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Between his recent social posts referring to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an interview with The New York Sun and his conversation with conservative pundit Tucker Carlson, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried seems to be attempting a media rehabilitation tour. Bankman-Fried suggested to Carlson on Thursday that one of the reasons he’d been given a…

Today, hundreds of millions of people own bitcoin and other tokens hosted on blockchains worth trillions of dollars. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Increasingly, though, blockchains host far more than tokens. In fact, blockchains are our future tech stack, and they can host sophisticated Web apps too, which live fully-onchain, just like tokens. These apps are implemented…

The $1.5 billion hack of Bybit — the largest in crypto history — has put the entire industry on high alert. The attack, reportedly carried out by North Korea’s Lazarus Group, resulted in the theft of over 401,000 ETH, reinforcing the reality that no exchange is safe from sophisticated cyber threats, and any platform can…

The industry’s ongoing campaign against the debanking of crypto businesses and leaders has secured a legislative push from a top U.S. senator, Tim Scott, who is championing a bill that would cut out federal banking regulators’ ability to use “reputational risk” as a reason to steer banks away from customers. That practice had been cited…

The latest in a series of reversed tariff threats by President Trump isn’t having the hoped-for effect on risk markets at least halfway through the U.S. trading day on Thursday. The stock market initially bounced off a sharply lower opening and bitcoin (BTC) rose through $91,000 as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — in an appearance on…

Blockchain-based asset management firm Superstate said on Thursday it has registered its digital transfer agent, Superstate Services LLC, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a move aimed at bridging tokenized assets with existing financial regulations. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don’t miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Long & Short Newsletter today. See all newsletters…

After two buggy test runs of Pectra, Ethereum’s biggest upgrade since 2024, the network’s developers decided on Thursday to postpone the upgrade pending further tests. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Pectra, which was planned as Ethereum faced mounting pressure to compete with other blockchains, contains a slate of upgrades designed to improve Ethereum’s speed and ease of…

In today’s issue, Christopher Jensen from Franklin Templeton cuts through some of the noise and misconceptions about crypto investing in today’s myth-busting article. Then, Pablo Larguia from SenseiNode answers questions about staking rewards in Ask an Expert. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don’t miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto for Advisors Newsletter today. See all newsletters Sign…

The native token of Sui (SUI) surged on Thursday on news that Trump-affiliated decentralized finance protocol World Liberty Financial (WLFI) stroke a “strategic reserve deal” with the layer-1 blockchain project. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don’t miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Long & Short Newsletter today. See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you…

Shares of bitcoin (BTC) miner Core Scientific (CORZ) were down 15% in pre-market on Thursday after reports that Microsoft (MSFT) has pulled back from some agreements with soon to listed cloud computing firm CoreWeave. Last month, Core Scientific said it was planning a $1.2 billion data center expansion with CoreWeave. This week, CoreWeave filed for…