On February 12, Aston Martin Aramco's AMR25 racing car took its first breaths, and while the car's full look will be revealed on the 18th, we know now what logo will grace its rear wing: Coinbase. Aston Martin's Formula One team has signed Coinbase a

The founder of Miami-based CluCoin has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Austin Michael Taylor, 41, the operator of the fraudulent scheme, will also pay restitution and forfeit assets to the t

OpenSea refuted rumors that it would mandate a know-your-customer (KYC) process for users to participate in a potential token airdrop.On Monday, a website link apparently associated with the OpenSea Foundation was circulated on X, sparking speculatio

Eric Council Jr. pleaded guilty to his part in the hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's social media account that posted a fake announcement about spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds being approved. Council, through his lawyer, pleade

The official X account of the President of the Central African Republic announced that the country has launched a memecoin as part of an experiment to see whether it can benefit national development.“Today, we are launching $CAR — an experiment desig

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.It's Friday! Bitcoin rose slightly this morning after U.S. jobs numbers came in lower than expected, but the foremost cryptocurrency is not

U.S. investment manager VanEck forecasted that Solana's price could reach $520 by the end of 2025. “Using an autoregressive (AR) forecast model, we estimate Solana’s market cap will reach ~$250B, implying a SOL price of $520 based on ~486M floating t

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked the public to comment on a proposal for converting Grayscale's Litecoin trust into an exchange-traded product.In a filing on Thursday acknowledging NYSE Arca's filing, on behalf of Grayscale, the SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing a proposal to change BlackRock's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund to allow in-kind redemptions.In a filing posted on Thursday acknowledging the proposal, the SEC asked for comments to be sent i

U.S. consumer watchdog Public Citizen lodged a complaint with the Department of Justice and Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday, urging it to investigate whether Donald Trump had violated federal law barring the President from soliciting gifts i

The business intelligence firm and corporate bitcoin holder now known as Strategy reported fourth-quarter financial results Wednesday afternoon, highlighted by a near doubling of its already sizable bitcoin holding in only three months.Operating expe

Solana-based DEX aggregator Jupiter’s account on social media platform X appeared hacked on Wednesday, apparently promoting fake meme cryptocurrencies.“The main Jupiter Exchange account has been compromised,” Jupiter Mobile’s X handle wrote in a post

Hong Kong-based OSL Group has completed its acquisition of Japanese crypto exchange CoinBest and today announced the official renaming of CoinBest to OSL Japan, as the company eyes global expansion.OSL’s CEO told The Block in an interview that while

The business intelligence firm and corporate bitcoin holder now known as Strategy reported fourth-quarter financial results Wednesday afternoon, highlighted by a near doubling of its already sizable bitcoin holding in only three months.Operating expe

Tiger 21 founder and Chairman Michael Sonnenfeldt said the network of high-net-worth investors holds about $6 billion in digital currencies."We have about 1% to 3% of $200 billion in assets, so about $6 billion in assets, in digital currencies," he s

Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick has a bold long-term forecast for bitcoin, predicting that the cryptocurrency will reach $500,000 by 2028. He attributes this potential rise to two key factors: growing investor access and declining volatility."

Toronto-based crypto holding company Sol Strategies recently bought a significant amount of Solana and announced the departure of its chief investment officer.Between Jan. 19 and Jan. 31, Sol Strategies purchased an additional 40,300 SOL for about $9

Bullish Global, which is a subsidiary of Block.one and counts billionaire Peter Thiel as an investor, is considering an initial public offering Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources. The company could launch its IPO as soon as this yea

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is taking steps to scale down its special unit for crypto enforcement actions, The New York Times reported, citing five sources familiar with the matter.The agency is currently reducing the size of the unit

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is questioning Crypto.com, a Singapore-based crypto exchange, and the prediction market Kalshi over whether their derivatives-based Super Bowl sports events contracts are compliant, reports Bloomberg.On