Vitalik Buterin said low-risk DeFi protocols can bring in stable revenue for the network, like how Google Search does for Google, but while also ensuring Ethereum’s core values remain intact.
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YZi Labs has invested further into Ethena to push USDe adoption across more chains and platforms, while also assisting with the development of a new stablecoin.

Asset Entities shares rose over 50% after-hours as its shareholders approved a merger with Strive to build a $1.5 billion Bitcoin treasury.

Bitcoin Ordinals leader Leonidas said his community would fork Bitcoin Core if developers reversed the upcoming update that allows for more Ordinals and Runes transactions.

Ethereum layer-2 Kinto’s token plummeted after its team announced its blockchain would wind down on Sept. 30, months after a $1.6 million hack.

Former Paradigm investment partner Casey Caruso’s Topology was backed by Andreessen Horowitz executives, an OpenAI founder and Paris Hilton.

Institutional investors have played a big role in Binance’s $24.2 billion net inflows so far in 2024.

A tax cut to 20% is part of Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki’s broader plan to make Japan a Web3 leader.

Buterin recommended capping the amount of Ether a user can stake and limiting staking penalties to 12.5% of staked Ether.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index recorded a score of 17 out of 100 on Aug. 5 — the lowest since July 12, 2022.

The complainants and Coinbase disagree on whether a government contract to custody seized crypto breaches campaign finance laws or not.

It comes as decentralized prediction platform Polymarket has gathered more than $500 million in bets on who will likely win the 2024 United States presidential election.

Attorneys representing the artists drew parallels to Taylor Swift concert tickets, which are often sold on the secondary market.

Two of the new Coinbase directors have previously served under US presidents, while the other has extensive experience in the management consulting industry.

The American labor union has been trying for 18 months to get a clause preventing publishers from making AI-generated versions of their actors’ work without their consent.

Shares in Metaplanet and Semler Scientific are up double and triple digits since the firms followed MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin playbook this year.

Researchers compiling the data believe the changes were due to regulatory uncertainties in the US and increased crypto adoption in emerging markets.

Malaysia’s Deputy Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation revealed the number during an event where they disposed of over 2,000 machines seized in an operation.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, however, dismissed the SEC’s claim that BNB is traded illegally on secondary markets, citing the Ripple decision.

The Bitcoin developer says Brollups can support more than 90% of decentralized finance use cases, from NFT sales to token orders on DEXs.

Trump hasn’t confirmed or denied ties to the DJT token, but a blockchain analytics firm and industry leaders raised doubt that Trump’s team launched it.

The huge and sudden uptick in Bitcoin whale accumulation came as Bitcoin supply on exchanges fell to its lowest level since December 2021.

TON has seen more daily active addresses than Ethereum in 10 of the last 11 days — however, that figure doesn’t include Ethereum layer 2s.

The biggest winners on June 12 were TeraWulf, Hut 8 Mining and Core Scientific.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and William Cassidy say crypto has played an “increasingly prominent role” in the fentanyl industry.

Meanwhile, the Jeo Boden (BODEN) meme coin linked to Trump’s arch-rival, Joe Biden, rallied 6.4% in the first 15 minutes before dumping again.

A major ChatGPT upgrade, dubbed GPT Omni, allows the chatbot to interpret video and audio in real-time and speak more convincingly like a human.