Unchained

The purchase was funded entirely by common stock sales, with none of Strategy’s four preferred series issuing a single share last week.

Russia’s largest bank will widen its crypto lending beyond bitcoin once the assets are cleared to circulate publicly, a deputy chairman told TASS.

1789 Capital is putting in about $300 million on top of a roughly $200 million stake, lifting Polymarket’s valuation 40% in a matter of months.

Payward has pitched the CFTC on a structure that would let its Bitnomial subsidiary offer registered U.S. users perps linked to Hyperliquid’s markets.

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

The protocol’s supply cap is checked when a normal deposit mints shares, so the attacker deposited once, then sent 53 million tokens straight to the market and raised what those shares could claim about 3.7-fold.

Alex Cutler said millions of dollars poured into the token’s pool on Base after Wednesday’s closing bell and the price ran above the official close, a dislocation he called “the feature, not the bug.”

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki, DV Labs’ Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France’s Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.

Seth Ginns, chief investment officer of Franklin Crypto, used a Bits + Bips appearance to reject EIP-8363 and the premise that institutional buyers have captured Ethereum.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

Nike quietly exited its NFT business by selling RTFKT months after shutting it down, as former holders pursue legal action over lost value.

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

The joint rule requires examiners to tie supervisory criticism to material financial harm or an actual legal violation, removing the discretion crypto firms blamed for their debanking.

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan and co-investors own nearly half of WLTC Holdings.

The Treasury named digital assets one of five sanctionable Iranian sectors. Peter Van Valkenburgh said the release designates no crypto protocol and leaves the question of nodes, miners and developers open.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Coinkite’s 5.6.1 and 1.5.1Q releases require user-supplied entropy for every new seed, but they do not repair seeds generated on affected firmware.

Trevor Harries-Jones, a director at the Render Network Foundation, lays out how the network is bringing artists and creators onchain, why onchain proof of creation is central to its vision and how AI may accelerate its growth.

A June intrusion at France’s tax authority exposed names, addresses, and income data for hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of high earners, in Europe’s wrench-attack hotspot.