Opinion

Morning Minute: DraftKings Bets Big on Prediction Markets

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 reverse and flip red; BTC -1% at $107,500 BTC ETF inflows reach $477M, not enough to counter selling DraftKings acquires…

Uncategorized

CRYPTO PUMPING! COBIE & UP ONLY ARE BACK!

CRYPTO PUMPING! COBIE & UP ONLY ARE BACK!Crypto Dips Despite Continue Strength in Stocks. Another $320m of Liquidations in Drop. Fed to Host Crypto Innovation Conference Today. Strategy Bought $19m Btc, Bitmine Buys $251m Eth. Coinbase Buys Cobie’s Echo for $375m. Coinbase Buys Cobie’s Up Only Nft for $25m. Sol Co-founder Toly Designing Perps Dex.…

Coins

Coinbase Acquires Crypto Fundraising Platform Echo for $375 Million

In brief Coinbase acquired Echo, an onchain fundraising platform founded by crypto figure Cobie, for approximately $375 million. The acquisition brings Echo’s private investment tools and public token sale product Sonar into Coinbase’s ecosystem, having facilitated over $200 million across roughly 300 deals since launch. The deal complements Coinbase’s July purchase of token management platform…

Technology

MetaMask Showing Zero Balances, Base Network Struggling as AWS Issues Persist

In brief A major outage at Amazon Web Services continued to disrupt key crypto platforms on Monday afternoon, including Coinbase, Base, and OpenSea, with issues hitting East Coast users especially hard. The downtime even impacted decentralized apps like MetaMask, which use third-party, AWS-dependent services to fetch blockchain data for users. While the disruptions highlighted crypto’s…