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Finance

Blockdaemon, VerifiedX Join Forces to Deliver Mass-Market, Self-Custodial DeFi

The experience, which is designed to feel like Venmo or Cash App, allows users to earn yield on bitcoin (BTC) and stablecoins and borrow against their holdings.

Blockdaemon CEO and founder Konstantin Richter (Blockdaemon, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: ETH’s Fusaka Upgrade Goes Live on Hoodi, Mainnet Next

Also: BOB Unveils BTC Vault Liquidation Engine, Ledger’s Major Overhaul and Google Weighs In on Quantum Computing.

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Markets

Ethereum, Solana Wallets Targeted in Massive 'npm' Attack But Just 5 Cents Taken

The credential stealer harvested username, password, and 2FA codes before sending them to a remote host. With full access, the attacker republished every "qix" package with a crypto-focused payload.

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Finance

Billionaire Winklevoss Twins-Backed Gemini Launches Self-Custodial Smart Wallet

Gemini users can now access Web3 and DeFi ecosystems with social recovery, gas sponsorship, and integrated trading support.

Gemin's Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Image Catcher News Service/Getty Images)

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Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: How Will Coinbase Rebrand Its Wallet?

Coinbase's 'A New Day One' event is set to highlight where Base is going in the era of memecoins – and it all starts with a wallet rebrand.

Jesse Pollak (courtesy Winni Wintermeyer/Coinbase)

Finance

Binance Wallet Launches Alpha Earn Hub Amid Record $12.5B Daily Volume

Liquidity providers can now earn points on Binance Alpha for adding capital to PancakeSwap pools.

Binance logo on a smartphone (Vadim Artyukhin/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase Alum-Founded Turnkey Raises $30M Series B to Grow Engineering Team

The funding round was led by Bain Capital Crypto and included contributions from Lightspped Faction and Galaxy Ventures

Turnkey co-founders Jack Kearney and Bryce Ferguson (Turnkey)

Finance

Creators of DeFi Firm Aave Simplify Its Family Self Custody Wallet

Avara, the parent company of Aave, is allowing users of its Family Wallet to onboard with email or SMS, rather than messing around with seed phrases.

Stani Kulechov, Lens founder, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk archive)

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Finance

Wallet Infrastructure Provider Privy Raises $15M to Develop Crypto Onboarding Rails

The company said the investment takes its total funding to over $40 million

Photo of Privy co-founders Asta Li and Henri Stern (Privy)

Finance

Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $18M as Institutional Demand for Digital Asset Management Soars

The crypto infrastructure provider has processed $8 billion in transactions in a month, CEO Bentzi Rabi told CoinDesk in an interview.

Utila founders Sam Eiderman, CTO, and Bentzi Rabi, CEO (Utila)