Empire Newsletter
Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi and 6MV’s Mike Dudas discuss the recent “staid and rational” behavior of crypto markets
“We’re not really doing anything controversial,” said co-founder Zak Folkman at Permissionless last week
Walter Hessert, Head of Strategy at Paxos, told Blockworks that firms are recognizing a need for stablecoins
The $135 million raise shows that TradFi giants are serious about crypto adoption
Crossover’s CEO discusses institutional interest and how over-the-counter (OTC) trading has picked up in crypto
In a new letter, Gemini alleges that the CFTC’s DOE had ulterior motives for 2022 suit
If we get an altcoin season, it’ll be focused on tokens deemed “ fundamentally valuable enough for traditional public money and capital” to get involved with
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
