Everything web3, crypto, defi, degen
In brief Tokenized Pokémon cards are having a moment. Some developers think that the NFTs can serve as collateral in DeFi. Leading tokenized cards platform Courtyard isn’t exploring that, according to its CEO. A pseudonymous developer in Canada knows that his project’s target demographic cares little about crypto or decentralized finance. For the most part,…
In brief Publicly traded companies are now racing to accumulate Ethereum. Firms with strategic ETH reserves now account for more than 3% of the entire ETH supply. The top holders include BitMine Immersion Technologies, SharpLink Gaming, and Coinbase. The trend of publicly traded companies adopting crypto treasury strategies may have started with Bitcoin, but it…
For many years, the idea that publicly traded corporations might buy Bitcoin for their reserves was considered laughable. The top cryptocurrency was considered too volatile, too fringe to be embraced by any serious business.That taboo has been well and truly broken, with a number of major institutional investors buying up Bitcoin in recent years.The floodgates…
The momentum has shifted in the yearslong battle between top crypto companies and protocols and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Trump administration. The regulator, which now has a crypto-friendly chairman in Paul Atkins and a crypto task force led by longtime industry advocate Hester Peirce, is moving away from what Pierce and…
In brief Ethereum celebrated its 10th anniversary on Wednesday, persevering through a decade of existential threats and evolution. Over the next 10 years, advocates believe the network will complete a spree of upgrades, improve layer-2 interoperability, and become the “settlement layer for everything.” Consensys pushed back on concerns that quantum computing could pose an existential…
In brief Pump.fun boasts some of the most impressive numbers in the entire crypto industry, growing faster than any crypto app before it. It recently raised $600 million in an ICO, but it’s PUMP token is now close to falling below its ICO price. As competitors rise and Pump.fun’s revenue slows, can the Solana meme…
