
July 3, 2025
Ripple’s Legal Saga Is Over. But With Its Stablecoin Pivot, Where Does XRP Go?
The company is finally ending its battle with the SEC. But its blockchain still sees little use and its stablecoin is facing an uphill battle.
One popular method of raising money for crypto treasury companies has already caused major drops for two firms. Another four could be on the way.
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A U.S. judge allowed Celsius’ $4 billion lawsuit against Tether to proceed, finding enough domestic ties despite offshore operations.
Figma’s IPO filing revealed nearly $70 million in bitcoin ETF exposure, adding it to the growing list of tech firms using BTC as a treasury asset.
Hyperliquid has exploded in popularity by offering easy access to perpetual futures. Now, Coinbase and Robinhood are jumping into the market. Will regulated U.S. products find the same success?
Bakkt filed to raise up to $1 billion, planning to allocate some of the capital toward bitcoin and digital assets for its treasury strategy.
Eigen Labs cut 25% of its staff to double down on EigenCloud, its new focus for verifiable compute in the AI and blockchain space.
One popular method of raising money for crypto treasury companies has already caused major drops for two firms. Another four could be on the way.
The two giants at the intersection of fintech and crypto are racing to bring users onchain. Here’s what could determine who’ll get the biggest share of the pie.
This week in crypto: Solana staking enters the ETF space, BlackRock’s Bitcoin fund overtakes its S&P 500 counterpart, and Lido stakers gain veto power.
Robinhood is rebuilding its core product on crypto rails. And Polymarket may have just fumbled a $59 million bet on what counts as a “suit.”
DeFi Development Corp. boosted its Solana stash to nearly $100 million, doubling down on a long-term staking and validator strategy.
Is Lido’s new governance system the breakthrough that makes staking safe for institutions?
DeFi Dev Corp. launched a Dogwifhat validator on Solana, sharing rewards with the meme coin’s community as part of its strategy to grow Solana holdings.
Two Ethereum genesis wallets from 2015 quietly moved nearly $3 million in ETH, breaking a decade of dormancy as whale activity picks up.
Vitalik Buterin proposed a gas cap of 16.77 million per transaction to curb DoS risks and improve Ethereum’s efficiency.
A new Ethereum Community Foundation aims to fund tokenless projects and boost ETH burning, while criticizing the Ethereum Foundation’s political inaction.
Maple and EtherFi teamed up to offer institutional loans backed by restaked ETH, marking a major step for weETH in DeFi credit markets.
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.
A judge signaled she’ll block Tornado Cash sanctions from being used against Roman Storm at trial, though ties to North Korea will remain fair game.
One popular method of raising money for crypto treasury companies has already caused major drops for two firms. Another four could be on the way.
TON Foundation backtracked on its Golden Visa claims after UAE authorities denied any affiliation with its crypto-staking residency offer.
The Treasury dropped its appeal in the Tornado Cash case, ending the sanctions battle and removing the crypto mixer from the U.S. blacklist.
Polygon will activate its biggest hard fork yet with Heimdall v2, slashing finality times and overhauling its core consensus system.
Phantom wallet is rolling out built-in perp trading via Hyperliquid, offering up to 40x leverage without needing to leave the app.
Jack Dorsey is trialing Bitchat, an offline, encrypted messaging app built on a Bluetooth mesh network for decentralized communication.
Robinhood is building a custom Arbitrum-based L2 to power tokenized stocks and 24/7 trading, sending its shares to all-time highs.