Brayden Lindrea

MetaMask and Infinex have integrated Hyperliquid, the most liquid decentralized derivatives platform, to steal market share from CEXs in the rapidly growing perps market.

Strategy’s $78 billion stash of Bitcoin is close to the cash positions held by Amazon, Google and Microsoft, the last of which rejected Bitcoin as a treasury asset last year.

The iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, or IBIT, has earned BlackRock $25 million more in fees than its second-most profitable ETF and is just shy of reaching $100 billion in net assets.

The US national debt is nearing $38 trillion, with many more now seeing Bitcoin’s appeal as a viable alternative to the dollar.

Traditional banks will be battling with stablecoin issuers for retail depositors when the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act takes full effect in a win for everyday people.

Consensys boss Joe Lubin has confirmed that SWIFT will leverage the Ethereum layer 2 Linea blockchain to build its crypto payments ledger.

The US SEC has seemingly missed its decision deadline for the Canary Litecoin ETF, adding to uncertainty amid a government shutdown and new generic listing standards.

Two bipartisan bills to protect the data of all Americans were blocked by Senator Ted Cruz, who argued it may affect law enforcement efforts to track down criminals.

Bullish’s crypto trading services are now on offer across 20 US states after receiving regulatory approval from New York’s financial regulator last month.

A group of House Republicans said they’re engaging with the SEC’s Office of Inspector General to find out more about former SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s deleted text messages.

White hat hacker collective SEAL has acknowledged 29 companies for supporting its Safe Harbor framework, enabling ethical hackers to defend user funds during live attacks.

Stripe’s new “Open Issuance” tool will enable companies to easily build and launch their own stablecoins, as well as manage the token’s reserves.

A Bloomberg ETF analyst said the Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF could launch this week, allowing retail investors to make similar trades to US Congress members.

Binance is offering crypto-as-a-service for TradFi institutions, providing access to its spot and futures markets, liquidity pools, custody, and compliance tools.

Jump Crypto has proposed removing Solana’s fixed compute block limit to prioritize high-performance validators to handle complex blocks over suboptimal validators.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Pulse to deliver customized daily updates to users based on their interests. It could even be helpful for cryptocurrency investors.

BlackRock filed a registered trust company to back its proposed Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, a yield-generating product that would complement its $87 billion spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT.

Stablecoin issuer Circle has partnered with crypto infrastructure and self-custody platform Crossmint to offer USDC across more chains for both humans and AI agents.

A Coinbase executive and three other crypto tax and policy specialists will meet with the Senate Finance Committee next Wednesday to discuss digital asset tax matters.

The number of crypto millionaires has jumped 40% year-on-year to over 240,000, driven mainly by institutional adoption, according to Henley & Partners.

Ian Calderon, a former California lawmaker and Bitcoiner, started his campaign for California governor as a long shot among several established candidates.

A crypto asset manager wants future HYPE emissions and community rewards to be cut, slicing its token supply by 45% in a bid to make HYPE easier to value.

Nine US lawmakers asked the SEC to move forward on last month’s executive order to speed up the inclusion of alternative assets like crypto in US retirement funds.

Tether said reports that it has exited Uruguay “do not accurately reflect the situation” and the local mining operator is working with the government to “resolve friction.”

Tether is now being accepted for payments at Toyota, Yamaha and BYD in Bolivia as businesses increasingly turn to stablecoins to navigate the country’s US dollar shortage.

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.

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.

Vietnam is reportedly closing 86 million bank accounts. Crypto advocates see it as the latest reason everyone should hold Bitcoin.

PayPal is adding support for a permissionless version of its PYUSD stablecoin on Tron, Avalanche and several other blockchains via LayerZero and its Stargate Hydra bridge.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said he has never been more bullish about the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act being passed after his time in Washington, DC this week.