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
Business intelligence company MicroStrategy is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, which has led to a 570% surge in MSTR's share price over the past year. Mizuho Securities believes the price of bitcoin has room to run another 30% in the next th
Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl is set to submit a plan to allocate as much as 5% of its €140 billion ($146 billion) of reserves to bitcoin, according to The Financial Times.Michl told the FT he will present the bitcoin investment plan to the
Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang announced that the crypto venture capital firm will donate $1.25 million to support Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in his legal defense against U.S. prosecution.“The prosecution’s case threatens to hold software dev
Ai16z, an open-source platform for building and managing AI agents, has undergone a rebranding to ElizaOS.Shaw Walters, the project's founder, said on X that moving to ElizaOS would further enhance its collaboration with “established players.”The pro
Arizona's Senate Finance Committee greenlit the initial step towards the state being able to invest in crypto.The committee proposed a strategic bitcoin reserve bill that suggested the state's public funds invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Following recent discussions with a diversified range of investors across the United States, analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein said several groups recognized that “crypto is back” and saw a need to ramp up their market activity.Invest
OpenSea has rolled out its OpenSea 2.0 (OS2) platform, featuring a redesigned user interface and a new experience points (XP) system.This is a private beta release, with OpenSea granting free priority access to holders of its Gemesis NFTs. Other inte
The U.S. Senate has confirmed pro-crypto Scott Bessent as the new Treasury secretary, who will succeed Janet Yellen. The confirmation was made in a Senate vote on Monday, where 68 voted for Bessent against 29. Last November, Trump nominated the billi
Bitcoin miners and other cryptocurrency-related stocks are trading significantly lower in Monday's trading session. The sell-off was led by the Nasdaq, which was down more than 3.4% in midday trading after China-based DeepSeek released an artificial
Nasdaq, on behalf of BlackRock, is pursuing a potential change to the asset management firm's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund to allow for in-kind redemptions instead of cash.Nasdaq filed an amended rule filing on Friday that would allow for redemp
Eurozone banks need a digital euro to counter United States President Donald Trump's efforts to promote worldwide U.S.-backed stablecoins, according to European Central Bank (ECB) board member Piero Cipollone. Speaking at a policy meeting in Frankfur
David Sacks, the first-ever AI and Crypto Czar for the White House, claimed that Trump's memecoin acts as a collectible, much like a baseball card or stamp. Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump launched memecoins respectively called TRUMP and ME