What we measured
We loaded theblock.co in a real browser, accepted the cookie banner, and scored what came back. Every number below is on a 0–10 scale where 10 is best.
- Ad restraint
- 8
- Design
- 9
- Reach
- 7
- Editorial
- 8
- Signal-to-noise
- 7
- Access
- 5
- Cadence
- 9
- Independence
- 5
Ad entities counted on the homepage after accepting the cookie banner
Clutter, hierarchy, typography and whitespace, scored from our screenshot
Tranco rank for the registrable domain, capped where the feed is a section
Curated judgement of the writing, not a measurement
How much of the feed is the thing you subscribed for
How much is readable without a paywall or a login
Whether it publishes often enough to be worth a slot
Ownership, and how much it constrains what gets covered
What it looks like
Our screenshot of theblock.co, taken with the cookie banner cleared.
Latest from The Block
Straight from the feed. This is what the ticker would be showing you right now.
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- Strategy, Metaplanet could face MSCI index removal under new proposal
- Bitwise mulls tokenizing its Solana staking ETF via Superstate partnership
- Washington court orders Kalshi to halt most prediction market offerings in state
- Gemini shares slide after $108 million loss as Winklevoss says ‘we still have work to do’
- Tether says KPMG issued ‘clean’ opinion in first full audit of USDT issuer’s financials
- Baltimore sues Kalshi and Polymarket, roping Coinbase, Robinhood and Webull into the fight
- Google ad phishing scam drains $550,000 from Hyperliquid user, security specialist says
- Citigroup CEO Fraser on Clarity Act: ‘We would like to see a good bill go through,’ as stablecoin reward issues simmer
- Onchain lender Figure nearly triples quarterly profits as loan marketplace volume surges to $4.3 billion
- Trezor shipping provider breach exposes personal data of nearly 14,000 customers
- Bitcoin continues ranging as crowded longs meet soft inflation, the quietest tape since 2019: analysts
- Ether.fi adds tokenized stocks, metals and Aave-powered portfolio loans in latest ‘neobank’ expansion
Where it sits in Business & Money
- #27 Calculated Risk74.5
- #28 The Defiant74
- #29 The Block73.5
- #30 The Ken73.5
- #31 The White Coat Investor73.5