Elections

Plus, breaking down Donald Trump’s shifting crypto stance

Analysts are looking ahead to August, a historically volatile month made more interesting this year by the US presidential election

Polymarket betters say Kamala Harris has better odds than Biden of winning against Trump

Vice President Harris has all but officially secured the Democratic nomination. Here are her top picks for a running mate and where they stand on crypto.

Polymarket’s stepping into a new era with prediction markets

GSR co-CEO Rich Rosenblum weighed in on Biden’s announcement on Sunday that he’s dropping out of the presidential race

Plus, TON has a ton of future plans, and Blur still reigns supreme

It’s not yet clear whether Donald Trump is pumping bitcoin. But an unofficial memecoin is still seeing benefit.

Plus, is the former US president a crypto influencer?

Vance, an Ohio Republican, is largely seen as crypto-friendly

Plus, ether ETF issuers hand in their revised S-1 documents today and analysts say trading could start as soon as this week

Plus, what Fed Chair Jerome Powell said about interest rates and inflation

With US ETH ETFs imminent, more firms are joining the paperwork party

If — and it’s a big if — Biden were to step aside, what would it do to the presidential election odds?

Plus, some things (dogs) are simply more important than money

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge on Friday showed that prices are increasing at the slowest rate since 2021

Industry advocates are continuing to break out their checkbooks as election season ramps up

Trump insiders say he will dismantle the anti-crypto army within an hour of taking office, but the campaign has been quiet about how it plans to do so

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski told Empire’s Jason Yanowitz that crypto in the US has become a “powerful election force”

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also revealed he recently bought 21 bitcoin, including three bitcoin for each of his kids

Plus, presidential hopeful RFK Jr. meets the crypto press

A16z founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in 2023 donated a combined $19 million to super PAC Fairshake under their own names

Ripple has now donated more than $45 million to crypto super PACs since December 2023, FEC filings show

In November, an iteration of the survey found that 34% of respondents were paying attention to crypto, but that figure has since jumped to 41%