M&A

Jay Woods, Chief Global Strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, said it would be “very rare” for an acquisition to happen since the IPO may occur as soon as next week

Maple said it closed its first tranche of bitcoin-backed financing through Cantor’s new Bitcoin financing business on Tuesday

Bitwise’s Ryan Rasmussen thinks Coinbase could be eyeing Circle, Securitize, Chainalysis and Alchemy as it mulls more acquisitions

Crypto M&A is on the rise, with a handful of acquisitions announced just last week

The deal is likely to fuel further M&A around derivatives trading and infrastructure, Architect Partners’ Michael Klena says

The deal is made up of $700 million in cash and 11 million shares of Coinbase’s Class A common stock

Kado’s founder Emery Andrew spoke to Blockworks about the acquisition and what’s next for the team

Securitize announced it acquired a crypto-focused fund administration firm

There was record crypto M&A activity in Q1, with more consolidation predicted

The company has now acquired three Solana validator operators since its September pivot into Solana

Apollo’s Christine Moy said that there’s been “market demand” and “strong interest” in tokenizing private credit

Circle acquired the company responsible for creating the largest tokenized money market fund

The deal is one of the crypto sector’s recent, notable acquisitions involving crypto payments

We’re talking about FTX here, so we could have anticipated that things wouldn’t go as smoothly as planned

The exchange also inherits FTX EU’s European regulatory license that will let users trade perpetual futures

Digital asset prime broker FalconX bought trading firm Arbelos Markets

Also, Hyperbolic’s total funding raised comes out to $20 million after $12 million Series A

The acquisition of Skip and the creation of Interchain Inc. signals a refocusing on centralized leadership and a unified vision

Two stablecoin firms made announcements this week, with one raising an undisclosed amount and Paxos expanding into the EU through an acquisition

The market is, presumably, confused about what a Trump win means for the social media company

Arca CEO Rayne Steinberg talked to Blockworks about how the two made the decision to merge and their plans moving forward

Crypto M&A developments could accelerate in Q4 and 2025, perhaps serving as a barometer for the sector’s trajectory

As part of SIP-411, KWENTA tokens will be redeemable for SNX and subsequently deprecated

As part of the deal, Arcium will take over Inpher’s core team and technology: Lightspeed exclusive