News Senate Bill Granting CFTC Authority Over Crypto Spot Markets Advances The Senate Agriculture Committee passed its crypto clarity bill on party lines.
Article TheDAO is Back as a $220M Ethereum Security Fund Unclaimed funds from the 2016 DAO hack are being repurposed into a $220M security endowment for the Ethereum ecosystem.
News Coinbase-Backed Fairshake PAC Has $193M Heading into Midterms The pro-crypto super PAC's backers include Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z.
News Vitalik Buterin Reveals His $70k Winning Prediction Market Strategy Vitalik made a 16% return through Polymarket in 2025.
News Fidelity Selects Ethereum for FIDD Stablecoin Trial Fidelity Digital Dollar will launch on Ethereum in the coming weeks.
Article MegaETH's Public Mainnet Coming February 9 The L2's mainnet launch will follow a week-long stress test that aims to process 11 billion transactions at a sustained 15–35K TPS.
News Japan's Laser Digital Applies for U.S. Banking License: FT Nomura's Laser Digital crypto subsidiary has applied for a U.S. national trust bank charter.
News Crypto Payments Network 'Mesh' Raises $75M, Achieves Unicorn Status Dragonfly Capital led the Series C raise.
Article Tether Launches US-Regulated USA₮ Stablecoin Tether launched USA₮, a dollar-backed stablecoin issued through Anchorage Digital Bank and designed for the U.S. market under the GENIUS Act.
News Kraken Embraces DeFi, Advertises 8% APY Earn App DeFi yield is now directly accessible on Kraken.
News BlackRock Files to Launch BTC Call Overwriting ETF The "iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF" will hold IBIT and sell calls to earn income.
News Ethereum Foundation Charts Post-Quantum Future, Announces $1M Prize The EF wants a post-quantum transition with zero downtime and zero loss of funds.
News Gold Breaks $5K as Tariff Threats and Shutdown Risks Mount Gold's new all-time high extended a rally fueled by U.S. tariff threats, shutdown risks, and central bank buying.
News SEC Moves To Dismiss Lawsuit Against Winklevoss-Backed Gemini Exchange Gemini drew SEC scrutiny in 2023 for offering unregistered securities to retain investors.
News Binance 'Exploring' Stock Token Reintroduction: The Information The crypto exchange previously shuttered stock trading in 2021.
News Coinbase App Integrates Solana's Jupiter into Trading Stack Users in Brazil and the U.S. (excl. NY) can now easily trade millions of Solana tokens using their Coinbase balances.
News Crypto Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Targets 2026 IPO: FT Ledger's prospective $4B crypto IPO is the latest in a wave of IPO activity for crypto companies.
News Axie Infinity's AXS Token Booms After Rewards Update AXS surges as Axie Infinity debuts bonded rewards and reputation-based fees.
News Senate Agriculture Committee Publishes 'GOP-Only' Crypto Clarity Draft Critics warn of expanded CFTC oversight and custody requirements.
News Superstate Raises $82.5M to Scale Onchain Equity Issuance Crypto startup Superstate has closed a large Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto.
News BitGo Prices IPO Above Range, Eyes $2B+ Valuation BitGo priced its IPO at $18 per share, looking to raise $212M in the first major crypto listing of 2026.
Article Farcaster Decentralized Social Network Bought by Ecosystem Developer Neynar Neynar acquires Farcaster from Merkle as founders step back. The move follows Lens shifting to Mask Network amid a broader SocialFi reset.
News FTX's Caroline Ellison Set for Release After 440 Days Served Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison is set for release from a federal halfway house today after partially serving a two-year sentence for fraud charges.
Article Interactive Brokers Plans to Sell Institutions on Prediction Markets The publicly traded online brokerage firm is getting ready to onboard institutions to prediction markets to manage their risk.
News Portugal Gambling Regulator Orders Polymarket Shutdown Regulators moved to block the prediction market platform after heavy election-related betting.
