Public Keys is a weekly roundup from Decrypt, that tracks the key publicly traded crypto companies. Sharpening the Stake Ethereum treasury firm SharpLink Gaming is planning to stake a portion of its $3.6 billion ETH stash on the Linea network once it hits mainnet. The company had been staking almost all of its holdings through
Itaú Asset Management, Brazil’s largest private asset manager, has created a dedicated crypto division and appointed former Hashdex executive João Marco Braga da Cunha to lead the new unit. The unit builds on Itaú Asset’s existing crypto products, including the bank’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) and a retirement fund offering exposure to digital assets. Itaú
YO, short for Yield Optimizer, launched a yoEUR vault on Friday, adding fresh momentum to the euro stablecoin trade. But market infrastructure still lags behind. Cross-chain liquidity for Circle’s EURC is limited, causing distortions in interest rates on borrow and lending markets not seen with larger USD-pegged stablecoins. yoEUR is a multichain yield vault designed
When markets feel the heat, the contrasts between them become clear right away. Popular crypto analyst Will Clemente perfectly highlighted this gap amid the latest shake out. The fact is that gold has central banks that rush to add to reserves, and stocks are cushioned by pension and sovereign funds that love to compound, but
Nasdaq will require shareholder votes before stock issuances used to buy crypto. Strategy shares fell on the news but have clawed back 3% in pre-market trading. The added checkpoint lands directly on a fast-growing playbook in which public companies sell equity or convertibles, then purchase tokens for their balance sheets. The review complements existing listing
Kyle Samani, managing partner of cryptocurrency fund Multicoin Capital, is expected to take over as president of a planned new digital asset treasury firm under the name Solana, three sources familiar with the matter confirmed. According to Bloomberg, Multicoin plans to form a Solana Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) with approximately $1 billion, along with Galaxy