Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025
Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
Bitcoin reached a new all-time high on May 21, surpassing $110K and breaking its January 2025 record, after slumping to $74K in April 2025 amid macro concerns
WATCH NOW — Bitcoin rose to a new all-time high on Wednesday, breaking its January record.
Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E led by Lightspeed at a $61.5B valuation; a source says its annual revenue run rate is up 30% in 2025, from ~$1B in late 2024
The company is said to have increased its run-rate revenue by 30% so far this year. — OpenAI rival Anthropic has officially closed …
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users
- Polymarket says FBI agents seized CEO's phone, electronics — Platform has taken recent measures to weed out US traders
Polymarket says the FBI seized CEO Shayne Coplan's phone and electronics; source: the DOJ is investigating Polymarket for allegedly accepting bets from US users
- Polymarket says FBI agents seized CEO's phone, electronics — Platform has taken recent measures to weed out US traders
Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more
He's on the patio. He's on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world's richest man.
The ramifications of a potential US crackdown against Tether, a noticeable player in the market for US debt, will extend beyond the digital asset industry
Of all the legal actions taken against cryptocurrency companies by US regulators and prosecutors over the past year …
Sources: federal prosecutors are investigating Tether for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules; US Treasury is considering sanctions
The U.S. government is investigating cryptocurrency company Tether for possible violations of sanctions … Forums: Hacker News : Federal investigators probe Tether r/Buttcoin : Fede...
PayPal says it is enabling US merchants to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal business accounts, except in New York state at launch
PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) announced on Wednesday it is enabling U.S. merchants to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency from their business accounts.
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M
but its co-founder was Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Crooks stole around $112 million worth of XRP from Ripple's co-founder Finextra : Ripple co-founder's personal XRP ac...
Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the US SEC approved 11 ETFs and BTC's price tumbling since
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes
U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that losing in court after rejecting Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF left the agency with little choice but to approve such ETFs
US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that losing in court after rejecting Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF left the agency with little choice but to approve such ETFs
The SEC chair said a court forced his hand and that the agency's decision to greenlight a spot bitcoin ETF doesn't signal support of that or any other digital asset.
The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 21Shares, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Fidelity, VanEck, Invesco, Valkyrie, Hashdex, and Franklin
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, including those of Grayscale …
Uniswap plans to start implementing a 0.15% fee for certain crypto trades on its web app and wallet from October 17, generating an estimated $1M per day in fees
- Uniswap will add a new fee starting on Oct. 17 for certain swaps on its web interface and wallet.
The US SEC says the creator of Stoner Cats NFTs, which raised $8.2M, agreed to pay a $1M fine for an unregistered offering and plans to return investors' money
a web series featuring Ashton Kutcher and Jane Fonda—are unregistered securities Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph : Stoner Cats NFTs ‘fan crowdfunding’ not securities: SEC's Peirce, U...
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns
but it feels like I'm selling my body. And I like it. [image] Jeremy Allaire / @jerallaire : Funny, I was saying the exact same thing to a group of users on https://friend.tech/. T...
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns
but it feels like I'm selling my body. And I like it. [image] Jeremy Allaire / @jerallaire : Funny, I was saying the exact same thing to a group of users on https://friend.tech/. T...
Y00ts, once a top Solana-based NFT project and that moved to Polygon in December 2022, plans to migrate to Ethereum and to return its $3M grant from Polygon
this time to Ethereum Vineet / NFT Evening : DeGods Leave Polygon, Move y00ts to Ethereum, and Return $3 Million Grant! Rony Roy / crypto.news : Y00ts shifts from Polygon to Ethere...