Riot's pursuit of Bitfarms began nearly one year ago and eventually reached a settlement agreement in September.
The SEC intends to host a round table with Coinbase and other crypto legal rivals, and Ripple plans to acquire Hidden Road for $1.25 billion.
Ripple is set to acquire global prime brokerage platform Hidden Road for $1.25 billion. According to an April 8 statement, this acquisition makes Ripple the first crypto-native firm to own and operate a multi-asset prime broker with an established institutional network. Ripple noted that the deal will deepen its institutional service offerings and build a […]
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims that the crypto industry is "at an inflection point for the next phase of digital asset adoption."
Former Binance CEO Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao also joins Pakistan Crypto Council as advisor, and the stablecoin startup Cap raised $8 million in seed funding.
Other investors include prominent financial institutions Susquehanna and Triton Capital as well as dozens of crypto native firms and angels.
Stablecoins are one of crypto's clearest success stories — and VCs are treating them as a serious long-term bet. Here’s why.
The popular crypto commentator will stay on as an advisor to the influential firm as he doubles down on expanding the SEAL 911 security team.
The following is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
"You can't IPO into a market collapsing like 2008,” Austin Campbell, CEO of payments firm WSPN, told The Block.
The startup is building a blockchain geared for stablecoins on Optimism in a bid to boost enterprise use cases.
Republic will fold INX into its operations to bolster its blockchain investment services.
The so-called AppChain aims to enhance the speed collateral can move between traditionally “siloed” systems.
After a five-year absence, CoinList is making a U.S. comeback and hosting its first token sale for DoubleZero Foundation.
VanEck is a global investment management firm focused on specialized and often underrepresented asset classes.
Trump's sons announced a new bitcoin venture with miner Hut 8 as President's family dug deeper into the crypto industry.
Bpifrance's ability to make direct token investments became "much more urgent" in light of the United States' accelerating crypto strategy.
23andMe, the genetic testing company that went public in 2021, announced on March 23 that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Capital providers have been "more sensitive towards VC funding due to the general market conditions," said Maven 11's Balder Bomans.
Strobe Ventures led the round with participation from Brevan Howard and angels Rune Christensen, Andre Cronje and Stani Kulechov, among others.
The company is focused on providing consumers with a way to spend stablecoins with limited friction.
Coinbase is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Deribit, Kraken is set to acquire NinjaTrader and Robinhood is integrating Bitstamp.
Coinbase is in advanced negotiations to acquire the crypto derivatives platform Deribit, Bloomberg News reported on March 21, citing people familiar with the matter. The parties have reportedly notified Dubai regulators about the ongoing discussions since Deribit holds a license in the jurisdiction that would transfer to any acquiring entity. Sources told the newswire that […]
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The firm previously raised $1.5 billion, which it deployed slowly following the crypto market downturn in 2022.
In January, Deribit obtained a financial adviser to "review opportunities" after attracting attention from possible buyers.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The Walrus Foundation plans to use its financing to continue developing Walrus, which is expected to launch on mainnet on March 27.
The credit line is for moments of extreme liquidity demand, such as the recent Trump memecoin launch, MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright told The Block.
The TON Foundation said a group of VCs including Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, Benchmark and Kingsway invested over $400 million buying Toncoin.
The deal is designed to accelerate Kraken’s multi-asset-class ambitions — including plans for equities trading and payments.