On June 25, ether (ETH) was trading at $3,300, a shade higher than Thursday’s price of $3,200. During that period, however, the total value locked (TVL) on EigenLayer – a protocol that links restaking protocols – slumped by $2.28 billion to $15.1 billion. Restaking protocols like Renzo and Kelp have lost 45% and 22% of their TVL, respectively, data from DefiLlama shows. Source
The yet-to-be-audited code from Jito should allow any protocol building on Solana to set up a mechanism for providing economic security to nearly any on-chain application, or “actively validated service” (AVS). Notably, Jito’s code would allow users to secure AVSs using whatever crypto asset they choose. Source
A: From a legal perspective, three key areas that I look at in assessing a crypto project are: compliance, governance and security. Does the team include dedicated, competent individuals looking after these areas? While it is natural and expected that the team has technical and marketing expertise, I would also want to see individuals with strong legal and financial experience to ensure that the company has been established in compliance with local laws to be able to operate as it intends and that it has an awareness about international laws…
The CoinDesk 20 fell nearly 100 points in overnight trading, with all assets in the red, including a 6.6% drop in ETH. Source
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“Despite the restrictions in place, CBPL onboarded and/or provided e-money services to 13,416 high-risk customers,” the FCA said in a release on Thursday. “Approximately 31 per cent of these customers deposited around USD $24.9 million. These funds were used to make withdrawals and then execute multiple cryptoasset transactions via other Coinbase Group entities, totalling approximately USD $226 million.” Source
“Being Web3 native, the user can buy or sell crypto, send stablecoins, access smart contracts and use dapps and DeFi services, which no LLM is connected to today,” the white paper reads. “Regulatory barriers faced by centralized companies prevent them from offering these tools to users, so their models can chat about tasks but not act on the user’s behalf in a Web3 context.” Source
The Raipur Municipal Corporation administers the area issuing more than 8,000 building permits, work orders, and colony development permissions annually. The corporation floated a tender to have its records on blockchain and AirChain emerged as the partner through that process, Abinash Mishra, Commissioner, Raipur Municipal Corporation told CoinDesk in an interview on Thursday. Source
India has seen as many as 92 cases since 2020 till April 2024 involving dark net and cryptocurrencies to purchase drugs, the nation’s junior Home Minister Nityanand Rai said to parliament on Wednesday. Source
Revolut has entered a “mobilization stage”, designed for new banks to operate with restrictions. Source