Empire Newsletter
BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein noted that the firm had been looking into crypto since 2017
Franklin Templeton’s Roger Bayston tells Blockworks that stablecoins and market funds ‘complement’ each other
Chainalysis, Kraken, Fireblocks and Gemini are on the list, but we might not see a redo of Circle’s success
Circle had a pretty successful first day of trading, but what’s next for the stablecoin issuer?
The funding was spread out across 61 rounds, a slight dip in both number of rounds and total funding in comparison to other months
A Blockworks Research report looked at who could take up some of the marketshare in the launchpad space
Business-to-business stablecoin payments are on the rise, per a report from Artemis, Dragonfly and Castle Island
Jay Woods, Chief Global Strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, said it would be “very rare” for an acquisition to happen since the IPO may occur as soon as next week
Gemini’s State of Crypto report found that memecoins and a friendlier US are helping to drive crypto adoption globally
Bitwise’s Ryan Rasmussen thinks Coinbase could be eyeing Circle, Securitize, Chainalysis and Alchemy as it mulls more acquisitions
With the success of RWAs and stablecoins, DePINs could onboard the next wave of crypto users
Halliday CEO Griffin Dunaif said that there may be smaller margins on stablecoins, but lots of potential in the services around them
The SEC filed the suit on Tuesday night, alleging that some Unicoin executives made “false and misleading statements” and violated securities laws
VanEck’s Pranav Kanade told Blockworks that it doesn’t plan to launch a similar fund for other ecosystems at this time
Blockworks Research also thinks that net new assets (NNAs) are a metric to keep an eye on
Crypto M&A is on the rise, with a handful of acquisitions announced just last week
Ledn’s Mauricio Di Bartolomeo explained how this cycle’s been different for the lender
Squads CEO Stepan Simkin explained why the firm launched Altitude and how he’s thinking about stablecoins