James Hunt is a reporter at The Block, based in the UK. As the writer behind The Daily newsletter, James also keeps you up to speed on the latest crypto news every weekday. Prior to joining The Block ...

Quick Take Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun raised $600 million through its public sale of PUMP tokens, which fully sold out in just 12 minutes. The platform offered 15% of its total token supply to the ...

Bitcoin wallet addresses each containing 10,000 BTC woke up for the first time in more than 14 years on Thursday and Friday.

Japanese energy consulting firm Remixpoint announced Tuesday that it will start paying its CEO and President entirely in bitcoin, saying it became the first Japan-listed company to do so. "By ...

The Australian crypto fund manager said $12.9 million will be used to expand its bitcoin treasury, while the rest will cover various costs.

Quick Take Bitkfraft Ventures and Brevan Howard Digital co-led a $30.5 million funding round in Distinct Possibility Studios, the new gaming firm from EverQuest co-creator John Smedley. The capital ...

KULR Technology Group announced Tuesday it has secured a $20 million credit facility with Coinbase Credit, Inc., a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. The company intends to use the net proceeds from ...

Yogita Khatri Yogita Khatri is a senior reporter at The Block and the author of The Funding newsletter. As our longest-serving editorial member, Yogita has been instrumental in breaking numerous ...

MK Manoylov has been a reporter for The Block since 2020 — joining just before bitcoin surpassed $20,000 for the first time. Since then, MK has written nearly 1,000 articles for the publication, ...

French banking giant Societe Generale announced plans to launch a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin called USD CoinVertible (USDCV) on Ethereum and Solana, ...

Insrt Labs raised $2.2 million from Hashkey Capital, Infinite Capital and others. The Insrt Finance protocol lets users gain “fractional NFT spot exposure combined with passive yield farming.” Insrt ...

Nexon Group announced its partnership with Ava Labs to launch its online role-playing game MapleStory on the Avalanche network.