In the land of the blind, the DOJ is king

After a technical proposal to improve Ethereum wallets met with some opposition, a familiar figure swooped in last week to devise an alternative.

Crypto-focused PACs are shaping the outcome of certain key Congressional elections.

Liquity V2 will allow borrowers to set their borrowing costs, a novel approach in DeFi, and plans to pay the lion’s share of protocol revenues back to liquidity providers.

The new feature from Colony Lab, a developer and project incubator in the Avalanche blockchain ecosystem, called “liquid vesting,” lets early investors, such as founders or VC backers, sell their tokens before their vesting period is over.

The state’s investment board bought 94,562 shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in the first quarter of the year.

The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding close to $75 million.

J. Christopher Giancarlo, a former chief of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined the board of directors for the firm that issues the PayPal stablecoin.

The company aims to broaden access to the $1 trillion reinsurance industry, making it more efficient and transparent with blockchain technology.

Australia moves to approve its first spot bitcoin ETFs this year, joining the US and Hong Kong in offering regulated Bitcoin funds. Approval could unlock billions in institutional investment.