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May 17, 2024

Chainlink Surges 14%, Decouples From Altcoins After Tokenization Pilot With DTCC

Chainlink’s Smart NAV pilot program with the DTCC saw participation from banking giants like BNY Mellon, State Street and JPMorgan.

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Why the DOJ Doesn’t Want These MEV Exploiters to Get Away With It - Ep. 647

Episode #647 | May 17, 2024

Why the DOJ Doesn’t Want These MEV Exploiters to Get Away With It

Evan Zinaman breaks down why the government’s indictment of the Bueno brothers for their $25 million MEV exploitation is a “vanilla fraud,” but still may shed light on potential compliance considerations for block building participants.

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Bitcoin

May 16, 2024

Large Institutions Betting Big on Bitcoin ETFs Revealed in SEC Filings

Entities such as Millenium Management—one the top five largest hedge funds in the world—have invested billions in the spot bitcoin ETFs launched in January.   

May 15, 2024

The Price of Ether Keeps Bleeding Against Bitcoin. Is the ‘Flippening’ Dream Over?

The ratio of ether’s market cap to that of bitcoin’s hit a multi-year low Wednesday and overall has been falling since The Merge. Will the trend continue?

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 9, 2024

Digital Asset Lender Ledn Processed Record $690 Million in Loans in Q1 2024

The explosive growth of loans facilitated by Ledn can be attributed to BTC’s price surge, which increased the borrowing power of bitcoiners, as well as the SEC approving several spot BTC ETFs earlier this year.

Business

May 17, 2024

Chainlink Surges 14%, Decouples From Altcoins After Tokenization Pilot With DTCC

Chainlink’s Smart NAV pilot program with the DTCC saw participation from banking giants like BNY Mellon, State Street and JPMorgan.

May 17, 2024

‘Memes’ Are One Of The Strongest Growing Crypto Narratives in 2024: Kaito AI

Web3 search platform Kaito found that the “meme” narrative has grown 53% from the start of January till date.

May 16, 2024

Large Institutions Betting Big on Bitcoin ETFs Revealed in SEC Filings

Entities such as Millenium Management—one the top five largest hedge funds in the world—have invested billions in the spot bitcoin ETFs launched in January.   

May 16, 2024

The Chopping Block: Crypto in US Politics & Roaring Kitty Is Back!

What’s Driving Today’s Crypto Debates? U.S. Elections’ Crypto Impact, Regulatory Outlook, and GameStop’s Viability

DeFi

May 17, 2024

What Are Synthetic Assets in Crypto?

Synthetic assets in crypto enable investors to invest in real-world assets (RWAs) in tokenized form.

May 14, 2024

Tron’s Justin Sun Has Become Quite the Airdrop Farmer of Late

Sun has received airdrop allocations from crypto projects such as EigenLayer and EtherFi, and is also earning points from his deposits into Swell and Puffer Finance.

May 14, 2024

8 Reasons Why LayerZero’s Upcoming Airdrop Could Be the Most Complex Ever

How will LayerZero manage its airdrop amid falling crypto prices, millions of users, and several stakeholders?

May 13, 2024

EigenLayer Early Adopters Claim $359 Million Worth of EIGEN in 3 Days After Airdrop

Of the roughly 108,000 wallet addresses that have claimed their airdrop allocation, just over 76,000 decided to stake their EIGEN tokens.

Ethereum

May 16, 2024

BNB Smart Chain to Feature Its Own Blobs to Compete With Ethereum

Developers of BNB Smart Chain are expected to activate the Tycho hard fork on mainnet in mid-June.  

May 15, 2024

The Price of Ether Keeps Bleeding Against Bitcoin. Is the ‘Flippening’ Dream Over?

The ratio of ether’s market cap to that of bitcoin’s hit a multi-year low Wednesday and overall has been falling since The Merge. Will the trend continue?

May 15, 2024

Ethereum Scaling With L2s Has Damaged Its Tokenomics. Is It Possible to Fix It?

While Ethereum layer 2s are at an all-time high in terms of active addresses and transactions, the mainnet may not be doing as well.

May 15, 2024

$20 Million Exploited From Sonne Finance on Optimism

Sonne Finance has paused all markets on Optimism after an attacker exploited a common vulnerability in forks of Compound Finance, draining an estimated $20 million from the protocol’s smart contracts.

NFTs

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 3, 2024

Weekly Recap: CZ’s Sentence, DeFi Tokens Tumble, and Tether’s Triumph

This week in crypto: Stablecoin regulation stalls, Hong Kong debuts spot ETFs, a16z buys into Optimism, FTX unloads Solana holdings, and more!

April 26, 2024

How OpenSea’s Weekly NFT Volumes Plummeted From $1 Billion to $20 Million in Just 2 Years

Magic Eden recently surpassed OpenSea in weekly trading volume for the first time, highlighting how the competitive landscape among NFT marketplaces is continuing to shift. 

April 26, 2024

Weekly Recap: DOJ Action on Samourai Wallet, SEC Attorneys Resign

This week in crypto: Renzo’s ezETH depegging crisis, Changpeng Zhao faces SEC penalties, Grayscale introduces Bitcoin Mini ETF, and more!

Regulation

May 17, 2024

Why the DOJ Doesn’t Want These MEV Exploiters to Get Away With It

Evan Zinaman breaks down why the government’s indictment of the Bueno brothers for their $25 million MEV exploitation is a “vanilla fraud,” but still may shed light on potential compliance considerations for block building participants.

May 17, 2024

Alexey Pertsev Sentenced, Wisconsin’s Bitcoin Investment

This week in crypto: Significant moves by the U.S. Senate on crypto regulations, big investments by Wisconsin in Bitcoin ETFs. Plus, Roaring Kitty’s return shakes up the market, and more!

May 16, 2024

Senate Votes to Kill SAB 121 Custody Bill: How Crypto Became So Political

Crypto has become a hot-button issue in the run-up to the US presidential election in November.

May 14, 2024

What President Biden’s Crypto Politics Might Really Be About

The Administration’s anti-crypto policies risk alienating voters of both parties. But the bigger, albeit also potentially misguided, picture may be about preserving America’s global economic power. 

Tech

May 10, 2024

Weekly Recap: Binance’s Controversial Client Management and Ethereum’s EIP-7702 Progress

This week in crypto: Robinhood faces SEC enforcement action, Grayscale retracts its Ethereum Futures ETF application, Fantasy.top and Pump.fun rise in DeFi rankings, and more!

May 7, 2024

Horizontal Scalability Is the Solution to L2 Fragmentation

The proliferation of Layer 2 projects on Ethereum has compromised the easy exchange of assets and data among them, but there’s one obvious solution.   

May 3, 2024

Weekly Recap: CZ’s Sentence, DeFi Tokens Tumble, and Tether’s Triumph

This week in crypto: Stablecoin regulation stalls, Hong Kong debuts spot ETFs, a16z buys into Optimism, FTX unloads Solana holdings, and more!

May 1, 2024

Farcaster Wants to Win Over Crypto. Here’s How It’s Different From ‘Crypto Twitter’

As “casters” descend on Venice Beach for FarCon, Unchained looks at how discussions on Farcaster are kinder and gentler than the often rough-and-tumble dynamic on X (Twitter). Here’s what to know and who to follow.

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What Are Synthetic Assets in Crypto?

Synthetic assets in crypto enable investors to invest in real-world assets (RWAs) in tokenized form.

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What Is the Newly Proposed US Stablecoin Bill?

The Clarity of Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023 aims to regulate stablecoins and their issuers in the United States.

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