As talk of creating a national digital assets stockpile or reserve intensifies, representatives from Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio, among others, have proposed using public funds to invest in cryptocurrencies or establish state-level bitcoin reserves.

Bitcoin has seen sharp price fluctuations over the past 24 hours, dipping to a local low of $95,000 early Wednesday before recovering slightly to trade around $96,500 at the time of writing. CoinGecko data indicates that the global cryptocurrency mar

The official X account of the President of the Central African Republic appears to have announced that the country has launched a memecoin as part of an experiment to see whether it can benefit national development.“Today, we are launching $CAR — an

Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said that most tech altcoins feature the same value proposition as memecoins but come with low float, high fully-diluted value, and the involvement of venture capitalists, who are notorious for using retail traders as e

The Bitcoin network seems like a ghost town, with its activities falling to the lowest level in a year. A Bitcoin Network Activity Index from the market analytics platform CryptoQuant hovers around 3,760, the lowest since February 2024, indicating th

Decentralized storage project Arweave has officially launched the mainnet release of its computing platform, AO, following a year-long testnet phase.Native tokens previously minted and distributed to AR holders and testnet depositors are set to becom

Bartool Sports founder David Portnoy has landed in hot water after discussing recent memecoin trades on his X account, which boasts over 3.5 million followers. Portnoy began by trading a coin styled after a contestant on the Spanish reality show La I

Loopify, the pseudonymous crypto trader turned startup founder, has raised over $500,000 to fund humanitarian efforts in Gaza, he told The Block in an interview. The initiative has been going on for about a year, and has been documented with posts fe

Millions of new users signing up to the Telegram-linked TON blockchain thanks to the meteoric rise of tap-to-earn games was heralded by many in web3 as one of last year's success stories. But that growth quickly came to a halt as by the fourth quarte

A recent SEC filing revealed that BlackRock increased its stake in Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) to 5%, equivalent to approximately 11.2 million shares.Strategy’s frequent Bitcoin acquisitions have made it a go-to option for institutional players

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission delayed a decision on Friday on whether to approve BlackRock's proposal to list and trade options on its spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund.The SEC said it will decide on April 9, 2025, whether to approve o

Crypto investment magnate Barry Silbert is betting big on decentralized AI, calling it "the next big era of crypto" that could be bigger than even bitcoin.In a letter to shareholders of his crypto conglomerate Digital Currency Group, Silbert went lon

Alexey Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, said he would be released from pretrial detention on Friday to work on his appeal.Pertsev, who has been accused of money laundering charges in the Netherlands, wrote on X today that a Dutch court suspended

Investment firm VanEck predicts Solana's SOL will touch $520 by the end of 2025 as the demand for smart contract platforms (SCP) grows and M2 money supply increases in the coming months.M2 money supply measures how much money is circulating in the U.

Sony’s public blockchain platform Soneium announced today the first collection of music NFTs launched on the network, in collaboration with onchain record label Coop Records.“In collaboration with Soneium, Coop Records is redefining music monetisatio

World Liberty Financial co-founder Chase Herro said on Thursday that the platform plans on creating a “strategic reserve” with the tokens it buys, according to a report from Bloomberg.The DeFi project is famously backed by President Donald Trump and

“Earlier today, we announced that we are now Strategy, a new name that powerfully and succinctly conveys the universal and global appeal of our company,” said Phong Le, President and Chief Executive Officer.The rebrand came to emphasize the firm’s fo

Offchain Labs, the core development firm behind Arbitrum, introduced what it describes as the “universal intent engine” to improve cross-chain interoperability for Layer 2 networks.The developers said the engine would enable cross-chain swaps and tra

Payments extorted through ransomware attacks decreased some 35% in 2024 compared to the year prior, according to a Feb. 5 report by Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics provider. In 2024, ransomware attackers extorted nearly $815 million in payments f

Bitdeer has acquired a 101-megawatt site and gas-fired power project in Alberta, Canada, aiming to become a fully vertically integrated Bitcoin miner.A fully vertically integrated miner would mean Bitdeer maintains control of the important components