Brady Dale

Brady Dale is a longtime crypto journalist, currently running the independent crypto newsletter and podcast, Front Stage Exit.

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Markets

Bug Forces Shutdown of Bitcoin-Backed Ethereum Token tBTC

Thesis has put a pause on deposits into tBTC, its new platform meant to get bitcoin into Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Bug (CoinDesk Archives)

Tech

Trading Contest on Synthetix Aims to Showcase Speed of New DEX Tech

Synthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out the faster beta of its decentralized exchange (DEX).

OpenSwap is an interchain liquidity booster.

Markets

The Brooklyn Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie Makes the Bull Case for Tokenizing Entertainers

"I envision a world where a Kevin Hart token can trade for a Lebron James token can trade for a Serena Williams token," Spencer Dinwiddie said.

NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie held crypto during the 2017 bull run and 2018 crypto winter, he said Monday. (Credit: CoinDesk)

Tech

The CoinDesk 50: MakerDAO Is the Godzilla of DeFi

The $350 million MakerDAO protocol has become the most important project in DeFi, and DeFi has emerged as the most viable part of Ethereum.

Credit: Cavendish Design

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Markets

The CoinDesk 50: Brave Browser Delivered and BAT’s a DeFi Darling

Taking on powerful forces in the surveillance economy was never going to be easy. But Brendan Eich and Brave are making a good fist of it.

Credit: Cavendish Design

Tech

Filecoin Is Mailing Out Hard Drives of Climate Data to Kick-Start Its File-Storage Network

Get a giant hard drive from the Filecoin team stuffed with data on climate, the world's literature or the human genome and get ready to earn some crypto.

Juan Benet, Filecoin founder

Finance

Bitcoin Revenue in Square's Cash App Tops Fiat Revenue for First Time in Q1

Bitcoin profit through Square’s Cash App was $7 million in the first quarter of 2020. It earned $8 million in bitcoin profit through the whole of 2019.

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Finance

Dragonfly Capital Managing Partner Alexander Pack Steps Down

Alexander Pack, managing partner of Dragonfly Capital, has stepped down from the crypto investment firm, according to a letter obtained by CoinDesk.

YAY AREA: Most of the Dragonfly Capital team operates from San Francisco. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Tech

CryptoWars Leaves Loom Sidechain in Pivot to 'Play-to-Earn,' Aka Betting

CryptoWars founder Matias Nisenson is changing things up: "No decent game can run nowadays fully on-chain, even though that was our gaming utopia."

After signs of success on its first iteration, the team behind CryptoWars is changing things up. (Credit: Experimental)

Tech

Blockstack Opens Testnet for New Bitcoin-Linked Consensus Mechanism

Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain's new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX).

Credit: Blockstack