Frank Chaparro
Head of Content and Special Projects at GSR
Frank Chaparro is the Head of Content and Special Projects at GSR and was previously the Exclusives Host and Director of Special Projects at The Block. Formerly: finance reporter in BusinessInsider, politics at WFUV Radio, comms at Nasdaq. Chaparro started his career at Business Insider, where he specialized in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. He has received numerous accolades for his work and maintained the position as one of the most well-read fintech reporter through his time there, breaking stories on firms such as Fidelity, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Nasdaq.
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RT @with_blockmedia: We sat down with Eddy from @TreehouseFi, a project backed by Lightspeed, Jump, GSR, and Wintermute! They are building…
THE BLOCK: Nasdaq-listed insurtech firm Zhibao signs non-binding term sheet for a PIPE financing that's expected to include roughly 3,500 BTC ($230M) in consideration. The proposed deal remains subject to due diligence and regulatory review. https://t.co/oaYys0tfeI
Benchmark 将 Hut 8 目标价上调至 195 美元，Beacon Point AI 园区完成全面商业化 据 The Block 报道，Benchmark Equity Research 于周三将 Hut 8 的目标价从 165 美元上调至 195 美元。这是该机构本月第二次上调 Hut 8 目标价，主要因其位于得州的 Beacon Point AI 数据中心园区已完成全面商业化。 Hut 8 此前宣布，已与现有租户签署第二份为期 15 年、总价值 98 亿美元的租赁协议，使 Beacon Point 园区已签约容量增至 704 MW，并将这座 1 GW 园区的总合同价值提升至
Elon should remove the block button from millennials using this app
Aave is targetting non-crypto native users. In a recent interview with The Block, @aave founder @StaniKulechov explained that Aave App is purpose-built to hit users with "less understanding" about blockchain and crypto. The narrative makes sense - $AAVE is the dominant force in the DeFi lending se
Bitcoin already pays miners with the block subsidy and transaction fees. If that's not profitable, inefficient miners shut down, efficient miners take over, and difficulty adjusts. That's how Bitcoin works. Not by stuffing blocks with garbage to prop up bad business models.
"There is some fatigue in onchain markets." "But there will always be a market there." FOMO co-founder Paul (@paulerlanger) joined GSR's podcast to discuss the current and future state of the trenches, why onchain trading isn't going away, and how FOMO is gate-crashing the trading world. The app
"A few years ago, institutions asked whether they should own Bitcoin. Today, they are asking how to hold it more efficiently. At GSR, we've evolved alongside these changing client needs." Read this from Xin (@xinsong86), our CEO. https://www.gsr.io/insights/bitcoins-quiet-market-is-building-strong
Thank you to Start9 for patching the Block Slop consensus bug that is in the BIP 110 activation client, left unpatched by @dathon_ohm and @LukeDashjr
GSR has submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to its recent interpretive release on the application of the federal securities laws to certain crypto assets and secondary-market transactions. Our request is straightforward: the SEC should adopt a formal safe harbor for principal OTC trad