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Activist investor Starboard says Riot AI pivot could be worth up to $21 billion as miner lags peers
Starboard argues Riot’s Texas power assets position the company to secure large AI data center tenants if managemen…
Tokenized pre-IPO shares topic ignites legal debate at Consensus Hong Kong 2026
Ultan Miller touts a blockchain-based pre-IPO index, while critics warn unauthorized equity tokenization risks legal …
Hyperliquid Foundation sets up DeFi policy advocacy group with $29 million HYPE token donation
The independent research and advocacy organization will be dedicated to ensuring that DeFi can flourish in the U.S., …
Bitwise seeks SEC nod for 2028 election prediction market ETFs as Wall Street pushes to wrap bets
Bitwise filed for prediction market ETFs tied to the 2028 U.S. presidential election amid state regulatory scrutiny o…
DeFi lending protocol Moonwell hit with $1.8 million bad debt after oracle misconfiguration
Moonwell confirmed roughly $1.8 million in bad debt after a misconfigured oracle priced cbETH incorrectly and trigger…
Mizuho sees BitGo upsides, calling custodian ‘military-grade’ despite 44% post-IPO slump
Analysts expect BitGo’s recurring custody & staking revenue to cushion earnings compared with more trading-dependen…
Zora launches ‘attention markets’ on Solana
Zora, a socialfi platform closely associated with the Ethereum Layer 2 Base, is launching its new attention market pl…
The Daily: Logan Paul sells previously tokenized Pokemon card for $16M, Gemini parts ways with top execs, Strategy’s latest bitcoin buy, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Benchmark cuts Metaplanet target, says earnings show ‘promise and peril’ of bitcoin pivot
Analysts say Metaplanet’s bitcoin-linked income business is becoming critical to funding expansion while avoiding f…
Gemini exchange parts ways with CFO, COO and CLO in ‘big shakeup’
Gemini will not replace its COO, with co-founder Cameron Winklevoss absorbing key operational and revenue responsibil…
Crypto infrastructure project unveils LI.FI Composer, a multi-step transaction orchestrator
LiFI Composer allows users to combine different actions like swaps, bridging, deposits, and staking into a single tra…
The hardware hurdle: Cysic and Cardano clash over the future of decentralized compute
At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Leo Fan questioned Midnight’s use of Google Cloud and Azure, as Charles Hoskinson just…
Ethereum bots are burning over 50% of gas fees so ETH strangely needs privacy tech to fix it at scale
On some Ethereum L2s, bots now burn over half the gas just searching for MEV, and they don’t pay proportionally for…
Standard Chartered slashes XRP price target by 65% as whales send millions of tokens to Binance
XRP is sliding even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) rolls out features that supporters have long framed as a bridge to insti…
Anthony Scaramucci’s son buys Logan Paul’s previously tokenized Pokemon card for record $16 million
In April 2022, Logan Paul raised $8 million to launch Liquid Marketplace, a platform for tokenizing physical and digi…
Crypto’s $300 billion stablecoin supply is increasingly used as ‘everyday money,’ global study finds
Stablecoin use in everyday spending, cross-border work, and savings allocation is growing rapidly among crypto-savvy …
Coinbase diamond hands vs Binance panic sellers — the $60,000 stress test
Bitcoin's recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidat…
The Daily: Kevin O’Leary wins $2.8M defamation judgment against Ben ‘BitBoy’ Armstrong, Harvard trims bitcoin ETF holdings, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
From Wall Street to Web3: This is crypto’s year of integration, Silicon Valley Bank says
From bank-led stablecoins to tokenized T-bills and AI-powered wallets, digital assets will move from pilot projects t…
XRPL holds 63% of this T-bill token supply but barely any of the trading, and that’s a problem
Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and uti…
Robinhood’s $221 million crypto revenue drop shows crypto winter isn’t on chain and retail already moved
Crypto winter has a branding problem. The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and t…
Benchmark cuts Coinbase price target by 37% but says business is ‘more diversified and durable’ than ever
Benchmark's Mark Palmer cut his COIN price target to $267 from $421, citing worsening crypto market conditions, while…
X to launch ‘Smart Cashtags’ for in-timeline crypto and stock trading within ‘a couple weeks’
Bier also promised forthcoming efforts to cut down on spam posts and apps on X, a stance which has sometimes drawn th…
Galaxy’s Steve Kurz sees ‘great convergence’ driving crypto’s long-term outlook
The firm's asset-management chief says the recent crypto selloff reflects healthy deleveraging, while infrastructure …
Traders walked into a “free Bitcoin” trap on Bithumb and it triggered a 17% flash drop
One input mistake at South Korea’s Bithumb turned a routine promo payout into a $44 billion disaster for a simple r…
Elon Musk’s X to enable crypto and stock trading with Smart Cashtags
Integrating trading features on X could revolutionize social media's role in finance, potentially increasing user eng…
Tether invests in Hyperliquid frontend Dreamcash, offering perps markets for TSLA, gold and more using USDT0 collateral
Dreamcash said Tether made a strategic investment in the project in the wake of its 10 RWA perps deployments.
The Daily: South Korean police lose seized bitcoin, Binance France head targeted in failed home invasion attempt, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
CZ rejects ‘contradicting’ claims Binance fired investigators after Iran-linked probe findings
Independent blockchain analytics firms have recently reported growing use of stablecoins by Iranian entities to move …
Trump Media and Technology Group files two new crypto ETF proposals following SEC delay
Trump Media and Technology Group is looking to list a fund tracking the native token for Crypto.com's Cronos network,…