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The Amex offers up to 4% bitcoin back, but the deal is a bit ironic considering crypto’s goals

The new airdrop campaign reaches 50,000 users, setting the stage for Spark’s 10-year token distribution

Privy said it would still operate as an “independent product” despite the acquisition

Franklin Templeton’s Roger Bayston tells Blockworks that stablecoins and market funds ‘complement’ each other

Machine learning model updates have helped address the problem, according to Coinbase’s VP of product

Chainalysis, Kraken, Fireblocks and Gemini are on the list, but we might not see a redo of Circle’s success

The startup should try to “redefine how crypto and media interact,” Mert Mumtaz said

The event, cohosted with FWB, helps devs accelerate their World mini apps and find funding along the way

Circle’s stock is expected to price at $31 and will go public on the NYSE Thursday

One lets everyone see your trades. The other hides everything. Which design wins in crypto’s next perps arena?

The stablecoin issuer now plans to offer 32 million Class A common stock shares at a price of up to $28 each

Bitget’s L2 is undergoing a leadership change and will be helmed by Colin Goltra, formerly the blockchain’s chief growth officer

The funding was spread out across 61 rounds, a slight dip in both number of rounds and total funding in comparison to other months

Visa executive says every financial institution should have a stablecoin strategy in 2025

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

Strive board member Ben Werkman expects thousands of firms to hold BTC, if only “to protect themselves”

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