The Walrus protocol, a blockchain-based veri storage platform, said it raised $140 million in a private sale of its native token, WAL, led by Standard Crypto. The mainnet of the protocol, originally developed by Mysten Labs and built on layer-1 …
Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin struck a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday that will see him serve no more than 24 months behind bars for his role in what prosecutors described as a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to manipulate token prices for …
Another company has elected to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. Christian Angermayer, the chairman of Germany-based biopharmaceutical company atai Life Sciences (ATAI) announced today that the firm would develop its own bitcoin treasury …
The chief economist at the European Central Bank (ECB), Philip Lane, said Europe needs a digital euro to counter the foothold that dollar-linked stablecoins and U.S. electronic payments systems are gaining in region’s the financial system. The …
Solana’s most profitable protocol Pump.fun is gunning for an even greater share of the chain’s DeFi economy. The massively popular memecoin launchpad on Thursday unveiled a token swaps service powered by the protocol’s liquidity pools. Called …
Bitcoin developers looking to expand the blockchain’s decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities are likely to be considering zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, functionality that’s not currently available and which require a so-called soft fork, or new …
While the crypto sector’s eyes are drawn to the policy fireworks in the White House and Congress, the financial agencies have been taking consequential bites out of the Biden Administration’s digital assets stance. One move at a time, the stand-in …
Toncoin (TON), the native token of the Telegram-adjacent TON blockchain, spiked on Thursday as ecosystem organization The Open Network Foundation said several venture capital firms invested $400 million in the token. Investors include Sequoia Capital …
NEW YORK — With the U.S. government’s help, the crypto industry will become a dominant in finance, U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday. Crypto is “as big as you can get,” he said during a five-minute taped speech at the Digital Asset …
Spot ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. posted their 11th straight day of net outflows, losing some $358.1 million of investor funds as the price of ether fell almost 7%. On Tuesday, BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA) saw …
