Some onlookers blamed the sudden Jan. 3 crypto crash on a Matrixport report claiming the SEC will reject all pending spot Bitcoin ETF applications

Businesses that fail to report receiving sums of at least $10,000 in crypto could face felony charges

$500M worth of crypto trades were liquidations in a single hour

DeFi’s combined market cap is at is up 88% since mid-October

ETH’s supply has increased by 3,051 coins since tagging a post-merge low on Dec. 30

Solana-based USDC now ranks as the single most transacted stablecoin with $103B

Illia Polosukhin is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a sharded proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain. We discuss NEAR's transition from an AI project to crypto, and later gain deeper insight into NEAR's core principles, underlying technology, the users, builders, as well as anticipated new features in the near future.

Orbit is the third protocol from the Ozys team to be ransacked by hackers

On-chain analytics provider flagged $2.4M TRB deposit from Tellor team after the token's price tripled

This conversation between The Defiant and Rune Christensen was recorded during Devconnect 2023 in Istanbul.