The firm now holds over 2 million SOL tokens, in line with other Solana DATs like Helius, DeFi Development Corp., and Upexi.
Largely viewed as positive for the Solana ecosystem, more entrants could weaken the overall position of some players.
Ethereum Foundation has formed the Privacy Cluster, a 47-member team of researchers, engineers, and cryptographers led by Igor Barinov.
The move comes amid rising interest in BNB, which has rallied in recent days to supplant XRP as the third-largest crypto asset by market cap.
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As part of the arrangement, Jupiter plans to “progressively convert” about $750 million of USDC from its Liquidity Provider Pool into JupUSD.
Hyperliquid has listed MON-USD hyperps, allowing traders to long or short Monad's unlaunched token with up to 3x leverage.
Polymarket has enabled bitcoin deposits on its prediction market as BTC trades near record highs and punters favor a $130,000 October peak.
The crypto asset manager has also activated staking for its Grayscale Solana Trust (GSOL), which has yet to convert into an ETF.
Consensys is "actively working" on the upcoming launch of MetaMask's MASK token, while the launch date is yet to be disclosed.
The deal includes an initial $200 million discounted AVAX purchase allocation through the Avalanche Foundation.
Competition among stablecoins looks like its about to heat up with several new US dollar-pegged tokens coming down the pike.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The firm previously teamed up with Republic in order to democratize retail investing in privately-held companies.
VisionSys's stock fell 37.5% in pre-market trading following the news, while Marinade's MNDE token gained 2.3%.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the crypto exchange's next goal is to achieve $100 billion in onchain borrow originations.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Hougan argues that understanding these markets reframes how investors should approach the crypto industry.
The Starknet Foundation is offering 100 million STRK in incentives, with a new institutional-grade BTC yield strategy from Re7 to follow.
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An attacker exploited an arbitrary router call in Hyperdrive's smart contract in order to drain two pools of about $773,000 worth of tokens.
The change would allow high-performance validators to fit more transactions into a single block, earning more revenue and scaling the network's capacity.
The incident saw the price of XPL on Aster surge to more than $4 from around the $1.30 level witnessed on other exchanges.
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.
Cipher Mining signed a 10-year AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack, backed by a guarantee from Google, who will receive a 5.4% equity stake.
Plasma has launched its mainnet beta with more than $2 billion in stablecoin liquidity while also debuting its native token XPL.
PeerDAS lets Ethereum nodes verify and reconstruct blocks without storing full data, paving the way for greater scalability.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The USDT supply redistribution reflects evolving user preferences, particularly as traditional finance increasingly adopts stablecoin rails.
Flare Network has launched FXRP, a wrapped version of XRP that can now be used in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.