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The fallout from the 2022 crisis has pushed the industry to innovate. One of the most promising developments has been the rise of tokenized money market funds. These funds off...

"We don't wish the burden of unnecessary subpoenas on anyone," a spokesperson for Uniswap told CoinDesk.

The Nigerian government’s long-running hostility towards the crypto industry seems to be abating. Or is it? Noelle Acheson looks at how the recent licensing of two crypto exchanges in Nigeria may not represent the shift we’re hoping for.

The Nigerian government’s long-running hostility towards the crypto industry seems to be abating. Or is it? Noelle Acheson looks at how the recent licensing of two crypto exch...

Catizen, a Telegram-based puzzle game, has announced its token will launch on September 20 following a delay that pushed its CATI token—which will be minted on The Open Network (TON)—out from its original July target. On Thursday, crypto exchange Bybit posted that it will list CATI for spot trading on September 20. Catizen shared the news through its official channels, as well, confirming the date in the process. Tokens can only be spot traded once the token generation event (TGE) takes place, s...

The Eigen Foundation, the organization behind Ethereum restaking protocol EigenLayer, is launching another airdrop rewards wave.  In a Thursday post, the Foundation said that a total of approximately 86 million tokens will be released from September 17 in its “stakedrop” and go to users and contributors who have actively helped the project. The “Season 2 stakedrop” will dish out 70 million tokens to those who staked and operated nodes. Ecosystem partners and the EigenLayer community will receive...

With staking becoming a reality for Bitcoin's own layer-1, you’ll just as soon be able to trade liquid staking tokens on Bitcoin layer-2 networks. Zest Protocol, a Bitcoin decentralized finance (DeFi) service available on Stacks, announced the launch of BTCz on Thursday—a BTC equivalent that will earn yield for holders through the fast-rising Babylon staking system. “The BTC yield comes from Babylon staking or other BTC staking protocols that might launch in the future,” said Tycho Onnasch, co-f...