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A new study by the National Cryptocurrency Association found that 55 million U.S. adults now use cryptocurrency, with 76% saying it positively impacts their lives. On April 2, the National Cryptocurrency Association released the largest-ever survey of American cryptocurrency holders. It showed that 21% of U.S. adults, or around 55 million people, are using digital assets. Conducted in partnership with Harris Poll, the report offers a fresh look at how crypto is being used across different demographics and income levels. Ownership skews younger, with 67% of holders under 45, but the study also found notable adoption among older Americans as…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) withdrew two pieces of crypto-related staff guidance on Friday, further streamlining its approach to crypto regulation. The first advisory rescinded on Friday was Staff Advisory No. 18-14, Advisory with Respect to Virtual Currency Derivative Product Listings. Originally published in May 2018, the advisory established guidelines for crypto-related derivatives, including requiring reporting firms to maintain “close coordination with [the] CFTC surveillance group” and establishing a large trader reporting threshold of five bitcoins (or the equivalent value for other cryptocurrencies), among other suggestions. On Friday, the CFTC published a letter saying that “additional staff experience”…

Bitcoin’s price over the past sixty minutes ranged from $96,318 to $97,286, with a market capitalization of $1.92 trillion and a 24-hour trade volume of $70.59 billion, while intraday trading spanned from $96,318 to $102,614. Tuesday’s dump follows the U.S. crypto czar telling the press the President asked him to “evaluate” a strategic bitcoin reserve. Bitcoin Bitcoin’s current price action reflects a clear bearish trend across multiple timeframes, with persistent selling pressure evident in the technical indicators. On the one-hour chart, bitcoin has been making lower highs and lower lows, struggling to reclaim the $98,500 to $100,000 resistance zone. The…

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. I’ve got a dose of optimistic news for you this morning: From a venture capital perspective, the first quarter wasn’t so bad! Preliminary data from PitchBook suggests that the quarter saw roughly $4.5 billion in VC spending, with half of that coming from Binance’s deal with Abu Dhabi’s MGX. To put that figure into context, we saw a little over $2 billion per quarter last year. If we continue at this pace — and I know it’s early to say this — we could see spending hit…

The IOTA Rebased protocol aims to enhance scalability, programmability, and decentralization while potentially integrating Move Smart Contracts and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility. To accelerate the implementation of the Rebased Protocol, IOTA launched the “Return of IOTA” campaign, featuring a 3 million IOTA token airdrop. IOTA co-founder Dominik Schiener dropped hints of what to expect soon within the ecosystem while reiterating the commitment to the roadmap and long-term vision. Using X, he reiterated that fundamentals have not changed, and neither has the strategy toward adoption ever been clearer. IOTA’s Dominik Schiener Hints At Something Major “Fundamentals are the same. Roadmap…

House Financial Services Committee chair French Hill (R-AR) said Monday that the personal cryptocurrency dealings of President Donald Trump and his family have made drafting legislation for the novel sector “more complicated,” in a rare rebuke of the president’s personal activities by a key member of congressional Republican leadership. Hill specifically named the president’s meme coin and stablecoin projects as two endeavors that have negatively impacted the work of lawmakers racing to create rules for the digital assets industry. “They have made our work more complicated,” Hill told reporters Monday, in reference to those projects. Since returning to power, Trump…

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The DeFi lending protocol Seamless, today announced the migration of its entire infrastructure to Morpho, a decentralized lending protocol managing over $500 million in liquidity on Coinbase-incubated Base and $2.4 billion on Ethereum. The transition, approved by the Seamless DAO in early 2025, transforms Seamless into a “platformless” DeFi venue built on Morpho’s permissionless infrastructure. “We’re using existing liquidity to fuel future product developments such as Leverage Tokens which tap into Base liquidity sources,” said Wes Frederickson, Seamless Co-Founder and CTO. “As the first to go fully platformless, we’re proving that less infrastructure means more value for borrowers. This is…

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. We finally have Circle’s S-1 and, honestly, it’s just as juicy as I had hoped. It looks like Circle, which plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker CRCL, is aiming for a valuation of around $4 billion to $5 billion. Some folks — including PitchBook’s Robert Le — have noted that it’s a rather low valuation. In Le’s case, he thinks it could be purposefully low. Coinbase, when it went public in 2021, kicked off trading with a nearly $100 billion valuation. Obviously,…

Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market took a turn for the worse over the weekend in price drops that have largely been blamed on Trump’s promised tariffs. I overheard a handful of X Spaces hosts sound the alarms about it on Monday, acting as though the bull market was over. But now that it’s Tuesday, things are already recovering. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been delayed, allowing bitcoin and some other cryptos to partially recover. As often happens, gaming tokens were harder hit. Immutable’s IMX token fell 14% from Sunday to Monday. Since then, it’s recouped a…