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Blueprint founder wants people to have room for mistakes in DeFi

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has long been a magnet for traders seeking sky-high yields and stomach-turning risks. Speaking to TheStreet Roundtable, Nic Roberts-Huntley, founder and CEO of Blueprint, said that the sector is evolving beyond its speculative roots. He highlighted his firm's approach to building a “sustainable business” that delivers attractive yet measured returns to users. “You either have those who just want to run maximum risk — pure risk capital, if it goes to zero, it is what it is,” Roberts-Huntley said. “That’s not what we do. We want to build a really big, sustainable business. And we…

DeFiJan 17

Dollar dominance can’t be manufactured

This is a segment from The Breakdown newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. “The dollar is always going to be the reserve currency. Anyway, for a long time.” — Jerome Powell When the price of oil suddenly quadrupled in 1973, Saudi Arabia was wholly unprepared for the billions of dollars that started flooding in. Strictly speaking, the money never actually made it “into” the Kingdom: Global buyers of Saudi oil sent their payments to accounts at Citibank and JPMorgan in New York — where the money sat idle because Saudi finance officials barely knew how to move it, let alone…

RegulationJan 17

Kazakhstan President signs laws aimed and promoting fintech and crypto

Two pieces of legislation signed by Kazakhstan’s head of state are going to relax rules for cryptocurrency transactions in the Central Asia nation. Besides updating banking regulations, the laws aim to promote the integration of new financial technologies and digital assets in the country’s economy. Kazakhstan’s leader approves laws regulating crypto turnover President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed Kazakhstan’s long-awaited laws “On Banks and Banking Activities” and “On Amendments and Supplements to Certain Legislative Acts on the Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, Communications, and Bankruptcy.” Prepared by the Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, the acts…

LegalJan 17

KB Kookmin Card’s Revolutionary Patent Filing

In a significant move for mainstream cryptocurrency adoption, South Korean financial giant KB Kookmin Card has filed a groundbreaking patent application for a hybrid digital asset payment technology. This innovation, reported by Newsis in Seoul, South Korea, on April 10, 2025, aims to seamlessly merge blockchain-based digital assets with traditional credit card infrastructure. Consequently, this development could fundamentally reshape how consumers interact with both fiat and cryptocurrency for daily transactions. Decoding the Hybrid Digital Asset Payment Technology KB Kookmin Card’s proposed system introduces a novel bridge between decentralized finance and conventional banking. The core technology links a user’s existing blockchain…

ExchangesJan 17

Meteora, Jupiter, Uniswap, Pump.fun, Hyperliquid, and Lido Lead Top DeFi Protocols by Total Fee Revenues Generated in 2025

Data released today by market analyst OKX Wallet revealed the top DeFi protocols by total fee revenues generated last year. The analysis identified top decentralized finance platforms leading in fee revenue creation in 2025, with various decentralized applications surging in revenue growth while transaction costs decreased drastically. Fee revenue generated through various DeFi trading activities in decentralized protocols is typically a crucial indicator showing decentralized protocols’ economic health and real-world utility. Such fees reveal revenue collected from customers for executing transactions, providing liquidity, or using various DeFi functions. Meteora just topped DeFi in total fees over the past year. What…

DeFiJan 17

Over 80% of Russians are aware of cryptocurrency

A sizable majority of Russians are well aware of cryptocurrency, and close to half of those with knowledge would like to have a wallet, a new survey has shown. According to Russia’s largest bank, which carried out the study, the results are a clear indication that Russian citizens favor the legalization of the digital assets market. Most Russians know about cryptocurrency, with many ready to invest in it Some 83% of the respondents in the poll, conducted by Sber Analytics, the research arm of Russia’s biggest bank by assets, are familiar with the term “cryptocurrency,” announced a high-ranking Sber executive.…

RegulationJan 17

Goldman Sachs CEO says CLARITY Act ‘has a long way to go‘

David Solomon, CEO of banking giant Goldman Sachs, has weighed in on the pending digital asset market structure legislation, action on which was recently postponed by the US Senate Banking Committee. In a Thursday earnings call discussing the company’s fourth quarter results for 2025, Solomon said many people at Goldman Sachs were “extremely focused” on issues including the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act in the US Congress due to its potential impact on tokenization and stablecoins. A markup of the bill scheduled for Thursday was postponed after Coinbase said it would no longer support the legislation as written. In…

LegalJan 17

Binance Wallet unlocks in-app leveraged crypto futures trading with Aster team-up

Binance Wallet unveiled a feature allowing users to trade leveraged crypto futures bets directly while avoiding the risk of holding coins on a centralized exchange such as Binance itself, the industry's largest by volume traded. Following an agreement with Aster, the second-largest decentralized perpetuals platform, users are able to trade directly through the wallet while retaining complete control of their coins, Binance said Wednesday. The move reflects growing user demand for blending the speed of centralized finance (CeFi) with the control of decentralized finance (DeFi). Users want seamless trading without the risks of holding coins on exchanges, a danger highlighted…

ExchangesJan 17

Bitcoin, blockchain should form Pakistan’s new financial rail, minister says

Pakistan sees Bitcoin and digital assets as the backbone of a new financial rail for its 240 million citizens, a senior official said at the Bitcoin MENA Conference, signaling a shift toward formal regulation of crypto markets. Bilal Bin Saqib said on Tuesday that Pakistan can no longer rely on traditional economic models, but needs “a new engine,” citing digital assets. The minister said during a roundtable in Abu Dhabi: “We see Bitcoin, digital assets, and blockchain not just as speculation but as infrastructure. Not as noise, but as a foundation of a new financial rail for the global south.”…

RegulationJan 17

Crypto developer protections don't belong in market structure bill, senators say

The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act would weaken federal money transmitter rules and should not be included in crypto market structure legislation, the U.S. senators running the body's Judiciary Committee said in a letter to the Senate Banking Committee. Section 604 of the Banking Committee's market structure bill, which aims to protect software developers from criminal liability if third parties misuse their products, would "weaken" federal laws around unlicensed money transmitter businesses, wrote Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin, respectively the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. "The Senate Judiciary Committee — which has jurisdiction over Title 18…

LegalJan 17