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Navigating Bitcoin Script Improvement With Lightning Labs’ Ryan Gentry

[Jul 3 8:53 AM] In a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Ryan Gentry from Lightning Labs shared his insights on the various proposals aimed at enhancing Bitcoin's scripting capabilities, focusing particularly on the approach taken by Rusty Russell's new…

Ethereum Builder Consensys Buys Wallet Guard to Strengthen MetaMask Security

[Jul 3 8:00 AM] The entire Wallet Guard team will join Consensys within the MetaMask Product Safety Team.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP and LTC Top Performers as Crypto Market Tumbles

[Jul 3 7:36 AM] The CoinDesk 20 index drops 4.2%, with XRP and LTC leading and no assets managing to trade higher.

Bitcoin Losing $60K Handle May Trigger Wave of ETF Liquidations: Analyst

[Jul 3 7:31 AM] BTC has already dropped 14% in four weeks.

Obol Labs Forms Industry Group to Push for Decentralized Validator Technology

[Jul 3 7:00 AM] As blockchain projects push to further decentralize, the developer Obol Labs has formed a group of companies working in the Ethereum ecosystem to concentrate on the growing field of "distributed validator technology," or DVT.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Falls to $60K as Mt. Gox Overhang Looms

[Jul 3 6:05 AM] The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 3, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Solana Meme Coin MEW's Cat Character to Feature on Trending Telegram Mini Game

[Jul 3 6:00 AM] The MEW character will be featured on TON, the network where Pixelverse’s Telegram mini-games operate, in a first for a Solana meme coin.

Crypto Venture Capital Market Rebound Extends Into Second Quarter: Galaxy

[Jul 3 5:53 AM] The median pre-money deal valuation jumped to highs of $37 million, suggesting that despite a lack of available investment capital a resurgent crypto market has led to increased competition and FOMO among investors, the report said.

TradFi Liquidity Stress Indicator Surges. What Does It Mean for BTC?

[Jul 3 5:19 AM] The secured overnight financing rate surged Monday, indicating liquidity stress in the U.S. banking system.

Indian Crypto Exchange CoinDCX Acquires BitOasis to Enter Middle East

[Jul 3 4:30 AM] The acquisition will provide a boost to BitOasis' plans to expand its presence across the region.

Trump-Biden Tussle Sees PoliFi Sector Lose Lustre as BODEN Drops 95% From Peak

[Jul 3 3:54 AM] Token is down 70% on-week, or 82% on-month as the world wonders if Biden will end his campaign.

Crypto Industry Is About to Boom, Is Outperforming the Internet: Architect Partners

[Jul 3 3:02 AM] The digital asset industry added more than $750 billion in value in the first half of the year, the report said.

Pre-ETF Ether Options Trend Mirrors BTC Except for One Key Difference

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Bitcoin Sinks Under $61K as One Trader Sticks to $150K Prediction This Year

[Jul 3 1:48 AM] U.S.-listed ETFs ended a five-day inflow streak with $13 million in net outflows on Tuesday.

Mantra to Tokenize $500M Real Estate Assets for UAE Builder MAG Group

[Jul 3 1:25 AM] The firm will tokenize the real estate assets in several tranches.

U.S. Judge Sets Stage for NFT Securities Trial as DraftKings Lawsuit Moves Forward

[Jul 2 11:59 PM] The class action suit from DraftKings buyers alleges that NFTs are investment contracts.

Bittensor’s TAO Slides 15% After $8M Wallet Drain Attack

[Jul 2 11:56 PM] The blockchain was paused early Wednesday to contain the exploit, with security researchers suspecting a private key leakage.

Biden's Odds of Dropping Out Surges to 55% on PolyMarket as Obama Raises 'Concerns' About Presidential Campaign

[Jul 2 11:37 PM] Traders are now giving a 55% chance President Biden abandons his campaign and a 42% chance he does it before the Democratic convention

Kamala Harris' Odds of Winning Democratic Nomination Surge on Polymarket

[Jul 2 4:35 PM] The vice president

Trump’s 2024 Election Odds Jump to 66% on Polymarket; GOP Expected to Control Congress

[Jul 2 4:30 PM] Donald Trump’s prospects of winning the 2024 election have risen, with the prediction market Polymarket reporting his odds at 66% as of July 2, 2024. Meanwhile, a wager worth $294 million indicates that incumbent President Joe Biden’s chances stand…

DCG, Top Executives Renew Push to Get New York AG’s Civil Fraud Suit Dropped

[Jul 2 1:24 PM] Lawyers for cryptocurrency firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) and two of its top executives – CEO and founder Barry Silbert and Soichiro “Michael” Moro, the former CEO of DCG’s wholly-owned trading arm Genesis – have made a final effort to convin

Latam Insights Encore: The Bolivian Opportunity for Crypto After Its Unbanning

[Jul 2 11:32 AM] Welcome To Latam Insights Encore, a deep view of Latin America’s most relevant economic and cryptocurrency-based news last week. In this edition, we examine the opportunity for cryptocurrency in Bolivia after the central bank unbanned it from…

Investors Added Money to Bitcoin ETFs Even as Bitcoin Slipped 7% in June

[Jul 2 10:36 AM] Data from Bloomberg Intelligence shows the spot funds saw net inflows of $790 million even as the price of bitcoin tumbled 7%.

Market Jitters: Germany Offloads 3,820 BTC in a Week, Impacting Crypto Sentiment

[Jul 2 10:34 AM] Over the past seven days, data reveals that the German government has transferred 3,820 BTC to cryptocurrency exchanges, with around 2,165.49 BTC moved in the last eight hours. German Government’s Bitcoin Transfers Cause Stir A week ago…

Binance Executive's Health Deteriorates in Jail as Nigeria Money-Laundering Trial Proceeds

[Jul 2 9:38 AM] On Tuesday the cross-examination of the first witness from Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission was completed.

Crypto Exchange Kraken Is Considering Going Nuclear

[Jul 2 9:27 AM] Massive demand for energy from high performance computing and artificial intelligence firms is changing the landscape in terms of power stability, the company’s CTO said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Pump.Fun Overtakes Ethereum With $2M in Daily Revenue to Take No. 1 Position

[Jul 2 8:22 AM] Celebrity-inspired meme coins have spurred a surge in revenue for token launchpad Pump.fun over the past 24 hours.

Ironblocks' 'Venn' Network Aims to Keep Malicious Transactions From Ever Hitting Blockchains

[Jul 2 8:18 AM] The Israeli firm's Venn security network uses a network of operators to seek out and freeze suspect transactions before they execute.

Bitcoin Could Get Ethereum-Style Restaking as Startup Lombard Raises $16M

[Jul 2 8:00 AM] Lombard is partnering with staking startup Babylon to let users earn interest for "restaking" with Bitcoin – using the asset to secure other crypto networks.

Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M

[Jul 2 8:00 AM] The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing" along with other blockchain use cases including AI.