Research Head & Founding Team @TheBlockCo

Joined October 2015
I’m sad to announce that due to unforeseen market conditions I am now a long term investor.
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a16z drops crypto from name and then immediately after Visa buys a crypto company for $2.5 billion.
NEW: Visa is in late-stage talks to acquire crypto custody and stablecoin infrastructure firm Fireblocks for around $2.5 billion, according to Axios. The potential deal comes as traditional financial institutions expand their involvement in stablecoin infrastructure.
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Web2 breaking today. Return to Web3.
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Pump's team casually shipping protocols that the market would value at hundreds of millions of dollars as separate tokens.
Your crosschain trades have been slow, broken and overpriced for months. Relay, used by Fomo & Pumpfun, has led traders to worse fills, missed trades and poor experiences. We refused to let this go on. Introducing Pump Bridge: 2x FASTER, 12x FEWER buy errors & the BEST fills 👇
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Steven retweeted
Announcing the inaugural Capitol Crypto Forum, hosted by @TheBlockCo and @thehill on November 19. Lawmakers, regulators, and industry, together for the first time after the midterms. Sign up to attend in person or virtually ↓ capitolcryptoforum2026.splas…
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[ ZOOOMER] PHP SECURITY FLAW TAKES DOWN SERVERS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY SELLERS
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New @coinbase + @TheBlockCo report is a banger. Stablecoins move $400M+ every hour, 24/7. That adds up to $891B in Q3 2026 (adjusted for bots, exchanges and DeFi), up 4x+ from $216B in Q1 2023. Keep that pace and volume hits ~$1.5T a quarter by end of 2027. Addresses also on the risk with 293M addresses - more than Amex and Discover’s combined card base.
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1/ New Report Dropped The Always-On Dollar, from @Coinbase in partnership with The Block. It covers how stablecoins compare with legacy rails on cost and speed, adoption by banks and businesses, potential GDP gains, AI agent payments, and more. Here’s what the data shows.
🤝 Paid partnership
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"The S&P 500 is only 2% off the highs and you guys are panicking." Yeah because I'm in an 1000X leveraged position on a volatile cryptocurrency and not in the S&P 500?
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This dude Elon just invented flying cars?
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I’d like to see AI, Quantum, or Asteroid trade on 1000X leverage.
No where safe to hide anymore > Software at risk of being disrupted by AI > AI at risk of getting commoditized > Gold at risk of being discovered on asteroids in Space > Bitcoin at risk from quantum > Quantum computers at risk of being blown up > Cash at risk of inflation Ahh
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RT @fintechfrank: Usually text exchange with @Dogetoshi
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No no I wasn't liquidated I was just farming paper
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Papertrade is the next Pump Fun. 1000x short on tiny size but man when it hits you get the same rush as a memecoin.
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Live from Nasdaq – Evernorth rings closing bell xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1jxXgBlDa…
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Bitcoin can’t ship new features. eCash solves Bitcoin’s upgrade bottleneck. Shoutout to @TheBlockCo research team for breaking down how drivechains turn a Bitcoin hard fork into a permissionless testing ground, with 7 chains going live Oct 31. Read the report: theblock.co/research/blockch…
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1/ Just released: Our latest Research Primer looks at eCash, a Bitcoin hard fork that lets anyone propose new features as miner-secured drivechains. Thank you to @BTCdrivechains for commissioning this report. Key insights below:
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So Blur giga financialized NFTs for no reason?
1/ The blur.io frontend will be deprecated on November 12, 2026. This deprecation only applies to the frontend. The Blur marketplace protocol will remain operational on-chain, and $BLUR will continue to control its fee switch.
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