Latest from Jamie Crawley
Avalanche Raises $250M Amid Major Overhaul of Layer-1 Blockchain
The sale follows shortly after the Avalanche9000 upgrade went live in a testnet environment.

Hut 8 Rises 12% Pre-Market Amid Social-Media Talk of Partnership With Meta
HUT shares climbed to just under $30 as of 10:00 UTC, over 11.75% higher than its Wednesday closing price of $26.69.

Russian Lawmaker Proposes Creating Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Report
Anton Tkachev proposed "assessing the feasibility of creating a strategic BTC reserve in Russia by analogy with state reserve in traditional currencies."

Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon: Upgrading Bitcoin With Covenants
The founders of the popular Taproot Wizards JPEGs want to do more now to “make bitcoin magical again.”

David Tse: Bringing Staking to Bitcoin
It’s been a banner year for Babylon, the staking protocol co-founded by Tse.

Sergio Demian Lerner: Making Bitcoin More Programmable
The founder of Rootstock is working to create a framework for running programs on Bitcoin and enabling the development of more sidechains and Layer 2s.

Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network
The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.

Bitcoin 'Four Meggers': OrdinalsBot Inscribes Largest-Ever File on the OG Blockchain
Inscriptions project OrdinalsBot minted what it says is the largest ever file on Bitcoin: The last in a collection of 1,500 "Pizza Ninjas."

Everyone Wants a Piece of the Bitcoin Pie, Now the AI Bots Are Coming for It Too
AI-focused Ethereum layer-2 Mode is the latest network to bridge to Bitcoin in an attempt to get access to deep wells of liquidity held in BTC.

USDC Issuer Circle Cuts 'Less Than 6%' of Jobs Following Operations Review
The job cuts amount to about 50 people, based on June employment numbers.

