BYD (Build Your Dream) aims to achieve 20K community members or address holder within 3 months
Achieving 20,000 community members or address holders within three months for a startup like BYD is ambitious but not impossible. Whether BYD can reach this goal depends on several key factors: 1. Incentive Structure - Attractive Staking Re...
Green United promotor asks to appeal SEC’s $18M crypto mining fraud case
Kristoffer Krohn claims the SEC got its application of securities laws wrong, which a federal court agreed with — now he’s asking for an appeals court to decide who is right....
Coinbase and Tether Launch Blockchain AI Tools for Developers
The new tools enable developers to build peer-to-peer AI applications across various devices.
Tether’s tools focus on improving privacy and peer-to-peer decentralized applications....
TEE-enabled Social Games: An Experiment with Bobu’s Magic Show
Azuki has a character called Bobu that is governed by ERC-1155 tokens, where holders can vote on proposals on how to use the character’s IP. Because Bobu is all about community ownership and co-creation, the magic trick was one where audie...
Safe{Wallet} Goes Multichain: Gasless Deployment with the Same Address Across Multiple Chains
Safe{Wallet} now lets you deploy Safes with the same address across multiple blockchains (gasless on major L2s) — a long-awaited feature that drastically improves how you can manage your assets on different networks....
South Korea Plans to Regulate Cross-Border Crypto Transactions
The new law mandating registration and periodic reporting is expected to become effective in the second half of 2025.
The Finance Ministry is currently completing the legislative requirements....
Coinbase sees AI agents and crypto driving economic boom day after CEO Brian Armstrong offers memecoin trading bot a wallet
Coinbase has laid out its vision for a future where AI agents could use crypto to ignite economic growth.
On Wednesday, Coinbase offered a wallet to the recently-minted millionaire, memecoin trading bot known as Truth Terminal....
BRICS+ expands plans from DLT payments to DLT clearing and depositary
Following this week’s BRICS+ meetings in Kazan, Russia, the group published a 136-page statement, with a small part of it touching on payments (see below). Plans for a new cross border payment system, BRICS Bridge, have been discussed for ...
Hawk Token: A rising star in the cryptocurrency market that pursues the value of freedom, with the ambition to challenge the market value of SHIB
A cryptocurrency called Hawk is rising on the Binance Smart Chain. It is not only a digital asset, but also carries a value of pursuing all-round freedom. Since its cold launch on PancakeSwap on January 30, 2024, Hawk has been listed on Coi...
Challenging Bias in the ECB’s Bitcoin Analysis
Our paper critiques the recent working paper by Bindseil and Schaff (2024), which presents a negative assessment of Bitcoin’s long-term viability, framing it as a speculative asset with limited intrinsic value and significant risks....
Joining Paradigm as an EIR
I’m happy to share that I’ve joined Paradigm as an Entrepreneur in Residence to build the next generation of crypto{graphy & currency}-enabled consumer applications. I’m a long-time consumer builder excited to continue shipping cry...
Unstructured Data in Global Finance: Solving a Decades-Long Industry Problem With AI, Oracles, and Blockchains
Corporate actions are integral to capital markets’ day-to-day operations, facilitating dividends, mergers, stock buybacks, and other processes that underpin corporate governance and capital allocation.
However, communicating corporate acti...
Practical endgame on issuance policy
This post presents a practical endgame on issuance policy that can stop the growth in stake while guaranteeing proper consensus incentives and providing positive regular rewards to diligent small solo stakers. Two possible ranges for an endg...
Perpetually rising bitcoin prices would lead to societal impoverishment, ECB economists claim
Economists from the European Central Bank argue in a new paper that a perpetually rising price of bitcoin would benefit early holders only and would “…imply a corresponding impoverishment of the rest of society, endangering cohesion, sta...
Volume 205: Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report
Digital Asset Inflows Surge to $2.2bn Amid US Election Optimism...
Quantum computer ‘threat’ to crypto is exaggerated — for now
Bitcoin’s private keys won’t be breached any time soon, but the industry still needs to transition to “post-quantum cryptography.”...
A new way to protect browser-based bitcoin wallets from malware
As bitcoin continues to increase in value, so does the sophistication of attacks targeting bitcoin users. At Unchained, we recognize the need for enhanced security measures to combat these threats. Our team has been diligently working on new...
G20: Financial Stability Board warns of future tokenization risks
Yesterday the BIS and Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) delivered a report to the G20 on tokenization. That paper was both upbeat yet sober, balancing the opportunities, risks and steps that central banks need to take. ...