In this week’s issue of our weekly blockchain tech newsletter, Sam Kessler explores how “liquid restaking tokens” or LRTs are remaking decentralized finance. PLUS: Starknet’s STRK airdrop, Stellar’s smart-contract facelift and bitcoin’s supply crunch.
Proposed spot ether staking ETFs, if approved, could increase concentration risk within Ethereum, according to S&P Global analysts.
Solano will be taking the reins from former Activision Blizzard executive Daniel Alegre, who held the position for less than a year.
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will be headed to the U.S. where he faces fraud claims that led to devastating losses for U.S. investors.
The zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine enables real world asset tokenization on a far greater scale, says Colin Butler at Polygon Labs.
Citrea says it plans to use zero-knowledge cryptography to help grow Bitcoin’s budding decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFT ecosystems.
Luc Froehlich will help guide Layer N’s Real World Asset, TradFi, and tokenization strategies.
‘The most important stock on Earth’ could disappoint on a weak PC market and AI saturation, with Wall Street wanting more from the GPU giant, pulling down crypto and equities, the report said.
SEC approval in January opened up the market to a new generation of investors but there are still advantages to directly owning crypto that ETFs can’t provide, says Eric Ervin, CEO of Onramp Invest.
Former SEC lawyer Ladan Stewart who litigated high-profile crypto cases has moved over to law firm White & Case LLP.
