Today, enjoy the Empire newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Empire newsletter . A bitcoin boom? Yesterday, we received some (un)expected news in a typical Sunday news dump. After a few weeks of the Washington DC rumor mill swirling around Joe Biden — whether or not
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This week saw some notable, double-digit (in the millions, mind you) raises. We saw some more traditional finance-linked names raise significant sums, while a crypto-AI startup announced a multi-million dollar seed round. But leading the pack this week is Chainbase’s $15 million raise. The omnichain data network announced it raised the sum in a Series
If it wasn’t obvious before, it is now: Presidential favorite Donald Trump is a crypto influencer, whether he knows it or not. Trump recently hinted at expanding his suite of NFTs with a fourth collection. The NFTs have a direct line to Trump (one collection even comes with a physical card containing a piece of
This week was a crazy one in US politics, which had all kinds of implications for crypto markets, it turns out. Maybe the biggest winner amid all the turbulence is Polymarket, the prediction market that’s become the leading one in crypto following a $45 million Series B round led by Founders Fund in May. According
Ethereum core developers continue to grapple with the scope of the forthcoming Pectra upgrade, specifically the inclusion of EIPs related to the EVM Object Format (EOF). Thursday’s All-Core Devs call was dominated by debate over the feature set due to concerns raised by Geth developer Marius van der Wijden. In a recent blog post, van
Welcome to the On the Margin Newsletter, brought to you by Casey Wagner and Felix Jauvin. Here’s what you’ll find in today’s edition: Why is digital asset compliance a low priority for crypto companies? We unpack survey results. VCs are making fewer, but more sizable, crypto deals in Q2. Let’s peek at the numbers. It’s
Today, enjoy the Lightspeed newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Lightspeed newsletter . Howdy! Welcome back to the forty-fourth edition of Lightspeed, where we can’t airdrop you tokens, but we will airdrop you knowledge, insight and generally good vibes. Oh, and your allocation is always 100%.
Mt. Gox has for years made for a great bogeyman. Now, crypto is about one-third of the way to slaying it once and for all. The final phase of the Mt. Gox repayment plan is about 36% complete — 10 years after it filed for bankruptcy. Kraken confirmed to Blockworks that repayments to its customers
Today, enjoy the Empire newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Empire newsletter . Gox Watch Mt. Gox has for years made for a great bogeyman. The whole saga poses a question: What would you do with a small fortune in long-lost bitcoin, almost all of it
The planned fee for Grayscale Investments’ spot ether ETF was initially on the higher end when compared to competitors. Then, the firm cut it by 40% — undercutting its peers — as a race for assets is set to begin in the coming days. The intended sponsor fee for the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH)