Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. We’re Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols team. In this issue:
Read MoreMANHATTAN — U.S. President Donald Trump again touted his crypto bona fides at a conference Thursday, telling an audience it was an “honor” to be considered a crypto president. Speaking
Read MoreDeFi Development Corp. (DFDV), the Nasdaq-listed firm pursuing a solana SOL treasury strategy, is planning to get some more dry powder to boost its SOL stack. According to a Thursday
Read MoreCoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3177.65, down 2.6% (-85.47)
Read MoreCryptocurrency lending firm Maple Finance has partnered with crypto staking specialist Lido Finance to offer stablecoin credit lines backed by collateral in the form of Lido’s liquid staking token (stETH),
Read MoreA hacker who stole $23 million from crypto exchange Bittrue in 2023 has started to launder the proceeds through Tornado Cash, according to Debank data cited by EmberCN. The hacker
Read MoreMorpho, a permissionless cryptocurrency lending protocol, unveiled an update that seeks to further align decentralized finance (DeFi) with traditional lending by bringing more in the way of bespoke, predictable loan
Read MoreStablecoin issuer Tether’s investment arm has taken a minority stake in Elemental Altus (ELE), a publicly-listed precious metals investment company. Tether Investments is aiming to diversify the assets that back
Read MoreConduit, a stablecoin-focused cross-border payments provider, said on Thursday it has teamed up with Brazil’s Braza Group for real-time foreign exchange (FX) swaps between the Brazilian real and major foreign
Read MoreEther( ETH) ETH struggled to maintain Tuesday’s momentum, falling 0.15% to $2,758 amid selling pressure that emerged during U.S. afternoon trading on June 11. The pullback followed a brief rally
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