Empire Newsletter

The funding was spread out across 61 rounds, a slight dip in both number of rounds and total funding in comparison to other months

A Blockworks Research report looked at who could take up some of the marketshare in the launchpad space

Business-to-business stablecoin payments are on the rise, per a report from Artemis, Dragonfly and Castle Island

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

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

Gemini’s State of Crypto report found that memecoins and a friendlier US are helping to drive crypto adoption globally

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

With the success of RWAs and stablecoins, DePINs could onboard the next wave of crypto users

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

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

Roman Storm could face a trial starting in July

Ledn’s Mauricio Di Bartolomeo explained how this cycle’s been different for the lender

Squads CEO Stepan Simkin explained why the firm launched Altitude and how he’s thinking about stablecoins

Perpl, a perps DEX, plans to launch testnet by the end of this year

Apollo’s Christine Moy explained how the “velocity” of innovation in crypto has led to the evolution of RWAs

Roshan Robert told Blockworks that OKX brought him on back in September to plan out its US expansion

Stripe announced Stablecoin Financial Accounts, which will allow businesses to have “stablecoin-powered accounts”

Altcoin season may be on a permanent pause as the market matures and paths grow more selective

Sentora aims to create an ecosystem focused on institutional investors’ DeFi needs

Ripple is eyeing ways to boost its financial profile, on top of social usefulness

Kraken’s chief security officer Nick Percoco said the exchange turned the tables on a North Korean hacker