The central bank is not against innovation, said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during a press conference on Wednesday. Crypto firms have complained about the difficulty of establishing and ...

The creation of the index comes off the back of some political developments correlating with the index’s upward trajectory. The following is an excerpt from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter.

Bitcoin’s price traded up a muted 0.5% over the past day as the U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady at the 4.25%-4.50% range. Analysts said that if the Fed delivers two or more rate cuts ...

The SEC said it would be soliciting comments and asked for those to be submitted 21 days after publication in the Federal Register. Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst for Bloomberg, said that Nasdaq’s ...

Sei Foundation has launched Sapien Capital, a $65 million venture fund to back DeSci startups building on its Layer 1 Sei blockchain. The foundation has fully committed the $65 million, with no ...

D.E. Shaw joins Starboard Value in pushing Riot Platforms to make changes, Reuters reports. Riot Platforms said last week it is looking into the AI and HPC boom. A second activist investor, D.E. Shaw, ...

Trading platform Robinhood teased futures trading for bitcoin, oil and gold, saying the new service is “coming soon.” Popular trading platform Robinhood teased futures trading for bitcoin, oil and ...

The decentralized identity platform Humanity Protocol raised $20 million in funding led by Pantera Capital and Jump Crypto. Humanity Protocol plans to use the funds to integrate with other web3 ...

While Solana has been the center of memecoin trading activity, Ethereum’s metrics remain stable and trending upward. The following is an excerpt from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter. Ethereum ...

Abstract, a new Ethereum Layer 2 solution, is now live on the mainnet. Igloo Inc., the parent company of Pudgy Penguins, developed the network. Ethereum Layer 2 chain Abstract has gone live on the ...

Ai16z, an open-source platform for building and managing AI agents, has rebranded to ElizaOS. The project’s original name closely resembled that of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

D3 Global is building tools for domain-based lending, fractional ownership, digital identity and other financial use cases. The firm plans to launch the decentralized network called Doma Protocol ...