Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. We’re Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler, reporters on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: EigenLayer Finally Ready To Launch Critical ...
Under far heavier pressure than the rather modest decline in bitcoin (BTC) over the past few days would suggest, crypto stocks are posting outsized gains as markets surge higher on the Trump tariff pause. Among the movers are Strategy (MSTR), which ...
The Trump administration’s friendliness toward the crypto sector is going to deeply change the bitcoin (BTC) lending market over the next four years. That’s according to Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, co-founder of Ledn, a firm that specializes in providing ...
President Trump's administration wants a weaker dollar and that's bullish for bitcoin (BTC), asset manager Bitwise said in a report Tuesday. "When it comes to the tariff push, the thing i'm most certain of is this: the Trump administration wants ...
Cryptocurrencies jumped on Wednesday on news that Donald Trump stepped back some tariff burdens on countries — except for China.According to Trump's post on Truth Social, he issued a 90-day delay on tariffs and a substantially lowered 10% rate of ...
Justin Sun's allegations that Hong Kong-based custodian First Digital Trust is insolvent have landed him in the cross-hairs of a defamation claim initiated by the company. First Digital's FDUSD stablecoin briefly de-pegged on April 3 after Sun ...
Bootstrapping decentralized finance (DeFi) on any blockchain usually requires a mix of builders with big ideas and funders to back them. That much is as true for baselayers as it is for the financial protocols launching atop them. Arch Labs, whose ...
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee checked the next box in moving toward what Representative Bryan Steil referred to as the "second half" of President Donald Trump's crypto agenda: a bill to set U.S. crypto market rules for a fully ...
Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum developer jailed for attending a crypto conference in North Korea in 2019, was released from prison and is on his way to a halfway house, according to his lawyer, Alexander Urbelis. Urbelis, general counsel of the ...
EMB: April 9, 16:00 UTC A blockchain-based startup in London said it closed a $50 million funding round to forward its goal of "reinventing social media." Wunder.Social raised the funds in a round led by Rollman Management, according to an ...