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Dragonfly Capital closed its fourth fund at $650 million this week, the same size as its 2022 vehicle, raised into a venture market Fortune calls a “mass extinction event.” The headline reads like a vote of confidence: institutional capital returning, crypto winter thawing, alt season loading. But peel back one layer and the picture warps. Dragonfly’s partners describe a pivot toward fintech rails and tokenized real-world assets, with the expectation of fewer “native app tokens.” This isn’t a blanket “alts to the moon” signal. It’s a bet that value accrues to businesses that don’t need tokens at all, or to…

A group of US lawmakers is uniting to prevent the US central bank from ever issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), warning that proposed legislation only delays it until 2031. “We write to you to express the dire need to prohibit a Central Bank Digital Currency from ever happening in the United States,” US Congressman Michael Cloud wrote in a letter on Friday addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and US Senate majority leader John Thune, joined by 28 other members of Congress in support. Source: Ralph Norman It follows a proposed amendment to the Federal Reserve Act that…

TL;DR: Centrifuge and its native token $CFG surged more than 71% in just minutes after being listed on the Binance exchange. The price moved from approximately $0.12 to around $0.20. Binance enabled $CFG trading in three pairs: $CFG/$USDT, $CFG/$USDC and $CFG/TRY, with the opening scheduled at 13:00 UTC. Centrifuge recorded one of the most abrupt price spikes of the day after Binance announced the addition of its native token, $CFG, to its spot trading platform. Within minutes, the token climbed more than 70%, moving from prices near $0.12 to reach $0.20. Its volume grew explosively and surpassed $242 million, a…

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Joachim Nagel, President of the German Central Bank (Bundesbank) and member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council, said that issuing a euro-pegged stablecoin could both reduce costs in cross-border payments and be an important tool against the risk of “dollarization” created by dollar-based stablecoins. Speaking at the German-American Chamber of Commerce, Nagel emphasized that euro-denominated stablecoins could offer individuals and companies a low-cost and fast way to make international payments. According to Nagel, the replacement of a country’s local currency with dollar stablecoins effectively means the dollarization of that economy. This, he argues, could weaken the effectiveness of…

Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said centralized crypto exchanges have “zero motive” to assist terrorists after a US court dismissed a lawsuit accusing the exchange of facilitating terrorist financing. In a post on X, Zhao argued that the economics of crypto trading make such activity illogical for exchanges. “There are absolutely zero (0) motive for any CEX to have anything to do with terrorists,” Zhao wrote, adding that such actors are unlikely to generate trading revenue and may only deposit funds briefly before withdrawing them. The comments followed a ruling by the US District Court for the Southern District…

Key takeaways Customer support remains a significant challenge in DeFi due to the lack of traditional support structures. Yearn Finance conducts due diligence on new strategies to ensure safety before implementation. UST was identified as structurally unsound by Yearn, demonstrating foresight in risk management. Stablecoins backed by governance tokens are unlikely to succeed long-term due to inherent risks. Yearn’s strategy involves curating yield-generating opportunities across DeFi protocols with a focus on risk management. The DeFi market is expected to recover and grow in late 2023 and 2024. The recent mass liquidation event highlighted vulnerabilities in DeFi vault management. Turning vaults…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wants there to be fewer moving parts for aspiring network validators to juggle. He recently commented on a Nimbus “Unified Node” pull request from the Status-im team, which would combine two separate Ethereum software components into a single, easy-to-run program. “Running two daemons and getting them to talk to each other is far more difficult than running one daemon,” Buterin wrote on X. “Our goal is to make the self-sovereign way of using Ethereum have good UX. In many cases, that means running your own node. The current approach to running your own node adds needless…

World Liberty Financial is tapping real-world asset specialist Securitize to help tokenize loan interests tied to the Trump International Hotel and Resort in the Maldives. Rather than direct equity in the properties, investors will be able to buy tokens tied to loan revenue, according to a Wednesday announcement timed for the privately held company’s Mar-A-Lago crypto conference. World Liberty Financial is turning to one of the largest companies in digital securities. Securitize has worked with major asset managers such as BlackRock, Hamilton Lane and Apollo Global Markets to issue tokenized funds and private credit on public blockchains. BlackRock and Cathie…

A bloc of House Republicans is threatening to sink a bipartisan Senate housing package unless lawmakers replace a temporary restriction on a US central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a permanent ban. The dispute centers on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, released last week by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill would temporarily bar the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC, but that restriction would expire on December 31, 2030. Why Are These Lawmakers Insisting on a Permanent CBDC Ban? However, that sunset clause has drawn opposition from an 18-member group of House Republicans. The lawmakers warned that…