reviving crypto treasury push
HB 2080 seeks to create a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund and let the state treasurer receive, invest and hold bitcoin.
Bitcoin sinks below $65,000 as macro shocks rattle fragile market: analysts
Nearly $360 million in crypto long positions were liquidated in an hour, according to Coinglass' heatmap based on ava…
The Funding: Why TradFi giants like BlackRock are buying DeFi tokens now
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
Trump’s crypto firm made $1.2 billion in 16 months because it found a way to sell resort debt as tokens
A Trump-linked crypto firm is bringing the former president's brand into the structured credit market. World Liberty …
Mentioning 'bitcoin' or crypto on AI agent OpenClaw's Discord will get you banned
The project's creator nearly deleted the viral AI agent after crypto scammers hijacked his accounts, launched a fake …
CryptoQuant says bitcoin whale deposit activity grows amid ongoing bear phase
CryptoQuant said the exchange whale ratio has risen to 0.64, the highest level since 2015, suggesting whales are lead…
IoTeX Suffers $8 Million Hack After Private Key Compromise
As the crypto industry adopts AI-focused blockchain netowrk it is exposing itself to more security risks. IoTeX, a b…
BNP Paribas taps Ethereum for new money market fund tokenization pilot
The tokenized shares were issued by the BNP Paribas’ AssetFoundryTM platform using a "permissioned access model on …
Vitalik Buterin is building a ‘cypherpunk principled non-ugly Ethereum’ as devs officially add FOCIL to upgrade roadmap
FOCIL was officially “scheduled for inclusion” as the consensus-layer (CL) headliner for the upcoming Hegota upgr…
The Daily: Ripple CEO sees 90% chance of crypto bill passing by end of April, BGD Labs to stop contributing to Aave, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Dubai takes next step to make real estate flips instant in $16 billion tokenization plan
Dubai Land Department and Ctrl Alt move to the next phase of real estate tokenization project, enabling the resale of…
Ethereum’s 2026 roadmap just hit — but ETH won’t recover until one metric flips
Ethereum’s new roadmap lands in a market that is less interested in vision and more interested in evidence. That is…
RWA issuers prioritize capital formation over liquidity, according to Brickken survey
Exclusive fourth quarter data shows 69.2% of issuers are live, while 84.6% report regulatory friction shaping tokeniz…
BGD Labs to cease Aave contributions after four years as governance tensions grow
BGD Labs said it will cease contributions to Aave after April 1, ending a four-year role as a core protocol contributor.
Malaysian authorities arrest 12 police officers over alleged crypto extortion: report
Malaysian authorities arrested 12 police officers accused of forcing a Chinese national to transfer their cryptocurre…
Bitcoin mining difficulty jumps 15%, posting record absolute increase as hashrate rebounds after US winter storm
Bitcoin mining difficulty jumped 14.7% to 144.4T in a record absolute increase as hashrate rebounded after U.S. winte…
The Bitcoin CME gap is dead – and past gaps could close forever in May this year
CME Group has spent most of its life as the financial plumbing moving the gears behind wheat hedges, rate bets, equit…
‘We have not underperformed’: Metaplanet CEO pushes back against online criticism
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich pushed back against online criticism of the company's transparency and bitcoin strategy.
Fintech firm Newity raises $11 million to bring small business loans onchain
Newity has raised $11 million in new funding led by CMT Digital as it explores taking its small business lending plat…
Gemini stock slump may already factor in leadership exits, Mizuho says
Mizuho keeps its $26 price target for Gemini and argues cost reductions and a narrower geographic focus could improve…
Tokenized xStocks surpass $25 billion in total transaction volume: Kraken
This lifetime transaction total includes about $3.5 billion in onchain trading activity across Solana, Ethereum, and …
The Daily: Hacker returns $21 million in stolen bitcoin, Robinhood Chain testnet hits four million transactions in first week, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Robinhood vs. Vitalik: Why the trading app is building it own L2 while Ethereum founder cools on them
Centralized exchanges are moving forward building their own blockchain infrastructure even as the broader Ethereum ec…
Trump-linked World Liberty taps BlackRock-backed Securitize for hotel tokenization
The companies are working to structure and tokenize loan revenue tied to the Trump Organization's Maldives resort pro…
CME Group to launch 24/7 crypto futures and options trading on May 29
CME Group will begin offering 24/7 cryptocurrency futures and options trading on May 29 as volumes hit record highs.
Voltage expands bitcoin infrastructure with USD-settled revolving credit line on Lightning Network
Voltage launched a USD-settled Bitcoin Lightning Network revolving credit line following a $1 million institutional L…
Soil launches RLUSD yield protocol on XRP Ledger, expanding utility for Ripple’s stablecoin
Soil has launched what it describes as the first compliant real-world asset-backed yield protocol on XRP Ledger for R…
SocGen taps XRP Ledger for euro stablecoin distribution
The French banking giant expands its euro stablecoin to a third blockchain, deepening institutional use of XRPL for c…
Crypto VC funding surging again sounds like a rally, until you trace where the money actually lands
Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a …
Robinhood’s Layer 2 testnet sees four million transactions in first week, CEO Vlad Tenev says
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum designed to support tokenized real-world assets and onchain …