Tech
The Base blockchain had a delay in block production earlier today, marking the network’s first outage since its launch last month.
Business
Genesis joins a number of other market makers scaling back crypto spot trading in the US.
Bitcoin
Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay-Z committed 500 bitcoin to set up Btrust in 2021. It has now acquired Qala, a Bitcoin developer training organization.
Regulation
Several recent victories in court against the beat cop of Wall Street have fired up an industry that is otherwise still stuck deep in winter.
DeFi
The protocol, which safeguards $5 billion worth of assets for MakerDAO, will officially launch for the wider DeFi ecosystem.
The USDT issuer is one of the world’s largest buyers of U.S. Treasury bills, with $72.5 billion worth of exposure.
Betting platform Stake is suspected of being the target of an exploit, as on-chain sleuths report $40 million lost in “suspicious” withdrawals.
Last year, decentralized exchange dYdX decided to move from Ethereum to its own chain on Cosmos.
The technical quality, resilience to FTX’s collapse and the functionality of existing forks of Solana are the three main reasons why the Maker cofounder believes it is the “most promising codebase” for the new chain.
Ethereum
RocketPool, Stakewise, Stader Labs and Diva Staking have agreed to limit their share of the Ethereum staking market to 22% as part of an effort to make sure the network stays decentralized.
