Share selloff as bitcoin heads to $60,000 helps drive price for top-performing stocks like Coinbase and MicroStrategy lower.
BlackRock’s BUIDL hit $375 million assets under management, beating out Franklin Templeton’s on-chain mutual fund FOBXX by nearly $7 million.
Today, offshore firms dominate the list of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. Expect the center of gravity to come onshore going forward, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.
There was a lot of news last week, but maybe the biggest news came Wednesday when the U.S. Department of Justice arrested two co-founders of Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet that offered mixing services. The arrest ramps up the federal government’s efforts to tamp down on what it sees as money laundering enabled by privacy tools, and sets up a continuation of that broader conversation on where the right to transact in privacy fits within national security interests.
All 20 assets in the gauge posted declines over the past week, led by Solana, Cardano, and Aptos.
Led by former Head of Crypto Ops at Revolut Ruslan Fakhrutdinov, the new platform aims to combine the best of CeFi and DeFi.
Shrapnel, a blockchain-infused first-person shooter game, is expected to be released in 2025. Its creator gives a preview to Jeff Wilser ahead of his appearance at Consensus 2024.
Rodrigo Seira has rejoined Cooley LLP, the law firm where he worked previously, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Senators probed the Biden administration for more information on what authorities they have to stop the use of crypto to evade sanctions.
The FTX estate is completing the sale of another batch of locked SOL through an auction that saw higher prices than the first sale.
