RT Watson
@RT_Watson
senior journalist @TheBlock__
former Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters. @UCLA and @EdinburghUni grad.
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EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm leads $9 million round in LatAm payments app El Dorado
Many in crypto are reluctant to openly discuss whether @realDonaldTrump's crypto interests is making getting Clarity Act through Congress more difficult.
“They don't want to bite the hand that feeds them,” AFR's Mark Hays told The Block.
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@MoneyGram CEO says some countries treat solana:EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v same as USD...
If trend continues paying yield on #stablecoin# deposits should be less of an issue
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Must be a crazy number of #XRP# 'super fans' buying token's ETFs...
The TOP 30 HOLDERS of spot XRP ETFs held JUST $211 MILLION worth of the funds at the end of 2025
But the funds had taken in a total of over $1 billion.
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Although #XRP# champion Ripple spent billions in 2025...
Might still look at more acquisitions later this year, says CEO @bgarlinghouse
Most profitable company in #Crypto#, @tether keeps investing..
-Latest a 'strategic' stake in @LayerZero_Core
High-profile #Ethereum# treasury backed by Peter Thiel (ETHZilla) doesn't really feel like being a #crypto# treasury anymore...
Hopefully tokenizing auto and home loans yields better results for shareholders
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EXCLUSIVE:
@paradigm makes first Brazil investment...
betting $13.5M on #crypto# startup Crown, issuer of "world’s largest emerging market stablecoin"
FEATURE: Wall Street created Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. Now crypto is going after equities like Tesla and Nvidia
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BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried gets sentenced to 25 years in prison in FTX case
Worldcoin seeks to empower users and eliminates option allowing for storage of personal data
Bored Apes' creator Yuga Labs acquires Proof, takes over Moonbirds NFT brand
Interview with ambitious @Mysten_Labs co-founder Adeniyi [@EmanAbio] ... bullish on @SuiNetwork making the transferring of crypto as easy as sending email
Now that CZ and Binance have been removed from the field, the SEC can approve the spot ETF and Blackrock, Fidelity, Invesco and other large players can take over. This is how the game is played.
Nike-RTFKT's crypto universe nears $1.4 billion in NFT trading as sneakerheads swoon
Paying roughly 20% more for food and rising car prices surely sour some consumers' mood
Yesterday I shared 5+ people who received phishing emails over the weekend to email addresses associated with @Strike
Strike then provided a quote to TheBlock claiming “there's no evidence that Strike was breached”
Below are two examples with leaked data from the breach showing evidence that Strike is misleading people and cannot be trusted.
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I love how enthusiastic the friends are to be watching the gadget be tested.
With multidirectional treadmills like Omni One you walk and run in 360° inside VR games and other virtual worlds
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What would a spot bitcoin ETF approval mean for the industry?
