The Block News Plus You’ve been airdropped: New York court order clears the way to serve lawsuit defendants via NFT With the help of law firm Holland & Knight and a court order in New York, LCX is serving an anonymous hacker with a lawsuit. Read Full Story Jun 11, 2022, 1:32PM UTC
The Block News Plus May crypto VC roundup: Lowest funding total in last six months This article is part of a monthly series from The Block that takes a closer look at where the most recent VC investments have been flowing. Read Full Story Jun 9, 2022, 5:12PM UTC
The Block News Plus The 25 biggest fintech funding rounds: May 2022 In May, fintech investment slightly recovered from the prior month’s low, as startups raised $6.4 billion from investors. Read Full Story Jun 8, 2022, 11:53AM UTC
The Block News Plus The case against Nate Chastain shows how authorities could pursue ‘insider trading’ in crypto The case could create a way for regulators to enforce front-running in crypto regardless of whether implicated tokens are securities. Read Full Story Jun 7, 2022, 9:37PM UTC
The Block News Plus Here’s what making bitcoin legal tender actually means El Salvador's move to declare bitcoin legal tender may inspire more countries to do the same. But what does that mean in practice? Read Full Story Jun 3, 2022, 2:57PM UTC
The Block News Plus 55 key crypto hires, exits and moves: May 2022 While some crypto firms are slowing down their hiring plans, many made big regulatory and marketing hires during May. Read Full Story Jun 2, 2022, 3:15PM UTC
The Block News Plus Why this 59-year-old security firm thinks your crypto belongs in its vault Concrete-and-steel security firms are keen to take a slice of the $100 billion market for crypto custody. Read Full Story May 28, 2022, 6:00AM UTC
The Block News Plus Lawsuits aimed at recouping UST/Luna losses test uncharted waters Legal trouble is brewing for Terraform Labs following last week’s collapse of TerraUSD. Do unhappy investors have a case? Read Full Story May 22, 2022, 7:57AM UTC
The Block News Plus Meet Clearpool, the lending platform at the forefront of ‘DeFi 2.0’ Clearpool recently lent USDC to Jane Street, and has similar deals lined up. But its CEO is most excited about its permissionless pools. Read Full Story May 17, 2022, 6:04PM UTC
The Block News Plus The decline of Axie Infinity Axie Infinity pioneered the play-to-earn model, but now that there's less money to be made its popularity has plummeted. Read Full Story May 16, 2022, 8:51PM UTC