Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy (ticker MSTR) will officially join the Nasdaq 100 index on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 — the first bitcoin-focused company to enter the index. This will give the corporate bitcoin holder exposure to billions of doll

Monad Labs announced Monday the formation of the Monad Foundation, an independent organization to promote and develop the Monad blockchain. The foundation will focus on governance, tools and support as Monad moves closer to a potential mainnet launch

Ripple's much anticipated U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin has a launch date: Dec. 17."RLUSD will be available on global exchanges starting tomorrow," Ripple said in a statement Monday. "Each RLUSD token is fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, U.S. gov

Riot Platforms has used proceeds from a recent convertible senior notes offering to increase its bitcoin holdings."With the additional proceeds from Riot’s upsized $594 million, 0.75% coupon convertible bond issue, the Company has acquired 667 BTC at

The Aave community received a proposal from the contributor group Aave Chan to withdraw its lending services from Polygon’s PoS chain. This was in response to another proposal by the Polygon community to utilize over $1 billion in bridge assets for y

Business intelligence firm and corporate bitcoin holder MicroStrategy acquired an additional 15,350 BTC for approximately $1.5 billion at an average price of $100,386 per bitcoin between Dec. 9 and Dec. 15, according to an 8-K filing with the Securit

Crypto custodian Anchorage Digital announced Monday that The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has granted a BitLicense to its subsidiary, Anchorage Digital NY, LLC. This approval positions Anchorage Digital to offer institution

Synthetic dollar blockchain project Ethena is launching a new stablecoin, according to an announcement on Monday. Dubbed USDtb, the token will be backed by BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, which has well over half a billion dollars worth of mostly U.S. Treasu

Global crypto funds run by asset managers such as BlackRock, Bitwise, Fidelity, Grayscale, ProShares and 21Shares registered a 10th consecutive week of net inflows, adding $3.2 billion, according to CoinShares.The positive flows also bring the year-t

Bitcoin recorded its new all-time high of $106,352 on Sunday before retracing slightly.The world’s largest cryptocurrency is currently trading at $104,700, up 2.72% in the past 24 hours, while it has inched down from its all-time high point, accordin

Stablecoins have long been a cornerstone of the crypto ecosystem, but their rising utility is attracting fresh interest from venture capitalists. The momentum is underscored by Y Combinator's recent Winter 2025 batch request, which spotlighted stable

Canadian superstar Drake's X account was seemingly hacked on Saturday night and used to promote a Solana memecoin based on his cartoon "alter ego." Drake, born Aubrey Drake Graham, reposted and then quoted a post by a since-deleted X account promotin

MicroStrategy (MSTR), the enterprise software company that has increasingly become a stock market proxy play on Bitcoin, will enter the Nasdaq 100 on December 23. Its founder, Michael Saylor, has made use of a "flywheel effect" to accumulate massive

Crypto Council for Innovation CEO Sheila Warren is stepping down from her post in January.Warren has been leading CCI for the past three years through the crypto industry's crashes, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler's scrutin

Justin Sun’s BiT Global, the firm that recently became a key stakeholder in the wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) ecosystem, is suing crypto exchange giant Coinbase, which last month decided to delist the asset and launch a competing product. On Nov. 19, Coinba

It's Friday! In today's Daily, MegaETH's developer raises $10 million in three minutes on Echo, a U.S. crypto tax evader earns a two-year prison sentence, Gate.io dismisses hack rumors and more.Meanwhile, reflecting on her gamified crypto challenges,

This column was co-written by Frank Chaparro, director of special projects at The Block, and Laura Vidiella of MNNC Group. The views expressed in this column are their own and do not reflect the opinions of their employers.   The crypto lending marke

MegaLabs, the developer of a "real-time" blockchain called MegaETH, raised $10 million in under three minutes on Echo, the angel investor platform founded by popular crypto trader Jordan Fish, better known as Cobie.MegaLabs initially aimed to raise $

Drafting rules for digital assets will be a top priority in 2025 for the newly-selected House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill as Republicans look to create a regulatory framework in the first 100 days. Hill, who current chairs that com

Bitcoin is holding above the $100,000 mark, buoyed by rising risk-on sentiment amid monetary easing by major central banks, according to an analyst.“With the ECB rate cut, and the People’s Bank of China recently cutting rates for the first time in 14