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SOL Strategies deepens Solana footprint with STKESOL liquid staking token
SOL Strategies has launched STKESOL, staking over 500,000 SOL to expand its Solana-focused infrastructure operations.
Makina Finance suffers $5 million stablecoin pool exploit: CertiK
Makina Finance’s DUSD/USDC pool lost approximately $5 million in a flash loan exploit, security firms reported.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to work on market structure bill in Davos
Coinbase withdrew support from the bill after seeing that it would ban crypto companies from paying interest on idle …
Bermuda teams up with Coinbase and Circle, aiming to build a ‘fully onchain’ economy
The initiative aims to pilot stablecoin payments across government agencies, expand USDC adoption among local busines…
The Daily: Bitcoin slips as US-EU tariff war fears mount, NYSE develops 24/7 tokenized securities trading platform, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on every weekday.
Paradex’s ‘free bitcoin’ pricing glitch triggers mass liquidations, forces rollback
Paradex intends to roll back its appchain after a glitch briefly priced bitcoin at zero, triggering mass liquidations.
NYSE develops tokenized securities platform to support 24/7 trading
The initiative builds on parent firm ICE's broader push toward round-the-clock markets and tokenized capital infrastr…
Ethereum transactions hit record as staking exit queue drops to zero
The record jump comes as Ethereum’s validator exit queue has dropped to zero while entry queues remain long.
XRP volume is exploding in Korea because it exploits a specific gap in the country’s spot-only exchange laws
XRP has become the default trading chip of South Korea, bypassing Bitcoin and Ethereum to dominate the country’s hi…
Two solo bitcoin miners hit rare $300,000 jackpots in the same week
Two independent miners mined full blocks and collected roughly 3.15 BTC each, an uncommon outcome in a network domina…
Anchorage Digital could raise up to $400 million as IPO rumors swirl: Bloomberg
Market onlookers have long speculated that Anchorage, the first federally chartered digital asset bank, was consideri…
Vitalik Buterin declares 2026 the year Ethereum reverses ‘backsliding’ of self-sovereignty and trustlessness
Buterin said major improvements are underway to make it easier to run a full node, use dapps, and take control over p…
Monero hit an all-time high earlier this week, and crypto sleuth ZachXBT thinks he knows why
ZachXBT said that funds stolen during a social engineering hack were swapped to Monero, helping to push the asset to …
The Daily: Jefferies strategist drops 10% bitcoin allocation over quantum fears, Google Play bans overseas crypto exchanges in South Korea, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Tom Lee's BitMine pushes Ethereum into $8 billion staking backlog
New validators now need to wait more than 44 days to start earning staking rewards, the biggest backlog since late Ju…
X users celebrate crackdown on ‘plague’ of AI-led reply spam as InfoFi platforms seek alternatives
X is revising its developer API policies to no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on the social media pl…
Jefferies’ Wood drops 10% bitcoin allocation over quantum computing fears
Wood removed bitcoin from his model portfolio, reallocating the 10% stake into gold and gold-mining stocks amid quant…
Iran’s crypto ecosystem nears $8B as IRGC footprint grows and bitcoin withdrawals surge during protests: Chainalysis
Chainalysis said Iran’s crypto ecosystem topped $7.78 billion in 2025 as IRGC-linked activity grew and BTC withdraw…
Utah man sentenced to three years for fraud, $5.4 million cash-to-crypto scheme
Brian Garry Sewell sentenced to three years for defrauding investors of $2.9 million and laundering $5.4 million.
Google Play to ban overseas crypto exchanges from South Korea store
Play Store will soon require all crypto platforms to register as a VASP with the Korean authorities to offer apps in …
More people are using Ethereum for the first time, data shows
The rise in new wallets suggests broader interest in Ethereum, driven by decentralized finance, stablecoin transfers,…
Cake wallet adds Zcash support as it expands beyond its Monero roots
Cake offers a suite of privacy tools, including Bitcoin PayJoin transactions, though it is often associated most with…
Interactive Brokers unlocks 24/7 funding with USDC, plans to rollout Ripple and PayPal stablecoins next week
The integration is powered by Zerohash, a B2B crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider backed by Interactive Bro…
The Daily: Bank of America’s $6T stablecoin warning, BitMine’s $200M MrBeast investment, X’s InfoFi policy change hits Kaito token, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Kaito token plummets after X revises API policies to ban ‘infofi’ crypto projects
Infofi has led to a "tremendous amount of AI slop & reply spam" on the X platform, the firm's product lead said.
CME adds Cardano, Chainlink and Stellar to growing crypto derivatives lineup
CME is positioning crypto futures as a testing ground for broader changes like smaller contract sizes and, eventually…
Ripple, LMAX Group strike deal to expand institutional stablecoin use with $150 million in financing
Ripple will provide $150 million in financing as LMAX Group integrates RLUSD as collateral across its institutional t…
Anchorage unlocks onchain lending using off-chain collateral via Spark
Anchorage tapped Spark to unlock onchain credit markets for its institutional clients who want to keep their assets i…
Stablecoins and self-custody are driving the rise of crypto neobanks
For years, crypto’s most ambitious builders focused on blockchains’ plumbing. But a growing number of projects ar…
Fogo launches high-speed blockchain mainnet after $7 million Binance token sale
Fogo aims to achieve 40-millisecond block times, making it “up to 18x faster” than rival throughput-maxing networ…