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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound another 1-2%; BTC at $111,000 Trump pardons CZ; brief bounce in BNB eco tokens JPMorgan to allow spot crypto…
In brief Meteora debuted its token on Thursday, airdropping MET to users. The project says it worked to blacklist “malicious bad actors” from receiving tokens. Two wallets tied to the controversial Melania Trump meme coin were airdropped $1.2 million worth of MET, raising concerns among crypto market observers. Three wallets linked to the President Trump’s…
In brief President Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao on Thursday. Digital coins linked with both the president and Zhao rose as a result. Zhao backed the crypto project linked to President Trump, World Liberty Financial, ahead of the pardon. Digital assets related to Binance and President Donald Trump surged on Thursday following news that…
In brief Proof-of-work layer-1 network Tari has developed a mining infrastructure that, it claims, can have users up and running within 45 seconds. Tari Universe is billed as “the world’s easiest to use mining app,” and can be installed on nearly any Mac or PC. Tari is designed around “pragmatic” privacy controls. Crypto mining is…
In brief Ledger released its latest crypto hardware wallet (or “signer”), the Nano Gen5. The product comes with an icon set developed by former Apple designer Susan Kare. Ledger is now referring to its hardware wallets to “signers” in an attempt to simplify and better characterize the role its devices play. Crypto hardware wallet maker…
In brief First Lady Melania Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei aren’t to blame for the “scam tokens” they promoted, investors claim in a legal filing. Rather, the plaintiffs claim that Meteora founder Benjamin Chow was the “center of the enterprise,” with Hayden Davis and Kelsier Ventures working under his instructions. The class action lawsuit…
In brief Last year, $10 million was sent to a pre-sale wallet for the hotly anticipated Solana meme coin Slerf. The dev accidentally burned it all. Now, 19 months later, the Slerf dev has finally refunded every pre-sale participant in Solana tokens. The milestone was reached as the meme coin migrated to a new token…
In brief A young teen girl was hospitalized in New Delhi, India after popular streamer Sam Pepper hit her in the face with a firework. The controversial British prankster told Decrypt that he paid the victim’s family in cash to cover hospital fees, and that he won’t be playing with fireworks again. Pepper was banned…
In brief Australian crypto traders are diversifying their portfolios beyond Bitcoin, anonymized Kraken wallet data reveals. Ethereum makes up 33% of Australian wallets, nearly double the global average of 19%, while Solana and meme coins appear more often in Australian portfolios. Kraken’s Jonathon Miller says Australia’s “speculative streak” reflects culture as much as strategy. Australians…
In brief House of Doge, the Dogecoin Foundation’s commercial arm, acquired a controlling stake in U.S. Triestina Calcio 1918. The soccer club plays in Serie C, the third-highest league of Italian professional soccer. As part of the announcement, it added Toronto Blue Jays Vice Chairman Roger Rai to its advisory board to help with sports…
