Happy Thursday, advisors! In today’s newsletter, David Lawant, head of research at Anchorage Digital reviews crypto’s evolving role in 401(k)s as regulatory clarity is poised to open up investment. Then, in Ask an Expert, Kevin Tam answers questions about crypto adoption around the world and looks at the latest 13F filings. Good reading. Modernizing the […]
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A Florida man accused of running what is arguably the largest crypto-linked Ponzi scheme involving $328 million has been arrested, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Christopher Alexander Delgado, 34, of Apopka, Florida, was taken into custody on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud and money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
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Circle ( CRCL ), issuer of the USDC stablecoin, continues to rise, now 45% higher in less than two sessions following its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. The move snapped what had been a brutal 80% reduction from record hits last year. While the company delivered strong growth in USDC supply, the stock’s outsized reaction
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MARA Holdings shares surged 17% after the bitcoin mining firm on Thursday announced a partnership with Starwood Capital Group to build large data centers across its existing US sites. The deal will convert select MARA locations, many of which were originally developed for Bitcoin mining, into facilities serving enterprise cloud and artificial intelligence customers. Starwood,
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The crypto industry’s stablecoin operations, such as the arrangement between issuer Circle and leading exchange Coinbase, could be under severe pressure in the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s newly proposed set of stablecoin rules. Even as OCC chief Jonathan Gould testified before the US Senate on topics that included crypto oversight on
At first glance, the Ethereum Foundation’s recently released “Strawmap” sounds like something only a protocol researcher could immediately understand. It’s dense, diagram-heavy, and packed with references to forks, zkEVMs, and data availability sampling. But beneath the technical language is a far simpler story: Ethereum — the second-largest blockchain with a market cap of more than
Real estate mogul Grant Cardone is preparing to tokenize his firm’s $5 billion real estate portfolio, the latest real estate heavyweight to explore blockchain-based ownership. In a Thursday X filing, the investor said Cardone Capital plans to tokenize its holdings to provide investors with “safety and liquidity in the secondary markets.” He added that the
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On Thursday, Congress took a small but significant step toward ensuring that America remains the best place in the world to build. Bipartisan legislation — the Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act of 2026 — would protect software developers from being swept up under Penal Code § 1960, a statute designed for money laundering, not
In a 48-hour period at the end of January, the two largest decentralized social protocols underwent major management changes. Farcaster moved management of its protocol, flagship client and leading Base launchpad, Clanker, to its primary infrastructure provider, Neynar. At the same time, Lens Protocol announced its transition from Avara (the team behind Aave) to Mask
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Thursday outlined a roadmap to protect the blockchain from the long-term risks of quantum computing — a move that comes shortly after the Ethereum Foundation established a dedicated post-quantum research team to study the issue. Although practical quantum computers capable of breaking modern cryptography do not yet exist, they may
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