OP nears full VC unlock as ICP, ETHFI, LDO, GRT, SAND clear vesting
Six large-cap tokens have already walked through their full investor unlocks — Optimism is the next notable name to cross the line, with its final investor tranche due May 31, 2026.
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Six large-cap tokens have already walked through their full investor unlocks — Optimism is the next notable name to cross the line, with its final investor tranche due May 31, 2026.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted Paxos, a blockchain-native financial infrastructure company…
Survivors will face violent price swings as the sector consolidates the way every prior capital-intensive wave has, with fresh entrants replacing the casualties.
NYSE parent ICE already works with OKX on oil perps and has a Polymarket stake — Sprecher's open framing of the talks reframes the lobbying as market-entry prep rather than a regulatory ambush.
The SEC has granted Paxos approval to operate as the first blockchain-native clearing agency in the United States…
The deal lands as a joint bid with Korea Investment & Securities, pairing a global exchange's capital with a top domestic brokerage — a blueprint for how foreign crypto firms are entering the…
OKX has confirmed a $53 million investment to acquire a 20% stake in Coinone, one of South Korea's established licensed…
Ethereum's largest holders are making a decisive move against the trend. Wallets holding at least 100,000 ETH have…
The proposal pushes a 10-point technical review checklist across every Aave deployment — turning ad-hoc asset onboarding into something closer to an audit gate than a forum vote.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has publicly defended crypto privacy-enhancing technologies, arguing they represent…
A $30.3M deposit is noise on Strategy's 800K-coin balance sheet — the 84% Polymarket print is the story, because the market is now treating a sale as the base case, not the tail risk.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly reiterated the Trump administration's firm opposition to a central bank…
Two stories that move the same tape: AI capital keeps concentrating at the top, and a major TradFi issuer just opened a spot ETF on a non-Ethereum alt — the institutional plumbing keeps widening.
Dell's stock has surged 80% since May 8th, when President Trump publicly told people to "go out and buy a Dell" — a…
The Treasury Secretary's reaffirmation crystallizes the administration's policy ceiling: the US will not build a retail central-bank settlement layer, narrowing the institutional on-ramp for any…
Galaxy Digital has unstaked 1 million HYPE tokens — valued at approximately $61.16 million — and has begun selling…
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin suffered a significant setback as its New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test…
Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude model family, has closed a funding round that values it at $965…
Dell Technologies has surged 57% since President Trump publicly told investors to buy the stock on May 8th, a run now…
The rotation is small in absolute terms but structurally telling: advisors who used to ask whether Bitcoin belongs in a portfolio are now asking how to engineer downside protection into it.