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Alabama’s Securities Commission this week dropped its enforcement action against crypto exchange Coinbase for its staking program—an apparent sign that regulators are letting up on digital assets companies as the federal government continues its pro-crypto pivot under President Trump. But Commissioner Amanda Senn told Decrypt the regulator is still as committed as ever to promoting “market stability and integrity”—and it won’t hesitate to bring enforcement actions against Coinbase or any other firm, if necessary.“We merely recognized that we may be able to accomplish what we want without the time and expense of litigation,” Senn said. “Had we been further down the…

Stripe is preparing to test a new stablecoin payments product aimed at companies based outside the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.The company’s CEO, Patrick Collison, confirmed on social media that Stripe had been planning this offering for nearly a decade and is now opening it up to pilot users.The announcement comes after Stripe received regulatory approval to acquire Bridge, a payments platform founded by former Coinbase executives Zach Abrams and Sean Yu. Bridge’s infrastructure offers an alternative to traditional systems like SWIFT for cross-border transactions.Stripe’s stablecoin pilot project comes at a time when companies ranging from…

18h20 ▪ 4 min read ▪ by Evans S. The global economy is undergoing a major transformation with the advent of blockchain, and real estate is not exempt from this revolution. Deloitte predicts that tokenized real estate will reach 4 trillion dollars in assets by 2035. This impressive figure highlights a profound change in real estate investment, which is becoming more accessible and more liquid. Tokenization is redefining the rules of the real estate market, opening up new possibilities for a more decentralized global economy. In Brief Tokenized real estate could reach $4 trillion by 2035 according to Deloitte. Blockchain…

United States Senator Jon Ossoff expressed support for impeaching President Donald Trump during an April 25 town hall, citing the President’s plan to host a private dinner for top Official Trump memecoin holders. “I mean, I saw just 48 hours ago, he is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” said Ossoff, a Democrat, according to a report by NBC News. “When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.”Senator Ossoff said he “strongly” supports impeachment…

This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Solana is up. At $151.30, SOL is back at monthly highs, reversing an oh-so-steep early April dip. It’s pretty well outperforming broader crypto markets, which aren’t doing too badly themselves as they ride a wave of short squeezes, ETF inflows, and a sudden softening of trade war rhetoric.  Some ecosystem tokens caught the bullish wave, too, including Jupiter’s JUP, which is up 25% on the week. Yesterday, a report from Blockworks Research laid out all the ways in which Jupiter is becoming irreplaceable. Jupiter now commands 95%…

Gaming tokens have seemingly been on the sidelines since the 2021 crypto boom. In fact, data from SoSoValue shows that they were the worst-performing crypto basket over the last 12-month period, enduring a 62% drop in the period, compared to a 174% rise on PayFi tokens.However, under the Trump administration’s crypto-friendly stance, it might be changing.Gala Games—a blockchain-based gaming platform—says it became the first crypto gaming company to partner with the White House, bringing a Web3 game Easter Egg Hunt to the 2025 Easter Egg Roll. White House official X’s account also mentioned on the social media platform about the…

This is a segment from the Blockworks Daily newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling and unbundling.” — Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape Stablecoins might unbundle banking (and then re-bundle it) Bundling and unbundling aren’t the only ways to make money, of course — you can also invent something new or do an old thing more efficiently, for example. But Jim Barksdale’s comment — made spontaneously to close a roadshow meeting for the Netscape IPO — became a dictum in tech circles because it explains a lot of things about…

Transaction costs on the Ethereum network have dropped to the lowest level in five years as the amount of activity on the blockchain is in a lull, according to the onchain analytics platform Santiment.Ethereum network fees are now around $0.168 per transaction and the reduction in fees coincides with fewer people sending Ether (ETH) and interacting with smart contracts, Santiment marketing director Brian Quinlivan said in an April 17 blog post.“When many people are using Ethereum, users bid higher fees to get their transactions confirmed faster This drives the average costs up,” Quinlivan said.“When fewer people are transacting, like we…

DeFi Development Corp. (JNVR), formerly known as Janover, is doubling down on its plan to buy more Solana for its treasury as it looks to offer up to $1 billion worth of securities. The firm, formerly a commercial real estate lending tech platform, revealed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that it plans on using the funds for “general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of Solana.” The offering will include common and preferred stock, debt instruments, warrants, and units.DeFi Development has already acquired approximately $48.2 million of SOL and plans to operate validators on the Solana blockchain…

Ethereum core developers are considering a four times increase in the layer 1 gas limit as one of the key features for the next hard fork after Pectra, known as Fusaka.The devs are proposing to test a raise in Ethereum’s gas limit to 150 million by the Fusaka hard fork, according to Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 9678, introduced on April 23 by Sophia Gold, a developer on the protocol support team at the Ethereum Foundation. During the last All Core Devs Execution (ACDE) meeting, there were discussions to make the gas limit increase a “key feature” of Fusaka, Ethereum core developer…