James Hunt is a reporter at The Block and writer of The Daily newsletter, keeping you up to speed on the latest crypto news every weekday. Prior to joining The Block in 2022, James spent four years as ...

Block Earner’s crypto-backed Earner Product did not break local financial laws, an Australian superior court concluded. Charges levied by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

The Daily: Bitcoin hits yearly low in crypto sell-off, ETFs see over half a billion dollars in outflows and more ...

Naga joined The Block with over four years of crypto-reporting experience as a Lagos-based News Generalist and Markets Reporter. Previously at crypto dot news, Ethereum World News, and The San ...

Charles Shwab CEO Rick Wurster said the financial services firm is “hopeful and likely to be able” to launch support for spot crypto trading within the next year on a recent earnings call. Wurster ...

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said 27.59% of the $1.4 billion stolen from Bybit has “gone dark.” Untraceable funds flowed into mixers then through bridges to peer-to-peer and over-the-counter platforms, Zhou ...

JPMorgan says gold is attracting safe-haven demand from both ETF and futures investors. Bitcoin is seeing the opposite trend, with JPMorgan pointing to falling futures interest and three months of ETF ...

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield filed a “securities enforcement action” against the exchange on Friday. Since President Donald Trump took office, the SEC has drastically changed its approach to ...

In a new forum post, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposes boosting Ethereum’s scalability by using RISC-V as the virtual machine language of smart contracts, rather than the current EVM ...

Crypto exchange activity is dropping across both centralized and decentralized exchanges, according to The Block’s data. Spot trading is at its lowest level relative to futures trading since August ...

Panama City Mayor Mayer Mizrachi Matalon said on Wednesday that the council voted to accept the cryptocurrencies BTC, ETH, USDC, and USDT to pay for taxes, fees, tickets, and permits entirely. Panama ...

Ripple will be seeding the initial investment as its anchor investor, according to a release shared exclusively with The Block. XRP is the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, which ...