Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-13

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 13,627 bitcoin for ~$1.25B between January 5 and 11, taking its total holdings to 687,410, and boosts its USD reserve to $2.25B (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-13 Bitcoin

The UK's FCA grants Ripple approval for its Electronic Money Institution license and crypto asset registration, clearing the way for UK expansion (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-10 Asset

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)
2025-12-29 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)
2025-12-23 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)
2025-12-17 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)
2025-12-15 Italy

The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-11 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)
2025-12-9 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

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