This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . Solana could be seeing a substantial change in who benefits from the blockchain being built. A proposal from Jito’s DAO would send 3% of all maximal extractible value (MEV) tips collected by the protocol to the DAO treasury and to TipRouter
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . Uniswap and Across announced a partnership yesterday to power permissionless cross-chain swaps for the former. With the rapid sprout of L2 rollups in recent years, trading cross-chain has proven increasingly frustrating as users have to manually bridge assets to different chains
This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, s ubscribe. Thanks to the success of GOAT, there’s a new trend in town: AI memecoins. Whether it’s a lasting trend is still up in the air — and you could argue that it’s far too soon even to debate this topic —
The internet is built on a fragile foundation of trust assumptions — and it’s breaking. Every time we browse the web, make online purchases or share personal information, we rely on unspoken assumptions about how platforms manage our data and ensure our security. But trust assumptions are inherently flawed. A trustless internet, grounded in decentralized
Binance has BNB Chain, Coinbase has Base, OKX has the X Layer and now Kraken has Ink. Kraken announced today its plans to launch its own Ethereum layer-2 network, Ink, expected to go live on mainnet in early 2025. Ink uses Optimism’s OP Stack, and will be part of Optimism’s constellation of blockchains, dubbed the
In its long-running legal fight to offer event contracts on U.S. elections, Kalshi regularly emphasized it is a regulated exchange, in contrast to its much-larger, crypto-based, offshore rival Polymarket. That hasn’t stopped Better Markets, an activist group that advocates for stricter financial regulations, from citing activity on Polymarket as one reason to stop Kalshi from
Stablecoins could capture 5%-10% share of the global money supply over the next decade, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said. Next year will be pivotal for stablecoin regulations, Allaire said, anticipating many countries in the G20 group and emerging markets having laws in place by the end of 2025. 17:48 Crypto Policy Talk With Circle’s Dante
Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds will soon hold over one million BTC. The funds recorded one of their biggest week of inflows last week, taking in over $2.1 billion in just five days. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) could soon cross the 400,000 bitcoin mark. 01:54 BlackRock Buys More MicroStrategy Shares; Citi Debanked Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse
The AI bot Terminal of Truths on X has popularized the GOAT memecoin, which saw its market cap soar from $3 million to about $800 million, driven by social media interactions and the bot’s endorsements. Despite the hype around “sentient” AI bots promoting cryptocurrencies like RUSSELL, these bots are actually large language models (LLMs) influenced
In today’s edition: Arbitrum, Synthetix, FLock.io, Aptos Foundation, Raise, BitGPT, D3 Global, Identity Digital, Variational, Uniswap Labs, Mantra, Stokr, Sygnum Bank, Rocketon, Across, BlockFills, GOAT Network. 01:22 Uptober Forming Amid Rising Stablecoin Liquidity and Bitcoin Transactions 00:56 Len Sassaman-Themed Memecoins Surge Ahead of HBO Bitcoin Creator Documentary 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56