Ethan Brooks

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron announced layoffs on Thursday as the firm moves to complete its acquisition of Coinme, transitioning from a blockchain foundation into a blockchain-enabled payments company. The layoffs are part of finalizing the Coinme acquisition, which will integrate that team into Po

Ripple confirms its payment system supports SWIFT messaging interoperability according to official documentation cited by crypto researcher SMQKE. The capability enables banks and payment providers to integrate blockchain technology while maintaining existing workflows and systems. SWIFT operates

Blockchain.com integrated oracle feeds from Polymarket into its platform, according to a company announcement posted on July 14, 2026. The integration expands user access to blockchain-based prediction market data, including election-related prediction pools, through decentralized infrastructure. Th

Brokerage infrastructure provider Alpaca announced Thursday it raised $135 million in a funding round led by Peak XV, alongside up to $300 million in debt financing from Kraken parent Payward and BMO. The funds will accelerate Alpaca's agent-first brokerage and API-first prime brokerage infrastructu

Stanford University and Singapore Management University researchers found systematic settlement manipulation in Polymarket's 5-minute bitcoin betting contracts, with 821 traders extracting $8.2 million from February through April 2026. The study documented a roughly 50% jump in net order flow on

Enso released research identifying malicious liquidity pools called 'toxic pools.' These pools display accurate trading estimates during simulations but produce different results after on-chain execution. Toxic pools exploit the gap between simulated and actual blockchain execution, altering

Cryptocurrency markets experienced broad declines in the second quarter of 2026, with spot trading volume across the top 10 centralized exchanges falling 27.9% to $1.95 trillion from $2.7 trillion in Q1, according to CoinGecko's Crypto Industry Report published Thursday. Perpetual futures volume dec

Stablecoin issuer Tether invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as part of a $197 million funding round that valued the fintech at $3.2 billion on a post-money basis. The funding round was initially led by Allianz X in March 2026, with participation from new and existing investors

MoonPay has acquired Glide, a startup enabling applications to accept crypto deposits from any token, wallet, exchange or card, in an all-equity transaction. Glide co-founder and CEO Tushar Soni told The Block that discussions began late last year and the transaction has now closed, though he