Today the sham trial of my The Wall Street Journal colleague Evan Gershkovich began in Russia, the latest chapter in a series of ridiculous legal proceedings that have kept him behind bars for over a year. The Russian regime must end its baseless attacks on Evan and free him now. #IStandWithEvan

The SEO traffic game is dead and crypto media sites that keep playing will face the same fate. Can't rely on third-party apps like Coinbase 🛡️ anymore either. We decided months ago to try something different at Blockworks. It's working. axios.com/2024/06/26/coi…

A great way to start your Monday is with updates from Axios. Here is a snippet from todays newsletter written by CrystalKimmm I know there is a referral link somewhere, but I don't care. This is one newsletter you should get. Or even the app. The SEC's anticipated complaint

fun lil' FOIA: i saw a rumor spread on X that CFTC staffers were gathering evidence at Consensus. texts, docs, and emails show that there was no coordinated sting, it was mainly feds having fun...

SCOOP: Giant VC firm Polychain says an ex-general partner broke its policies by secretly striking a personal token deal with a crypto startup the fund invested in. Sam Kessler reports trib.al/jIngEMj

i'm just a girl standing in front of the president asking him to do it during normal business hours

Your move, McDonald's. axios.com/2024/07/22/gra…

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SCOOP: Perella Weinberg Partners is advising New York-based dYdX Trading to sell dYdX v3, once the most popular defi derivatives exchange by volume. A group of industry players including Wintermute and Selini are among potential buyers bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Crypto

If you have a Bloomberg terminal. We have a pre-made worksheet on WSL<GO> so you can look at the data for the Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs side by side in real time. More details below from Brian (he made the sheet)

Bitcoin 2024 has more speakers named Rob, Matt, Mike, Chris, Alex, or Brian than they do women speakers Welcome to RobConf 2024

Reminder that there's always "a recession coming," except for when we're actively in one.

I left my job. I wrote a thing explaining why. Huge thanks to Dave Nadig for the first read, and to Tom Morgan for... well, you'll see why. (Link in the next post)

Banger from Barry as I'm deep in prepping to moderate a panel on MMT with Jim Bianco and Samuel Rines later this week.

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Timing of this story was money. ✅ EO (war’s over) ✅ SAB 121 rescinded 📭 deluge of crypto IPOs sherwood.news/crypto/what-th…

A 25yo! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…