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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…
Plunge in gold, silver, and copper sparks $120 million rout in blockchain metal clones
Metals remain a leading theme for the year while bitcoin trades independently, suggestive of its growing role as a st…
US DOJ finalizes $400 million forfeiture tied to Helix darknet crypto mixer
The DOJ said Helix processed at least 354,468 bitcoin between 2014 and 2017, worth about $300 million at the time.
Tokenization firm Securitize reports 841% revenue growth as it prepares to go public
With crypto prices and crypto-related stocks in the midst of a major selloff today, Securitize SPAC merger partner Ca…
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…
MegaETH outlines four KPIs determining release schedule for 53% of MEGA token supply
Over 50% of the MEGA supply will be released as “major milestones for the protocol are achieved," rather than a tim…
‘The DAO is back!’: Ethereum dev Griff Green to use unclaimed hack funds for new security fund
Some funds that were initially sequestered to help refund “edge case” victims of The DAO hack will fund a new Eth…
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…
Stablecoin growth stalls after October shock as Base leads transaction volume: ARK Invest
ARK Invest said stablecoin growth is stalling after October’s shock, with Base taking the lead in transaction volume.
Hang Seng debuts gold ETF with Ethereum-based tokenized units
The fund introduces a tokenized class of units, which are initially set to be issued on Ethereum, according to its pr…
Sony’s VC arm invests $13 million more in web3 infrastructure firm Startale
Sony's increased investment in Startale highlights the growing importance of blockchain infrastructure in shaping fut…
Sony Innovation Fund invests $13 million in Soneium co-developer Startale Group, kicking off its Series A fundraising
Sony's latest $13 million follow-on investment represents "the first close" of Startale Group's Series A, the firm sa…
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.
Illicit actors capture nearly 3% of crypto liquidity in 2025: TRM
TRM Labs estimates that illicit crypto volume surged to an all-time high of $158 billion in 2025, representing just 1…
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…
The Protocol: Ethereum to roll out new AI agents standard soon
Plus: Solana’s latest phase, OP token buybacks and EF post-quantum security team.
Peter Thiel and Galaxy-backed Citrea wants to turn idle bitcoin into a high-speed bank account
Founders Fund and Galaxy-backed Citrea is aiming to unlock Bitcoin-denominated credit markets with a new mainnet and …
Consensys-backed Linea integrates Phylax’s Credible Layer to proactively prevent smart contract exploits
Phylax's Credible Layer allows developers to preprogram rules — or “assertions” — into smart contracts to mit…
Tether is buying up to $1 billion of gold per month and storing it in a 'James Bond' bunker
The company's gold purchases are mostly for its own reserves, but also support its XAUT stablecoin.
WisdomTree extends full suite of tokenized funds to Solana
WisdomTree is extending the full suite of its tokenized funds onto Solana, one of its largest non-EVM chain deploymen…
OKX debuts OKX Card in Europe with zero fees and instant rewards
The launch of OKX Card in Europe could accelerate crypto adoption by integrating stablecoins into everyday transactio…
Ex-Revolut duo raise $6 million seed round to expand onchain finance app Bleap
The company plans to deploy the fresh capital toward yield vaults, onchain trading expansion, and growth across Latin…