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Opera shares jump 18% after MiniPay adds Tether’s USDT stablecoin
MiniPay counts millions of phone-verified wallets and has seen rapid USDT transaction growth across Africa, Latin Ame…
Cboe targets prediction market with ‘all-or-nothing’ options revival: WSJ
Cboe explores reviving all-or-nothing options as prediction markets hit record volumes and draw billions in retail tr…
Zama launches token, debuts privacy metric after more than $121 million shielded on Ethereum
Zama rolled out its ZAMA token while debuting Total Value Shielded, a new privacy metric, after encrypting over $121 …
Binance commits to gigantic Bitcoin purchase as an implicit apology for October liquidation meltdown
Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair l…
Quantum threat gets real: Ethereum Foundation prioritizes security with leanVM and PQ signatures
Earlier in January, the Ethereum Foundation formally elevated post-quantum security to a strategic priority, creating…
Bitcoin hashrate drops 12% in worst drawdown since China mining ban: CryptoQuant
A severe winter storm has forced US miners to curtail operations, dragging bitcoin’s hashrate, output and miner mar…
Tether Breaks Records: $10B Profit And $186B USDT Now In Circulation
Tether closed out the year with numbers that turned a few heads in finance circles. Reports say the firm posted net p…
Tether's gold holdings top $17 billion as net profits surpassed $10 billion for 2025
The stablecoin giant saw sharp growth in its USDT token's supply, and was one of the world's largest U.S. government …
Tether rakes in over $10 billion net profit in 2025 as excess reserves top $6.3 billion
2025 marked Tether’s “second-largest annual issuance in its history,” with over $50 billion new USDT added to t…
Coinbase, crypto and bank organizations set to hash out stablecoin rewards at White House summit on Monday
Representatives from Coinbase, crypto trade groups and banking organizations are expected to meet next week to discus…
The Daily: Trump names crypto-friendly Kevin Warsh as Fed chair nominee, Binance pledges $1 billion SAFU fund to bitcoin, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Lido’s new stVaults will let L2s create their own rules for Ethereum staking
stVaults let other teams plug into Lido’s staking system instead of building their own from scratch.
Lido rolls out stVaults on mainnet with Day 1 users including Linea, Nansen and several institutional stakers
stVaults, introduced in February 2025 as part of the Lido V3 upgrade, are finally rolling out in a mainnet.
Vitalik Buterin commits roughly $45 million in ETH to open-source security and privacy projects
Vitalik Buterin personally pledged 16,384 ETH to fund privacy-focused projects amid the Ethereum Foundation's shift t…
Binance seeks top spot in South Korean market, targets full GoFi repayment in 2026
Binance acquired Gopax in 2023 amid its liquidity crisis, opening a pathway for a re-entry into the South Korean market.
Binance pledges $1 billion fund to bitcoin as market tanks to months-low
Binance announced that it will turn its $1 billion SAFU fund into bitcoin over the next 30 days to support the indust…
The Daily: ‘The DAO is back!’ Tether rebuffs stablecoin yield claims, Senate Agriculture Committee advances crypto bill, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin’s quantum risk is ‘long-dated and manageable,’ Benchmark pushes back on panic
Analysts agree only a subset of bitcoin would be vulnerable in a future quantum scenario, though estimates and timeli…
Bitcoin's Quantum threat is ‘real but distant,’ says Wall Street analyst as doomsday debate rages on
Wall Street broker Benchmark argued the crypto network has ample time to evolve as quantum risks shift from theory to…
‘We don’t have much beef in this fight’ says Tether CEO as stablecoin yield stalls crypto bill
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says he is not taking a position on the debate over stablecoin yields, a flashpoint that has…
Five years after the GameStop saga, Robinhood CEO wants tokenized stocks to trade onchain 24/7
Robinhood plans to roll out 24/7 tokenized stock trading and settlement to mitigate GameStop-like disruptions as regu…
Bybit eyes neobank features with IBAN accounts rollout planned for February
The exchange is also exploring a potential U.S. expansion alongside institutional custody services for tokenized real…
Crypto PAC Fairshake amasses $193 million war chest ahead of November midterms
Crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake said it has more than $193 million in cash as it heads into the 2…
Token creation platform Doppler raises $9 million seed round led by Pantera Capital
Since launching nine months ago, Doppler says more than 90% of new DEX pools on Base now launch through its protocol.
Coinbase prediction markets go live in all 50 US states via Kalshi
The full rollout comes after an earlier limited launch and as prediction markets are seeing record levels of activity…
The Daily: Tether’s ‘gold central bank’ ambitions, Morgan Stanley’s crypto push, Fidelity’s stablecoin launch on Ethereum, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
MegaETH mainnet to go live Feb. 9 in major test of ‘real-time’ Ethereum scaling
This follows its October 2025 $450 million token sale that was heavily oversubscribed.
Mizuho upgrades Circle shares outlook citing Polymarket’s use of USDC for settlement
The firm's analysts upgraded Circle shares to a “neutral” rating and raised the share price target to $77.
AlphaTON says Telegram’s Cocoon AI is now generating revenue as GPU rollout ramps
AlphaTON is growing into a large early infrastructure contributor to Cocoon AI as it deploys GPUs under a $46M comput…
UK advertising watchdog pulls Coinbase ads over concerns it was ‘socially irresponsible’
The ASA says a string of advertisements from Coinbase have been banned over concerns that they were "socially irrespo…