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
The cryptocurrency landscape is constantly evolving, and sometimes, a significant shift requires a new identity. This is precisely what is happening with Omni Network (OMNI), a prominent Layer 1 blockchain. The network has announced a monumental Omni Network rebranding, transitioning to a new name: Nomina. This isn’t just a cosmetic change; it involves a comprehensive
Blockchain analysis firm Arkham has revealed that the German government was unable to seize all Bitcoin assets linked to the pirate movie site Movie2K. In early 2024, German police seized approximately 49,858 BTC from the owners of Movie2K, a platform that was active in 2013 and whose executives were arrested in 2019. These assets were
Gold bug Peter Schiff is gloating over Bitcoin’s recent underperformance. In a recent social media post, the gold bug stated that the flagship cryptocurrency is currently doing “nothing” while gold is in the process of hitting new record highs. Gold’s new record high Earlier today, the yellow metal hit yet another all-time high, surpassing the
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