Active addresses currently sit at their lowest levels since December 2024, when the network experienced peak activity from Ordinals and Runes speculation. The following is excerpted from The Block’s ...

Ripple is testing on Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain, leveraging Wormhole and its NTT token standard ahead of plans to launch RLUSD on Layer 2 blockchains next year. RLUSD has a total supply of over ...

Italy’s Agnelli family has unanimously rejected stablecoin giant Tether’s $1.3 billion offer to buy the Juventus football club, according to a statement from Exor, the family’s holding company. Exor ...

Hex Trust’s wrapped XRP will launch with over $100 million in total value locked to boost liquidity across supported chains. The asset aims to extend XRP’s reach into DeFi and improve interoperability ...

Binance’s futures API added a new endpoint for signing a “TradFi-Perps agreement contract,” hinting at preparatory work for stock perpetual futures. The exchange has not officially announced a launch, ...

The world’s largest asset manager filed a registration statement with the SEC on Friday for the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF. This comes a few weeks after BlackRock filed a name registration with ...

Spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. reported $194.6 million in net outflows on Thursday, compared to outflows of $14.9 million the day before. Thursday’s outflow marked their largest single-day outflow ...

Naver and Dunamu will invest 10 trillion Korean won ($6.8 billion) into a financial infrastructure that builds on top of AI and blockchain, according to multiple local reports. Naver Financial, the ...

New York-listed Exodus Movement has struck a deal to acquire W3C Corp and its subsidiaries Baanx and Monavate for $175 million. Baanx and Monavate offer card and payments infrastructure services for ...

South Korean exchange Upbit is reportedly preparing to pursue a Nasdaq IPO following its planned merger with internet giant Naver. The news comes as rival platform Bithumb also explores a U.S. listing ...

Kalshi has raised $1 billion in its latest funding round, boosting its valuation to $11 billion, according to TechCrunch. Investors participating in the round include Sequoia, CapitalG, Andreessen ...

VerifiedX, a decentralized Layer 1 network and Bitcoin sidechain, has partnered with Crypto.com to provide institutional-grade custody for $1.5 billion in digital assets. This marks the second major ...