Álvaro Romillo, a Spanish crypto influencer also known as CryptoSpain, has been detained without bail on charges of orchestrating a $300 million fraud through his organization Madeira Invest Club, ...

Hyperliquid was the outlier among major perp DEXs as it ended the month about 16% below its peak two months prior. The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter. Total trade ...

RedStone has launched HyperStone, a new oracle supporting Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework for permissionless perpetual markets. The protocol says builders can now deploy custom perpetuals using ...

Ethereum-based DEX Balancer may have been exploited, with onchain data showing over $128.6 million in assets withdrawn from its vaults. DeFi protocol Balancer appears to have suffered an exploit, with ...

Zynk has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Hivemind Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, among others. Zynk said it will use the fresh funding to expand its payment corridors, ...

The Chicago-based investment firm, an offspring of CMT Group, began raising for its fourth crypto fund in mid-2024 — targeting $150 million. Crypto venture funding has yet to rebound following the ...

Upexi has added a further 88,750 SOL since its last update on Sept. 10, bringing its total holdings to more than 2.1 million SOL. The Solana-focused treasury firm also reported an 82% increase in ...

Animoca, which possesses a large portfolio of digital assets, would gain direct access to U.S. investors at a time when interest in publicly traded crypto-related firms and funds is at an all-time ...

Spot bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $477 million yesterday, while spot Ethereum ETFs reported $141.6 million in inflows. One analyst pointed out that investors are looking for risk-adjusted ...

In a first, investment management firm VanEck filed for an exchange-traded fund that would give investors exposure to staked ether following the regulator's friendlier stance on liquid staking ...

Polymarket has added up/down equity and index markets, letting users bet if a stock or benchmark finishes higher or lower by a set time. The launch sits in a new Finance hub using the Wall Street ...

Kraken acquired Small Exchange, a U.S.-licensed Designated Contract Market operator, for $100 million. With the acquisition as the base, Kraken aims to establish a fully U.S.-based derivatives trading ...