Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

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)
7 days ago

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)
12 days ago 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)
15 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
22 days ago 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)
25 days ago

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)
25 days ago 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)
28 days ago

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

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)
2026-5-18 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)
2026-5-10

AWS unveils Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and partners with Coinbase and Stripe to enable AI agents to execute transactions using stablecoins (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-8 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)
2026-5-5

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)
2026-4-23 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)
2026-4-20 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

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