The move comes amid ongoing tensions with Aave DAO over which entity ultimately controls the Aave lending protocol.
A Glassnode analyst noted that 44% of the bitcoin supply is "now underwater," given that the token has dropped about 30% in the past month.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Buterin previously championed a "rollup-centric" roadmap that would scale Ethereum through a network of branded shards.
The company said it has acquired brownfield infrastructure sites in both Kentucky and Maryland in order to grow power capacity.
Standard Chartered sees Solana evolving “from memecoins to micropayments", with forecasts of SOL to $2,000 by 2030.
S&P says the euro stablecoin market cap could reach €1.1 trillion by 2030, equivalent to 4.2% of eurozone bank deposits.
YC's Nemil Dalal told The Block that funding will be in USDC across major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Base, and Solana.
The Avalanche Policy Coalition unveiled a new advisory council, led by Ava Labs General Counsel Lee Schneider.
The non-profit Safe foundation said the project is “not yet profitable,” though the team hopes to "break-even and double revenue in 2026."
NX8 is the first product rolled out under Nansen’s Joint Venture Protocol, an initiative to support onchain infrastructure development.
Tether has launched MiningOS, an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining as an alternative to proprietary software.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov has purchased a £22 million mansion in the pricy residential area of London’s Notting Hill, per Bloomberg.
Crypto advocacy groups called a White House meeting on Monday to discuss an intensely contested topic on how to treat stablecoin rewards.
Bitcoin miner profitability has been on a multi-year decline as network hashpower continues to push to new highs, The Block data shows.
NYAG Letitia James and other top prosecutors in the state are raising concerns over the recently enacted GENIUS stablecoin law.
New transaction standards aim to let AI systems access data, services & digital assets without relying on traditional checkout or login flows.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
And the more significant challenge is securing enough Democratic support in the Senate for the crypto legislation, TD Cowen added.
MiniPay counts millions of phone-verified wallets and has seen rapid USDT transaction growth across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
HyperLiquid is adding general-purpose Outcome trading as an expansion to Hyperliquid’s in-progress HIP-4 update.
Arcium has launched its Mainnet Alpha on Solana, taking its encrypted computation network live as Umbra debuts a shielded finance layer.
Zama rolled out its ZAMA token while debuting Total Value Shielded, a new privacy metric, after encrypting over $121 million on Ethereum.
Ripple secured full Luxembourg EMI approval on Feb. 2, finalizing a licensing process that began with preliminary authorization last month.
Through a built-in 'Prediction' feature, Jupiter users can now access Polymarket contracts without leaving the app.
A missing validation check seemingly allowed multiple attackers to spoof cross-chain messages and drain the protocol's PortalV2 contract.
The attack sent Step Finance's native STEP token plummeting more than 60% as the protocol enlists security firms to investigate the incident.
2025 marked Tether’s “second-largest annual issuance in its history,” with over $50 billion new USDT added to the circulating supply.
Representatives from Coinbase, crypto trade groups and banking organizations are expected to meet next week to discuss the treatment of stablecoin rewards.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.