‘Get Him Home’: Binance CEO Urges Nigerian Government to Free Detained Exec
Tigran Gambaryan, a U.S. citizen who works for Binance, has been held in Nigeria since February.
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New Binance CEO Sees No Need for IPO as He Plots 100-Year Strategy for Crypto Exchange
Richard Teng, who replaced founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao in November, is playing the long game.
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The Protocol: Now Everyone’s Putting a Wrapper on Bitcoin
In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s newsletter on blockchain technology, we’re covering the drama surrounding “wrapped bitcoin” as Tron founder Justin Sun assumes a custody role, signs of upheaval in the Urbit ecosystem and the rise of dark pools on Ethereum.
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RFK Jr. Reportedly Dropping Out of Presidential Race, Mulling Trump Endorsement; Bitcoin Jumps Past $61K
The independent candidate has scheduled a national address for Friday.
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Latin American E-Commerce Giant Mercado Libre Launches U.S. Dollar-Tied Stablecoin
Customers of Mercado Libre digital bank subsidiary Mercado Pago will be able to buy and sell Meli Dollar with their Brazilian reais balances.
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DePIN Media Network PTK Starts Up on Coinbase’s Base to Bring Transparency to Making Movies
Behind PKT are Hollywood talent who say they’re sick of the black box that is the industry’s sinema production process.
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Bitcoin Gets Brief Boost After U.S. Employment Growth Revised Lower
Job growth for the 12-months ending in March 2024 was 818,000 lower than previously reported, according to a government report.
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Crypto Airdrops Ban U.S. Users, but Americans Are Claiming Tokens Anyway
Eigen Labs helped its employees access lucrative airdrops. Its U.S. employees appear to have helped themselves to tokens U.S. residents were banned from claiming.
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Controversial Crypto Firm Prometheum to Treat Uniswap and Arbitrum’s Tokens as Securities
The SEC-registered crypto platform is expanding its custody operation beyond Ethereum’s ETH, and that means it would be holding UNI and ARB as securities.
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BlackRock’s ETHA Becomes First Ethereum ETF to Cross $1B in Net Inflows
ETHA holds over $860 million in net assets. Only Grayscale’s küçük ether trust (ETH) and Ethereum trust (ETHE) have more. Its net inflows are more than the next three highest ETF inflows combined.