Raphaël Bloch 🐳
@Raph_Bloch
Cofounder / Ed-in-Chief @TheBigWhale_ (ex @Reuters, @LesEchos)
I arrived in Buenos Aires last night (I'll stay for 10 days), and paying in Argentina remains a nightmare. With no cash on hand, I sought a taxi at the airport that would accept credit cards. The first two refused cards, with one only accepting US dollars 😑. The third also…

C’est quand même fascinant : l’UE a fait absolument tout ce qu’elle pouvait pour éviter une guerre commerciale - et elle s’est quand même fait écraser. Ce qui vient d’être dealé entre Trump et Von der Leyen n’est pas un accord équilibré, c’est une suite de concessions majeures…
"Nous devons en tirer vite les conséquences ou risquer l’effacement." Nous sommes déjà malheureusement effacés et cet accord en est le symbole le plus criant.
L’accord commercial négocié par la Commission Européenne avec les Etats-Unis apportera une stabilité temporaire aux acteurs économiques menacés par l’escalade douanière américaine, mais il est déséquilibré. Il a le mérite d’exempter de tarifs des secteurs clés pour l’économie…
This is a new narrative being pushed. I would love it if we had the budget to rent the amount of TVL we have. Utter nonsense, but nothing I haven’t come to expect from these people.
Rented tvl is an amazing drug.
New Deep Dive announce: Crypto Derivatives 📈 Perps, options, structured products & more 🔷 Institutional regs & access 🔷 CEX vs DEX vs L2 liquidity 🔷 On-chain prediction markets 📅 17 Sept 2025 | 8.30AM | Paris 🎟️ lu.ma/y12cvt8a Event language: English 🇬🇧
Take a close look at this yellow band. It's on-chain credit. After stablecoins (the blue mass), this is the next big trend. And it's going to be massive. Full dashboard on @TheBigWhale_ 👌 thebigwhale.io/charts/encours…

🌐 « Dire que Bitcoin vaut zéro, c’est comme dire qu’internet va disparaître. » @PierreNoizat Un réseau utile ne disparaît pas. Les 21M de #BTC sont des droits d’accès : tant que le réseau a une utilité, sa valeur ne peut pas tomber à zéro. 🎬 @Thinker_View, @SebGouspillou :…
BlackRock's Head of Digital Assets Strategy joins @SharpLinkGaming. This high-caliber career move signals positive momentum for the crypto industry. More prominent transitions like this are likely in the coming months.
Proud to welcome Joseph Chalom @joechalom as Co-CEO of @SharpLinkGaming. Having led the digital asset strategy at BlackRock that brought IBIT, ETHA, and BUIDL to life, Joseph laid the groundwork for institutional adoption of crypto at scale. Ethereum is entering its next…
Ethereum metrics signal huge momentum. ETF and stablecoin volumes: hitting ATH. DeFi and performance relative to Wall Street: approaching record levels. Only negative point: L2 revenue distribution to Ethereum. More data on @TheBigWhale_ 👌 thebigwhale.io/chart-categori…




Le succès des ETF crypto est énorme, et il ne concerne pas que les ETF Bitcoin. L'ETF Ethereum de BlackRock (ETHA) vient de dépasser les 10 milliards $ d'encours en seulement un an, comme le montre les dashboards de @TheBigWhale_ : thebigwhale.io/charts/ethereu… L'ETF Ethereum de…

No longer do RWA issuers need to: - Develop a custom RWA token - Integrate compliance checks - Build ERC4626/ERC7540 vaults - Deploy on multiple chains manually - Set up custody, gas, etc on each chain - ... Instead, you can rely on the battle-tested, immutable foundation of the…
Liquidity fragmentation ends now. Centrifuge V3 is LIVE, first launching on @ethereum, @plumenetwork, @base, @arbitrum, @avax, and @BNBCHAIN, with chain interoperability powered exclusively by @wormhole. Fund managers can manage liquidity across multiple chains from a single…
Il y a pas mal d’euphorie autour des marchés crypto. Oui, les choses s’accélèrent. Oui, la finance bouge sur les actifs numériques. On le voit notamment chez les banques avec des infos (JPMorgan, PNC, Fortuneo, etc.) quasiment tous les jours. Mais non, il n’y aura pas de…
ETH ETF Flows July 2024 - June 2025: $4.2 billion July 2025: $4.4 billion 👀
À mesure que les actifs numériques prennent de l’ampleur, le besoin en informations et analyses de qualité devient essentiel. Très heureux d’officialiser le partenariat entre @Boursorama et @TheBigWhale_ 🎉 Dans quelques jours, les clients de Bourso auront accès, directement…
📢 Coming soon: The Big Whale’s insights, embedded right in your BoursoBank (ex-@Boursorama) dashboard. No extra log-ins needed. As a subsidiary of @SocieteGenerale, Boursobank leads the French online banking market with nearly 8 million customers and €200 billion in assets…
"Privacy is the missing key for institutional crypto adoption." In an exclusive interview with @TheBigWhale_, @randhindi, founder of @zama_fhe, discusses how fully homomorphic encryption could transform on-chain finance 👇 en.thebigwhale.io/article-en/ran…
Fintech in the front, Market intelligence in the back. So proud 🚀
📢 Coming soon: The Big Whale’s insights, embedded right in your BoursoBank (ex-@Boursorama) dashboard. No extra log-ins needed. As a subsidiary of @SocieteGenerale, Boursobank leads the French online banking market with nearly 8 million customers and €200 billion in assets…
🎉 So proud ! @TheBigWhale_ propose désormais des contenus aux 8 millions de clients de @Boursorama qui souhaitent approfondir leurs connaissances des crypto-actifs
📢 Coming soon: The Big Whale’s insights, embedded right in your BoursoBank (ex-@Boursorama) dashboard. No extra log-ins needed. As a subsidiary of @SocieteGenerale, Boursobank leads the French online banking market with nearly 8 million customers and €200 billion in assets…
Pourquoi les fonds monétaires tokenisés sont une révolution et pourquoi ils pourraient menacer les banques 🧵 À dérouler
Glad to announce @Boursorama chose @TheBigWhale_ as their go-to information platform for their 8M+ customers. If as a professional investor, corporate, or bank, you're looking for clear insights about the crypto space, The Big Whale is made for you The Whale is big
📢 Coming soon: The Big Whale’s insights, embedded right in your BoursoBank (ex-@Boursorama) dashboard. No extra log-ins needed. As a subsidiary of @SocieteGenerale, Boursobank leads the French online banking market with nearly 8 million customers and €200 billion in assets…
📢 Coming soon: The Big Whale’s insights, embedded right in your BoursoBank (ex-@Boursorama) dashboard. No extra log-ins needed. As a subsidiary of @SocieteGenerale, Boursobank leads the French online banking market with nearly 8 million customers and €200 billion in assets…
The crypto talent exodus is real But it's not because of the 24/7 culture or market volatility The real problem is simpler: they've spent years building products nobody wanted I've seen incredible engineers burn 18 months of effort on NFT marketplaces that launched into empty…