Unchained

The former Coinbase CTO signed a deal to open a new campus in Kazakhstan just hours after Malaysian authorities revoked his Forest City community’s business license.

The company behind the Move-based layer-2 network collapsed into bankruptcy after a token-dump scandal.

Lyn Alden raised $40M to launch Orange Juice, a holding company that buys cash-flowing businesses and layers Bitcoin on top, not another pure-play treasury bet.

The Strike founder is leaving the Tether-controlled treasury company after a board disagreement, as a proposed three-way merger with Strike and Elektron Energy collapses.

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 State Duma bill caps how much ordinary Russians can buy each year while clearing a path for companies to settle international trade in crypto.

Patrick Witt’s Army National Guard training has been deferred, keeping the White House’s lead Clarity Act negotiator in place as the bill nears a Senate floor vote.

The White House has agreed to an ethics provision covering President Trump, with the DOJ set to enforce it, potentially clearing the last major obstacle to a Senate vote on the CLARITY Act.

The ANJ’s move comes after an earlier transaction bans failed.

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.