Unchained

The $1.6 trillion asset manager launched Franklin Crypto to house active liquid crypto strategies, led by CoinFund’s Christopher Perkins.

Amid a declining Bitcoin price, Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock, Stretch, will keep its annualized dividend in April unchanged.

CoinShares, Europe’s largest crypto asset manager, began trading on Nasdaq Wednesday, in a SPAC deal with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp.

The market wiped $5 billion off Circle on a headline. Bernstein says investors are confusing the stablecoin issuer with the distributor. The distinction is worth paying attention to.

An attacker drained $285 million from Solana’s largest perpetual futures exchange using a fabricated token, manipulated oracles, and a compromised admin key.

The largest DeFi lending protocol launched its biggest upgrade in two years, redesigning how markets are organized as it targets institutional borrowers and real-world assets.

Balancer’s corporate entity is dissolving to shed legal liability from last November’s exploit, while the protocol restructures under a DAO model with new fee distribution and a BAL buyback.

Aave DAO approved a non-binding proposal to deploy V4 on Ethereum with unanimous support, advancing the protocol’s biggest upgrade in years despite recent governance upheaval.

A Google Quantum AI paper co-authored with the Ethereum Foundation mapped five attack vectors putting more than $100 billion at risk, including one exploit that requires no quantum computer to deploy.

The 38-page document outlines principles the Foundation says must outlast the organization itself.

BlackRock’s new ether ETF is designed to generate yield by staking most of its holdings, signaling a shift toward crypto funds that offer both price exposure and rewards.

Joseph Chalom and Danny Ryan discuss the institutional outlook on Ethereum and why it is “the only game in town.”

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.

Nick O’Neill, more popularly known by his persona “Choose Rich Nick,” delves into how he became internet famous, the man behind the persona, his endgame and the secret to his success.

Coinbase spent $375 million acquiring Cobie’s Up Only NFT and his fundraising platform Echo, signaling a push into crypto media and onchain capital markets.

A proposed safe harbor would let retirement plan fiduciaries add crypto and other alternative assets to 401(k) menus, potentially unlocking the largest new pool of capital for digital assets.

Sens. Lummis and Cassidy introduced the Mined in America Act, which would give certified miners access to federal programs while requiring them to phase out Chinese-made hardware.

Sacks hit the 130-day limit for special government employees and moves to co-chair PCAST, leaving the CLARITY Act and market structure reform without their chief White House advocate.

The Coinbase-backed advocacy group endorsed six congressional candidates and released polling showing crypto voters are a motivated, bipartisan swing bloc.

The Ethereum Economic Zone promises synchronous composability between rollups and mainnet, backed by Ethereum Foundation co-funding and founding members including Aave.

A scam impersonating the FBI is targeting Tron users with fake tokens and threats of asset freezes, aiming to extract personal data through fear-driven messages.

Tempo, the payments blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm, launched its mainnet with a new protocol that lets AI agents pay for services autonomously.