Emerging from stealth, 1Money said it raised over $20 million in seed funding to build Layer 1 ‘exclusively designed’ for stablecoin payments. The seed round counted more than a dozen participants, ...

President-elect Donald Trump is receptive to establishing an “America-first” strategic reserve that prioritizes coins founded in the U.S., like USDC, SOL and XRP, according to the New York Post. The ...

Over 30% of Ethereum validators have signaled support for increasing the block gas limit, according to data compiled by Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter. The current gas limit of 30 ...

Blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer reported that malware crypto scams on Telegram increased by 2,000% between November and January. The attackers now opt for more “sophisticated” malware to target ...

Oklahoma Rep. Cody Maynard proposed the “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act,” suggesting the state allocate public funds to bitcoin. The bill seeks to allow the state’s savings accounts and pension funds ...

Pyth Network has introduced Lazer, a new oracle designed to complement its existing Pyth Core offering. It targets latency-sensitive applications like high-frequency trading, derivatives and perpetual ...

U.S. law firm Burwick announced that it is pursuing legal action against memecoin launchpad Pump.fun. Burwick claimed that the platform collected “hundreds of millions” of dollars in fees while it ...

A Litecoin ETF would “most likely” be the next spot crypto ETF approved in the U.S., Bloomberg Analyst Eric Balchunas said. Canary Capital filed an amended S-1 form for its Litecoin ETF application on ...

BitMEX has been slapped with an additional $100 million fine for Bank Secrecy Act violations between 2015 and 2020. The overseas exchange had pleaded guilty to these crimes in July 2024, and ...

The U.S. government said bitcoin stolen in 2016 should be returned to Bitfinex, in a court document filed in a D.C. court. The latest filing is in line with an October court filing that said both ...

Arweave packed encrypted data, stored using synthetic-DNA technology, onto a lunar lander and sent it to the moon, where it is meant to last for thousands of years. Decentralized data storage platform ...

Parallel processing and a novel architecture drive Sui’s standout performance, signaling shifting investor priorities in Layer 1 platforms. The following is an excerpt from The Block’s Data and ...