M&A

Coinbase’s newest acquisition includes the CEO and Head of Research from Opyn

Monad Foundation’s Keone Hon said the team’s been “thinking about how to grow the onchain economy for some time”

After its IPO, the cloud provider needed more scale before it could pursue “transformational M&A,” VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says

After rejecting a bid from the AI cloud-computing startup last year, Core Scientific agreed to be acquired in a deal expected to close by Q4 2025

Acquisitions could help the memecoin platform own more of the trading stack

Privy said it would still operate as an “independent product” despite the acquisition

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