Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams shares the story of how his dream of working with Stripe came true, how Bridge survived the black eyes of Terra/Luna and the USDC depegging, and why U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins will remain dominant.

While people in the crypto ecosystem have witnessed an extraordinary amount of wealth creation, those same people have lost money in a number of ways.

From the groundbreaking success of the ETFs to Solana’s dominance and the Trump effect on Bitcoin, we look back at the stories and voices that defined 2024.

Robinhood’s crypto business is on a tear, having quintupled post-election. CEO Vlad Tenev shares his vision for how to marry TradFi and crypto, and what role stablecoins, staking, and prediction markets will play.

The unlock of 1.9 billion previously restricted ONDO tokens is split between three allocations: ecosystem growth, protocol development, and private sales, according to Tokenomist.

DeFi Drama & Dangers: USD0, Ethena’s Ascent, & Crypto’s Future w/ Guy Young

The Virtuals team will use nearly 13 million VIRTUAL ($12 million) to buy large quantities of 25 types of AI agent tokens rolled out on its platform to remove them from circulation.

Out of a total 700 Million JUP tokens to be distributed, 440 million tokens have been earmarked for users, 60 million JUP to stakers, and the remaining for growth campaigns to expand the user base.

This week, Sony launched Soneium, an Ethereum layer 2 aimed at supporting creators, fans, and developers—but its decision to blacklist certain memecoins sparked debate. Co-developer Sota Watanabe explains.

The handle @Ethereum will be used as a general account to share updates about the network, while @EthereumFndn will focus on sharing specific announcements regarding the nonprofit, such as grants and disclosures for treasury movements.

AI agents are shaking up DeFi, Ethereum faces pressure from Solana, and debates over governance continue to dominate the space. Marc Zeller and Kain Warwick unpack what’s next for ETH and the entire industry.

The program has already incurred a cost of roughly $1.2 million with the vast majority stemming from legal fees for entity setups and expenses for general administration.

From the groundbreaking success of the ETFs to Solana’s dominance and the Trump effect on Bitcoin, we look back at the stories and voices that defined 2024.

PENGU, the new token for Pudgy Penguins that rolled out on Solana, has a fully diluted valuation of $2.6 billion, making it the sixth largest memecoin.

After their precipitous fall since 2021, NFTs are reviving, with signs of life from CryptoPunks, Doodles, Blur, and OpenSea.

The SEC is planning to recommend action against the second-largest NFT marketplace for selling unregistered securities. 

In light of the speculation, XRP is among the most traded tokens on Coinbase and Binance, climbing to a seven-year high of almost $3.40.

Added to the commission under the Biden administration, Mersinger consistently dissents from anti-crypto enforcement actions.

The industry is used to things moving more quickly than politics allow.

From the groundbreaking success of the ETFs to Solana’s dominance and the Trump effect on Bitcoin, we look back at the stories and voices that defined 2024.

Solana’s current emissions mechanism is fixed, but if the proposal is enacted the network’s emissions rate would be variable, adjusting to market dynamics.

The large crypto trader had spun up a bounty of wallets to stake more than a million of Chainlink’s LINK tokens – apparently a workaround to the original 7,000-token-per-wallet limit.

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The program has already incurred a cost of roughly $1.2 million with the vast majority stemming from legal fees for entity setups and expenses for general administration.