Backpack said users who stake its token for a year will have the opportunity to exchange them for equity in the company.
Strategy's holdings account for more than 3.4% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply — worth around $47.5 billion.
Bitdeer CEO Jihan Wu said the company's zero-bitcoin balance is not permanent after the miner sold its final 943.1 BTC.
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
The liquidation makes Bitdeer the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by self-mining hashrate to hold no BTC on its balance sheet.
The tokenized shares were issued by the BNP Paribas’ AssetFoundryTM platform using a "permissioned access model on Ethereum."
FOCIL was officially “scheduled for inclusion” as the consensus-layer (CL) headliner for the upcoming Hegota upgrade, targeted for late 2026.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
BGD Labs said it will cease contributions to Aave after April 1, ending a four-year role as a core protocol contributor.
Bitcoin mining difficulty jumped 14.7% to 144.4T in a record absolute increase as hashrate rebounded after U.S. winter storm curtailments.
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich pushed back against online criticism of the company's transparency and bitcoin strategy.
Newity has raised $11 million in new funding led by CMT Digital as it explores taking its small business lending platform onchain.
The onchain analytics startup, launched in early 2021, raised a $1.25 million seed round and a $4 million seed extension.
Mizuho keeps its $26 price target for Gemini and argues cost reductions and a narrower geographic focus could improve margins over time.
This lifetime transaction total includes about $3.5 billion in onchain trading activity across Solana, Ethereum, and TON.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Institutional ownership of Sharplink’s common stock has grown to 46% as of Dec. 31, according to the latest available 13F filings.
Bitdeer plans $300 million convertible note offering to expand high-performance computing; shares drop 18%, down 37% this month.
CME Group will begin offering 24/7 cryptocurrency futures and options trading on May 29 as volumes hit record highs.
Voltage launched a USD-settled Bitcoin Lightning Network revolving credit line following a $1 million institutional Lightning transaction.
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum designed to support tokenized real-world assets and onchain financial services.
S&P Global gave the majority of the bonds the less-than-stellar rating of BBB-, according to a Feb. 9 report.
"We continue to give a slight edge to the states in this legal fight primarily because the states have historically been the regulators of sports gambling."
Eligible U.S. users, excluding those in New York, can now borrow up to $100,000 in USDC without selling the four tokens, Coinbase said.
Apex Group plans to test USD1's stablecoin infrastructure within traditional fund administration, aiming to speed settlement for tokenized assets.
This is the first time Solomon has said he owns the cryptocurrency, something he previusly said could be "a store of value case."
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The filing provides little detail on the firm or its funding source, leaving the identity of the ultimate investors behind the IBIT position unclear.
Kraken acquired the token management platform Magna, marking the exchange’s sixth acquisition over the past 12 months.
Immunova is exercising a call option to acquire iOx Therapeutics Limited, a wholly owned AlphaTON subsidiary that develops cancer treatments.