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Dragonfly’s Rob Hadick warns that people in crypto and tech tend “to overreact to short-term market dynamics”

Vector is a mobile social trading app with a built-in crypto wallet that lets users broadcast their trades to other users

By acquiring most of Moonshot, Jupiter now benefits from experienced and inexperienced memecoin traders alike

Solana-based social project Clout saw its downloads take off after launching an iPhone app

The lawsuit illustrates a tension between the ethos of the open-source crypto world and the reality of doing business with institutions

A Nova Labs exec referred to the last-day lawsuit “as irresponsible as it is wrong-headed”

The Solana network housed around $6.1 billion stablecoins on Friday, according to Blockworks Research data

A pair of fundraises by Tapestry and Oh both came with expansive ideas about the future of AI and the role of humans in it

Multicoin Capital proposal would likely drive down inflation but would also lower staking yields

The “main reason most validators aren’t running [Frankendancer] yet is because it doesn’t capture MEV efficiently,” a source told us

The “Helium hotspot beacon” is a miniature off-grid cell phone tower that uses Starlink and a Helium hotspot

The deal is one of the crypto sector’s recent, notable acquisitions involving crypto payments

Like Michael Saylor’s firm, Sol Strategies is focused on acquiring crypto as a treasury asset

We’re talking about FTX here, so we could have anticipated that things wouldn’t go as smoothly as planned

DeSci platform pump.science announced a partnership with Solana-based prediction market Hedgehog Markets

The exchange also inherits FTX EU’s European regulatory license that will let users trade perpetual futures

Blockchain addresses and TVL are gameable, but fees are real funds that change hands

DFlow put an interesting solution on the table in proposing conditional liquidity to divide toxic from non-toxic order flow
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