Author: Coindesk
Blink if you’ve missed it, but Web3 – the idea that users can have digital ownership powered by cryptography, blockchain and digital assets – is happening on Telegram, and in a major way. Web3 is now available on anyone’s smartphone. It’s a hugely positive development somewhat ignored by all the recent, mostly negative, news surrounding Telegram. Read the full article here
“Over 87% of crypto registrations were rejected, withdrawn or refused,” the FCA said. “We help firms applying for authorisation by communicating our expectations and issuing guidance on good and poor practice. This is helping firms understand what is required – 44 crypto firms now have money laundering registration.” Read the full article here
This coming easing cycle, though, is thus far generating zero enthusiasm for taking prices higher. Each signal over the past several weeks that rate cuts were coming has resulted in only a momentary break from bitcoin’s downtrend. At the current $56,300, bitcoin is lower by 5% over the last month and off more than 23% from a record high above $73,500 touched six months ago. Read the full article here
BCB closed a $60 million Series A funding round in January 2022. The round was co-led by Foundation Capital with participation from BACKED VC, PayU (the e-payments business of Prosus), Digital Currency Group, Nexo, Wintermute, Menai Financial Group, Circle, Tokentus Investment, Cowa, Profluent Ventures and LAUNCHub Ventures. Read the full article here
Stakers and node operators will receive 70 million tokens, while ecosystem partners and the EigenLayer community will receive 10 million and 6 million respectively, with distribution due to start on Sep. 17. The tokens equate to around 5% of EIGEN’s total supply, which will be 1.67 billion tokens at launch. Read the full article here
Euler, a DeFi lending protocol that suffered a $200 million-plus exploit in 2023, says it has reemerged with the launch of Euler v2, “a meta-lending protocol that enables unlimited use cases for on-chain credit.” According to the team, “the protocol will allow builders to create highly customizable borrowing and lending vaults that can be permissioned or permissionless. As decentralized finance continues to gain traction and more users seek out secure and efficient ways to manage credit on-chain, Euler v2 will play a pivotal role in scaling the crypto lending market, pushing it towards becoming a core component of the global…
Data tracked by Wintermute show bitcoin futures now account for 48% of the total notional open interest in the crypto futures market, while alternative cryptocurrencies, including ether, account for the rest. In March, when optimism was at its peak, bitcoin represented just 31% of the global open interest. Read the full article here
Crypto markets are becoming increasingly financialized, and hashrate-backed contracts are not new. What’s unique about Blockstream’s note is its duration. Most contracts lock in the hashprice for up to 12 months, James Macedonio, Blockstream’s SVP global head of mining sales and business development, said. BMN2, an EU-compliant security token, gives exposure to the bitcoin hashrate over a 48-month period. Read the full article here
“And then the second one is a means for, effectively, validators to receive emissions,” Boiron added. “Effectively, if you think of these new chains that pop up, what’s going to happen is that with time, they’re going to want to decentralize. And so instead of just having a centralized sequencer, they’re going to need to incentivize people to actually run a decentralized group or a decentralized prover. And if they don’t have a token, or if they don’t want to launch a token yet, how do they do that? Well, effectively, what this does is that a portion of that…
Plans for the stablecoin come amid further boosts to the XRP Ledger network in the form of Ethereum-compatible smart contracts, which will let users build out on-chain exchanges and issue tokens, among other financial services, as they do on Ethereum. Read the full article here