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
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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)
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, Casey Wagner and Felix Jauvin. Here’s what you’ll find in today’s edition: Investors are rotating into
WazirX, a Mumbai-based cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed a significant security breach resulting in the theft of over $235 million from one of its multisig wallets. The incident, which occurred early Thursday morning, has led to an immediate halt in Indian rupee withdrawals as the company investigates. Crypto withdrawals were already suspended at the time of
Today, enjoy the Lightspeed newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Lightspeed newsletter . Howdy! Today we’re diving into crypto pop-up villages, which reminded me of one of my favorite unused quotes from reporting a story. One attendee at a pop-up village I was covering told me
The bitcoin play Here we go again. Right now, one of the biggest narratives in crypto is political chatter. I touched on this yesterday, when I unpacked Republican vice president hopeful JD Vance’s crypto stance. But it warrants a deeper dive. Over the past couple of days, I’ve talked to a variety of folks about
Bitcoin currently lacks true layer-2 networks (as the term is used on Ethereum) primarily because existing scaling solutions do not inherit Bitcoin’s security model. Not really.* Ethereum rollups that post transaction data to Ethereum mainnet directly leverage its security, ensuring that correct execution of transactions on these layers are secured by the same mechanisms protecting