Article Farcaster Decentralized Social Network Bought by Ecosystem Developer Neynar Neynar acquires Farcaster from Merkle as founders step back. The move follows Lens shifting to Mask Network amid a broader SocialFi reset.
News FTX's Caroline Ellison Set for Release After 440 Days Served Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison is set for release from a federal halfway house today after partially serving a two-year sentence for fraud charges.
News Trump Media Sets Snapshot Date for New Rewards Token Trump Media plans to distribute a rewards token to shareholders with the help of Crypto.com
Mindshare How Google’s UCP Fits Into the Agent Economy Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol gives AI agents a shared language for shopping.
Investing Your Favorite TradFi Assets Meet Crypto Perps Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework is putting gold and Tesla stock into the mix for perps traders.
News Twitter Bans Several 'InfoFi' Crypto Apps from Platform Product lead Nikita Bier announced X had revoked API access for apps rewarding posts, citing AI spam surge.
Analysis Jerome Powell & A Hard Money Moment With Trump teeing up a personally controlled Federal Reserve, hard money seems like an easy bet, but Bitcoin and gold aren't behaving the same.
News Monero's XMR Token Surpasses $700 Monero surged past $700 on Wednesday, as XMR overtakes ZEC as the premier privacy coin play following internal strife at Zcash.
News CoinGecko Said to Be Exploring $500M Sale: CoinDesk Crypto price tracker CoinGecko is reportedly exploring a sale after hiring investment bank Moelis to advise it.
News Polygon Labs Acquires Coinme, Sequence for $250M+ Polygon Labs acquires Coinme and Sequence for over $250M to build regulated stablecoin payments infrastructure via its Open Money Stack toolkit.
News Fed Chair Powell Calls DOJ Subpoenas 'Political Pressure' to Lower Interest Rates In a shock announcement, Powell said grand jury subpoenas over his renovation testimony are a pretext to pressure the central bank on interest rates, threatening its independence.
News BitMine Adds 24K ETH, Nears 4.2M Holdings Tom Lee's BitMine acquired another 24,266 ETH as it races toward 5% ETH ownership.
Mindshare ERC-8004: AI's Social Credit Score ERC-8004 launches January 16th, bringing onchain identity and reputation to autonomous agents. The machine economy's trust layer is here.
News Andreessen Horowitz Raises $15B for U.S. Tech Startup Dominance The major venture firm raised over $15B, though no funds were earmarked for a16z crypto which last raised a new fund in 2022.
Article Stablecoin Company Rain Raises $250M at $1.95B Valuation The major round was led by the venture firm ICONIQ.
News Zcash Dev Team Resigns After Board Clash Electric Coin Company's full staff resigned over governance issues, leaving Zcash's future uncertain.
DeFi Getting Started with Hyperdash's Revamped Trading Terminal The Hyperliquid command center brings superior analytics to the perps trading experience.
Opinion The Prediction Market Insider Trading Problem As Polymarket and Kalshi go mainstream, highly visible insider trading episodes create risks for early adopters.
Analysis Robinhood vs. Coinbase 2026 Battle Royale? The consumer trading apps are going head-to-head on features as each looks to become a cross-asset super app.
Metaversal Predictive AI Takes on Prediction Markets Synthdata's decentralized network for financial AI gets to work on Polymarket.
Analysis Ethereum’s 2025 Stress Test DATs, stablecoins, foundation restructuring, Fusaka, privacy, and everything else that defined the World Computer's chaotic year.
Analysis Base's Relentless 2025 A challenging 2025 for Ethereum L2s didn’t slow Coinbase’s homegrown chain.
Article x402 V2 and the Road to Agentic Commerce Understanding the most impactful changes of x402's V2 and soberly assessing its protocol activity, which is both inflated and growing steadily.
Article Senators Introduce SAFE Crypto Act Against Scams U.S. Senators Slotkin and Moran propose bipartisan SAFE Crypto Act to combat crypto fraud through federal coordination and private sector input.
Article Trump to Review Pardon for Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Trump was asked Tuesday about the prospect of a pardon for Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez, sentenced to five years for running an “unlicensed money transmitter.”
