“Cosmos has served us well for the last couple of years, but for us, it’s time to move on,” Jelena Djuric, founder of Noble, told The Block.
Pendle launches sPENDLE, replacing vePENDLE’s multi-year lockups with liquid staking, protocol buybacks, and a 14-day withdrawal period.
SOL Strategies has launched STKESOL, staking over 500,000 SOL to expand its Solana-focused infrastructure operations.
Paradex intends to roll back its appchain after a glitch briefly priced bitcoin at zero, triggering mass liquidations.
Fogo aims to achieve 40-millisecond block times, making it “up to 18x faster” than rival throughput-maxing networks like Solana and Sui.
Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million tokenized CLO on Avalanche to finance Arch Lending’s crypto-backed lending facility.
MANTRA said it cut staff as part of a restructuring amid a prolonged downturn that has left its OM token about 99% below peak.
Ethereum blockspace protocol ETHGas has launched its governance token GWEI, pitching it as the engine behind “Realtime Ethereum."
"This alliance will accelerate the integration of USDe into the deepest layers of the DeFi economy,” Ethena founder Guy Young said.
In this edition, we explore why token buybacks are back in the spotlight, when they work, and when teams should think twice.
Ethereum-based Truebit suffered a $26.6 million exploit that reportedly targeted a vulnerability in a smart contract deployed five years ago.
Flare has listed FXRP on Hyperliquid, marking the first time XRP spot exposure is available on the platform.
JupUSD is an Ethena whitelabel stablecoin backed primarily by BlackRock's tokenized USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.
Crypto VCs told The Block they expect disciplined activity to persist in 2026, with a higher bar for new investments.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says Aave Labs may share non-protocol revenue with AAVE token holders amid governance debate.
Lighter is set to allocate half of the token supply to the ecosystem, while the remaining half is allocated to the team and investors.
The privacy narrative is positioned for continued relevance into 2026, driven by practical adoption needs rather than speculative momentum.
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.
The PYUSD Savings Vault generates returns in part by deploying deposits in lending strategies on SparkLend.
Privacy tokens are rallying, new infrastructure is gaining steam, and VCs are paying closer attention to this area.
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.
DeBridge launched a new execution model that allows users to interact with blockchains without having to manage various requirements.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Launched in 2021, the universal liquidity layer and protocol intermediary has surpassed $60 billion in lifetime transaction volume.
While its perpetual contracts remain unavailable to U.S. traders, dYdX Labs said it will track regulatory developments from the SEC and CFTC.
Superstate will support onchain Direct Issuance Programs, enabling public firms to raise capital via newly issued tokenized securities.
Privacy-focused blockchain project Octra said the sale allocation could increase if demand is high. Any unsold tokens will be burned.
Lighter also recently rolled out equities perp trading, starting with COIN and HOOD, and expanded foreign exchange offerings.