The plan would end validator-gated listings, requiring deployers to lock about $30 million in tokens while letting them keep up to half the trading fees.
The self-custody wallet maker is cutting its headcount as it trades crypto swap fees for stablecoin cards and settlement.
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The Strategy chairman warned that writing a spam ban into Bitcoin’s consensus rules is more dangerous than the spam itself, joining a wall of opposition weeks before an August deadline.
Michael Saylor and Adam Back came out against the anti-spam soft fork days before an early-August activation deadline it appears certain to miss.
Strategy sold $260M of Bitcoin at a loss to fund dividends. Parker White of Apyx makes the case that it is smarter than it sounds.
The self-custody wallet maker is cutting its headcount as it trades crypto swap fees for stablecoin cards and settlement.
The July 31 payout tips most FTX creditor classes past 100% cumulative recovery in dollar terms, though claims remain pegged to crypto prices from the November 2022 bankruptcy.
Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain’s trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy.
Eligible E*TRADE clients can now buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana through Zero Hash at a 0.5% fee.
The plan would end validator-gated listings, requiring deployers to lock about $30 million in tokens while letting them keep up to half the trading fees.
Enso says it found two real pools, on Ethereum and Polygon, engineered to pass a wallet’s pre-trade simulation with an attractive quote and then execute at a worse rate.
The rollout is the first time Aave’s new Hub and Spoke architecture has run on a chain other than Ethereum, though the tokenized-asset markets it is built for remain a stated plan.
Robinhood Chain perps now run on Lighter. Vlad Novakovski maps the revenue split, the USDG collateral risk, and the race for a US perps license.
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS’s treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice’s VVV token.
Joseph Chalom lays out why Ethereum Institutional exists, how it differs from Etherealize, and why he thinks Michael Saylor is in a pickle.
OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.
Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.
Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.
The ANJ’s move comes after an earlier transaction bans failed.
Two weeks after launch, 85% of Robinhood Chain’s trading is memecoins and just 1% is RWAs. Johann Kerbrat says that doesn’t change the strategy.
Gabriel Perez, who has run the president’s teleprompter since 2016, is in settlement talks with the CFTC after Kalshi flagged his trades.
B20, now live on Base mainnet, runs tokens as native code in the chain and bakes in roles, blocklists, and freeze-and-seize powers aimed at stablecoin and real-world-asset issuers.
Two White House executive orders accelerate U.S. quantum computing development while setting a 2030 deadline for federal agencies to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, sharpening the urgency for crypto networks still weighing their own defenses.
Vladimir Novakovski of Lighter joins the Chopping Block crew to untangle one of crypto’s oldest debates: what happens when tokens and equity coexist. The gang digs into the Venice/VVV controversy, breaks down Lighter’s new Perps integration with Robinhood Chain and the fragmentation questions it raises, dissects the wild BonkDAO governance exploit, and reacts to the eye-popping $2.4 billion in crypto income disclosed in Trump’s financial filings.
The crew is joined by Selini Capital’s Jordi Alexander to break down Open USD, the no-fee stablecoin from a 140-firm consortium spanning Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google and Coinbase, all aimed at the Circle and Tether duopoly. Plus Saylor’s new Digital Credit framework for MicroStrategy, the Ansem-fueled memecoin comeback, and ENS reigniting the “DAOs are fake” debate.
Several WBTC alternatives have emerged to bring Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi ecosystems across the cryptoverse. Discover the most prominent ones in this guide.
Based rollups are an exciting new addition to rollup scaling solutions.
