Bitcoin Miner Marathon Mined $15M Worth Kaspa Tokens to Diversify Revenue The miner has mined 93 million worth of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.

Crypto Insiders Hope for Possible Mention in Biden-Trump Debate This U.S. presidential election has been the first where cryptocurrencies have come up as a major policy issue, and the industry is lobbying (and bracing for) the possibility that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump may bring it up when they face off in a Thursday debate.

The Protocol: Blast’s $3B Airdrop and Bitcoin’s Mt. Gox Moment In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we’re covering $100 million of fundraisings, project updates from Solana and other teams, complaints over LayerZero’s “pay-to-claim” airdrop and nervousness surrounding the Mt. Gox bitcoin distribution.

NFTs Are Dead (But They’re Changing Everything) Forget million-dollar profile pictures, the real innovation of NFTs is ownership rights. This technology still has potential to transform industries, says Layne Nadeau, Founder and CEO of Nval, a pricing and analytics platform for NFTs and other assets.

Crypto Giants Notch Wins in Expensive Quest to Sway U.S. Politics – Without Mentioning Crypto In politics, money talks, but the donors and organizers behind crypto’s massive U.S. campaign fund don’t. The digital assets industry has amassed a juggernaut of campaign finance, a $169 million fund that’s capable of steering many contests this year and could decide the makeup of next year’s Congress. It’s already scored more than 20 victories,…

How to Mitigate the Unique Risks of Tokenized Assets Particula’s Senior Vice President of Business Development, Axel Jester, says the growing complexity of tokenized assets demands robust risk management and continuous lifecycle monitoring.

Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase The bitcoin was seized from Silk Road vendor.

ZynCoin Meme Token Patches Things Up With Tobacco Giant Philip Morris The Fortune 500 firm initially demanded an end to the crypto named for its nicotine pouch, but backed down after realizing there was no entity to sue.

Blast Token Debuts at $3B Value as 17% of Supply Airdropped to Early Adopters Blast is the second largest layer 2 network with $1.6 billion in TVL.

Ora, Aiming to ‘Unlock Design Space for AI Dapps,’ Raises $20M The project, founded in 2022, says it aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its “on-chain AI oracle.”

U.S. State Department Offers New $5M Reward for Missing ‘Cryptoqueen’ OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova went missing in Athens in 2017.

Animoca Looks to Go Public in Hong Kong or Middle East in 2025: Report The prominent Web3 investor has held talks with investment banks, but is yet to finalize an advisor.

Investcorp and Securitize Launch Fund Tokenization Partnership The partnership aims to create on-chain Real World Assets based on Investcorp’s funds.

Many EU Crypto Entities May Not Know the Correct Deadline for Sustinability Disclosures Under MiCA: Risk Analyst Several crypto asset service providers (CASPS) in the European Union (EU) may not know the correct deadline to make sustainability disclosures reflecting their environmental footprint despite a clarification made by the bloc’s securities regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

First Mover Americas: Germany Moves 750 BTC, Altcoins Bleed Liquidity The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 26, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Ether Spot ETFs to Attract $15B of Net Inflows in First 18 Months: Bitwise Investors are likely to allocate funds to ETFs in proportion to the relative market caps of bitcoin and ether, the report said.

Hydrogen Technology Execs Jailed for HYDRO Price Manipulation CEO Michael Kane and Shane Hampton, head of financial engineering, were sentenced to a total of more than six years in prison.

Crypto Execution-Only Platform Crossover Markets Raises $12M

Renewed Bullishness Expected After Bitcoin, Ether’s $10B Options Expiry on Friday Over 25% of options are set to expire “in the money,” Deribit’s Luuk Strijers told CoinDesk.

Cardano Unfazed By Failed DDoS Attack Targeting Staked ADA No downtime was observed as a Cardano developer managed to attack the attacker and take back some funds.