Daily Dispatch
Decrypt Daily and Weekend Debrief
Connect
A "big announcement" on the U.S. Bitcoin strategic reserve could drop soon, the White House crypto adviser said.
The U.S. president walked back earlier criticisms of prediction markets, saying that "very smart" people support the industry.
Polymarket, Kalshi, and other prediction market platforms were blocked in Brazil on Friday as part of a sweeping crackdown.
Aave is shepherding a "DeFi United" recovery effort to help contain the fallout from the $292M KelpDAO exploit.
Kalshi has suspended political candidates for trading on their own elections, while France's weather agency called the cops after suspicious Polymarket bets on the temperature.
Tron founder Justin Sun is taking World Liberty Financial to court, alleging that the Trump-linked DeFi platform froze his tokens and threatened to burn his holdings.
A New York Assembly member running for Congress has proposed "AI Dividend" payments tied to job displacement from artificial intelligence.
The $292 million KelpDAO exploit that rattled DeFi over the weekend has been attributed to the perennially busy North Korean hackers Lazarus Group.
Bitcoin's rebound has put Strategy's record BTC holdings above water after a couple of shaky months.
Bitcoin surged along with stocks as Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz is "completely open" for the duration of the ceasefire.
Early investors in the Trump-linked DeFi venture have been left fuming after a proposal to lock up tokens on a vesting schedule that would outlast the president's second term.
A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal would implement a soft fork to freeze quantum-vulnerable coins—including Satoshi Nakamoto's billions.
