Network News BITCOIN PROPOSAL THAT COULD FREEZE QUANTUM-RELATED COINS: Bitcoin was built on a promise that no one can touch your coins without your private key. No government, no bank, nobody. That promise is now, for the first time in Bitcoin’s 16-year history, being challenged by the developer community itself as part of measures to…
The tone in bitcoin BTC$74,689.37 has been more positive of late, but the rally from the February lows has been rather meek, with any attempts to return to $80,000 quickly getting shot down. U.S. stocks, though, continue their remarkable run in the face of the Iran war, with the Nasdaq gaining 1.6% for its 11th…
A conservative U.S. political action committee backed by the Solana Policy Institute — the Sentinel Action Fund — has committed to a massive advertising spend on the political opponent of former Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat and prominent crypto skeptic who is trying to return to Washington in this year’s Ohio Senate election. Sentinel and…
A public dispute between Tron founder Justin Sun and Trump-linked crypto project WLFI$0.08080 escalated Wednesday after Sun sharply criticized a new governance proposal, calling it “one of the most absurd governance scams” he has seen. In a lengthy post on X, Sun accused the project of designing a vote that punishes dissent, with token holders…
Legal & General Asset Management announced Wednesday that it placed the more than 50 billion pounds (roughly $68 million) in liquidity funds that it manages onchain through a new distribution channel built by Calastone. “We are thrilled to make our liquidity funds available on the Calastone Tokenized Distribution Network,” said Ross McDonald, liquidity investment specialist…
The crypto’s industry emerging political action committee, Fellowship PAC, rushed out of the gate this month with $11 million in backing, and it’s so far booked $3 million in ad services through a company co-founded by Tether US CEO Bo Hines. The super PAC is focusing its support on Republican politicians in races for Congress…
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT USDT$1.0001, added another $70 million worth of bitcoin BTC$74,440.57 to its reserves, extending a steady accumulation strategy tied to its stablecoin business. Blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence shows 951 BTC moved Wednesday from Bitfinex to a wallet labeled “Tether: BTC Reserve.” The address matches one previously…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week: Tricia Gallagher on how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to be state-led and user-controlled. Top headlines institutions should pay attention to by Francisco Rodrigues. Crypto TCG gacha volumes hit all-time high as CARDS token surges 52% in Chart of the…
Crypto exchanges have become the primary venues where millions of people and businesses store and transfer digital money. According to industry data, the crypto market is currently seeing roughly $190–$192 billion in 24-hour trading volume. As exchanges expand into multi-asset venues, the security mechanism evolves beyond wallets into identity, permissions, pricing and settlement. Yet, despite…
Morgan Stanley is signaling a growing focus on tokenization and blockchain-based infrastructure, framing “onchain” finance as a potential next step in how it serves wealth clients. Speaking during the bank’s first-quarter earnings call, executives described a future where assets and liabilities move more freely across digital rails. “How do you think of a tokenized world?…
