Crypto investment products run by asset managers such as BlackRock, Bitwise, Fidelity, Grayscale, ProShares and 21Shares registered $882 million worth of net inflows globally last week, according to CoinShares data.It marks the fourth consecutive wee

Vice President J.D. Vance is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, NV, according to an announcement on Friday. This comes about a year after President Donald Trump spoke at BTC Inc.’s annual conference — billed as “

Bitcoin crossed the psychologically important trading level of $100,000 on Thursday morning, according to The Block’s BTC price data. The move marks a recent high after sinking to a local low of $76,320 on April 8, amid a mix of macroeconomic uncerta

Layer 1 blockchain SKALE is launching a new consensus-level solution designed to eliminate Maximal Extractable Value, the scourge better known as MEV, a persistent issue in decentralized finance. The new tool, called the BITE Protocol (short for Bloc

Coinbase has acquired Deribit in a record-setting $2.9-billion deal in the crypto space, a move that will give the U.S.-based crypto exchange an immediate and dominant foothold in the high-growth derivatives space amid growing institutional adoption

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained the benchmark federal funds rate at the current range between 4.25% and 4.50%."Although swings in net exports have affected the data, recent indicators suggest that economic activity has continued t

Kenya's High Court has ordered the World Foundation, formerly known as Worldcoin and co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to delete the biometric data of local users, ruling that its collection violated the right to privacy.Justice Aburili Roselyne r

There has been a noticeable uptick in chatter around Bittensor lately. Its native token, TAO, is up about 60% in the last month. A Bittensor-focused liquid fund quietly launched in April. Digital Currency Group's Barry Silbert suggested TAO may be th

A new report shines more light on the recent change of course by Senate Democrats regarding bipartisan stablecoin legislation that has been working its way through the chamber. Late Saturday, a group of nine Senate Democrats said they would not suppo

A recent "zero-day" vulnerability affecting certain tokens on the Solana blockchain was patched after the Solana Foundation, which stewards the network, privately organized validators to deploy a critical fix.According to the Foundation's post-mortem

Libre, an "omnichain" solution focused on real-world assets (RWAs), plans to tokenize $500 million worth of Telegram-issued bonds on The Open Network (TON), giving institutional investors decentralized access to the social network's fixed-income secu

Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes expressed a bullish outlook on the crypto markets at Token2049 in Dubai.“It’s time to go long everything,” he said in a keynote speech, referring to both crypto and stocks.To support his view, Hayes laid out his oft-repeate

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped its investigation into stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD), the payment giant said in its latest disclosure.In a Form 10-Q filed on Tuesday, PayPal said that the SEC informed the company in February t

1kx and Blockchain Capital have led a $30 million Series A funding round for Camp Network, a new Layer 1 blockchain geared around intellectual property. “The raise supports Camp Network’s mission to scale its Layer 1 blockchain, which enables users t

Episode 518 of The Scoop was recorded with The Block's Frank Chaparro and Coinbase Asset Management President Sebastian Bea.Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podca

Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the U.S. experienced $591.3 million in net inflows on Monday, extending their streak of inflows to seven days.BlackRock's IBIT, the largest spot bitcoin ETF by net assets, was the only ETF of its kind to record n

The crypto exchange Coinbase said that 15% of its bitcoin transaction volume is powered through Lightning Network, according to a release shared with The Block on Monday. Coinbase integrated the Lightning Network in April 2024 to facilitate faster an

The 30-day Pearson correlation of BTC against gold stood at 0.54 on Friday, April 25, as it approached its yearly high of 0.73. This comes after a notable episode of Bitcoin "decoupling" from gold in February, when the 30-day Pearson correlation coll

Lawmakers in Arizona have passed a bill allowing the state treasurer and retirement system to invest up to 10% of available funds in digital assets, specifically bitcoin, sending it to the governor’s desk for approval, according to Bloomberg Governme

The Bitcoin restaking platform Lombard and the Eigen Foundation, which oversees governance of the Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer, have partnered to bring Lombard's liquid staked bitcoin token, LBTC, into the EigenLayer restaking ecosystem.Eig