Michael McSweeney

Block, the payments-focused company formerly known as Square, is officially throwing its hat into the bitcoin mining game.

JPMorgan said last week that it plans to significantly scale its technology investment and spending initiatives in 2022.

LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, said last week that the number of job ads related to the digital asset industry soared in 2021.

A legal fight has emerged between the Ethereum-focused company ConsenSys and a former venture executive.

Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange.

Bitcoin's price fell to its lowest point since September on Monday, dropping below $40,000 before recovering later in the session.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program unveiled a raft of proposed research areas this week, including one that proposes investigating the use of crypto tokens to incentivize approaches to what it calls "modality use by consumers."

The Block reported last May that PayPal was holding exploratory conversations about a stablecoin.

A Thursday report from the Wall Street Journal offered new details on the nascent non-fungible token (NFT) platform being pursued by the publicly traded gaming retailer GameStop.

Bitcoin's price fell to a one-month low on Wednesday amid a broader decline across stock markets.

Polymarket, a blockchain-based prediction market platform, has settled with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In an announcement Monday, the CFTC said that the settlement was for “offering off-exchange event-based binary options contracts and failure to obtain designation as a designated contract market (DCM) or registration as a swap execution facility (SEF).”  As part of […]

The move against WazirX comes amid reports of a broader investigation into alleged tax evasion at other exchange platforms in India.

 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that senior Senate aide Corey Frayer will serve as a senior advisor on crypto-related issues.

MicroStrategy added to its ever-growing hoard of bitcoin over the course of December, according to a Thursday disclosure.

ProShares, which debuted a bitcoin futures-tied exchanged-traded fund earlier this year, wants to list an ETF that tracks companies working on metaverse-themed initiatives.

Crypto custodial firms focused on the institutional market experienced a major upswing in funding in 2021, according to The Block Research.

A new US regulatory entity focused on crypto will be proposed next year by Senator Cynthia Lummis, according to Bloomberg.

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is planning to conduct a trial early next year that will see the global payments intermediary explore how it may play a role in the nascent asset tokenization market.