Rollup-in-a-Box Startup Caldera Raises $15M From Peter Thiel’s Venture Fund As Ethereum’s Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera’s “Metalayer” aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.

Dakota Emerges From Stealth to Provide Bank-Like Services to Crypto Depositors The crypto-native company, which says it is attempting to right the wrongs of centralized lenders like Celsius, emerged from stealth on Wednesday.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP and NEAR Help Push Index Upward XRP and NEAR lead today’s CoinDesk 20 gains with 5.6% and 3.3% increases

Crypto Exchange D8X to Bring Tool for Trading Polymarket Contracts With Leverage D8X Co-Founder Caspar Sauter explained in an interview that leverage is the missing part of the prediction markets economy, as it allows for higher market efficiency.

Ether’s BTC-Denominated Price Flirts With 9-Year-Long Trendline Support: Technical Analysis The trendline connecting 2016 and 2017 lows has consistently offered support since January.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Regains $66,000, but Mt. Gox Selling Pressure Persists The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 24, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Cross-Chain Service DeBridge to Issue Governance Token, Completes Activity Snapshot The cross-chain service is popularly used to transfer funds between Ethereum, Base and Solana blockchains.

AgriDex Settles First Agricultural Trade on Solana Blockchain AgriDex, a Solana-based marketplace aiming to bring the global agricultural market on-chain by tokenizing various crops has settled its first agricultural trade on the Solana blockchain, it told CoinDesk on Wednesday.

Riot Platforms’ Acquisition of Block Mining Makes Sense, JPMorgan Says Riot will have the second-largest capacity among U.S. listed bitcoin miners following the acquisition, and the deal serves as the latest evaluation of underdeveloped power assets, the report said.

Bitcoin ETFs Break Inflow Streak as Traders Look to Trump’s Nashville Appearance for Volatility Bitwise’s BITB led with $70 million in net outflows, followed by Ark’s ARKB at $52 million and Grayscale’s GBTC at $27 million.

Ferrari to Extend Cryptocurrency Payments to Europe: Reuters

Mt. Gox Moves $3B Bitcoin to New Wallet, $130M to Bitstamp Exchange The defunct exchange has moved billions of dollars worth of bitcoin over two days.

Iris Energy Is Positioned to Become One of the Biggest Listed Bitcoin Miners: Canaccord The broker raised its price target for the shares to $15 from $12 and reiterated its buy rating.

What Does Kamala Harris’ (Presumptive) Nomination Mean for Crypto This Election? Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, after President Joe Biden abruptly announced he was withdrawing from the race. With her assent to the top of the party ticket comes questions about how a potential Harris Administration might differ from the Biden Administration’s app…

Hex Trust Receives In-Principle Approval from Singapore’s MAS For Major Payment Institution License The Major Payment Institution license would allow for the company to offer regulated Digital Payment Token services, such as custody.

Coinbase Narrows Demand for SEC Chair Gensler’s Crypto Messages Coinbase Inc. (COIN) is going after internal chatter at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that may shed light on its pursuit of cryptocurrency exchanges as illegal enterprises – including Chair Gary Gensler’s own communications – but the scope of its latest request filed on Tuesday has been dialed back after resistance from a fed…

BlackRock’s $500M Tokenized Fund Pitches for Ethena’s RWA Investment Plan Ethena’s proposal to allocate funds to tokenized real-world assets for yield follows similar actions by crypto lender MakerDAO and Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum’s development organization.

Ether ETF Volumes Top $1B on Day One Investors traded over $1 billion worth of shares – or ether {{ETH}} – of the freshly launched ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers on the first day of trading, data from Bloomberg shows.

Spot Ether ETFs See $600M in Volume In First Half Day of Trading The eight recently launched spot ethereum {{ETH}} exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted nearly $600 million worth of volume in the first half of their first day of availability, according to data from Bloomberg.

Bitcoin Slips to Near $65K as Mt. Gox Creditors Receive Assets on Kraken The imminent distribution of nearly $9 billion worth of bitcoin and bitcoin cash to Mt. Gox creditors have been a major overhang on crypto markets, with investors concerned about how much of those assets will be sold.