Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house (www.theblock.co)
4 days ago Coinbase CFTC

Sen. Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 “terrorism”-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT (www.theblock.co)
4 days ago Iran Terrorism

New York City-based HIFI, which provides API infrastructure for stablecoin payments and settlements, raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital (www.theblock.co)
6 days ago New York

World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial “super app” in 150+ countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts (www.theblock.co)
12 days ago

Consensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure (www.theblock.co)
23 days ago Ethereum

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, pleads guilty to leading an international social engineering scheme to steal and launder $245M in cryptocurrency (www.theblock.co)
23 days ago Cryptocurrency

The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (www.theblock.co)
25 days ago

eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-12

Chainalysis: violent crypto attacks stole $30M+ in H1 2026, on track to exceed 2025's $58M total; France is the primary hotspot with 30 publicly known cases (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-6 France

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-3 Bitcoin

Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital surged more than 25% to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an implied valuation of ~$2.75B (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-28 Bitcoin AI

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-28 AMD

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-25

Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-24 Asset Texas

A Washington judge grants a request to temporarily block Kalshi from offering sports-related bets in the state, citing a breach of the state gambling law (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-21

Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-16 Coinbase

Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-15

Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7 Equity Coinbase

BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a “malicious governance proposal” that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7

Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7 Bitcoin

Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-6

Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-1 Coinbase

Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-30 Greece

Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-29 Bitcoin

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-20 Cryptocurrency

Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming months (www.theblock.co)
2026-6-5 Bitcoin mortgage Coinbase

A US court ordered Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC contract, freezing ~$12.6M in funds, likely catching many in the “crossfire” of a civil suit against a DAO (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-31

Paxos says the US SEC has approved its registration as a clearing agency, allowing it to provide clearing and settlement services for eligible transactions (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-29

SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-28 Ethereum

Polymarket partners with Nasdaq to launch markets tied to private company milestones, including IPO timing, valuations, earnings, and secondary market activity (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-20 IPO

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