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Codex, the startup behind an enterprise-focused blockchain for stablecoins, raises $15.8 million in Dragonfly-led seed round

Codex, the startup behind an enterprise-focused blockchain for stablecoins, raises $15.8 million in Dragonfly-led seed round

Codex, a development company building a dedicated blockchain for stablecoins directed towards enterprise use cases, has raised $15.8 million in seed funding in a round led by Dragonfly Capital, according to an announcement on X. Other big names that participated included market makers Cumberland and…

Three months in: Bo Hines on quarterbacking the White House’s crypto strategy

Three months in: Bo Hines on quarterbacking the White House’s crypto strategy

Former congressional candidate and ex-football player Bo Hines, who traded playbooks for policy briefs, is now three months into his rookie season as one of the White House’s top crypto leads.Hines, who works with White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks, was tapped by President Donald Trump in De…

DeFi TVL falls 30% from December high to below $95 billion amid global economic strains

DeFi TVL falls 30% from December high to below $95 billion amid global economic strains

The total value locked in all of DeFi declined more than 30% since hitting its local high in December, data shows.According to DefiLlama data, DeFi's TVL currently stands at $94.49 billion, following a steady decline from the Dec. 17 peak of $137 billion. The DeFi TVL also hit a recent low of $88 bi…

Cloud computing firm Crusoe was in crypto. Now it’s pivoting to AI

Cloud computing firm Crusoe was in crypto. Now it’s pivoting to AI

It was angel investor Jason Calacanis who said in 2023, "if you're in crypto pivot to AI." Well, cloud computing company Crusoe has done exactly that.The company sold its Bitcoin mining operations to NYDIG, or New York Digital Investment Group, subject to regulatory approval, according to a press re…

Coinbase Derivatives prepares to launch XRP and nano XRP futures on April 21

Coinbase Derivatives prepares to launch XRP and nano XRP futures on April 21

Crypto exchange Coinbase Derivatives has filed with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch two new cryptocurrency futures products: XRP futures and nano XRP futures.Both contracts will be cash-settled and benchmarked to the MarketVector Coinbase XRP index, according to the fi…

Cardano Foundation launches ‘quantum resistant, globally interoperable’ digital identity platform Veridian

Cardano Foundation launches ‘quantum resistant, globally interoperable’ digital identity platform Veridian

The Cardano Foundation launched the open-sourced digital identity platform Veridian on Thursday. Intended for both individuals and organizations, Veridian uses open-source "key event receipt infrastructure" (KERI), decentralized identifiers and "authentic chained data container" (ACDC) credentials t…

Elon Musk’s X urges Supreme Court to block IRS access to Coinbase user data

Elon Musk’s X urges Supreme Court to block IRS access to Coinbase user data

Elon Musk's social media platform X has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent law enforcement from forcing companies, such as crypto exchange Coinbase, to hand over users' financial data.In a Friday amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court, X Corp. said that the Internal Revenue Service used a s…

VanEck registers entity for potential first BNB ETF in US, Delaware filing suggests

VanEck registers entity for potential first BNB ETF in US, Delaware filing suggests

Fund manager VanEck appears to have registered a trust company for launching a potential BNB exchange-traded fund, Delaware's official registration portal suggests. According to the official website of Delaware, the entity, named VanEck BNB ETF, became effective with the state's Division of Corporat…

Circle paid $210 million in stock to acquire Coinbase’s stake in Centre, IPO filing reveals

Circle paid $210 million in stock to acquire Coinbase’s stake in Centre, IPO filing reveals

In its prospectus for an initial public offering, Circle said on Tuesday that in 2023, it acquired "the remaining outstanding 50% equity interest in Centre Consortium" from Coinbase for $210 million worth of shares.Centre Consortium was a joint venture responsible for issuing the USDC stablecoin. Co…

‘They came after us viciously’: Eric Trump cites debanking and cancel culture in family’s embrace of crypto

‘They came after us viciously’: Eric Trump cites debanking and cancel culture in family’s embrace of crypto

Autonomy, debanking and cancel culture are the three big reasons why the Trump family has been doubling down on their exposure to the crypto industry, Eric Trump, the second-oldest son of the sitting president, said in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business.“I never thought I’d fall into …

Trump-backed mining firm American Bitcoin plans to go public, possibly take private investment: report

Trump-backed mining firm American Bitcoin plans to go public, possibly take private investment: report

American Bitcoin, the firm backed by Bitcoin miner Hut 8 and Trump-helmed data infrastructure company American Data Centers, plans to go public, according to Bloomberg. The long-term vision is for American Bitcoin to be "two sister publicly traded companies" combined under one vertically integrated …

Uniswap DAO backs $113 million ‘Treasury Delegation’ program to boost governance participation

Uniswap DAO backs $113 million ‘Treasury Delegation’ program to boost governance participation

The Uniswap DAO has voted to continue its “treasury delegation program,” which could allocate up to 18 million UNI tokens — worth approximately $113.4 million at current prices — to selected delegates, according to a preliminary governance vote that closed on Tuesday. With the proposal tangentially …