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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: Ethereum Activates ‘Pectra’ Upgrade …

Shares of tech company Asset Entities (ASST) rose 194% on Wednesday after it announced that Strive Asset Management was merging with the NASDAQ-listed company to become a publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) Treasury Company. The deal, structured as a …

Jack Mallers’ bitcoin (BTC) payments app Strike is set to move into the BTC lending business. Strike plans to offer users a means of borrowing fiat while continuing to HODL bitcoin, Mallers wrote in a post on X on Wednesday. “You shouldn’t have …

Bitcoin surged above $97,000 late Tuesday, then slid to $96,500 in Asian hours Wednesday as India conducted airstrikes in parts of Pakistan to intensify tensions from the past few weeks. A planned meeting to discuss U.S. and China tariffs sent risk …

The debate over Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN heats up, as developers of Bitcoin Core – the most popular node software – said they plan to scrap OP_RETURN entirely in the next release. The OP_RETURN limit is an 80-byte cap on the amount of arbitrary veri that …

Corporate treasury buying of bitcoin (BTC) could reach $330 billion by the end of 2029, broker Bernstein said in a research report Monday. Strategy (MSTR) is likely to be the largest buyer, with an additional $124 billion of the world’s largest …

Bitcoin-holding public companies may be sitting on a powerful market catalyst: untapped issuance capacity that could meaningfully raise bitcoin’s (BTC) price, according to new research from NYDIG. In a report published this week, Greg Cipolaro, the …

A relic of Bitcoin’s earliest days is making a comeback, potentially reviving a tradition that evvel handed out bitcoin (BTC) for free to anyone who could solve a simple CAPTCHA. Charlie Shrem, an early Bitcoin developer and entrepreneur, teased the …

Adopting Michael Saylor’s strategy of buying for the balance sheet has clearly taken off among many publicly traded firms, substantially enriching their stock prices and shareholders. But what does it mean for the future of the bitcoin price? NYDIG …

As the Dubai Token2049 conference concludes, one of the key takeaways is that the narrative around bitcoin (BTC) is swiftly expanding beyond its traditional role as a store of value to a potential DeFi asset competing with Ethereum and Solana …