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- 🟣 Kraken Launches kBTC Wrapped Bitcoin. The new product will initially be available on Ethereum and OP Mainnet.
- 🥷 FBI Arrests Alleged Hacker Behind Fake SEC Bitcoin ETF Tweet. The FBI just made an arrest in one of crypto's biggest market manipulation cases.
- 💰 Polymarket Hits $2 Billion in Presidential Election Bets. The betting volume hit a key marker even as Trump's odds on the platform heavily outweigh his chances on other polling sites.
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto investors had their eyes glued on Sam Altman Thursday as he took to the stage to talk Worldcoin's latest – including a new name, a new app, and a new orb. The WLD token is down 6% on the day but is still up over 42% on the month. Where will it go from here?
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.30T | ↘ 0.9% | ↗ 9.5% |
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BTC $67,173 | ↘ 0.8% | ↗ 12.0% |
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ETH $2,605 | ↘ 0.5% | ↗ 9.6% |
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WLD $2.14 | ↘ 5.7% | ↗ 26.6% |
The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) has quietly become the backbone of blockchain development. It's not just the technology — it's the ecosystem of developers, tools, and applications that have grown around it.
Today, there are a bunch of teams rethinking Ethereum’s design choices, enhancing the EVM to create blockchains that can handle billions of users and thousands of transactions per second. They're taking the strengths of the EVM and pushing the boundaries with new architectures and features.
This article highlights the projects that are accelerating the EVM for massive scalability and paving the way for the future of crypto adoption. Today, we're digging into Monad, MegaETH, Berachain, and Sei. 👇
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We brought EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan and Uma & Across co-founder Hart Lambur onto the show in our latest episode. Together, they help us make sense of this big PhD word, intersubjectivity, and how it relates to crypto protocols and, more specifically, EigenLayer.
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