February, 2025

February, 2025

The Daily: Trump to tap a16z’s Brian Quintenz for CFTC chief, Elon Musk-related memecoin dumps and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons....

Liquity Stability Pool urges users to close positions after team reveals ‘potential issue’
Withdrawals of the platform's USD-pegged stablecoin BOLD and user's staked positions haven't been impacted, the team said. ...

President Trump swaps BTC-e operator convicted of money laundering, Alexander Vinnik, in prisoner exchange with Russia
The former operator of the BTC-e crypto exchange was charged with violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws and pleaded guilty in 2024....

Plume Network and Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin to tokenize $40 million worth of RWAs
Tie-up is meant to tokenize Brazilian asset-backed securities, consumer credit, corporate debt, and accounts receivable....

Franklin Templeton extends FOBXX fund to Solana, marking its latest blockchain extension
FOBXX, which invests in U.S. government debt, launched on Stellar and trades on Coinbase’s Base, Aptos and Avalanche as well as Sui....

BNB gains despite a wider crypto market downturn as memecoin prices plummet
BNB has seen strong gains despite a broader cryptocurrency market downturn, as major tokens like bitcoin and ether experience price declines....

‘I smell opportunity,’ Bitwise CIO says amid retail and institutional crypto sentiment dichotomy
In a year or two, the transformation in the crypto market will be “self-evident” and “overwhelming,” Matt Hougan predicted....

Offchain Labs releases Arbitrum BoLD protocol on mainnet for ‘permissionless validation’
This system replaces the previously allow-listed validators on Arbitrum with a permissionless mechanism, opening up security participation....

Galaxy and Ripple answered MoonPay’s scramble for $160 million amid Trump memecoin frenzy
MoonPay, the exclusive onramp to Moonshot, said it onboarded 750,000 new customers following the memecoin launch....

Bitcoin struggles with heightened volatility as US tariffs and Fed policy fuel market uncertainty: analysts
Bitcoin’s price remains volatile as institutional investors accumulate while retail traders remain bearish amid wider market uncertainty....

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