$111,043.00
0.22%$2,668.14
0.33%$2.44
0.67%$683.76
0.05%$186.15
4.17%$0.999789
-0.00%$0.246463
2.33%$0.816323
1.98%$0.273413
-1.49%$2,667.50
0.56%$110,962.00
0.23%$3.87
-6.22%$36.84
18.14%$17.04
2.93%$3,202.22
-0.34%$25.65
3.16%$0.303531
0.82%$0.00001559
1.68%$441.24
1.38%$0.206463
1.42%$8.79
-0.82%$3.16
-0.49%$101.56
2.98%$4.96
1.54%$2,670.41
0.45%$394.60
-2.36%$0.999791
0.00%$5.69
7.02%$0.00001572
8.47%$2,846.44
-0.05%$0.999373
0.11%$0.789168
-4.61%$1.001
0.01%$111,054.00
0.22%$32.05
4.60%$467.31
-0.17%$6.54
1.51%$259.44
2.35%$3.08
2.11%$5.87
7.57%$223.80
4.24%$1.032
2.23%$52.95
-0.19%$0.116004
-0.31%$5.68
2.16%$0.100267
0.23%$19.61
-0.19%$1.00
0.00%$36.08
0.41%$13.94
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5.31%$21.85
0.19%$0.0307634
1.59%$1.17
-0.06%$0.758892
-0.15%$0.970761
16.54%$0.425327
4.29%$1.56
22.96%$5.24
2.34%$0.252749
0.88%$1.052
0.03%$0.999881
0.08%$0.244691
2.55%$110,760.00
-0.01%$0.431025
1.00%$3.08
1.28%$2.98
7.07%$4.40
-0.33%$0.00002435
11.16%$0.625564
13.95%$0.5349
0.53%$4.77
1.77%$1.00
0.15%$196.53
4.70%$2,668.64
0.78%$1.61
5.05%$0.996613
1.81%$2,788.82
0.24%$2.20
8.44%$11.47
0.05%$98.27
-0.58%$14.40
9.74%$0.815778
4.05%$0.248308
3.01%$4.71
3.24%$0.712051
1.67%$1.27
-1.47%$0.01927166
-0.62%$3,034.77
0.05%$1.25
9.24%$0.780293
1.25%$0.999263
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0.91%$0.071866
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3.74%$110,751.00
0.21%$0.00011358
2.95%$1,737.28
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5.35%$240.83
4.31%$2,840.92
0.19%$0.974827
1.34%$206.39
4.16%$0.0212151
2.09%$0.01941589
0.88%$110,950.00
0.27%$0.999516
0.26%$0.01419996
0.60%$0.999282
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0.28%$0.979824
1.89%$0.230491
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2.71%$111,644.00
1.35%$683.25
0.21%$0.840317
0.29%$0.999848
-0.02%$0.144962
6.83%$0.338294
1.02%$2,791.18
3.98%$3,330.75
1.10%$2.49
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1.07%$4.34
5.80%$23.87
0.13%$39.19
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1.90%$47.95
10.79%$0.585043
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0.38%$0.586514
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1.27%$0.00000045
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17.54%$0.375264
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6.06%$0.252318
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1.31%$110,997.00
0.31%$0.00006612
1.06%$0.99998
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0.42%$25.63
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3.20%$2,670.66
0.52%$0.242053
0.67%$0.00000164
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4.07%$20.06
1.29%$0.571319
9.48%$0.729044
1.22%$2,665.22
0.24%$0.999343
0.28%$2,881.90
0.54%$0.00076286
2.18%$0.75299
4.39%$19.38
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2.15%$0.999775
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1.75%$0.00
1.06%$30.95
2.61%$207.06
4.07%$3.66
0.74%$0.745461
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4.18%Reading
Bitcoin-focused company Lightning Labs has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Goldcrest Capital, and others.
The funding will help enable stablecoin transactions on the Lightning Network using Lightning Labs’ new Taro protocol.
The Lightning Network is a layer-two solution for BitcoinBitcoin transactions, enabling instant, low-fee transactions with Bitcoin—but without using Bitcoin’s blockchainblockchain verification for each transaction. Lightning Labs builds features for the Lightning network. It’s already developed a few different products, including Lightning Pool for Bitcoin liquidity. Now it’s adding Taro.
Bitcoin’s Taproot upgrade, which went live back in November 2021, is what made the Taro protocol technically possible. Taro—whose name was inspired by the taro root plant—allows developers to move stablecoins from the Bitcoin network to the Lightning Network.
Caitlin Long spent nearly two decades at big banks Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley before she went all in on Bitcoin. Now her company Custodia is seeking to offer banking services to crypto companies long shut out by the big banks. She talks to Dan Roberts and Jeff Roberts about identifying as a Bitcoin maximalist, crypto regulation in DC, and Web3 culture. Watch and make sure to subscribe to the gm podcast on Apple or Spotify.
Lightning Labs CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark believes Taro will enable further Bitcoin adoption because it will allow those without bank accounts in developing countries to send and receive money in the form of stablecoins, which are designed to hold their value relative to currencies like the Mexican peso or U.S. dollar, through mobile applications.
“There’s this concept of ‘fix money, fix the world,’ and that’s, I think, part of what really attracts me to what we’re doing,” Stark said in an interview with Decrypt on her decision to found Lightning Labs.
Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is currently being used by the country of El Salvador, the Bitcoin payments company Strike, Twitter's tipping feature, and the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, to name a few. Now, anyone looking to transfer stablecoins will be able to do so through the Lightning Network.
El Salvador's government today announced it contracted U.S. software company AlphaPoint to fix its buggy state-sponsored Bitcoin wallet—and implement the Lightning Network. New York-based AlphaPoint started improving the Chivo wallet in December, the company confirmed today to Decrypt. It improved the wallet’s user interface, fixed various bugs, and installed a feature so it can handle the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network is a "second-layer solution" that speeds up Bitcoin transactions...
The news comes as the possibility of stablecoin regulation looms overhead. Last month, President Biden signed an executive order asking the U.S. federal government to investigate cryptocurrencies and “produce a report on the future of money and payment systems.” And last week, two U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would require stablecoins to be backed by both U.S. dollars and government securities.
Stark said that potential stablecoin regulations wouldn’t affect the Bitcoin Lightning Network because it isn’t issuing stablecoins, but is merely providing a transaction highway for them to be exchanged. If regulations come, Stark said, “Issuers will be able to be compliant.”
“Stablecoins are not going away. I think they’re only going to increase in adoption,” she said.
Ledger, one of the world’s most popular hardware wallet makers, has launched a new iteration of its Flex flagship device, custom-tailored to the Solana community. The Ledger Flex Solana Edition offers the exact same technical functionality as the off-the-rack Ledger Flex, released in July 2024. This includes an additional layer of safety for users’ crypto in the form of a self-custody “cold wallet” that isn’t connected to the internet, but also includes additional features such as an E Ink touch...
Law enforcement agencies have seized key infrastructure linked to LummaC2, a malware operation that targeted millions of victims worldwide, including by stealing crypto wallet seed phrases, according to a U.S. Department of Justice announcement on Wednesday. The seizures were part of a coordinated international effort involving the DOJ, Europol, Japan's Cybercrime Control Center, Microsoft, and private cybersecurity partners. Following the initial DOJ seizure of two websites on May 19, Lumma adm...
The second-generation Solana mobile phone, the Solana Seeker, will begin shipping worldwide on August 4, Solana Mobile announced on Wednesday—with plans for a native ecosystem token, SKR. The more affordable, Android-based Seeker phone will maintain the Solana Saga’s genesis token and hardware seed vault, while adding newer features such as SeekerID, the SeedVault Wallet, and an improved Solana Dapp Store. “We spent the last few years focused on building what we think is the best possible cryp...
