Yogita Khatri is a senior reporter at The Block and the author of The Funding newsletter. As our longest-serving editorial member, Yogita has been instrumental in breaking numerous stories, exclusives ...

Vishal Chawla is The Block’s Crypto Ecosystems Editor and has spent over seven years covering tech protocols, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Vishal can be reached on ...

LayerZero introduced the Quick Merkle Database, a high-performance verifiable database optimized for blockchain data. LayerZero introduced the Quick Merkle Database, a high-performance verifiable ...

Timmy Shen is an Asia editor for The Block. Previously, he wrote about crypto and Web3 for Forkast.News from Taiwan after spending more than three years in Beijing covering finance, entertainment ...

Thailand’s cyber police said that Polymarket facilitates betting on global events through cryptocurrencies, which could be deemed illegal online gambling in the country. Access to Polymarket has been ...

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing local bitcoin ETFs to list on local exchanges, according to Bloomberg. The regulator has previously approved a local fund-of-funds ...

South Korea’s top financial authority has begun discussions to develop a follow-up regulation to its crypto regulatory framework. The meeting reportedly discussed setting mandates for better ...

The price of Base memecoin Toshi surged over 130% in the past 24 hours as Coinbase added it to its future listing roadmap. Some viewed the addition as an indication of Base-native memecoins gaining ...

World Liberty Financial, the crypto project backed by President-elect Donald Trump, has transferred over $60 million worth of Ethereum in the last 24 hours, according to Arkham Intelligence data. The ...

Spark Protocol, the lending subDAO in the Sky ecosystem, is allocating up to $1.1 billion of the Spark Liquidity Layer balance sheet to Ethena’s USDe and sUSDe tokens. The team estimates it could earn ...

“We haven’t said Ethereum is a security,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said on Tuesday on Yahoo Finance. The classification of whether ethereum is a security or not has been hazy over the past few years.

If approved, new Solana and XRP exchange-traded funds could bring in as much as $13.6 billion in fresh investment capital during their first six to 12 months, according to JPMorgan analysts. The ...