Ethereum co-founder Buterin said developers need to focus on the mission of building the infrastructure for a free and open internet.
Ethereum spent 2025 overhauling leadership, expanding a privacy roadmap, and starting its bi-annual hard-fork cycle with Pectra and Fusaka.
Hyperliquid Labs is set to receive its first major allocation of HYPE tokens, worth about $31.2 million, on Jan. 6.
An onchain analyst speculated that a private key compromise may have allowed an attacker to mint millions of FLOW tokens.
This year also saw the launch of networks like Aztec's Ignition chain, apps like Privacy Pools, and corporate experiments like Circle's USDCx.
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 […]
Three entities — Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare — have jointly launched earnXRP, a new product that allows users to earn yield denominated in XRP.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Glamsterdam and Hegota are expected to continue Ethereum's twice-a-year upgrade schedule in 2026 following Pectra and Fusaka.
The firm holds about 6.8 million SOL tokens, more than the next three largest SOL DATs combined, according to The Block's SOL treasury data.
Ethereum researchers have proposed new approaches to address centralization and cost concerns stemming from the protocol's state bloat.
SoFiUSD is a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin issued by SoFi's nationally chartered bank for payments and settlement.
Coinbase is rolling out stock trading, prediction markets via Kalshi, Solana DEX trading through Jupiter, custom stablecoins and more.
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.
Following the success of Kalshi and Polymarket, major firms such as Coinbase and Gemini have moved to enter the prediction markets space.
The move comes amid a series of product launches, including Solana support, perps trading via Hyperliquid, and a recent Polymarket rollout.
Active bitcoin addresses sit at their lowest levels since Dec. 2024, when the network experienced peak activity from Ordinals and Runes spec.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitwise’s decision to lock in a ticker and fee puts its Hyperliquid ETF a step ahead of rival proposals, including 21Shares’ filing.
BitMine Immersion boosted its Ethereum treasury to 3.97 million ETH as the firm chases its 5% ether supply target.
The new vehicle, called MONY, is seeded with $100 million of JPMorgan capital and will open to outside investors on Tuesday.
Fogo will airdrop the tokens set aside for a pre-sale next week, a change in strategy to better distribute tokens and reward early users.
Firedancer could boost client diversity on Solana, which historically has been dominated by forks of Solana Labs' original codebase.
Some users complained that Lolli disabled withdrawals following its acquisition by Bitcoin venture and software development studio Thesis.
JPMorgan created the Solana-based USCP token to facilitate sales of short-term corporate debt, beginning with Galaxy.
The U.S. crypto exchange chose Chainlink’s cross-chain interoperability standard as the “exclusive bridging solution” for its wrapped assets.
While its perpetual contracts remain unavailable to U.S. traders, dYdX Labs said it will track regulatory developments from the SEC and CFTC.
Grayscale's private TAO trust is going public under the ticker symbol GTAO, just days before the Bittensor network's halving event.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.