The Protocol: Ethereum Turns 10
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter....
Fed Holds Rates Steady as Expected, but Two Dissent From Decision
As was almost universally expected, the U.S. Federal Reserve Wednesday left its benchmark fed funds rate range steady at 4.25%-4.5%. In a rare departure...
Bitcoin Tumbles Below $116K as Jerome Powell Delivers Hawkish Remarks
Did U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell just threaten to hike rates? At his post-meeting press conference following the Fed’s Wednesday decision to hold...
No U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Plans as White House Touts Crypto Report
The long-awaited White House crypto strategy is out, but the 163-page report isn’t likely to tell the crypto industry much that it doesn’t already...
Twenty One Boosting Bitcoin Holdings; CEO Jack Mallers Sees $150K BTC Incoming
Twenty One Capital, the bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm backed by Tether and Softbank, plans to add 5,800 BTC to its reserves ahead of a...
DoubleZero Launches $537M SOL Stake Pool to Turbocharge Solana Validator Network
DoubleZero, the decentralized protocol built to accelerate blockchain performance, has unveiled a new 3 million SOL stake pool, worth about $537 million in current prices, under...
Ethereum Treasury Firm BTCS Aims to Raise Up to $2B in Ether Buying Power
BTCS (BTCS), a Nasdaq-listed blockchain infrastructure and staking company focused on Ethereum, filed a shelf registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
NEAR Inches Higher in Final Hour as DeFi Catalysts Clash With Bearish Momentum
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) staged a modest intraday recovery during the final 60 minutes of trading on July 30, inching from $2.62 to a session...
Ethereum Could Win the War, But Lose the Prize
Over the past decade, Ethereum has become the foundation of on-chain finance. It introduced programmable money, enabled the tokenization of real-world assets and launched...