Giang Bui, who most recently worked on equities and ETF operations at Nasdaq, will join as Securitizes new vice president of issuer growth.
The move comes as Kalshi’s trading volume pulls ahead of Polymarket, largely due to its sports betting offerings.
Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.
Decentralized social protocols Farcaster and Lens have changed hands, and the debate over crypto social's future is back.
USD.AI primarily operates as an onchain bank for AI startups, accepting tokenized GPUs as collateral for stablecoin loans.
While sovereign debt dominates tokenization today, Ark expects bank deposits and global public equities to move a greater share.
Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol last valued at $1 billion.
Cork is building a "programmable risk layer" to make the implicit risks in real-world assets transparent and tradable through tokenization.
Initially focused on a Solana-based restaking solution, the team announced it was building a high-throughput Layer 1 in January 2025.
Farcaster, another SocialFi project, has largely abandoned its original mission in favor of developing digital wallet features.
The initiative aims to pilot stablecoin payments across government agencies, expand USDC adoption among local businesses, and more.
Fogo aims to achieve 40-millisecond block times, making it “up to 18x faster” than rival throughput-maxing networks like Solana and Sui.
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."
The 2026 edition of the Golden Globes was broadcast Sunday night on CBS and featured several prediction markets from Polymarket.
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.
"This alliance will accelerate the integration of USDe into the deepest layers of the DeFi economy,” Ethena founder Guy Young said.
Genius Trading is building a privacy-focused DeFi trading platform and aims to become an onchain alternative to Binance.
The privacy-preserving, Telegram-based Cocoon AI pays users in Toncoin for renting out their GPUs to process queries.
In this edition, we explore why token buybacks are back in the spotlight, when they work, and when teams should think twice.
Flare has listed FXRP on Hyperliquid, marking the first time XRP spot exposure is available on the platform.
A hacker who compromised a multisignature wallet has now laundered more than $19 million worth of ETH through Tornado Cash since December.
Polymarket will offer a new suite of housing-related prediction markets via an integration with onchain real estate platform Parcl.
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.
A hacker appears to have gained unauthorized control over Unleash Protocol's multisig, enabling them to drain nearly $4 million in assets.
The deal follows Coinbase’s recent rollout of prediction markets on its platform and is expected to close in January.
Three entities — Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare — have jointly launched earnXRP, a new product that allows users to earn yield denominated in XRP.
In practice, the fund functions like a continuous buyback-and-burn system by converting trading fees into inaccessible HYPE tokens.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.