Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev shared thoughts on the platform's latest stocks product after Sam Altman’s OpenAI scrutinized the brokerage’s plan to let European users claim tokenized exposure to the AI firm’s private shares.In a post on X early Thursday,
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro announced late Wednesday that her office had filed a complaint to recover 40,353 USDT on Ethereum stolen in an alleged business email compromise scheme.The complaint alleges that scammers posed as the Trump-Vance In
New York-based law firm Pomerantz LLP filed a class action lawsuit against Michael Saylor-led Strategy, alleging that the company violated federal securities laws by making false and misleading statements about the profitability of its bitcoin invest
Digital design tech company Figma revealed on Tuesday that it both owned $70 million worth of Bitwise's Bitcoin ETF shares and had purchased $30 million in USDC with the intention of buying Bitcoin, according to a filing.Figma filed an S-1 with the S
The decentralized exchange (DEX) to centralized exchange (CEX) futures trade volume ratio hit a new all-time high of 8% in the month of June. This figure is up considerably from the 6.84% recorded last month and from just 4.78% this time last year.Th
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Tuesday! Despite sitting just 5% below all-time highs, bitcoin enters Q3 stuck in a rut, analysts say, warning that after June's leve
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved on an "accelerated basis" an exchange-traded fund that looks to convert the Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund LLC, which could signal positive momentum for numerous other cryptocurrency fund proposa
Tether’s USDT is powering a new Layer 1 blockchain, called Stable, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The so-called "stablechain" will use USDT as a native token for gas and settlement fees.Stable was “built to address the inefficiencies of cur
The Ethereum ecosystem is getting additional support from a newly launched organization called the Ethereum Community Foundation, according to an announcement from Zak Cole on X. The foundation’s mandate is to support the institutional adoption of Et
Bitget Wallet has partnered with credit card giant Mastercard and web3 payments firm Immersve to launch a card that lets users pay directly from their digital wallets. The card can be used at the 150 million merchants that accept Mastercard, aiming t
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a high-profile case involving the Internal Revenue Service and its efforts to compel companies such as cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to hand over users’ financial data.In an order released on Monday, t
Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev unveiled on Monday that his company is planning to offer users the chance to buy tokenized shares in private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX.At a public event in Cannes, France, Tenev held what he claimed were
South Korea's central bank has decided to temporarily pause its CBDC project as local currency-based stablecoins gain momentum under endorsement by the country's president.According to Yonhap News Agency, the Bank of Korea (BOK) recently notified ban
The governance DAO of Lido, Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocol that currently manages over a quarter of all staked ETH, is set to give its stakers the ability to delay or veto governance decisions following a near-unanimous vote. The dual gov
KraneShares, an asset management firm specializing in exchange-traded funds, is looking to list a "Coinbase 50 Index ETF" that would track the 50 largest digital assets by market capitalization, according to an announcement. The firm submitted its re
Dwayne Golden, a 57-year-old man from Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 97 months, or about eight years, in prison for his role in operating crypto schemes defrauding $40 million from investors, according to a release from the United States Department o
Hackers looted $2.1 billion from the cryptocurrency sector in the first half of 2025, and more than 80% of that haul stemmed from infrastructure attacks, blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs said in a Thursday report.Private-key thefts, seed-phrase
OpenRouter, headed up by a former OpenSea co-founder, has raised $40 million in combined seed and Series A funding to accelerate the development of its large language models aggregator platform.The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo V
Tokyo-listed Metaplanet raised 74.9 billion JPY ($515 million) to buy more bitcoin following the recently announced plan to acquire 1% of BTC’s 21 million supply.A Wednesday filing showed that Metaplanet's primary backer, EVO Fund, exercised 540,000
The latest investor sentiment study from crypto asset manager CoinShares revealed a significant credibility gap facing financial advisors: while most wealthy investors seek expert guidance on digital assets, many doubt their advisors are up to the ta