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, ...

Google Finance will integrate predictions market data from leading platforms Polymarket and Kalshi directly into its search results. Polymarket’s monthly volume, active traders, and new markets hit ...

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Bitcoin miners have decoupled from bitcoin’s price, with their market caps rising sharply since July even as bitcoin has remained range-bound, according to JPMorgan analysts. The shift comes amid ...

Overall launchpad activity has contracted recently, with total volume now hovering around $100 million and about 100 tokens graduating daily. The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and ...

The $5 billion valuation cements Tempo as one of the most valuable new entrants in the stablecoin infrastructure race, highlighting Stripe’s growing crypto ambitions. Tempo, a payments-focused ...

The open-source toolkit supports multiple blockchains, from Bitcoin and Lightning to Solana and TON, and can be deployed on mobile, desktop, or embedded devices. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the ...

Daylight, a DePIN project focused on energy distribution, has raised a total of $75 million in a funding round led by Framework Ventures. The new capital is comprised of $15 million in equity and $60 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two platforms combined for a record-setting $1.44 billion in volume during September, reflecting surging mainstream interest. The following is excerpted from The Block’s Data and Insights ...

China Renaissance is in talks to raise $600 million for a U.S.-listed BNB treasury company, according to Bloomberg. Based in Beijing but listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Chinese investment ...