December 23, 2024
Trump Announces Team Working With AI & Crypto Czar: What We Know
Trump continues to surprise industry policy experts by appointing new faces.
Burning tokens involves permanently taking a portion of the cryptocurrency’s supply out of circulation, which makes the token scarcer.
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The first cryptocurrency is roughly 10% away from its all-time high of roughly $108,000 set on Tuesday.
The 12 spot BTC ETFs trading in the U.S. have had 15 consecutive days of positive flows, while the figure for the nine spot ETH ETFs currently stands at 18 days.
MicroStrategy has been accumulating BTC every week since Oct. 31 and activity on Coinbase indicates general market positivity.
Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas says ETF options attract whales and that they create a moat of liquidity for Bitcoin, similar to gold ETFs like GLD.
Robinhood’s crypto business is on a tear, having quintupled post-election. CEO Vlad Tenev shares his vision for how to marry TradFi and crypto, and what role stablecoins, staking, and prediction markets will play.
CoinFund’s overall staff increased by 28% in the past year after seeing successes in Matter Labs and Ondo Finance.
MicroStrategy has been accumulating BTC every week since Oct. 31 and activity on Coinbase indicates general market positivity.
Many in the crypto community have been skeptical of Warsh due to his previous advocacy of CBDCs.
After a security researcher warns that crypto trading platform Hyperliquid faces an elevated risk of getting targeted by North Korean hackers, users of prediction-betting site Polymarket spin up their own wagers on the likelihood.
This week in crypto: Aave and Polygon’s governance dispute heats up, PENGU’s airdrop shakes the Pudgy Penguins market, and MicroStrategy secures a spot in the Nasdaq 100.
Polygon’s governance proposal on bridged asset yield is unlikely to move forward due to community backlash, while Polygon criticized Aave’s leadership for monopolistic behavior and undermining innovation.
The decentralized finance protocol has experienced just 11 profitable months since its launch in December 2020, with six of those coming within the last year.
The decentralized finance protocol has experienced just 11 profitable months since its launch in December 2020, with six of those coming within the last year.
The dominant lending protocol’s governance proposal is in response to a Polygon pre-proposal to use Morpho to generate a $70 million/year yield on its $1.3 billion in bridged stablecoins.
Ethereum’s growing interest among investors has driven U.S. spot ETH ETFs to a weekly all-time high in total netflows, with $752.9 million recorded.
Michael Collins, a U.S. representative from Georgia, disclosed on Monday increased exposure to cryptocurrencies, particularly memecoin ski mask dog.
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.
After their precipitous fall since 2021, NFTs are reviving, with signs of life from CryptoPunks, Doodles, Blur, and OpenSea.
The SEC is planning to recommend action against the second-largest NFT marketplace for selling unregistered securities.
This week in crypto: The rise of Pump.Fun’s revenue, California DMV’s blockchain initiative, BitClout founder charged, and more!
Trump continues to surprise industry policy experts by appointing new faces.
Amanda Tuminelli, chief legal officer at the DeFi Education Fund, unpacks the implications of Section 1960 and the Tornado Cash case, highlighting how evolving interpretations of money transmission laws could criminalize developers.
The president of the Filecoin Foundation shares her insights on the likelihood of passing FIT21, stablecoin legislation, and what’s next for crypto policy.
At the Blockchain Association Policy Summit in DC, BA CEO explains what a pro-crypto Congress and president mean for the industry and what could bring builders back to the U.S.
The newly rolled-out blockchain has a fee monetization feature that rewards developers up to 90% of network fees generated from their application.
ICOs Are Back, Electric Capital’s Developer Report, & Quantum Computing Threats
Electric Capital’s annual crypto developer report details how Solana overtook Ethereum as the top chain for new devs, Asia emerged as the leading region for crypto builders, and more.
Developers in the crypto industry are becoming more distributed in terms of physical geography and by their activity of different blockchain networks.