The corporate is being suggested by an funding financial institution in a course of that started in late 2025, CoinDesk reported Tuesday (Jan. 13), citing unnamed sources.
CoinGecko didn’t instantly reply to PYMNTS’ request for remark.
In accordance with the CoinDesk report, one other crypto market information aggregator, CoinMarketCap, was acquired by crypto trade Binance in 2020 for an estimated $400 million.
When Binance introduced that acquisition, it famous that the Binance digital foreign money trade and its BNB native token have been listed on the location however that “CoinMarketCap and Binance are separate entities that preserve a strict coverage of independence from each other.”
It was reported Dec. 23 that the quantity and worth of acquisitions and preliminary public choices (IPOs) within the cryptocurrency sector surged in 2025, pushed by the Trump administration’s favorable stance towards the business.
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The variety of acquisitions noticed a year-over-year improve of 18%, reaching 267, whereas the worth of offers struck in 2025 was almost 4 occasions that of 2024, reaching $8.6 billion.
The expansion within the sector was pushed by Trump administration insurance policies that embody appointing crypto-friendly regulators, dropping lawsuits and launching a nationwide crypto reserve.
The business’s momentum is predicted to proceed in 2026 as new guidelines are carried out within the U.S. and extra conventional monetary establishments get entangled within the sector.
Polygon Labs introduced Tuesday that it’s set to acquire cryptocurrency trade Coinme and crypto pockets infrastructure supplier Sequence for greater than $250 million.
“These acquisitions give us regulated entry to U.S. fee rails, pockets infrastructure and cross-chain intents capabilities to construct an open funds enterprise on prime of on-chain settlement,” Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron stated in a press launch.
Blockchain infrastructure firm Fireblocks stated Wednesday (Jan. 7) that it acquired TRES Finance, a crypto accounting and monetary reporting platform. The corporate stated the acquisition is designed to deal with the rising demand for corporations doing enterprise on the blockchain to have “audit-ready, tax-compliant” monetary information.
KRAKacquisition Corp, a particular objective acquisition firm (SPAC) backed by an affiliate of crypto trade Kraken, filed Monday (Jan. 12) to go public with a $250 million IPO.
