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Articles from www.theblock.co

China's central bank unveils an overhaul of its digital yuan framework, including saying that commercial banks will soon begin paying interest on holdings (www.theblock.co)
6 days ago China Central Bank

Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (www.theblock.co)
13 days ago Startup Coinbase

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (www.theblock.co)
19 days ago Hong Kong Fintech

Exor rejects Tether's all-cash offer for its 65.4% controlling stake in Juventus, which valued the Italian soccer club at €1.1B (www.theblock.co)
21 days ago Italy

The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (www.theblock.co)
25 days ago CFTC

Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 10,624 bitcoin for $962.7M between December 1 and 7, its largest purchase since July; its stock is down ~40% in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
27 days ago Bitcoin

Kraken launches a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending in the UK and EU as part of a global rollout of its Krak money app (www.theblock.co)
2025-11-26 Asset

SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it's the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers (www.theblock.co)
2025-11-12

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (www.theblock.co)
2025-11-12 Ethereum Decentralize

Tether reports that it has generated profits of over $10B during the first three quarters of 2025 and it has issued an additional $17B in USDT during Q3 (www.theblock.co)
2025-11-1

Japanese fintech JPYC launches a yen-pegged stablecoin, the country's first, and its issuance platform JPYC EX, targeting $65.4B in circulation in three years (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-27 Japan Fintech

Pave Bank, which lets businesses manage both fiat and digital assets in real time, raised a $39M Series A led by Accel, with Tether and others participating (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-26 Asset

Tether, the world's largest issuer of stablecoins, says it has hit 500M users; the supply of USDT nears ~$182B while Circle's USDC has ~$75B in circulation (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-22

a16z Crypto invests $50M in Solana infrastructure provider Jito through a private token sale, likely one of a16z's largest crypto investments in recent years (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-17

Better Payment Network, a BNB Chain-based cross-border stablecoin payments network, raised a $50M seed led by YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-16

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-15 India Coinbase

MetaMask launches in-app perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, and plans to integrate Polymarket's prediction markets later this year (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-9

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan says the startup raised two undisclosed rounds: $55M at a $350M valuation in 2024 and $150M at a $1.2B valuation earlier in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
2025-10-8 Startup

Flying Tulip, founded by DeFi veteran Andre Cronje aiming to build a full-stack onchain exchange, raised a $200M seed at a $1B token valuation (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-30

RedotPay, which offers stablecoin cards and multicurrency wallets, raised $47M from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Ventures, and others at a $1B valuation (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-25 Coinbase

Bakkt shares jump 40%+ after naming Mike Alfred, the crypto veteran who co-founded Digital Assets Data, to its board (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-23 Asset

Tether names Bo Hines, the former Executive Director of the White House Crypto Council, as the CEO of its new US unit and launches USAT stablecoin (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-13

Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin to start a Solana asset treasury strategy (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-8 Asset

Utila, which is building an “operating system for stablecoins”, raised a $22M Series A extension led by Red Dot, taking its total funding to $51M+ (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-3

WLFI, the token of Trump's World Liberty Financial, begins trading at ~$0.30 with a market cap of ~$7.5B; ~24.67% of its 100B supply is in circulation at open (www.theblock.co)
2025-9-2 Trump

The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M+ to 100+ projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-30 Ethereum

Google Cloud says its Universal Ledger, a layer-1 blockchain for financial products, is in a private testnet, and more details will be revealed at a later date (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-28 Blockchain Google

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain, but gave no details on the blockchain or timeline (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-27 Blockchain GDP

Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-20 Blockchain Retail

Robinhood, in partnership with Kalshi, launches a sports prediction market on Robinhood Derivatives, letting users trade on pro and college football games (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-20

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