Block Stock Falls 6.15% as Ark Invest Buys $21M
The market reaction kept cost control in focus after Block posted higher Q2 expenses despite a 40% workforce cut in February.
The market reaction kept cost control in focus after Block posted higher Q2 expenses despite a 40% workforce cut in February.
The change could turn a governance dispute into a supply-side catalyst, with staker influence and SOL's issuance-to-burn balance at stake.
The no-migration path lets users gain quantum resistance without generating new phrases or moving to another address.
The wider altcoin case hinges on ETH reclaiming its 200-day average, while Cardano's CME futures timetable adds an institutional catalyst.
The spike traces to the Coldcard firmware exploit, with the channel reading it as holders migrating seeds to alternative custody rather than shifting market conviction.
With SpaceX still private, the market signal will come from secondary trades, where buyer demand determines whether the newly eligible supply clears without discounts.
Ark's split allocation pairs stablecoin traction with a capital-intensive growth bet, making spending discipline the key distinction in the market reaction.
For traders co-located in Hong Kong, the switch makes Tokyo the lower-latency location for OKX connectivity.
Batch and Permission Delegation return with bug fixes after being pulled for critical flaws; the upgrade also ships Confidential MPT, Sponsored Fees, and Dynamic MPT to court institutional…
Binance data shows spot bids keep arriving while leveraged positioning rewrites how BTC tops and troughs form, leaving any single crash harder to read in advance.
Eleven years in, Ethereum settles more dollars than ever but the base chain barely captures any of it: $330K in daily revenue against $148.8B in hosted stablecoins is the gap the next decade has to…
A Block Research walk-through of the rails, settlement layers, and FX corridors that turned stablecoins into a working cross-border payment primitive.
A multi-cycle trend line going back to August 2025 just gave way, mirroring the post-QT normalisation pattern that ended 2019's altcoin slump, with OTHERS/BTC still sitting roughly 15% below its own…
Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos together hold under 1% of Aave's $14B TVL and earn less than a dinner per chain each quarter, while protocol revenue is already sliding.
The offer from law-enforcement groups was meant to thread the needle between coder protections and illicit-finance enforcement, but the White House and DeFi advocates dismissed it within hours of…
The appointment pulls a security researcher and manifesto author into the Foundation's governance at a moment when protocol stewardship is under fresh scrutiny.
Roughly 93% of crypto futures volume runs through perps, and Binance's order book leads spot on most moves.
The proposal is the cleanest cut Aave has made in years: a single governance vote retires 50 low-adoption assets, 21 matured Pendle PTs, and six chain deployments in one stroke.
Current bitcoin and ether signatures are untouched, but the result lands while BIP-360 and BIP-361 argue the migration window is closing because classical cryptanalysis keeps improving by orders of…
pcaversaccio becomes the EF's fourth board member, bringing SEAL911 co-founder credentials and a public privacy-advocacy track record to a body previously stacked with founders and counsel.