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GM Folks! Your Feb 17 headlines: - Doodles to launch its official coin DOOD on Solana - Tether.io buys minority stake in Juventus Football Club - Marinade Labs DAO proposes 'blocklisting' validators to combat Solana sandwich attacks - Coinbase partners with Aston Martin's Formula One team - Yuga Labs sells Meebits IP to prioritize BAYC and Otherside - Pumpdotfun launches mobile app - Bitcoin mining industry created over 31k jobs in the US - 600,000 new crypto tokens were launched last month - Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Wealth Fund buys $436 million in Bitcoin ETFs - Safemoon to launch a memecoin on Solana - Argentinian President, Milei faces charges over LIBRA token scandal Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/gwirp_WJ

Here's everything you need to know across the industry today. The Feb 13 headlines: - Plume Network and MB | Mercado Bitcoin to tokenize $40 million worth of RWAs - Offchain Labs' BoLD [Bounded Liquidity Delay] goes live, making Arbitrum more secure and decentralized - Liquity Protocol asks users to close positions amidst a "potential issue" - Phantom resolves service outage issue, steps are being taken to prevent future outages - FTDA tokenized money market fund (FOBXX) goes live on Solana Foundation - AAVE added over $20 billion in net deposits in the past year - X account of World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Witkoff's hacked to promote fake Barron Trump memecoin - Robinhood crypto trading volume surges 400% to $70 billion in Q4, crypto revenue jumps 700% YoY - Matthew Sigel says state-level Bitcoin reserve bills could instigate $23 billion influx - Bitpanda expands to the UK with FCA approval - Elon Musk says US government spending can be reduced by about $1 trillion or more

Gm! Feb 11 headlines: - Story public mainnet to launch on Thursday, February 13 - Over 450k new tokens have been launched on Solana Foundation in the past 7 days - Proton wallet rolls out self-custodial Bitcoin wallet to all users - Animoca Brands co-leads Hivello's latest funding round - Trust Wallet adds support to the XRP Ledger - Sei Network registers 258k active addresses and 541k transactions in 24 hours - Coinbase annualized GDP crosses $1 billion, with @AerodromeFi being the biggest contributor - Saudi Arabia allocates $14.9 billion to develop AI - Litecoin flips Shiba Inu on market cap front - Donald Trump says he doesn't see JD Vance as his successor - MicroStrategy adds Bitcoin worth $742 million to its stash; total holdings up to 478,740 BTC` - Elon Musk-led group makes a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI; Sam Altman responds, "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want" Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/gwirp_WJ

Your Monday Headlines - ChainOpera AI unveils white paper and launches the CO-AI Alliance - Solana-based social graph protocol Tapestry raises $5.75 million in Series A funding round - BTC surpasses $109k to attain new ATH - $100 million worth shorts have been liquidated from the market over the past four hours - Newly-launched $MELANIA and $TRUMP memecoins soar in value on the heels of Trump's inauguration - Phantom registers 10 million transactions in a single day; Despite a brief hiccup, stability on the platform has been re-achieved - Illicit use of blockchains accounts for merely 0.4% of total crypto volume - DonaldTrump's World Liberty Financial address buys 4 ENS domain names — WorldLiberty.eth, trumpcoin.eth, erictrump.eth, and barrontrump.eth - TON-based DeFi lender EVAA protocol unlocks new milestone — $80 million in total value supplied - The SEC sues Nova Labs over unregistered crypto securities - Crypato billionaire Justin sun tron invests another $45 million in World Liberty Financial SUBSCRIBE: https://lnkd.in/gwirp_WJ

Top Headlines - Bitcoin surpasses $101k - Phantom raises $150 million in its Series C round at a $3 billion valuation; Sequoia Capital and Paradigm co-led the round - BurwickLaw and Wolf Popper file a federal class action lawsuit against Pump Dot Fun creators on behalf of crypto investors - Tether.io launches USDT0 to foster cross-chain transactions - Coinbase reintroduces BTC loans for US users via Morpho - Dawn Internet ties up with Helium to power a fully community-owned Internet - Bitwise Asset Management recent report predicts a bear case price of SOL at $2,318.90 and a bull case price of $6,636.88 by 2030 - DePIN project Genesys has distributed 54+ TB of decentralized storage across 318 nodes to date - Solana Foundation's inflation reduction proposal goes live - Ambani-led Jio partners with Polygon Labs to offer web3 solutions to Jio users - Idle launches on-chain private credit vault on Optimism Foundation - Donald Trump is expected to make crypto a national priority in upcoming executive order Subscribe: https://lnkd.in/gymdAUu8

Today's headlines - Thailand is looking to ban Polymarket - VanEck files prospectus for 'Onchain Economy' ETF - Dubai is looking to construct a 17-story 'Crypto Tower' - Tether.io plans to build a 'Tether Tower' in San Salvador - SEC appeals Ripple case ruling in an attempt to reverse the XRP classification decision - US federal court orders the return of 94,463 stolen BTC [worth $95 billion] to Bitfinex - BitMEX fined another $100 million over Bank Secrecy Act violations - Donald Trump's SEC is considering to put an end to crypto enforcement - Germany's Boerse Stuttgart, the second-largest stock exchange, now has full licensing to custody BTC - South Korean regulators to implement new crypto laws in late 2025 - Malaysia's PM wants the central bank and treasury to study Bitcoin, other crypto assets - Hong Kong courts can now serve tokenized legal notices to wallet holders associated with crimes SUBSCRIBE: https://lnkd.in/gwirp_WJ

Mentally it feels like 2024 still, but lo, the year has changed already. While we’re all catching up, crypto is already speeding ahead With regulators starting to play nice, dev bros coding like it’s a hackathon, AI sliding into blockchain DMs, and miners moonlighting as compute hubs, this year is looking like one for the books Here’s a quick rundown of what to expect in 2025 https://lnkd.in/gJUmSqa2

Breaking: Sonic mainnet goes live Sonic Labs has rolled out its EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain Fantom and the FTM token will officially transition to Sonic, and the S token The new network will offer boosted incentives to devs and can process up to 10,000 TPS https://lnkd.in/gvtXvYkJ

Here's your dose of top headlines: - MEGA ETH raises $10 million in under three minutes via Cobie’s Echo platform - Meteora team confirms that they have no plans for a TGE this year or in the near future - Registration for ISLAND's MocaDrop by Moca Network is now open - Bonk Bot integrates MoonPay, enabling users to fund their accounts via Google Pay and Apple Pay - Grow compound emerges as the 4th largest lending protocol, with over $3 billion in deposits - Ethereum liquid restaking TVL surges from $284 million to $17 billion this year - Rapper, Drake's X account was hacked and used to promote a Solana memecoin - MicroStrategy secures Nasdaq 100 inclusion - USDT supply on Ethereum jumps from $55 billion to $75 billion in one month - Galaxy appoints Alex Ioffe, former Point72 Exec, as CFO - Bitcoin's price registers a fresh all-time high above $106,000 - ETH breaches the $4k threshold - 89.5k traders liquidated for more than $300 million over the past 24-hours Keep an eye out on our news section to stay in sync with the latest happenings https://blocmates.com/news

GM! Happy Thursday! Here's your dose of top headlines: - Balancer rolls out its v3 upgrade - Frax Finance is developing a tech stack focussing on AI agents - Decentralized gaming project TreasureDAO's mainnet goes live - Crypto travel platform Travala.com launches BTC and AVA reserve - Ubisoft, Arbitrum to put to sea ‘Captain Laserhawk’ on December 18 - Active loans on EULER finance are up ~40x over the past 90 days - Aggregate stablecoin market cap surpasses $200 billion for the first time - Incoming president Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial divests $1 million each in AAVE and LINK - Vancouver's city council passes a motion to explore making the city "Bitcoin-friendly" - Bitwise Asset Management says Coinbase could pave its path into the S&P 500 - Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck, Inc. enters Wall Street with Nasdaq listing Keep an eye out on our news section to stay in sync with the latest happenings https://blocmates.com/news