This is the first time Solomon has said he owns the cryptocurrency, something he previusly said could be "a store of value case."
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 is “evolving its foundational software by moving to a unified, Base-operated stack."
XRP Ledger has rolled out a “Permissioned DEX” upgrade allowing regulated institutions to operate gated, members-only onchain trading venues.
Zora, a socialfi platform closely associated with the Ethereum Layer 2 Base, is launching its new attention market platform on Solana.
A BlackRock affiliate purchased 4,000 seed shares of the fund for $100,000, providing the initial capital the trust will use to purchase ether, according to an amended S-1 filing.
David Bailey's bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto has agreed to acquire two other David Bailey-related companies, including BTC Inc.
Tom Lee's BitMine said its ether treasury has climbed to 4.37 million ETH as the firm continues aggressive accumulation market prices.
The integration allows institutions to conduct confidential payments, treasury management, and DeFi transactions on public blockchains.
Ethereum’s tokenized real-world asset market cap has topped $17 billion, up nearly 315% year over year as more TradFi giants move onchain.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Trump Media and Technology Group is looking to list a fund tracking the native token for Crypto.com's Cronos network, and BTC/ETF ETF.
Tomasz Stanczak will step down at the end of February, with Bastian Aue taking over alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.
The Hyperlane Nexus Bridge will enable holders to transfer wBTC tokens between Ethereum and Solana, the team wrote in a press release.
Lightning Labs has open-sourced a suite of tools that allow AI agents to run Lightning nodes and make payments.
Sonic Labs, the team behind the high-throughput Layer 1, is looking to revamp how value accrues to its native S token.
Zerohash has added support for the Monad blockchain and USDC on Monad to its crypto infrastructure platform.
AI bots will now be able to independently hold funds, send payments, trade tokens, earn yield, and transact onchain.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The longtime bitcoin backer and founder of DCG said privacy coins represent an asymmetric bet today, similar to the early days of Bitcoin.
Rival stablecoin issuer Circle also tapped Aleo to pilot a privacy-preserving version of its flagship USDC token, called USDCx.
Ripple has partnered with Aviva Investors to tokenize traditional funds on the XRP Ledger, expanding its institutional footprint in Europe.
Citadel Securities and Ark Invest have bought LayerZero's native ZRO token, which appears to be a first for Citadel.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 permissionless perpetual markets recorded $5.2 billion in daily trading volume on February 5.
The Base App has removed its Farcaster-powered social feed and is sunsetting creator rewards as it refocuses on onchain trading.
Buterin pitched Ethereum as an economic/coordination layer for decentralized, privacy-preserving AI systems rather than a race toward AGI.
ETHZilla, backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, pivoted from a pure Ethereum treasury firm toward tokenization last year.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
MegaETH has launched its public mainnet, claiming 50,000 transactions per second and 10-millisecond block times.