US lawmaker reports AERO, GRT and VELO investments in 2024

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a research paper diving into privacy pools systems as a tool to achieve more privacy in financial transactions, allowing users to prove dissociation from illicit funds through zero-knowledge proof technology.The document initially discusses one of the most popular privacy-enhancing protocols, Tornado Cash, which allows users to deposit and withdraw

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company Securitize has selected RedStone as the primary oracle provider for its tokenized products, which include BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) and the Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED). According to a March 12 announcement, RedStone will deliver price feeds for current and future tokenized products offered by Securitize.

Trading giant BitMEX briefly went offline just three days after being hit with a massive lawsuit, citing a trading engine error. 1848 Total views 49 Total shares Major Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange BitMEX went offline earlier on May 19, citing trading engine failure. The platform was inaccessible for a brief time, and is currently back…

Bitwise has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) holding stocks of companies with large Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries, the asset manager said on March 11.  The Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations ETF (OWNB) “seeks to track the Bitwise Bitcoin Standard Corporations Index, a new equity index of companies with at least 1,000 bitcoin in their corporate treasuries,” Bitwise

The protocol, which is still in development, intends to connect dApps across chains using on-chain nodes. 172 Total views 10 Total shares On Wednesday, LayerZero Labs, a firm that develops protocol to enable omnichain decentralized applications, or dApps, to span multiple blockchains, announced that it raised $135 million in its latest funding round. The deal…

Marathon plans to divert all hash power to its new, regulatory compliant Bitcoin mining pool from May 1. 103 Total views 7 Total shares Major U.S.-based mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings has announced the launch of what it describes as the first North American Bitcoin mining pool that is “fully compliant with U.S. regulations.”According to…

KPMG forecasts that Singapore's crypto investment will remain strong this year with increasing regulatory scrutiny. 563 Total views 5 Total shares Singapore has seen a tenfold increase in crypto-related investments last year worth $1.48 billion, up from $110 million in 2020, according to KPMG's Pulse of Fintech report.As per the study, the city-state has long…

A corporate registration filing with the State of Delaware shows that Grayscale is considering Yearn Finance as a future offering. 1142 Total views 9 Total shares Grayscale Investments has registered an LLC for a prospective Yearn Finance (YFI) Trust, giving the first sign that the asset manager is considering the DeFi coin. The new YFI entity…

In the time of DeFi boom, how will Beam’s confidential DeFi stand different from others? Beam CEO Alexander Zaidelson spoke to Cointelegraph. 1313 Total views 41 Total shares On June 29th, major privacy cryptocurrency Beam underwent a hard fork to enable "Confidential DeFi" on Beam. In the time of the DeFi boom, how will Beam's…