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After Thursday’s JTO airdrop causes a frenzy in crypto markets, accountants remind traders that they need to claim their new assets as income, even if they never sell

The token will be used to govern the DAO — and possibly to rouse activity in Solana DeFi

Call it mean reversion, a boost from JPMorgan or simply catching up. Whatever the case, Avalanche is a market favorite right now

Tensor has overtaken Magic Eden as the most popular NFT platform on Solana with a monthly trading volume of roughly $1 million

Babylon’s raise may indicate a growing appetite for bitcoin use cases among investors

Heron Finance caters to US accredited investors and uses Goldfinch credit markets on the backend

The new protocol introduces a non-custodial and permissionless ether liquid staking solution, mETH

The layer-2’s community is split on who is deserving of 30 million OP tokens earmarked for providers of free services

Brent Xu, CEO of Umee, notes that more strategic alignments within the Cosmos ecosystem should be expected in the future

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance analyzes post-Merge geographical distribution of Ethereum nodes in latest climate impact study

On-chain debt capital markets platform deploys on Coinbase-incubated layer-2 after structured investment products push

DYDX supply will climb by up to 80% after the Friday unlock, but a couple factors make a massive sell-off appear unlikely

The issuer behind the second-largest stablecoin is continuing its foray into permissionless transfers

“Everyone agrees” you have to decentralize infrastructure. Now it’s about execution

Crypto derivatives exchange Deribit is the first to integrate with the new offering, which uses multiparty computation wallets

After a proposal passed to crimp inflation on Cosmos’ ATOM token, Kwon announced AtomOne — a “minimal fork” of the Cosmos Hub application.

Exclusive: Google Cloud joined more than 65 other operators in the group as the restaking protocol eyes a mainnet deployment for node operators in the first half of 2024

BNB has been valued higher than XRP for most of the last two years, but the gap is narrowing fast

Raft Finance and Kyberswap both underwent multiple audits before being drained

Ethereum users have layer-2 rollups to thank for saving them from high fees and long wait times
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