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
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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
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission settled charges with Uniswap early today to the tune of $175,000. Two commissioners, however, say regulators should never have brought the case in the first place. Regulators claim Uniswap “illegally offered leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions in digital assets via a decentralized digital asset trading protocol.” CFTC Commissioner
John Deaton came out on top in a three-way Republican primary Tuesday night, positioning the cryptocurrency advocate and attorney to take on incumbent Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren in November. “Tomorrow, we begin the next phase of the campaign — an effort that will hold Elizabeth Warren accountable for her failures on the border, the unaffordable
Today, enjoy the On the Margin newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the On the Margin newsletter . Welcome to the On the Margin Newsletter, brought to you by Ben Strack and Casey Wagner. Here’s what you’ll find in today’s edition: A reminder from a TradFi CEO:
Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan appeared in court for the second time this week on Wednesday. The American, who’s been detained in Nigeria for over six months, faced a hearing on a bail application submitted earlier this week by his lawyers after he appeared in court earlier this week. The prosecutor for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial
Today, enjoy the Lightspeed newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Lightspeed newsletter . Howdy! I made the mistake of going to the 6th Avenue Trader Joe’s right after work yesterday. I thought I’d never make it out of the crush of business casual or yoga gear-clad