Articles from www.theblock.co

Articles from www.theblock.co

Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was on May 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2024-4-20 Bitcoin

Solana grapples with congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and transactions being dropped, due to spam transactions and memecoins (www.theblock.co)
2024-4-9

NYC-based Web3 infrastructure company Xion raised $25M, reportedly a Series A, from Animoca Brands, Laser Digital, Multicoin, Arrington Capital, and others (www.theblock.co)
2024-4-2

The US OFAC sanctions 13 entities, including Netex24, and two individuals for aiding Russian nationals' potential sanctions evasion by building crypto services (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-26 Russia

Worldcoin announces Personal Custody, which saves biometric data captured by the Orb on users' personal devices, and plans to open source the Orb's software (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-23

A commit in Ethereum Foundation's GitHub repository shows the foundation has received a voluntary and confidential enquiry from an unspecified state authority (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-21 Ethereum GitHub

Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app and a beta Android app in March 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-21 Android IOS

The SEC says Genesis Global Capital agreed to pay a $21M civil penalty as part of a settlement over charges of offering unregistered securities via Gemini Earn (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-20

Figure Markets, a crypto trading platform developed by Figure Technologies, raised a $60M Series A led by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital, and Lightspeed Faction (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-19

A study by the US Copyright Office and USPTO concludes that existing laws are sufficient to address NFT copyright concerns and there's no need to change IP laws (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-13

Eclipse Labs, which is developing an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain using the Solana Virtual Machine, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Placeholder and Hack VC (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-12 Blockchain Ethereum

A Montenegro court rules that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon should be extradited to S. Korea, reversing another court's decision to extradite him to the US (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-8 Korea

A Montenegro appeals court cancels the approval of Do Kwon's extradition to the US, the third time the Terraform Labs co-founder has successfully appealed (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-6

IO Research, a blockchain startup focused on AI infrastructure, raised a $30M Series A led by Hack VC, with Solana Ventures and OKX Ventures among investors (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-6 Blockchain Startup AI

Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners (www.theblock.co)
2024-3-2 Bitcoin Energy

Arkham: the US government appears to have transferred out about $922M worth of bitcoin from two crypto wallets that held funds seized from a 2016 Bitfinex hack (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-29 Bitcoin

Telegram launches an ad revenue sharing system for channel owners in nearly 100 countries, with a 50/50 split with channel owners, paid out in toncoin (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-29

Bloomberg data: BlackRock's bitcoin ETF set a single day trading volume record of $1.3B+ on February 26, beating its launch day record of $1B+; BTC hits ~$55K (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-27 Bitcoin ETF

Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-27 Blockchain

Research: the all-time, total amount invested in crypto and blockchain-related companies crosses $90B, with ~$1.3B invested across 230+ deals so far in 2024 (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-25 Blockchain

Yuga Labs acquires Kevin Rose's NFT startup Proof, and plans to fold Proof's NFT project Moonbirds into its gamefied, metaverse project Otherside (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-17 Startup

Elliptic: an exploit of NFT gaming platform PlayDapp let hackers mint 1.8B PLA tokens, “worth” ~$290M; before the hack, only 577M PLA tokens were in circulation (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-14

Solana suffers a major outage, lasting for over two hours, and says validators should prepare for a network restart, the first big outage since February 2023 (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-6

The US EIA plans to begin surveying crypto miners' electricity use next week; the EIA cited bitcoin rising 50% in recent months as an emergency justification (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-2 Bitcoin

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen confirms “unauthorized access” to “a few of my personal XRP accounts”, after ZachXBT noted outflows of 213M XRP, worth $112.5M (www.theblock.co)
2024-2-1 XRP

Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, taking its funding to $42.5M (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-30 Startup Decentralize Coinbase

China forms a metaverse working group with members from government, academia, and tech companies like Huawei and Baidu to push for standardization in the sector (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-19 China

The SEC says it is working with the FBI in investigating the false X post about spot bitcoin ETFs (www.theblock.co)
2024-1-11 Bitcoin ETF FBI

Immunefi: crypto users lost $1.8B in hacks and scams in 2023, down 54% YoY, as single incidents grew 90% YoY to 319; Lazarus remained the most prolific attacker (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-29

Bulgaria ends criminal proceedings against crypto lender Nexo, finding no evidence of money laundering, tax crimes, computer fraud, or other criminal activity (www.theblock.co)
2023-12-23 Tax

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