Steven Walgenbach

Tempo, the layer-1 stablecoin and payments-focused blockchain that was created by Stripe and Paradigm, has launched its public testnet.  According to the project’s announcement, anyone can “run a node or sync the chain,” as well as test out a variety of features.   Tempo’s team said the public testnet launch paves the way for “the next […]

The Official Trump (TRUMP) meme coin team announced it is working on a mobile game themed around the US President as part of a broader effort to give the crypto more utility and bolster its ailing price. A trailer for the mobile game, titled “Trump Billionaires Club,” was shared on X, featuring a Trump-like voice […]

Bitcoin maxi Michael Saylor says that his firm Strategy will not launch a preferred equity offering in Japan in the next 12 months, giving fellow corporate BTC buyer Metaplanet a head start. Both Strategy and Metaplanet are among the top five biggest corporate BTC investors. Strategy leads the market overall, while Metaplanet is ranked at […]

The number of Bitcoins on exchange platforms has fallen by 400K coins in the past year as the amount of BTC deposited on Binance daily by “shrimps” has plummeted to a record low. In a recent X post, on-chain analytics firm Santiment said that 403K BTC has moved off of exchanges in the past 12 […]

Robinhood Markets is entering the fast-growing Indonesia market to offer US equities and crypto trading to 17 million local crypto investors and 19 million capital market investors. In a Dec. 7 announcement, Robinhood said that it had inked a deal to acquire local brokerage Buana Capital Sekuritas and licensed crypto trader Pedagang Aset Kripto. ”Indonesia […]