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Bitcoin’s Big Institutional Week: JPMorgan Brings Crypto to All Wealth Management Clients & More

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 23, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Everything You Need to Know About Elon, Jack and Cathie’s Bitcoin Chat

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 22, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Bitcoin Reclaims $30K as the Macro Discussion Shifts From Inflation to COVID-19 to Growth

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 21, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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So THIS Is ‘And Then They Fight You’

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 20, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Will DAOs Transform Power in Venture Capital Fundraising?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 19, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Why Governments Should Invest in Bitcoin Infrastructure

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 18, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Paraguay's Leaked Crypto Law: A Depressing Dud or Too Early to Tell?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 17, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Square Sets Out to Bring DeFi to Bitcoin

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 16, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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BlackRock CEO Seeing No Demand for Crypto

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 15, 2021

The Breakdown With NLW Episode
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Federal Reserve Vice Chair: ‘We Do Not Need to Fear Stablecoins’

By Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 14, 2021

Federal Reserve Vice Chair: ‘We Do Not Need to Fear Stablecoins’
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Latest Crypto News

Today
5:01 AM
Negative
LayerZero blames Kelp's setup for $290 million exploit, attributes it to North Korea's Lazarus
LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.
4:51 AM
Negative
The $13 billion DeFi wipeout in two days, and it started with KelpDAO attack
Multiple lending and yield protocols are posting double-digit percentage declines in TVL, though token prices are seeing a limited decline.
1:47 AM
Negative
Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys
Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3 wallets and trading interfaces to backend services.

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