Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

Polymarket partners with Nasdaq to launch markets tied to private company milestones, including IPO timing, valuations, earnings, and secondary market activity (www.theblock.co)
1 day ago IPO

Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (www.theblock.co)
2 days ago Bitcoin

LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup (www.theblock.co)
11 days ago

AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (www.theblock.co)
13 days ago Amazon AI Coinbase

a16z crypto raised $2.2B for its fifth fund, down from its record $4.5B Fund 4 in May 2022, taking its total capital raised across five funds to ~$9.8B (www.theblock.co)
15 days ago

The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London (www.theblock.co)
28 days ago London

LayerZero says North Korea's Lazarus is likely behind the $292M Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, which triggered $10B in outflows from Aave over bad debt concerns (www.theblock.co)
30 days ago Korea

An attacker targeting Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge, appears to have drained ~$292M worth of rsETH before Kelp paused all rsETH contracts (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-19

X launches Cashtags, a feature that lets users view real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in their timelines, in the US and Canada (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-16 Canada

The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-8 Asset

Polymarket plans to launch the CTF Exchange V2 upgrade within the next three weeks, including a rebuilt trading engine and a native, USDC-backed USD stablecoin (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-7

Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill (www.theblock.co)
2026-4-2 Asset

Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-25

Indian media: Indian police arrest two CoinDCX cofounders, after a complainant alleged investment fraud tied to the exchange; CoinDCX calls the claims “false” (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-23 India

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-20

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that “do not adapt” as it integrates AI (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-19 AI Layoffs

Reliz Ltd., which operates crypto lender BlockFills, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, reporting $50M-$100M in estimated assets and $100M-$500M in liabilities (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-16 Asset

Recovered notes from a lobbyist's phone outline a $5M payment structure tied to Argentine President Milei and other top officials' promotion of the Libra token (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-16

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-14 Singapore

Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine (www.theblock.co)
2026-3-2 Ethereum Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's “starting to worry” that prediction markets “seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-16 Vitalik Buterin

A US court sentences Ramil Ventura Palafox, CEO of Praetorian Group, to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ people (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-13 Bitcoin

Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions “without human intervention” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-12 AI Coinbase

LayerZero Labs unveils a new Layer 1 blockchain called Zero, in collaboration with Citadel Securities, DTCC, Google Cloud, and Intercontinental Exchange (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-11 Blockchain Google

Ex-SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony is sentenced to 100 months in prison for defrauding investors and is ordered to forfeit ~$7.5M and two residential properties (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-11

Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo after Merkle's sale of Farcaster to Neynar (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-10 Startup

Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore yuan-pegged stablecoin issuance (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-8 China Ban Asset

Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving “hard to win” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-6 Australia

Multicoin co-founder and Managing Partner Kyle Samani says he is stepping back from the VC firm and has transitioned to an advisory role (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-5

Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-31 Asset

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