This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . One thing to note about Argentine President Javier Milei’s disastrous memecoin launch is that nothing about it was that unprecedented. Every viral memecoin tends to pump before quickly losing value. So-called snipers have long been known to buy up new tokens
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This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . One of the biggest Biden-era crypto enforcement actions may be on its way to resolution. The SEC last week said its new crypto task force “may affect and could facilitate the potential resolution” of the agency’s lawsuit against crypto exchange
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . The “tariff trade,” or the market volatility we’ve seen the past couple of weeks as investors evaluate tariff risks, has overshadowed the tail end of earnings season. But many analysts still think US equities have room to go higher. President
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . BTC was rather quiet again last week as various narratives seem to be pulling sentiment in different directions. We then saw the asset’s price sink below $94,000 around 1 pm ET Tuesday — down more than 3% from seven days
This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . The Open Network, aka TON, made a splash with Telegram games and crypto integrations built on top, like with NOTcoin, which has seen over $1 billion in total volume traded since its launch. A TON app page lists over 570 different
This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . On Friday, the SEC filed suit against Nova Labs, the developer behind the Helium Mobile crypto-enabled cell network. The agency charged Nova Labs with fraud and registration violations. The litigation wound up being the last of Gary Gensler’s four-year tenure as
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . Congressional Republicans are working to reverse new IRS guidelines that require so-called “custodial brokers” to report transactions. Rep. Mike Carey and Sen. Ted Cruz this week introduced corresponding resolutions seeking to “roll back the disastrous IRS broker rule.” The legislation
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . As expected, Donald Trump has backed off a bit on the ambitious tariff goals he touted on the campaign trail. “I think we’ll do it Feb. 1,” Trump said during a Monday press conference, referring to tariff increases on Canada
This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . If you’ve been reading Forward Guidance, you know the last few days in crypto land have been — to put it mildly — eventful. Bitcoin surged to a new all-time high the day Donald Trump was sworn in. After a
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . The Ethereum Foundation is going through a bit of civil unrest, but work on the world computer continues. Ethereum researcher Justin Drake published on the ethresearch forums yesterday a compilation article on a new rollup design known as “native rollups.” If