Telegram is looking to raise $1.5 billion, including from existing backers like BlackRock and Abu Dhabi’s investment firm Mubadala.
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), a company backed by US President Donald Trump, has announced plans to raise $2.5 billion through a mix of stock and convertible note offerings to purchase Bitcoin, according to a May 27 statement. This planned purchase would help the firm reach the top 10 corporate Bitcoin holders globally. Strategy (formerly […]
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The stablecoin issuer forked over $9.9 million in cash and approximately 2.9 million fully-vested common shares.
Circle, the USDC stablecoin issuer, has filed to go public under the ticker “CRCL” through an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to a May 27 announcement. The firm plans to offer 24 million shares of Class A common stock as part of the listing. Circle will directly issue 9.6 […]
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The Wall Street firm plans to initially make available up to $2 billion in financing for institutional clients.
Cobie's Echo has launched Sonar, a new ICO platform, with Plasma as its first project, which is offering 10% of its XPL token supply.
The Financial Times, citing six anonymous sources, said Trump's media group plans to raise and invest $3 billion into bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
Synthetix and Derive mutually canceled a $27 million acquisition deal under which Synthetix would have acquired Derive.
HeyMint removes the technical expertise needed to create an NFT collection and to grow a community.
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has unveiled plans to raise $2.1 billion via sales of its Series A Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock (STRF). According to the May 22 statement, the stock will be issued under an at-the-market (ATM) program. This structure allows Strategy to sell shares gradually, based on favorable market conditions like trading volume and price. […]
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The collaboration highlights a broader effort to set institutional standards in capital efficiency and digital asset management.
OpenAI announced on May 21 that it will acquire Jony Ive’s artificial intelligence hardware startup io in an all-equity transaction valued at approximately $6.4 billion, according to a report by CNBC. The acquisition, OpenAI’s largest to date, marks a decisive step into hardware for the company best known for its generative AI models. The deal […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
World plans to bolster its United States expansion as well as grow the World Network through the token sale.
ONe generates returns from a Solana-based reinsurance pool, which is compounded by sUSDe returns and ONRE protocol incentives.
Strive Asset Management Firm has partnered with 117 Castell Advisory Group to acquire distressed Bitcoin claims, including those linked to the long-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. According to a May 20 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firms will target claims that have received definitive legal rulings but are still awaiting distribution. […]
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Microsoft onboards its "first web3 data provider," Space & Time, providing developers access to Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain data.
The move marks the exchange’s latest European expansion, approximately a month and a half after launching its derivatives trading in the UK.
Circle is pressing ahead with plans to go public, but the stablecoin issuer is also exploring the possibility of a sale to either Coinbase or Ripple, Fortune reported on May 19, citing people familiar with the matter. The company filed paperwork in April for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) targeting a $5 billion valuation, […]
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The alleged sales talks are happening while the San Fransisco-based startup still pursues a public listing.
Earlier this year, Echo called out VC "hostility." Now, top funds like Paradigm and Coinbase Ventures are leading groups on the crowdfunding platform.
The so-called "AWS of blockchain" has acquired Solana infrastructure provider DexterLab used by Google, Chainstack, and the Solana Foundation.
The former banker Andrew Peel is currently on gardening leave with plans to launch a real-world asset statup in Zug, Switzerland.
Robinhood generated $141 billion in crypto trading volumes in 2024, while WonderFi generated trading volume of around $2.5 billion.
The crypto and equities trading platform had previously targeted an initial public offering price range of $46 to $50 per share.
Twenty One Capital, the bitcoin investment company backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether and Softbank, has purchased 4,812 BTC.
Upexi has a $100 million investment commitment anchored by GSR to buy and stake as many SOL tokens as possible.
The $179 million offer by Robinhood Markets represents a 71% premium to WonderFi's 30-day average share price.
Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the U.S., is set to join the S&P 500, making it the first pure-play crypto firm on the benchmark index.
The acquisition coincides with Mountain Protocol’s decision to sunset USDM, which has seen its supply constrict to $50 million.