The startup is building tools to help secure crypto networks such as Bitcoin against emerging threats from quantum computing.
Noise is building a prediction market for the relevancy of social media topics, similar to "a stock market for trends."
Vienna-based crypto exchange Bitpanda is reportedly seeking to go public in Germany at a valuation of roughly $4.6 billion to $5.8 billion.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The CoinList sale will run next week, with 8% of the 11 billion ZAMA token supply allocated and tokens available to claim on Feb. 2.
Genius Trading is building a privacy-focused DeFi trading platform and aims to become an onchain alternative to Binance.
Sequence offers smart wallet routing for "1-click" cross-network transfers, while Coinme has secured U.S. money-transmitter licenses.
The Kraken-affiliated company was built for the purpose of effecting a merger with one or more operating businesses.
Bakkt is continuing its strategic pivot to provide “B2B2C” turnkey operator services through a stablecoin infrastructure acquisition.
The privacy-preserving, Telegram-based Cocoon AI pays users in Toncoin for renting out their GPUs to process queries.
The launch deepens scrutiny around World Liberty as it seeks a U.S. bank charter, with critics pointing to Trump family financial conflicts.
Crypto custodian BitGo has filed to raise about $201 million in a U.S. IPO following a revenue surge in 2025.
In this edition, we explore why token buybacks are back in the spotlight, when they work, and when teams should think twice.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Rain has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round, valuing the stablecoin payments firm at $1.95 billion.
The deal is expected to close in Q2 2026 and could give Coincheck ownership of 3iQ’s regulated crypto ETFs and fund platforms.
Last year, RTFKT said it would wind down following several successful drops that have brought in nearly $50 million in lifetime earnings.
TRES, founded in 2022 to provide "compliant, audit-ready financial records," will help round out Fireblocks' product suite.
Babylon's vaults allow native Bitcoin to be verifiably locked as collateral while remaining on the Bitcoin blockchain.
The acquisition adds staking as a new business line under a newly launched infrastructure solutions division at The Tie.
Crypto VCs told The Block they expect disciplined activity to persist in 2026, with a higher bar for new investments.
Industry insiders expect deal momentum to continue into 2026, driven by consolidation, targeted acquisitions, and a still-open IPO window.
The deal to acquire South Korea's fourth-largest crypto exchange by daily volume is valued at around $70 to $100 million, per local reports.
Against a backdrop of broadly weak token performance in 2025, Layer 1 (L1) activity increasingly split across distinct roles and narratives. Speculative flows concentrated on a handful of high-throughput venues, while Ethereum deepened its position as a settlement and data availability hub through L2-driven growth and falling fees. Stablecoins cemented their status as the ecosystem’s […]
AX allows institutional investors to trade non-expiring derivatives linked to assets such as equities and foreign exchange.
The bank aims to service technology companies working with virtual currencies, artificial intelligence, defense, and manufacturing.
The deal follows Coinbase’s recent rollout of prediction markets on its platform and is expected to close in January.
The acquisition expands Hilbert's systematic trading toolkit as institutional demand for quant-driven crypto exposure continues to grow.
The sale came just days before Tether-backed video streaming site Rumble announced its $767 million agreement to acquire Northern Data.
Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects. While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the […]
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