COMP Down 6.7% after Supposed ‘Governance Attack’ on Compound DAO
A whale holding COMP tokens is helping push through a governance proposal that would allocate $24 million in COMP to a yield-bearing protocol called goldCOMP.
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Bitcoin Nashville Conference in Pictures: Orange Athena, Pink Suits, Polymarket Swag, Trump’s Song
Bitcoin Nashville attendees queued up early on Saturday to get into the conference venue, Music City Center, ahead of former President Donald Trump’s speech (Bradley Keoun)
In Donald Trump’s Own Words – a Partial Transcript of His Bitcoin 2024 Speech
The following excerpts from former President Donald Trump’s speech – aided by AI transcription – focus on portions of his remarks in Nashville, Tenn., in which he addressed crypto and the industry directly.
Bitcoin Prices See Wild Trading as Trump Plans to Establish BTC as U.S. Strategic Asset
BTC jumped above $69,000 earlier Saturday on hopes Trump would announce buying the asset if elected president.
Senator Lummis Proposes the U.S. Buy 1M Bitcoin to Reduce National Debt
Senator Cynthia Lummis on stage in Nashville with a copy of her bitcoin reserve bill (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Trump Backs U.S. Bitcoin Reserve and Says Democrat Win Will Be Disaster for Crypto: ‘Every One of You Will Be Gone’
Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Wall Street’s Cantor Fitzgerald to Open Bitcoin Financing, Lending Business
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Democrats Pushing Harris Campaign for ‘Reset’ on Crypto Stance, House Rep Says
Democratic members of Congress wrote a letter to the Democratic National Committee asking for it to embrace pro-crypto policy.
Democratic Crypto Supporters Call for Crypto-Friendly Party Platform
More than a dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and a long list of candidates for congressional seats are pushing their national committee to adopt a pro-crypto stance, according to a letter they sent on Saturday.
Key U.S. Senate Republican Tim Scott Makes Crypto-Fan Debut
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee who may be in position to be its next chairman, argued at a Bitcoin 2024 appearance on Friday that the government should “make it easy” for the crypto industry to innovate in the U.S.