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Robinhood (HOOD) saw first quarter notional crypto trading volume of $36 billion, up 224% from year-ago levels.That led to a 232% increase in crypto-related a revenue to $126 million, a primary factor, said the company, in driving overall first quarter transaction-based revenue up 59% year-over-year to $329 million.20:00What Happens if ETH Is Deemed a Security?02:13Binance

A House resolution would start a formal process to kill the Securities and Exchange Commission's controversial accounting policy on crypto custody, and a vote was expected Wednesday.President Joe Biden said he'll veto the resolution if it reaches his desk for approval.The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on a resolution Wednesday to reject

An online survey conducted by blockchain conglomerate Digital Currency Group found that more than 20% of voters in several swing states consider crypto to be a key issue in the upcoming U.S. elections. The poll is the latest sign that crypto is increasingly becoming an electoral issue, with more and more politicians on both sides

What could be more crypto than raising tens of millions of dollars via a "node sale?" In this week's issue of The Protocol, we explain the blockchain industry's newest fundraising method, which explicitly leans on its decentralizing impact.Devious technique known as "address poisoning" leads to $68M exploitTop picks from the past week's Protocol Village column:

If you're reading this ensconced in a traditional finance career, you know the deal: If money is idle, make it do more work.Are you, for instance, a broker with collateral quietly sitting in a vault? That's boring! Do that rehypothecation thing! Use it to finance your own trades! (The Lehman Brothers–fomented global financial crisis of

Technical analysis has long been relied upon for investing in cryptocurrencies. The discipline lends itself well to the highly-volatile asset class, not only because cryptocurrencies are momentum-driven, but also because they are generally subject to less headline risk than equities, which can muddy supply/demand dynamics.Investors can better understand the risk-reward dynamics of the cryptocurrency market

The market cap for stablecoins has grown considerably in the past six months, increasing from $122 billion in October 2023 to $157 billion in April 2024. Among stablecoin providers, Tether (USDT) has captured a significant market share, exceeding $100 billion and accounting for over 70% dominance in the stablecoin market.Building on this momentum, Tether's Q1

Injective, a Cosmos-based blockchain whose INJ token price jumped a stunning 33-fold in 2023, only to tumble this year, is now planning a significant expansion – launching its own layer-3 network in the Ethereum ecosystem, based on the layer-2 project Arbitrum's technology.Injective’s "inEVM," which is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) operating system and

Sophon, an entertainment-focused blockchain ecosystem, raised more than $60 million in a node sale, an increasingly popular type of fundraising method.Node sales, described as a way of helping to decentralize projects, are structured in pricing tiers, where the longer buyers wait, the more they have to pay.The project is built on zkSync's technology, using a

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund led a $13.2 million seed funding round into Lagrange Labs, a cryptography startup based on Ethereum's EigenLayer restaking platform.Lagrange specializes in zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs – a way for computers to mathematically verify certain kinds of data. Zero-knowledge proofs, a type of cryptography, have wide applications to blockchains and have become a