@Techmeme@techhub.socialSEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coinshares-pulls-p…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLooks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWestern Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/wes…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying $37M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@pre@boing.worldMandleduck from zbd has a presentation on the history of gaming in bitcoin.
Original bitcoin nodes had a half built poker game built in, though removed later.
SatoshiDice was an early betting game, just betting on random numbers from the hash nonce.
7 years ago Mandleduck made saru tobi, an iOS game with bitcoin rewards which was initially accepted but the decision reverted by apple. 1 cent transactions on chain was never going to scale anyway.
Collectable gaming cards on chain were a fashion for a while.
The early things failed in 2018 when transaction fees spiked, and fees became more than gaming rewards could be. Most games moved to ETH, till it to became expensive.
Lightning network is more suitable than on chain transactions but solana and dedicated chains still rule really.
Still today gamers mostly reject bitcoin as a scam and of course app stores don't allow payments outside their own system. So things remain tricky.
#bitcoin #bitfest
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/10/06/bee-maps-r…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/348044/ethereum-solana-etfs-green-light-staking-us-treasury-irs-guidance
@Techmeme@techhub.sociala16z Crypto invests $50M in Solana infrastructure provider Jito through a private token sale, likely one of a16z's largest crypto investments in recent years (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374934/a16z-crypto-invest-50…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVisa says it will allow US banks to settle transactions using Circle's USDC stablecoin over Solana, the US' first full deployment of a stablecoin settlement (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/kalshi-makes-move-t…
