Grewal, who ran Coinbase’s courtroom battle against the SEC and its Washington policy push, will leave as chief legal officer on July 31; Molly Abraham, a vice president of legal, takes over as general counsel.
Justin Blau and Michael Blau, co-founders of Drip, explain how their pay-per-use platform lets AI agents access paywalled content. Can AI agents make the micropayment model finally make sense?
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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.
Grewal, who ran Coinbase’s courtroom battle against the SEC and its Washington policy push, will leave as chief legal officer on July 31; Molly Abraham, a vice president of legal, takes over as general counsel.
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.
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.
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.
In a joint comment letter, the wallet maker Phantom and the Hyperliquid Policy Center argue that writing onchain protocol software isn’t running a brokerage, and press the CFTC to keep developers and non-custodial wallets off its registration rolls.
A new SFC circular gives internet brokers and licensed virtual-asset platforms 12 months to replace OTP logins with phishing-resistant authentication such as passkeys, and warns firms they will be held accountable for client losses from preventable hacks.
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.
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and the AI IPO cycle face a structural problem: a cheap, capable open source exit is already drawing enterprise users away before either company goes public.
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.
