DeFi rides Pokémon trading card boom as onchain marketplaces bring in $11m
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Coinbase shares pop as CEO Brian Armstrong cuts 700 jobs and blames AI
Coinbase just cut 700 jobs. But Wall Street is liking what it sees. Coinbase shares popped as much as 4% early on Tuesday morning after the...
Uniswap DAO votes to take back $42m of governance tokens loaned to delegates
The digital cooperative governing Uniswap, the biggest decentralised exchange, is voting on a proposal to take back some $42 million worth of...
Hyperliquid takes aim at Kalshi, Polymarket targeting $24bn prediction markets
Hyperliquid is nibbling away at Kalshi and Polymarket. The decentralised finance exchange processing $6 billion in daily derivatives volume...
Strategy shares soar 50% in a month as Bitcoin tops $80,000 ahead of Q1 earnings call
Strategy is on a tear. Shares of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder have surged more than 50% over the past month, riding the top...
Aave secures emergency hearing to void ‘catastrophic’ restraining order
An emergency hearing on Wednesday could determine whether the relatives of a slain minister are entitled to $71 million in crypto that was nearly...
Clarity Act odds surge on stablecoin compromise, Coinbase support
The Clarity Act's odds of passing in 2026 skyrocketed on Friday. Here's why.
‘Every hit earns crypto’? App that gives users Bitcoin for getting stoned deemed ‘dangerous’ and ‘unethical’
A California-based cannabis vape pen company that says it rewards customers with crypto for using its product is raising alarm among health...
Ethereum devs huddled in the Arctic Circle to fix the network. Here’s what to know
Ethereum's core developers have delivered their most significant technical milestone in months, emerging from a week above the Arctic Circle with...
Bitcoin tops $80,000 price as Clarity Act nears Senate floor with new Fed chair imminent
Bitcoin punched through $80,000 on Monday, up 19% over the past month, as a twin engine of institutional demand and legislative momentum roars...
Crypto companies raised $600m in April despite despite market downturn, VCs say
Crypto companies raised just over $600 million from venture investors in April, DefiLlama data shows. That’s despite the epidemic of...
Soldøgn Interop Recap ☀️
This past week, just over 100 Ethereum core contributors gathered above the Arctic Circle — in Longyearbyen, Svalbard — for the Soldøgn Interop: a...
Crypto industry reels as April sees highest number of hacks ever
April was a bad time for the crypto industry. Over the past month, 29 crypto projects have suffered hacks or exploits, the highest monthly tally...
Hegseth recasts Bitcoin as national security asset amid Russia, China expansion
Bitcoin just got a war upgrade. On Thursday, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told Congress that Bitcoin projects inside the Pentagon are...
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI will hit crypto. Bitcoin investors don’t care, says Coinbase
Artificial intelligence is a Sword of Damocles dangling over crypto — but Wall Street isn’t quailing, says Coinbase. Anthropic’s new Claude...
US Senate bans prediction market trading by Senators, staff
The US Senate voted unanimously to ban prediction market trading among Senators and their staffers on Thursday. The Senate joined several other...
Democrat Senators question Howard Lutnick over Tether ties
A pair of US Senators are demanding answers from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after a recent news report raised questions about his...
Vitalik-backed MegaETH sees token fall 55% on first day trading
MegaETH’s token is off to a shaky start. On Thursday, the layer 2 blockchain, which lists Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin among its early...
XRP held back by ‘two forces’ analyst says as traders bet on price to plunge
XRP has a lot going for it. The cryptocurrency is intimately linked to Ripple, the company whose founders developed it, and the venture’s...
Elizabeth Warren slams Trump after expose ties World Liberty Financial to crypto projects linked to human trafficking group
Elizabeth Warren has lashed out against World Liberty Financial over news that the Trump family-run crypto company partnered with a blockchain...
A wallet tied to one of crypto’s most notorious hackers is laundering funds again
A wallet belonging to Andean Medjedovic, the hacker allegedly behind the Indexed Finance and Kyberswap exploits, is active again after a year-long...
Tokenisation will balloon to $2tn despite DeFi turbulence, Standard Chartered says
Tokenisation will balloon some 5,600% to be a $2 trillion market by 2028, according to Standard Chartered. At the heart of the forecast is...
Bitcoin price slips on ‘discord’ risk at Fed amid messy regime change. ‘No choice but to stay’
Bitcoin stumbled after Jerome Powell’s final presser at the helm of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, sliding 2% to $75,000 as cracks inside the...
Announcing Cohort 7 of the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship
TL;DR: 📝 Applications for EPF7 are open until May 13 🔎 Review the program details for EPF7 🎙️ An introductory town hall will be held on May 6 at...