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New financial documents show that former U.S. President Donald Trump is an Ethereum (ETH) whale holding $2.8 million worth of the digital asset in a cryptocurrency wallet. The new documents were obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and supersedes a previous filing from April that showed that the former President held between $250,001 and $500,000 in an Ethereum wallet. The CREW’s documents were filed this month. The document did not provide additional information on other contents in the wallets. However, the holding indicates a clear departure from Trump’s former anti-crypto posture. In the past, the former…
DeFi Development Corp. (formerly Janover Inc.), a publicly traded firm focused on optimizing its treasury strategy within the solana ecosystem, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise up to $1 billion through various securities offerings. The filing, dated April 25, 2025, includes common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, […]
This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Not many can say their parents got them involved in Bitcoin, but Jack Mallers can. His grandfather, William Mallers Sr., was a former Chicago Board of Trade chair, and his son William Mallers Jr., Jack’s father, bought his first bitcoin in August 2013, when it was under $100. Jack’s mother, Brooke Royce-Mallers, created a series of meet-ups in the Windy City alongside Empowered Law CEO Pamela Morgan, which included one fateful afternoon when Andreas M. Antonopoulos showed up. According to Jack, the first time he truly…
In brief Biohacking apps claim to track and potentially reduce biological age using personal health and activity data. Each app offers a unique method, from step tracking and biomarker analysis to guided habit changes. Aging might be inevitable, but a wave of biohacking apps suggests it could be reversible—at least from a biological age perspective. These apps promise to track and even slow your biological age using data from your daily habits and health metrics.While no app can guarantee eternal youth, these tools may offer valuable insights into how your habits impact long-term health. Just remember: personalized health is still…
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. More than a year after its initial announcement, Arbitrum launched Timeboost yesterday. Timeboost is a new way of ordering transactions on Arbitrum. That seems pretty boring and unexciting on the surface, but hopefully we can show you why it’s a pretty big deal. Transactions today on Arbitrum are ordered on a simple first come, first serve (FCFS) basis. Seems fair! But it’s problematic in practice: Financial systems need a way to efficiently process transactions. When markets crash, a lending application like Aave needs a way to quickly…
Tokenization platform Securitize has partnered with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Mantle to launch an institutional fund designed to earn yield on a diverse basket of cryptocurrencies, the companies said. Similar to how a traditional index fund tracks a mix of stocks, the Mantle Index Four (MI4) Fund aims to offer investors exposure to cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Solana (SOL), as well as stablecoins tracking the US dollar, Securitize said in an April 24 announcement. The fund also integrates liquid staking tokens — including Mantle’s mETH, Bybit’s bbSOL, and Ethena’s USDe — in a bid to enhance returns with onchain…
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According to recent figures, the total value locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) has once again exceeded the $100 billion threshold, a level not glimpsed since the final week of March. DeFi’s Big Return: TVL Crosses $100B With Aave and Lido Dominating the Pack Data sourced from defillama.com indicates that the current total value locked (TVL) […]
A non-fungible token (NFT) trader could face up to six years in prison after pleading guilty to underreporting nearly $13 million in profits from trading CryptoPunks, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.Waylon Wilcox, 45, admitted to filing false income tax returns for the 2021 and 2022 tax years. The former CryptoPunk investor pleaded guilty on April 9 to two counts of filing false individual income tax returns, federal prosecutors said in an April 11 press release.Back in April 2022, Wilcox filed a false individual income tax return for the tax year 2021, which underreported…
In a significant win for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, US President Donald Trump overturned the Internal Revenue Service’s DeFi broker rule, which would have expanded existing reporting requirements to include DeFi platforms.Increasing US crypto regulatory clarity will attract more tech giants to the space, requiring existing crypto projects to focus on more collaborative tokenomics to survive, according to Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson.Trump signs resolution killing IRS DeFi broker ruleTrump signed a joint congressional resolution overturning a Biden administration-era rule that would have required DeFi protocols to report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service.Set to take effect in 2027, the IRS…