Unchained

Coinbase announced a bitcoin rewards card with Amex and revealed broader plans to integrate Base, enable USDC payments, and expand trading options.

This week in crypto: the SEC opens the door for DeFi exemptions, Congress advances landmark regulation, and a struggling fitness firm dives into AI tokens.

Circle’s IPO, Stripe’s crypto push, Shopify accepting USDC, the hot Plasma ICO … the stablecoin market is in a near frenzy.

Interactive Strength is losing money on its sales of high-end fitness equipment and memberships. It’s turning to crypto’s latest fad to reverse its fortunes.

Curve’s founder is testing a leveraged DeFi protocol designed to turn liquidity into yield and reduce impermanent loss.

Solana’s most viral app wants to raise $1 billion. But the crypto community isn’t completely sold on the pitch.

The company charted a bumpy course to reach the public markets, but its triumphant debut on the NYSE shows that the stablecoin era has arrived.

Tokenized U.S. Treasury product based on BlackRock ETFs targets smaller investors than those who can access underlying funds.

Geth Lead developer alleges that Ethereum Foundation offered him $5 million to quit and turn the interface into a private firm.

Many users are simply unable to manage cryptographic keys, report says, highlighting concerns over economic centralization fostering collusion.

Over $100 billion in ETH is now staked onchain, as rising prices and shrinking exchange balances point to growing long-term conviction.

Foundation’s latest move comes against backdrop of broader overhaul of Ethereum ecosystem streamlining.

Bybit happened to publish a proof of reserves the day before the $1.5 billion hack by North Korea. But the incomplete snapshot of the exchange’s finances lays bare why they don’t serve customers when disaster strikes.

Buterin’s acquisition and use of a Miladys NFT on his social media accounts X and Farcaster comes at a time when the Ethereum community has expressed a number of concerns about the network’s trajectory and leadership.

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.

Lawmakers on both sides quietly tried to address Trump’s crypto interests in the CLARITY Act, but the White House pushed back.

Crypto’s Wall Street Invasion: Circle’s IPO, Meme Stock Multiples, and the End of Fintech – The Chopping Block

Legislation now needs only a simple majority to pass in upper chamber.

Crypto market structure bill progresses, with Financial Services Committee set to vote on it next.

Crypto’s Wall Street Invasion: Circle’s IPO, Meme Stock Multiples, and the End of Fintech – The Chopping Block

New feature allows accrual of yield on tokenized asset holdings timed to the second, asset manager says.

Alex Lab pledged full reimbursement after an $8.3 million exploit on its Bitcoin DeFi protocol, marking its second major breach in just over a year.

Discovery of operational security blunders sees one of the North Korean hacker group’s IP addresses traced to China.