Empire Newsletter

Plus, Polymarket is looking poised to hit a $1 billion market for its US election outcome

Plus, how the FTX collapse played out in Asian countries

Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures believes we’re witnessing the first crypto dollarization event

Crypto hasn’t pumped in a while. Are we close to a bear market?

Plus, Gemini’s trying to get a sense of the state of crypto in a new report

Plus, the rise and fall of Friend.tech

The FBI has a warning for crypto: North Korean hackers are on the prowl

Plus, does crypto need a city to call home?

To put it quite frankly, folks are struggling to see a catalyst on the horizon

While blockspace is becoming cheaper, app developers are still limited by how many transactions can be processed at any one time

An Empire episode this week featured Jason Yanowitz, Santiago Santos and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire

Plus, if the SEC really does sue OpenSea, then it would be over two years too late

Without a technical post-mortem, we’re mostly in the dark as to what caused the recent seven-hour outage

Polygon’s Colin Butler shared his thoughts on what really needs to happen for crypto to catch the institutional wave

The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France has only amplified crypto’s centralization problems

Plus, a rundown of today’s episode of Empire — Delphi’s take on market performance

Pump.fun’s revenue, which peaked in July, has fallen a little short so far this month, according to a report from K33

Plus, SEC actions against crypto companies have slowed this year. Have their priorities shifted?

Plus, how crypto’s professor coins stack up to the rest of the market

Plus, unpacking the correlation (or lack thereof) between bitcoin and the US presidential election

Plus, what we’re learning from the latest raft of 13F filings

Plus, what the CPI report really says

Plus, did airdrops ruin altcoin summer before it even started?

Plus, a clutch end to a Maker lawsuit