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Coinbase refutes rumors of White House's threat to pull support for crypto bill
"The White House has been super constructive here," said CEO Brian Armstrong.
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…
Coinbase CEO Claims Big Banks Are Aiming To ‘Kill Competition’ With Latest Crypto Market Bill Draft
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) recently retracted its support for the latest iteration of the crypto market …
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…
The US government just caved to a crypto exchange pulling support for legislation that changes everything for investors
The US crypto industry believed it stood on the precipice of securing the regulatory legitimacy it has pursued for a …
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…
Crypto Chill: Sentiment Drops As US Lawmakers Stir Market Fears
The market mood in crypto cooled sharply after a quick spike in optimism. According to the Crypto Fear & Greed Index,…
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,…
Tokenization firms reject Coinbase's crypto bill equities claims
While Coinbase said that the crypto market structure bill would essentially ban tokenized securities, companies in th…
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…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says company opposed crypto bill to protect consumers
Armstrong told CNBC that his firm pulled support for a sweeping digital assets bill after finding provisions that cou…
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.
DeFi community sees ‘bad’ crypto bill’s collapse as win, not setback
The latest push to establish a comprehensive U.S. crypto market structure framework hit a snag this week, but leaders…
The big crypto bill isn't dead, may return next month as Wall Street fight still looms
The digital assets crowd has been complaining bitterly about bank-lobbyist tactics, but Senate lawmakers have a much …
Coinbase fears tokenization rival Securitize, says Citron Research
Tokenization platform Securitize is going public — as soon as the first half of 2026 — through a SPAC deal with C…
Bitcoin Rally Reflects Buyer Conviction On Coinbase Spot Markets, Bull Run Back On?
The recent Bitcoin rally may be driven by real spot demand on Coinbase. Data indicating elevated spot activity on Coi…
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…
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…