News Pudgy Penguins Sued For Trademark Infringement The iconic NFT brand, entirely based around penguin-themed intellectual property, has been taken to court by Penguin apparel.
News NYSE Parent Company Invests in Crypto Exchange OKX at $25B Valuation Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will receive a board seat at OKX and license its price feeds for crypto futures.
News Epic's Antitrust Lawsuit Win Opens Doors for Crypto Payments on Android Apps Google's settlement with Epic Games affirms the ability of developers globally to use alternative payments rails.
News Revoult, ZeroHash Apply for U.S. Banking Charters The two crypto-adjacent firms want to deepen their ties to regulated U.S. financial systems with banking licenses.
News FBI Arrests Man Who Allegedly Stole $46M From U.S. Marshals John Daghita was arrested in Saint Martin for allegedly stealing over $46M in crypto from the U.S. Marshals Service using his father's access.
News Andreessen Horowitz's Crypto Venture Arm Seeks $2B for Fifth Fund: Fortune a16z is renewing its crypto commitment, raising a new fund in spite of downtrodden market conditions.
News Vitalik: Ethereum Should Be "Sanctuary Tech" Vitalik published what amounts to a moral manifesto for Ethereum's current moment.
News Elon Musk Teases 'X Money' Payments Platform The long-awaited payments platform can be accessed by early donors to a children and veterans charity.
Article Trump Attacks Banks, Urges Passage of Crypto Clarity Act After meeting Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Trump urged Congress to pass the Clarity Act, accusing banks of blocking stablecoin yield.
News Backpack and Superstate Team Up to Launch IPOs on Solana The pair are partnering to bring real stock IPOs to Solana sometime this year.
News Kraken Wins Fed Master Account, in First for Crypto-Native Firm The centralized exchange will gain direct Fedwire access, no longer forcing the firm to operate through a third party.
News Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) Announces Shutdown Following Governance Rift The eight-person ACI team will not seek renewal of its contract and will wind down operations over the next four months.
News Visa and Stripe's Bridge to Expand Stablecoin Cards to 100+ Countries Visa and Bridge will expand their stablecoin-linked card product from 18 countries to over 100 by year-end, accepted at 175M merchant locations.
News Perpetual Futures Poised for U.S. Debut, Pending Final Regulator Approval The CFTC has committed to launching true perpetual futures contracts in the United States within the next month or so.
News Senator Sanders, Representative Khanna Propose Annual 5% Wealth Tax on Billionaires A proposed bill would enact taxes on unrealized gains to fund social programs for lower-earning Americans.
News Paradigm Raising $1.5B For Expanded AI, Robotics Investment Fund: WSJ The crypto-focused VC previously broadened its focus to include artificial intelligence two years ago.
News Nasdaq Exchange Wants Piece of Prediction Market Mania The TradFi exchange is seeking SEC approval to offer stock-linked, binary event contracts.
News Risk Assets Rise Despite Iran Conflict Uncertainty Risk assets have resumed their familiar uptrend to begin March despite weekend regime toppling in the Middle East.
News Jack Dorsey's Block Slashes 40% of Workforce, Credits AI Efficiency XYZ rallied as much as 20% overnight in anticipation of Block's agentic-powered productivity future.
News PayPal, MoonPay, and M0 Align on Unified 'PYUSDx' Stablecoin Issuance Framework The trio hopes to revolutionize the way developers launch their own stablecoins with PYUSDx.
News Morgan Stanley Applies for Digital Asset Banking Charter A Morgan Stanley subsidiary applied earlier this month to the OCC for a national trust banking charter.
News ZKsync Lite Scheduled for Full Deprecation on May 4 Users should withdraw all funds from ZKsync Lite ahead of the deadline as the ecosystem moves to consolidate around Era.
News Magic Eden to Close Bitcoin and EVM Deployments, Cease Multi-Chain Wallet: Blockspace The NFT marketplace is withdrawing to its Solana and "crypto entertainment" roots.
News Cosmos's Interchain Foundation Updates ATOM Delegation Program The OG ecosystem steward believes its ATOM delegation changes will better align incentives to grow Cosmos Hub.
News MetaMask Brings Crypto Card to America with Mastercard Partnership The U.S. rollout follows a successful year-long European pilot that was unveiled at ETHDenver 2025.
