What to know: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Monday announced plans to introduce an around the clock blockchain-based tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds trading venue later this year. NYSE executives said the project will use their technology to match buyers and sellers, combined with private blockchain networks, to enable real-time tokenized securities trading. The new…
What to know: Internal notes from early discussions between Elon Musk and the founders of OpenAI show that Musk briefly supported the idea of an initial coin offering (ICO) as a way to fund the organization, before abandoning the plan and ultimately leaving the project. According to call transcripts published as part of OpenAI’s response to…
What to know: Two solo bitcoin miners independently mined blocks this week with each collecting a full block reward worth roughly $300,000, a reminder that a small operator can still get lucky in today’s pool-dominated mining market. One miner mined a block early Thursday and earned a 3.157 BTC payout including fees, while another solo win earlier in…
The crypto industry spent the first three days of this week frantically poring over details of a crypto market structure bill that was ultimately pulled by the Senate Banking Committee some 12 hours before it was supposed to go to a vote. It’s not dead, yet. We might see a new markup scheduled in as…
What to know: Popular fast-food chain Steak ‘n Shake announced it added $10 million worth of bitcoin to its corporate treasury this week, continuing its push into crypto after eight months of accepting BTC payments at all its U.S. locations. The company said on social media that the move is part of a “self-reinforcing” cycle:…
AI-assisted bot scans Polymarket wallets and bet sizes to flag possible insider-style trades on political markets, helping its creator net $75k on a Maduro arrest bet. Summary A programmer reported generating $75,000 in profits by deploying an artificial intelligence-powered bot to monitor suspicious trading activity on Polymarket, according to a post by Archive on X….
Building one of today’s busiest blockchain ecosystems takes focused execution, and BNB Chain’s Sarah Song shares how she’s driving that growth. What does it take to lead business development at one of the most active blockchain ecosystems today? To understand this, we spoke with Sarah Song, Head of Business Development at BNB Chain at the…
A phishing campaign is targeting Cardano users through fake emails promoting a fraudulent Eternl Desktop application download. The attack leverages professionally crafted messages referencing NIGHT and ATMA token rewards through the Diffusion Staking Basket program to establish credibility. Threat hunter Anurag identified a malicious installer distributed through a newly registered domain, download.eternldesktop.network. The 23.3 megabyte Eternl.msi file…
The year 2025 witnessed billions of dollars in major crypto funding across top deals, with Naver Financial’s acquisition of Dunamu for $10.3 billion leading the list. Summary M&A activity dominated the largest transactions throughout 2025. Exchanges, derivatives platforms, and infrastructure providers led multi-billion dollar valuations. Here’s a breakdown of this week’s crypto funding activity as…
When Bitcoin btc1.15%Bitcoin first entered the world, it did so with an air of finality, as if a long-standing intellectual riddle had been resolved. Here, at last, was a monetary system that appeared capable of functioning without appeals to trust or authority. The ledger could be verified by anyone. The rules were fixed. The machinery of issuance…
