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Kraken will soon offer Backed ‘xStocks’ as Solana tokens

Strive board member Ben Werkman expects thousands of firms to hold BTC, if only “to protect themselves”

To date, 12.6 million humans have scanned at a World Orb

Jay Woods, Chief Global Strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, said it would be “very rare” for an acquisition to happen since the IPO may occur as soon as next week

The blockchain’s perpetual futures exchange is highly popular

The final company of the Magnificent 7 is set to report its Q1 earnings today after the close

Polygon and GSR partnered on Katana, angling for a “unified DeFi engine” to concentrate liquidity, recycle yield to users and showcase the AggLayer.

Cove aims to deliver “risk-adjusted yield” through curated DeFi vaults

Post-conference musings on Firedancer, Kraken, Solana Mobile and Trump

Executives expect others to follow SharpLink Gaming’s lead in purchasing an asset that has surged this past month

StarkWare launches new consumer-grade hardware ZK prover

Maple said it closed its first tranche of bitcoin-backed financing through Cantor’s new Bitcoin financing business on Tuesday

Bitwise’s Ryan Rasmussen thinks Coinbase could be eyeing Circle, Securitize, Chainalysis and Alchemy as it mulls more acquisitions

A report from the end of 2024 showed 350 DePIN tokens combined for $50 billion in market cap

The crypto exchange’s tokenized stock entrance comes as Dinari hopes to help facilitate pooled onchain secondary market for those and other RWAs

Firedancer and Solana ETFs look less significant than before

Kaito, Cookie DAO and Elfa AI are key players

Time and competition will push Vanguard to eventually update its “antiquated, 2013-era view of bitcoin,” Bitwise CIO says

Halliday CEO Griffin Dunaif said that there may be smaller margins on stablecoins, but lots of potential in the services around them

The SEC filed the suit on Tuesday night, alleging that some Unicoin executives made “false and misleading statements” and violated securities laws

VanEck’s Pranav Kanade told Blockworks that it doesn’t plan to launch a similar fund for other ecosystems at this time

Blockworks Research also thinks that net new assets (NNAs) are a metric to keep an eye on

Bitcoin is formally in the second phase of its adoption curve

Crypto M&A is on the rise, with a handful of acquisitions announced just last week