RedotPay, a crypto payment platform aimed at allowing users to spend digital assets with ease, has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed, the company said on Friday.Founded in 2023, RedotPay has over 3 million users across

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has authorized charges against National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles related to an alleged bitcoin theft in 2017."We have authorised Merseyside Police to charge National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles with 1

Ethereum Foundation developers will launch a new testnet called Hoodi, according to an All Devs Call on Thursday. The new "long-lived" testnet is expected to launch next week, on March 17. The move came about a week after Ethereum researchers and dev

Robinhood experienced a big boon as crypto prices soared late last year amid the U.S. presidential election, but enthusiasm has waned a bit in the early goings of 2025. The commission-free brokerage said Tuesday that crypto trading volumes fell to $1

Recent CryptoQuant data reveals a pronounced decline in Bitcoin and Ethereum futures open interest — suggesting a potential leverage washout — as speculative positions are unwound."In total, positions worth $1.368 billion have been closed across both

Cboe BZX Exchange filed a proposed rule change on Tuesday that would allow Fidelity Investments' spot Ethereum ETF to have staking.In the 19b-4 form, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Cboe BZX Exchange proposes to "amend the Fid

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a major proponent of bitcoin, reintroduced her bill to create a strategic bitcoin reserve, taking a legislative path towards President Trump's plan for such a reserve. Lummis' bill reintroduction, last proposed in July 2024, woul

Under President Donald Trump, crypto-friendly policies have fueled a surge in ETF filings beyond bitcoin. For investors looking to bet on companies buying up the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitwise has introduced a new exchange-traded fund to the

Ark Invest bought 64,358 Coinbase shares, worth $11.5 million, across two of its exchange-traded funds on Monday as COIN dropped 17.6% in a disastrous trading session amid the broader market carnage.Of the total acquisition, the Cathie Wood-led inves

Offchain Labs, the research and development team behind Ethereum Layer 2 Arbitrum, announced a “strategic purchase plan” to add ARB, the native token of the Arbitrum ecosystem, to its treasury.The firm said it plans to acquire the tokens from the ope

The total amount of transaction fees generated on the Solana network last week stood at just 53,800 SOL, the lowest weekly amount since September 2024. From this, 77% were non-vote transaction fees generated from users “tipping” network validators to

El Salvador continues to acquire bitcoin despite its deal with the International Monetary Fund to curb its bitcoin acquisition.The Central American nation purchased an additional 6 BTC on Sunday, expanding its total bitcoin holdings to 6,111.18 BTC,

The crypto data tracking platform Arkham has added a new tag for X users with over 100,000 followers, the firm wrote on the social media platform X Saturday morning. The tag allows users to track the wallets of those labeled "key opinion leaders" in

President Donald Trump could be prepping an executive order to create a bitcoin reserve, Bloomberg reports, ahead of an inaugural crypto summit in Washington on Friday.Trump could also announce that the government will no longer sell crypto it seizes

Jito Foundation contributor Andrew Thurman created a mock-up for a new model of JTO tokenomics on Thursday, which includes an idea for potentially buying back tokens. Thurman's 12-page proposal aims to spark discussion around expanding the utility of

The bitcoin derivatives market is experiencing a surge in buying interest as traders position themselves ahead of Friday’s White House Crypto Summit, anticipating potential market-moving announcements.Cryptocurrency derivatives trader Gordon Grant no

Libre, an "omnichain" solution designed to support “real-world assets,” is supplying access to funds from leading asset managers including Brevan Howard, Hamilton Lane and BlackRock, according to an announcement published Thursday for Libre’s new “we

Pump.fun's top trader is about to eclipse $40 million in profits despite the memecoin market appearing to dry up.According to a Dune Analytics dashboard that tracks the top-performing Pump.fun wallets, the top-ranked trader's accumulated profit was $

Episode 18 of The Crypto Beat was recorded with The Block's Editor-In-Chief Tim Copeland and Ethos Co-Founder & CEO Trevor Thompson.Listen below, and subscribe to The Crypto Beat on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Twitch, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Blockchain oracle solution provider RedStone has officially launched its RED token on Ethereum, designed to help secure and decentralize RedStone's oracle data delivery infrastructure by enabling staking.Under RedStone's Community and Genesis allocat