YC's Nemil Dalal told The Block that funding will be in USDC across major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Base, and Solana.
The analysts outlined three crypto-driven bear case scenarios while reiterating their view that the crypto cycle could recover in 2026.
Zama rolled out its ZAMA token while debuting Total Value Shielded, a new privacy metric, after encrypting over $121 million on Ethereum.
The Sheikh has pushed to buy high-powered AI chips from the U.S. for a startup that he owns, and secured the chips months after acquiring the stake.
Flying Tulip, a new DeFi platform founded by Andre Cronje, has raised additional capital through a mix of private and public token sales.
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The company plans to deploy the fresh capital toward yield vaults, onchain trading expansion, and growth across Latin America and Europe.
Entropy's "anti-capitalist anarchist" founder is winding down the firm and returning capital to investors after failing to find a scalable business model.
USD.AI primarily operates as an onchain bank for AI startups, accepting tokenized GPUs as collateral for stablecoin loans.
The $200 million in MrBeast’s Beast Industries ties the largest U.S.-listed Ethereum treasury to a global YouTube and creator economy.
Alpaca says it powers 94% of all tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs, working with leading RWA projects Dinari, Ondo Finance, and xStocks.
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 CoinList sale will run next week, with 8% of the 11 billion ZAMA token supply allocated and tokens available to claim on Feb. 2.
Genius Trading is building a privacy-focused DeFi trading platform and aims to become an onchain alternative to Binance.
In this edition, we explore why token buybacks are back in the spotlight, when they work, and when teams should think twice.
Former ECC CEO Josh Swihart hinted at the "misalignment" between the needs of a tech startup and its nonprofit parent organization.
Kontigo reimbursed 1,005 users $340,905 after a breach, as CEO Jesus Castillo confirmed his own account was affected by the incident.
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.
Industry insiders expect deal momentum to continue into 2026, driven by consolidation, targeted acquisitions, and a still-open IPO window.
Three entities — Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare — have jointly launched earnXRP, a new product that allows users to earn yield denominated in XRP.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.
RedotPay says it processes over $10 billion in annualized volume and generates more than $150 million in annualized revenue.
Kalshi has tapped Solana to move its prediction markets onchain and enable permissionless monetization of its "global liquidity pool."
Investors participating in the round include Sequoia, CapitalG, a16z, Paradigm, Anthos Capital, and Neo, according to TechCrunch.
“Harmonic brings Solana closer to being the onchain Nasdaq,” Harmonic co-founder Jakob Povšič told The Block.
Iggy Azalea is migrating her MOTHER memecoin to Thrust, a new Solana-based token launchpad attempting to eliminate pump-and-dumps.
Zynk raised $5 million in a seed round led by Hivemind Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, among others.