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The FTX bankruptcy estate has disputed the recently announced sale of FTX EU to Backpack, the cryptocurrency exchange and wallet firm founded by former FTX and Alameda employees. The FTX estate said Backpack “has no involvement whatsoever in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court-approved process for returning funds to any FTX customers and other creditors,” and that […]

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Features and Opinion Editor. In this issue: HyperLiquid responds to criticism over decentralization StarkWare launches appchains on Starknet Arbitrum deepens ties to South Korea’s Lotte Group Do Kwon criminal trial set for 2026 Pyth Network

Solana is ratcheting up testing of Firedancer, the highly anticipated software upgrade that promises to vastly increase the blockchain’s processing speed. By the end of this week, Solana’s core developers want a “super majority” of processing power on the chain’s low-stakes test network to run through Frankendancer, an early version of Firedancer, according to messages

Already the largest gainer among major cryptos since the U.S. November presidential election, Ripple’s XRP outperformed even more on Wednesday after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty dined with President-elect Donald Trump. “Great dinner last night … Strong start to 2025,” wrote Garlinghouse on X alongside a picture of him and

Bitcoin (BTC) erased all its early-2025 rise on Wednesday as macro jitters and the global bond rout accelerated the sell-off in crypto prices. The largest crypto slipped to a session low of $92,600 during U.S. trading hours, shedding nearly 10% in two days from its Monday peak above $102,000. It has recovered some of the

NEW YORK, NY — Terraform Labs co-founder and former CEO Do Kwon’s criminal fraud trial in the U.S. has been tentatively scheduled for next January, allowing prosecutors and Kwon’s defense attorneys adequate time to review the “massive” six-terabyte trove of data expected to be produced during the discovery process. During an initial hearing in Manhattan

Though U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chief Rostin Behnam never managed to make it happen, the derivatives watchdog is likely to one day play a more prominent role in overseeing cryptocurrency trading, something he will “continue to advocate” for after he’s gone. Behnam, who will step down on January 20 to make way for President-elect

Blockchain oracle firm Pyth Network has partnered with neobank Revolut to port digital banking data into decentralized finance (DeFi). Revolut will provide data for more than 500 markets including foreign exchange, equities and commodities. Revolut also runs a crypto exchange although volume data is not published. The PYTH token spiked momentarily on the news but

Real world assets (RWAs). This is what the crypto natives and institutions are now calling on-chain representations of ownership in real estate, debt, equity, fund LP units, and other traditional assets. Throughout 2024, RWA tokenization grew in popularity thanks to key catalysts including: BlackRock tokenizing one of its funds and investing in a tokenization company.

Bitcoin rounded out an exceptionally strong 2024 (up 120% yoy) with a whimper, logging the first overbought “sell” signal on its weekly bar chart since mid-April according to the stochastic oscillator, which is an indicator of trend exhaustion. The signal suggests bitcoin will remain range-bound, at least in the short term (roughly 2-6 weeks), as