Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital is seeking partnerships with blockchain developers to build Bitcoin layer-2 solutions for cross-border BTC payments, Julian Duran, Marathon’s product lead for side chains, said at the Bitcoin 2024 conference on July 26 in Nashville, Tennessee. Cross-border payments are “the biggest use case for blockchain, generally speaking, and especially for Bitcoin,” according…

Trendy buzzwords and crypto go hand in hand, especially given the cyclical nature of crypto market cycles. What is popular in one financial quarter could be a totally obsolete concept by the arrival of the next. Some great examples might be music non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Bitcoin Ordinals or blockchain-based gaming. The list goes on and on, and it…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved Grayscale’s newest spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) — Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) — for listing on the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) Arca electronic trading platform, according to a July 26 filing. The approval is an important milestone for Grayscale, which announced plans on July 19 to spin off…

Asset manager Blackrock sees “very little interest” among clients in crypto beyond Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) and doesn’t foresee many crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) outside of those two core digital assets, according to Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock’s head of digital assets, speaking at the Bitcoin2024 conference on July 25 in Nashville, Tennessee. “I would say…

Numerico leverages the synergy of AI and blockchain with advanced tools and a layer-2 network to empower crypto newcomers and developers. The introduction of artificial intelligence has a profound impact on the crypto ecosystem, and it’s only going to expand, given the amount of investment and effort being put into using AI within the context…

Venture funding for Web3 startups is stabilizing after a year-long decline that started in 2023, with crypto ventures locking up some $2 billion in financing in the second quarter of 2024, according to Crunchbase. The Q2 numbers are only modestly higher than the $1.8 billion raised in the prior quarter but reverse a downtrend that…