Billionaire YouTube Star MrBeast’s Firm Could Bring Crypto to Millions

Beast Holdings, the business entity tied to YouTube personality Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson, has filed a U.S. trademark application for “MrBeast Financial,” with language suggesting a possible push into crypto. The application includes services like cryptocurrency payment processing, crypto exchange, and trading through decentralized exchanges (DEXs). The filing also mentions downloadable software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools…

Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm Warns Community About Retroactive Prosecution

Roman Storm, a developer of the Tornado Cash privacy-preserving protocol, asked the open source software community whether they are concerned with being retroactively prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for developing decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Storm asked DeFi developers: “How can you be so sure you won’t be charged by the DOJ as a…

Babylon Enables Native Bitcoin Collateral in DeFi: Finance Redefined

Bitcoin infrastructure company Babylon Labs claimed to have developed a system that enables native Bitcoin to be used as collateral for borrowing assets on Ethereum. Babylon Labs co-founder and Stanford University professor David Tse said on Wednesday that the company built a proof-of-concept that allows native Bitcoin to be used “trustlessly” as collateral for loans…

Stablecoins Are Just CBDCs in Privately-Issued Wrapper: VC

Investors should exercise “discernment” when considering privately-issued stablecoins, which carry all the risks of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) plus their own unique risks, according to Jeremy Kranz, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Sentinel Global. Kranz called privately-issued stablecoins “central business digital currency,” which feature all of the surveillance, backdoors, programmability,…

Can Bitcoin Recover as Gold Price Pulls Back From Record Highs?

Key takeaways: Gold’s ongoing pullback could trigger Bitcoin’s rebound, according to multiple analysts. Rallying to $150,000–$165,000 by year’s end is still possible, based on technical analysis. Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of bottoming out as the rally by its analog rival, gold (XAU), is starting to look increasingly overextended. Bitcoin hints at “generational bottom” as…

Stablecoins Are Just CBDCs in Privately-Issued Wrapper: VC

Investors should exercise “discernment” when considering privately-issued stablecoins, which carry all the risks of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) plus their own unique risks, according to Jeremy Kranz, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Sentinel Global. Kranz called privately-issued stablecoins “central business digital currency,” which feature all of the surveillance, backdoors, programmability,…

Can Bitcoin Recover as Gold Price Pulls Back From Record Highs?

Key takeaways: Gold’s ongoing pullback could trigger Bitcoin’s rebound, according to multiple analysts. Rallying to $150,000–$165,000 by year’s end is still possible, based on technical analysis. Bitcoin (BTC) is showing signs of bottoming out as the rally by its analog rival, gold (XAU), is starting to look increasingly overextended. Bitcoin hints at “generational bottom” as…

Find Out What Happened This Week in Crypto and Web3

After surging to a record high above $126,000, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have been shaken by unprecedented volatility — literally. On Friday, crypto markets saw their largest-ever liquidation event, totaling roughly $19 billion. The wipeout surpassed even the worst days of the FTX collapse in 2022, underscoring both how much the market has grown…

Robinhood Expands Tokenization to Nearly 500 US Stocks, ETFs on Arbitrum

Robinhood has expanded its tokenization initiative on the Arbitrum blockchain, deploying 80 new stock tokens in the past few days and bringing the total number of tokenized assets close to 500. According to data from Dune Analytics, Robinhood has tokenized 493 assets with a total value exceeding $8.5 million. Cumulative mint volume has surpassed $19.3…

UK Tax Authority Ups Crypto Warning Letters in Crackdown on Unpaid Gains

The UK tax authority has ramped up its scrutiny of crypto investors, doubling the number of warning letters sent to those suspected of underreporting or evading taxes on digital asset gains. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) issued nearly 65,000 letters in the 2024–25 tax year, up from 27,700 the year before, the Financial Times reported…