Opyn CEO Andrew Leone and head of research Joe Clark will join the markets team and help expand the exchange's Verified Pools feature.
The move marks the popular memecoin generator’s first acquisition and comes days ahead of the platform's much-anticipated ICO.
Following the acquisition, Portal co-founder and CEO Raj Parekh will join the Monad Foundation as Head of Payments and Stablecoins.
Coinbase will act as a custodian and executives from Galaxy, Kraken, Pantera, and more have participated in funding.
CoreWeave has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock deal worth about $9 billion.
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The acquisition positions CoreWeave among the largest holders of U.S. data-center power at a time when demand for AI compute far outstrips supply.
The purchase hands Ondo the regulatory approvals it needs to list and settle tokenized U.S. stocks and bonds in the American market.
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Coinbase plans to roll Liquifi's token operations infrastructure into its institutional product to improve end-to-end management systems.
Following the acquisition, Lolli's platform will be integrated within Thesis's broader ecosystem, which also includes Mezo.
In June 2024, the firm offered approximately $1 billion to purchase Core Scientific, which rejected the bid.
Involved parties have raised $516.5 million in equity and $235 million in convertible notes, according to a statement.
Nakamoto and KindlyMD plan to merge for a bitcoin treasury strategy, joining a BTC balance sheet trend with participants like the First Family and GameStop.
Anthony Pompliano is expected to lead a public company seeking to raise $750 million for Bitcoin purchases, the Financial Times reported.
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CoinFlip is the second-largest operator of cryptocurrency ATMs with a total of 5,600 locations worldwide.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse told Chris Brummer he never made a bid to acquire Circle, contradicting recent reports, at a Las Vegas event.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The acquisition helps Robinhood expand outside the U.S., accessing Bitstamp's customers across the EU, UK, and Asia.
Hong Kong-listed OSL Group has agreed to purchase a 90% stake in Evergreen Crest, which runs an Indonesian crypto exchange.
The acquisition specifically focuses on seed phrase management, though the value of the deal was not disclosed.
This is the second time this month that Yuga Labs has sold what was once considered prime web3 intellectual property.
The stablecoin issuer forked over $9.9 million in cash and approximately 2.9 million fully-vested common shares.
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.
The alleged sales talks are happening while the San Fransisco-based startup still pursues a public listing.
The so-called "AWS of blockchain" has acquired Solana infrastructure provider DexterLab used by Google, Chainstack, and the Solana Foundation.
Robinhood generated $141 billion in crypto trading volumes in 2024, while WonderFi generated trading volume of around $2.5 billion.