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RFK Jr. delivering his speech at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

July 26, 2024

RFK Jr. Echoes Rumor of Trump’s Alleged Plan to Purchase 1 Million Bitcoin for America

The rumored plan would involve new legislation that would make bitcoin a strategic reserve asset for the U.S. central bank.   

PODCASTS

Why Congressman Ro Khanna Is Hopeful the Democratic Party Will Embrace Crypto

Episode #679 | July 26, 2024

Why Congressman Ro Khanna Is Hopeful the Democratic Party Will Embrace Crypto

As crypto voters defect from the Democratic Party to support Trump, Rep. Ro Khanna says he is hopeful that his party can “reject the hostile policies of the past.”

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Bitcoin

July 26, 2024

RFK Jr. Echoes Rumor of Trump’s Alleged Plan to Purchase 1 Million Bitcoin for America

The rumored plan would involve new legislation that would make bitcoin a strategic reserve asset for the U.S. central bank.   

July 26, 2024

Senator Tim Scott Goes All In on Bitcoin, Paving the Way for 2025 Crypto Legislation

At the Bitcoin Conference, Senator Scott, the likely Senate Banking Committee Chair next year in a potential GOP-led Senate, revealed for the first time his pro-crypto position.

July 26, 2024

What Would Trump Announcing a U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Mean?

Speculation has been growing that the former President will announce plans to establish a bitcoin strategic reserve during his speech on Saturday at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference.

July 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: Spot Ether ETFs Go Live, Kraken Distributes Mt. Gox Bitcoin

This week in crypto: New Vitalik Buterin documentary launch, dYdX considers selling its derivatives software, Swan Bitcoin cancels IPO plans, and more!

Business

July 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: Spot Ether ETFs Go Live, Kraken Distributes Mt. Gox Bitcoin

This week in crypto: New Vitalik Buterin documentary launch, dYdX considers selling its derivatives software, Swan Bitcoin cancels IPO plans, and more!

July 22, 2024

ETH Held in Exchange Reserves Drops to 8-Year Low With ETFs Set to Begin Trading

The ETH holdings of Binance and Coinbase have decreased by $1.2 billion over the last seven days.

July 22, 2024

How the Crypto Market Reacted to Joe Biden Dropping Out of the Presidential Race

Large scale liquidations, a spike in memecoin trading activity and heavy losses across prediction markets followed U.S. President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will be dropping out of the election race.

July 19, 2024

Weekly Recap: Germany’s BTC Sale, Mt. Gox Distributions, Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF Fees

This week in crypto: State Street’s blockchain initiatives, WazirX’s major hack, FTX and CFTC agree to $12.7 billion settlement, and more!

DeFi

July 25, 2024

AAVE Jumps Amidst New Tokenomics Governance Proposal, Two-Year Record in Borrowing

The governance submission aims to implement a fee switch and a buyback program to increase the utility of staked AAVE.

July 19, 2024

Scroll Lending Protocol Rho Says No Funds Lost After $7.6 Million ‘Oracle Exploit’

The Rho Markets hackers said they were willing to fully return funds as long as the protocol admits the issue resulted from a misconfiguration on their end.

July 16, 2024

LI.FI Drained of More Than $10 Million Via Wallets With Infinite Approval Settings

The wallet address that exploited the DeFi protocol’s smart contract has since transferred out the vast majority of the drained funds.

July 16, 2024

Iggy Azalea Denies Dumping $2 Million Worth of MOTHER on Retail

The creator of the $MOTHER coin on Solana says that the allegations were “crazy” and made her “so annoyed.”

Ethereum

July 26, 2024

Solana Exceeds Ethereum in Monthly Trading Volume for First Time, But Not When Ethereum’s L2s Are Included

Solana’s trading volume so far in July has outpaced Ethereum’s base layer, but the trading volume of Ethereum combined with that of its layer 2 networks well exceeds that of Solana’s.

July 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: Spot Ether ETFs Go Live, Kraken Distributes Mt. Gox Bitcoin

This week in crypto: New Vitalik Buterin documentary launch, dYdX considers selling its derivatives software, Swan Bitcoin cancels IPO plans, and more!

July 25, 2024

BlackRock: Our Spot Ether ETFs Are Complements to Bitcoin ETFs, Not Substitutes

The investment giant’s head of digital assets discussed the company’s approach to crypto during a talk at the annual Bitcoin Conference, which kicked off Thursday in Nashville.  

July 25, 2024

Crypto Market Sees $290 Million in Daily Liquidations

More than 75,500 crypto traders were liquidated over the last 24 hours as prices of major digital assets retraced. 

NFTs

June 20, 2024

Has the Market Decided NFTs Aren’t Worth Millions of Dollars Anymore?

CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club are reaching multi-year lows in floor price amidst a broader NFT downturn. However, Milady Maker and Pudgy Penguins are exceptions to the ongoing trend.

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 3, 2024

Weekly Recap: CZ’s Sentence, DeFi Tokens Tumble, and Tether’s Triumph

This week in crypto: Stablecoin regulation stalls, Hong Kong debuts spot ETFs, a16z buys into Optimism, FTX unloads Solana holdings, and more!

April 26, 2024

How OpenSea’s Weekly NFT Volumes Plummeted From $1 Billion to $20 Million in Just 2 Years

Magic Eden recently surpassed OpenSea in weekly trading volume for the first time, highlighting how the competitive landscape among NFT marketplaces is continuing to shift. 

Regulation

July 26, 2024

RFK Jr. Echoes Rumor of Trump’s Alleged Plan to Purchase 1 Million Bitcoin for America

The rumored plan would involve new legislation that would make bitcoin a strategic reserve asset for the U.S. central bank.   

July 26, 2024

Senator Tim Scott Goes All In on Bitcoin, Paving the Way for 2025 Crypto Legislation

At the Bitcoin Conference, Senator Scott, the likely Senate Banking Committee Chair next year in a potential GOP-led Senate, revealed for the first time his pro-crypto position.

July 26, 2024

Trump Has Made Promises to Crypto Voters. If He’s Elected, What Could He Actually Do?

As crypto policy has become a campaign issue in a Presidential election for the first time, how likely is it that any of the promises from Trump come true?

July 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: Spot Ether ETFs Go Live, Kraken Distributes Mt. Gox Bitcoin

This week in crypto: New Vitalik Buterin documentary launch, dYdX considers selling its derivatives software, Swan Bitcoin cancels IPO plans, and more!

Tech

July 25, 2024

AAVE Jumps Amidst New Tokenomics Governance Proposal, Two-Year Record in Borrowing

The governance submission aims to implement a fee switch and a buyback program to increase the utility of staked AAVE.

July 24, 2024

Solana’s Growth Metrics, Including Stablecoin Supply, Continue to Take Off

Since the beginning of the year, Solana has seen several ecosystem metrics increase substantially, benefiting from Solana’s parallelization capabilities.

July 23, 2024

Apps on the TON Blockchain Have Become Extremely Popular. Is It Sustainable?

This year, games on TON have taken off, garnering hundreds of millions of users in a few months. TON Foundation’s Alena Shmalko and Jack Booth share their insights on how TON, after Telegram had run-ins with the SEC, got here.

July 12, 2024

Friend.Tech Token Reaches All-Time Low as Two Other Metrics Plummet

After it dropped plans to launch its own chain, multiple of Friend.tech’s main metrics dropped, while users criticized them for “greed or incompetence.” 

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Episode #676 | July 18, 2024

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