Paxos cuts 20% of workforce amid strong financials due to ‘de-prioritizing adjacencies’

Stablecoin issuer Paxos downsized its workforce by 20% despite robust finances and optimistic growth projections in the stablecoin market, Bloomberg reported on June 12. In an email that notified employees of the... Read more »

Ripple CEO unveils name of upcoming stablecoin RLUSD

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has announced the name of the company’s upcoming stablecoin at the XRP Ledger Community Summit (XRPL Apex) in Amsterdam. During a panel discussion, Garlinghouse stated: “The name of... Read more »

Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI

Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI, according to two June 11 court filings. One filing states that Musk, as the plaintiff, filed a notice of entry of dismissal and proof of... Read more »

SubQuery launches first decentralized RPCs for Polkadot and Kusama

SubQuery Network, a Web3 infrastructure provider, has introduced two new decentralized Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) for efficient data management on the Polkadot and Kusama networks, according to a June 11 statement shared... Read more »

SEC accepts ProShares spot Ethereum ETF entry, approves Ark exit from 21 Shares ETF

The US Securities and Exchange Commission  (SEC) acknowledged a proposed rule change for ProShares Ethereum ETF and approved Ark Invest’s exit from 21 Shares’ application on June 10. The agency’s notice on... Read more »

Polkadot treasury allocates $14.4 million to bolster DeFi project Hydration

Polkadot Treasury has allocated 2 million DOT, valued at $14.4 million, to enhance the liquidity of the DeFi project Hydration, according to a June 10 statement shared with CryptoSlate. The project stated... Read more »

Decline in crypto-margined futures signals shift towards stable collateral

Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: The percentage of futures contracts open interest that is margined in the native coin (e.g., BTC) and not in USD or a USD-pegged stablecoin.  Bitcoin’s futures market is undergoing... Read more »

Bitcoin’s ‘hodled or lost coins’ metric falls to 7.7 million BTC

Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: Lost or HODLed Bitcoins indicate moves of large and old stashes. They are calculated by subtracting Liveliness from 1 and multiplying the result by the circulating supply.  Bitcoin’s “Hodled or... Read more »

Bridging traditional finance and DeFi

The following is a guest article from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at IntoTheBlock What is BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund? The BUIDL fund, formally known as the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, represents... Read more »

Bloomberg analyst calls for FOIA request into SEC’s Ethereum ETF decision

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart called for freedom of information access (FOIA) requests regarding the SEC’s approval of spot Ethereum ETFs. In a June 5 KITCO interview, Seyffart said that public requests... Read more »
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