RT Watson is a senior reporter at The Block who covers a wide array of topics including U.S.-based companies, blockchain gaming and NFTs. Formerly covered entertainment at The Wall Street Journal, ...

Brian McGleenon is a UK-based markets reporter for The Block. He has worked as a financial journalist and producer for multiple news outlets over the years, such as Fuji Television, The Independent, ...

Interpol has issued a “Red Notice,” on behalf of Finland, for Hex and PulseChain founder Richard James Schueler, a.k.a. Richard Heart, on charges of gross tax evasion and assault. A list of Europol’s ...

Microstrategy added 3 members to its board of directors, bringing the total membership from 6 to 9. The new members include Brian Brooks, the former CEO of Binance.US and former chief legal officer of ...

The SEC and Tai Mo Shan, a subsidiary of Jump Trading’s crypto unit, have reached an agreement for the latter to pay about $123 million in fines after it spent $20 million to help prop up the TerraUSD ...

On Thursday, the spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. saw daily net outflows of $680 million as bitcoin dipped below the $100,000 level. Fidelity’s FBTC led the negative flows yesterday, with $208.6 million ...

The Tokyo-listed firm raised 9.5 billion yen ($60.6 million) in two tranches of bond issuance. The newly raised funds are intended to support the company’s bitcoin purchases. Japanese investment firm ...

The cryptocurrency market has sharply declined since the U.S. Federal Reserve’s 25 basis point rate cut on Wednesday, with bitcoin dropping by over 10%. Despite the rate reduction, Fed Chair Jerome ...

The SEC has approved crypto index ETFs from Hashdex and Franklin Templeton. The funds will initially hold bitcoin and ether on a market cap-weighted basis — though additional cryptocurrencies could be ...

The current ETH ETF landscape shows a concentrated market structure. The following is an excerpt from The Block’s Data and Insights newsletter. Ethereum ETF inflows have accelerated significantly in ...

“We’re not allowed to own bitcoin,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said during a news conference on Wednesday. In Congress, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., has a draft bill circulating that would ...

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs experienced a record $680 million worth of net outflows on Thursday, breaking a 15-day, $6.7 billion streak of positive flows. The SEC approved filings from the Nasdaq and Cboe ...