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Upshift is being spun out of August, which raised $10 million earlier this month

How Brian Armstrong’s vision for a “PayPal for Bitcoin” evolved into Coinbase, one of the most influential companies in crypto

Paradigm’s Charlie Noyes thinks that the attention on stablecoins is well-deserved after Mesh’s $82 million round

Is the finance world becoming “more liquid”? Experts give their takes as TradFi players consider new moves

According to a legal filing, Galaxy Digital helped boost the price of LUNA while quietly selling its tokens

What Grayscale’s watching going into the second quarter and why crypto had a rough start to the year

Movement Labs is once again at the core of some criticism after it declined to name a market maker offboarded by Binance

The forthcoming stablecoin was praised by BitGo’s Mike Bleshe as an advancement in “institutional-ready digital assets”

Pantera’s Jiang thinks that AI is going to become as important to our everyday lives as the internet is today

“Every asset manager and bank doing ‘crypto’ is earning insane fees for putting things ‘onchain,'” read a slide from Meltem Demiror’s DAS talk

DAS panelists shared strong venture capital takeaways, from how big a raise should be to the role VCs play in the industry

“These guys have created the unlock for the first wave of assets that’s starting with real estate,” VanEck’s Wyatt Lonergan said

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier tells Blockworks that institutions have reached out about security in the wake of the Bybit attack

CEO Tanner Taddeo told Blockworks that institutions are looking to utilize stablecoins to make transfers cheaper, faster

Industry experts predict an institutional embrace of crypto, but warn of “stagnation,” bitcoin dominance and innovation slowdown

Empire co-host Santiago Santos makes the case that memecoins have actually helped push infra forward…just not in the way you think

Strobe will finish deploying its initial $150M by end of year while raising a second fund

The company has now acquired three Solana validator operators since its September pivot into Solana

Anthony Pompliano looks for folks who are running away from something rather than towards it

VC activity was slightly down month over month, according to TIE data

The chat function is still in beta for now

Moonrock Capital’s Simon Dedic thinks that we have to treat infra and consumer apps like the internet: build them side by side

Seismic, an encrypted blockchain, plans to release its developer testnet in a month

Ethereum Foundation shakes up leadership as internal rifts settle