Danny Park is an East Asia reporter at The Block writing on topics including Web3 developments and crypto regulations in the region. He was formerly a reporter at Forkast.News, where he actively ...

Crypto VC funding increased 28% in 2024 to $13.7 billion but fell short of past peaks. Top crypto VCs predict 2025 funding will focus on startups demonstrating strong product-market fit. Crypto ...

The EU’s MiCA regulation has now come into full effect, but uncertainty looms over Tether’s USDT as it has yet to secure compliance certification. While MiCA aims to enhance market stability, its ...

Tether sent 7,629 BTC (worth approximately $700 million) to its bitcoin reserve address on Monday, according to onchain data. The firm, which has been generating record profits, has been trying to ...

Bitcoin mega-holder MicroStrategy’s stock fell to $293.5 during after-hours trading on Monday, down 46% from its all-time high in November. Some investors have expressed concern about the company’s ...

The team is building a privacy-focused data platform that provides live verification of borrower’s assets, liabilities and trading exposure. Accountable, which closed a $2.3 million seed round to pay ...

TON’s gaming lead said “around 20%” of Telegram’s 950 million global users were actively playing games. Thanks in large part to gaming, in roughly one year, the number of accounts on the TON network ...

Frank Chaparro was joined by The Block’s CEO Larry Cermak, Editor-in-Chief Tim Copeland and Foresight Ventures Co-Founder Forest Bai to wrap up 2024 in a year-end special. Episode 80 of Season 6 of ...

Monthly volume on decentralized exchanges hit a record high this month. December’s spot trading volume on centralized exchanges also hit its highest level since May 2021. Monthly trading volume on ...

Grayscale Research has added Hyperliquid, Ethena, Virtual Protocol, Jupiter, Jito, and Grass to its ‘Top 20’ list of tokens for Q1 2025. Optimism, Chainlink, and Helium tokens returned to the list, ...

Malaysia’s securities regulator announced its enforcement action against Bybit for operating an exchange without proper registration. Malaysia’s Securities Commission (SC) has placed an enforcement ...