Author: Coindesk

“This report highlights the importance of accountability, disclosing the allocation of our resources, and how they help advance Cardano as a public digital utility across a wide range of industries. We have 100+ employees working with institutions, businesses, regulators, and policymakers to solve societal and enterprise challenges in new ways across 25 countries.” Read the full article here

However, Republicans clinched it with the election of Juan Ciscomani in Arizona, giving the party enough seats for a majority. Republicans lead in a handful of other races as well as of press time, and may hold up to 222 seats if current results hold. The party is about to lose a few lawmakers, with Trump naming Representatives Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik and Mike Waltz to executive branch roles, meaning they’ll have to resign their seats. Gaetz, who Trump said would be his nominee for Attorney General, already sent his resignation letter “effective immediately.” Read the full article here

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% in October versus forecasts for 0.2% and a 0.2% rise in September, according to a government report on Wednesday morning.. On a year-over-year basis, the CPI was higher by 2.6%, also matching forecasts even as it rose from 2.4% in September. Read the full article here

According to CF Benchmarks, traders are flocking to the $100,000 call option on the CME, a location favored by institutional investors, following the lead of their Deribit-based counterparts. A call option gives the purchaser the right, but not the obligation, to purchase the underlying asset at a predetermined price on or before a specific date. A call buyer is implicitly bullish on the market. Read the full article here

With this universe in mind, we examined how many tokens in the top 150, on any given day, outperformed bitcoin over the next year. At certain points in 2019 and 2020, it seems like beating bitcoin was easy, with many tokens beating it by a wide margin (north of 1000% over bitcoin’s own generally stellar return, on average). What’s more, it used to not require too much exploration out of the scale of market cap to find the tokens beating bitcoin, with an average market cap rank of the outperformers of ~30 pre-2020. Read the full article here

Trump 2.0 and the bipartisan, pro-crypto Congress will usher in a brave new world for the crypto industry. A regulatory environment that encourages innovation, rather than stifles it, will finally give the institutions the confidence to enter the market. And entrepreneurs, no longer shackled by the threat of regulatory sanction or personal liability, will be free to focus on building. The future could not be brighter. Read the full article here

The Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee has been under the chairmanship of Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat that the cryptocurrency industry spent tens of millions of dollars on defeating in this month’s elections. In his tenure, Brown allowed no significant legislative debate on digital assets legislation, though even as he ran the committee, Massachusetts Democrat Warren often managed to be the more prominent naysayer on crypto matters. Now that the Republicans won the Senate majority and will take the gavel, Warren confirmed she’ll step up as the ranking Democrat there. Read the full article here

As Murad Mahmudov noted at Token2049, memecoins have captured a unique market position because they are fully unlocked; no VCs, no lock-up periods, and often, no tangible revenue. These factors, Mahmudov argues, turn the tokenized meme into the real product — in essence, the value of memecoins lies within community, mission, and meaning. Read the full article here

“This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Polymarket is a fully transparent prediction market that helps everyday people better understand the events that matter most to them, including elections.” Read the full article here

Loyal readers of The Protocol will recall that we launched this newsletter on April 26, 2023, to cover technological developments across the blockchain industry, after winding down its predecessor, Valid Points, which was focused exclusively on Ethereum. (In case you’re interested in that history, we wrote here about how we turned $15,000 into $70,000 running an Ethereum validator.) We started covering Bitcoin technology in the newsletter along with Solana and Cosmos and Sui and everything else. Over time, the format evolved, and got a bit longer — as I increasingly geeked out over blockchain tech and found myself incrementally incompetent…