The offer values PayPal at a 28% premium and would fold its PYUSD stablecoin into Stripe’s fast-growing crypto-payments push, though PayPal has been reluctant to engage.
Jesse Pollak handed the consumer app back to Coinbase and gave it to the trader known as Cobie, in a candid retreat from his bet that crypto’s next wave would run on social apps and creator coins.
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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 new Digital Credit Capital Framework raises the STRC dividend to 12%, authorizes $2 billion in buybacks, and for the first time formally permits selling bitcoin at scale to fund the company’s obligations.
Jesse Pollak handed the consumer app back to Coinbase and gave it to the trader known as Cobie, in a candid retreat from his bet that crypto’s next wave would run on social apps and creator coins.
The offer values PayPal at a 28% premium and would fold its PYUSD stablecoin into Stripe’s fast-growing crypto-payments push, though PayPal has been reluctant to engage.
The clearinghouse at the center of US securities settlement is moving towards the full launch of its tokenization project.
Nick Almond and Proph3t on ENS’s treasury fight, the BonkDAO heist, and why Proph3t would not touch Venice’s VVV token.
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.
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.
Is it Ethereum or bust? Ansgar Dietrichs makes the case that only Ethereum can anchor the financial system, and admits ETH still lacks a clear value story.
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.
Parliament moved digital assets out of the payments rulebook and into the same framework as stocks and bonds, laying the groundwork for lower taxes in 2028 and future spot bitcoin funds.
OFAC sanctioned wallets tied to Iran’s central bank, freezing mostly Tether’s USDT on Tron, as a US-Iran ceasefire collapsed and Washington renewed a naval blockade.
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.
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