Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky's lawyers asked for his sentencing to be pushed back after the former exec pleaded guilty to criminal charges.In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Mashinsky asked for his sentencing to be pushed back a month f

President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel has signed the bill exempting bitcoin holdings of more than three years from capital gains tax — a largely symbolic act that officially makes the historic bill the law of the land, according to local news so

Sygnum’s Head of Investment Research, Katalin Tischhauser, has forecasted a potential price trajectory for bitcoin in a scenario in which each $1 billion of inflows from a potential U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve could spark a multiplier effect — sig

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Wednesday that it will hold a public roundtable to examine prediction markets, where its acting chair Caroline D. Pham expressed the need for more clarity in regulating such platforms.“Unfortunately,

The Berachain Foundation outlined Berachain’s tokenomics ahead of the much-anticipated Layer 1’s mainnet launch on Thursday, Feb. 6.According to tokenomics documents released on Wednesday, of the 500 million BERA tokens issued at Genesis, 48.9% are a

U.S. lawmakers hashed out different approaches to debanking, as the issue over whether the crypto industry has been shut out by banks heats up in Washington.Republicans have been leading the charge of concerns around crypto debanking, especially over

Ransomware payments dropped 35% to $813 million in 2024 — down 35% from the record-breaking $1.25 billion extorted by cybercriminals the year before, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.Per Chainalysis’ 2025 crypto crime report, the at

Tokenized real-world asset issuer Ondo Finance launched Ondo Global Markets, a new platform designed to open up onchain exposure to U.S. public securities such as stocks, bonds and exchange-traded funds.“What stablecoins did for dollars, Ondo Global

Bitcoin mining firm Bitdeer has completed a $21.7 million deal to acquire a 101-megawatt power project in Alberta, Canada, as the company continues to scale up its mining operations.The Nasdaq-listed firm announced on Tuesday that it acquired the sit

Ethereum’s token supply has climbed to its highest since January 2023, matching levels seen before The Merge update that took place on Sept. 15, 2022.According to data from ultrasound.money, ether supply currently stands at 120,521,523 ETH, which is

Uniswap Labs officially released version 4 of the Uniswap protocol, turning the protocol into a developer platform.Uniswap v4 is operational on multiple blockchain networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, OP Mainnet and Base, according to a blog post.

Bitcoin and U.S. equities made moves upwards on Friday as the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index showed inflation rising in line with expectations, reinforcing investor optimism about potential Federal Reserve rate cuts later in the

Business intelligence company MicroStrategy announced the pricing of its Jan. 30 offering by selling 7.3 million shares of 8% Series A perpetual strike preferred stock, also known as STRK, at a public offering price of $80 per share. That's nearly th

The Arkansas Senate’s City, County and Local Affairs Committee voted against a bill that set out to prohibit crypto mining businesses from being established within 30 miles of military facilities, according to a report by The Arkansas Democrat-Gazett

Correction (Jan. 30, 20:45 UTC): The events below took place on Raydium, not Pump.fun, though it involved a coin created on Pump.fun. Crypto wallets linked to the recently pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht appear to have shed $12 million in va

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Thursday! What a difference a day makes, with bitcoin prices rebounding following the Fed's decision to hold rates steady and Chair P

Hedge fund Elliott Management says the "inevitable collapse" of the crypto bubble "could wreak havoc in ways we cannot yet anticipate," according to an investor letter seen by Financial Times.The hedge fund led by Paul Singer said "crypto is ground z

A subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange made its move on Thursday to convert Grayscale's XRP Trust to a spot exchange-traded fund.NYSE Arca posted a 19b-4 filing to convert that trust and said Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC would be the cust

The parents of Sam Bankman-Fried are looking to get their son a pardon from President Donald Trump, but it's not certain whether they've reached out to the White House yet, reports Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. Joseph Bankman a

European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde said bitcoin is not an option for the eurozone’s central bank reserves, citing concerns over liquidity, security and regulatory scrutiny.Speaking at the official press conference following the E