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Kraken’s security team thwarted a sophisticated infiltration attempt by a North Korean hacker posing as a job applicant. By carefully advancing the candidate through its recruitment process, Kraken identified a larger network of fake identities tied to state-sponsored cyberattacks. Fake IDs, VPNs, and Github: Inside Kraken’s Hunt for a State-Sponsored Hacker In a striking example […]

This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Financial giants mulling ways to better serve clients clamoring for crypto is no longer surprising.  That doesn’t exactly make it any less significant, though.     First up is Morgan Stanley, which is reportedly working on adding crypto trading to its E*Trade platform (possibly next year). A spokesperson declined to comment when I requested for details.  This report — citing people familiar — doesn’t shock us, given our own reporting in recent weeks and months (even years). It’s even less surprising now, given the changing US regulatory landscape…

While U.S. stocks have recovered from Trump’s unveiling of “reciprocal” tariffs, the greenback is still weaker.

In brief Strategy announced its 42-42 Capital Plan to amass $42 billion in equity and fixed income by 2027 despite posting a fifth consecutive quarterly loss. Cboe reported record earnings with 21% EPS growth and highlighted its expanding crypto ecosystem including new Bitcoin index options and futures products. Robinhood saw 100% year-over-year growth in crypto transaction revenue, but experienced a quarterly decline as it works to diversify beyond crypto trading. Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies.This week: Strategy goes full laser-eyes on its Bitcoin play, even as it posts a…

While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost.  Sjors is a physicist turned Bitcoin developer, which believe it or not is actually a pretty common phenomenon. He began contributing to Bitcoin Core in 2017, a very turbulent time during which the activation of Segregated Witness was playing out  in the culmination of the block size wars with the User Activated Softfork and the New York Agreement.  He is also the co-host of Bitcoin, Explained, a podcast done with Aaron van Wirdum, the current Editor in Chief of Bitcoin…

A micro-cap logistics firm, Freight Technologies, Inc., disclosed this week its intention to acquire the official TRUMP meme coin and retain it as a treasury reserve asset on its balance sheet. Logistics Meets Memes: Freight Tech Embraces Official TRUMP Coin In an unconventional twist on the bitcoin treasury strategy adopted by firms like Strategy (formerly […]

Ethereum’s relative dominance among layer-1 (L1) blockchain networks has declined, resulting in an “open race” to become the leading Web3 platform, according to Alex Svanevik, CEO of data service Nansen.“If you’d asked me 3–4 years ago whether Ethereum would dominate crypto, I’d have said yes,” Svanevik said during a panel discussion at the LONGITUDE by Cointelegraph event. “But now, it’s clear that’s not what’s happening.”Ethereum is still the most popular L1 network. According to data from DefiLlama, its roughly $52 billion in total value locked (TVL) represents 51% of cryptocurrency residing on blockchain networks.However, Ethereum’s dominance has diminished sharply since…

In brief Analysts remain upbeat on Strategy (MSTR) despite it reporting a per-share decline of $16.49 in Q1. Bernstein and Benchmark both set price targets of $600 per share or more. MSTR closed up 3.35% on Friday at $394.37 per share. Equity analysts from investment firms Benchmark and Bernstein reiterated their buy ratings and lofty price targets for Strategy (MSTR), a day after the company said that it had recorded a loss of $5.9 billion on its Bitcoin holdings in its first quarter of 2025. The analysts highlighted Strategy’s continued strategy to purchase more Bitcoin, which has become its core business…

In brief Gala Games is sunsetting licensed role-playing game, The Walking Dead: Empires. Users can play the Ethereum NFT game until July 31. Empires NFT holders will receive other Gala NFTs of “equal functionality” as compensation. An officially licensed “The Walking Dead” role-playing game based on the popular TV show will be shut down after July 31, according to blockchain game publisher Gala Games. The Walking Dead: Empires, a multiplayer survival game that was built around Ethereum NFTs, was playable in open beta for the last year after first being announced in late 2021.“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult…

Bitcoin network economist Timothy Peterson raised Bitcoin’s (BTC) chances of hitting a new high in 100 days, and he maintains an optimistic outlook in 2025. In an analysis shared on X that ties BTC’s price action to the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) —an indicator that measures 30-day market volatility expectations — the analyst pointed out that the VIX index has dropped from 55 to 25 over the past 50 trading days. A VIX score below 18 implied a “risk-on” environment, favoring assets like Bitcoin. Peterson’s model, which had a 95% tracking accuracy, predicted a $135,000 target within the next 100 days if…