Today’s edition of The Daily highlights Ethereum’s crucial turning point, Strategy’s significant Bitcoin purchase of $110 million, and Turnkey’s successful $30 million Series B fundraising round. On top of these, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF has outpaced all previous records by hitting $70 billion in AUM in record time.

According to Bernstein, Ethereum is at a critical juncture as the crypto world transitions from speculation to tangible financial innovation powered by blockchain technology. The analysts believe that Ethereum’s unique position as a decentralized computing platform makes it invaluable in this new era of financial technology.

Strategy, on the other hand, has added another 1,045 BTC to its portfolio, taking its total holdings to 582,000 BTC, worth over $62 billion. The company funded these purchases using proceeds from its STRK and STRF perpetual preferred stocks.

Turnkey, a startup co-founded by former Coinbase employees, raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto. The company plans to use this funding to scale its team and expand its infrastructure.

Lastly, despite a surge in users, OpenSea’s monthly trading volume still falls short of its January 2022 highs. However, the anticipation surrounding the forthcoming SEA token has users engaged.

As we move forward, keep an eye on Bitcoin network activity as it has reached its lowest level since October 2023, despite BTC’s price remaining near all-time highs. Stay tuned for more updates on the ever-evolving crypto market.

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The startup has emerged at a critical time when the lines between traditional finance and cryptocurrency are fading, with major companies like Stripe, Robinhood, and PayPal embracing crypto services. Turnkey’s co-founder and CEO Bryce Ferguson stated that while traditional custodial infrastructure may work for some use cases, it’s not suitable for large-scale, crypto-native applications.

Turnkey was established in 2022 to tackle this issue, with its mission to develop an “open infrastructure layer for crypto.” This would allow developers to build stablecoin apps, DeFi terminals, or onchain AI agents securely and conveniently. Turnkey’s system offers a blend of usability and security, boasting of seedless, extension-free integrations, cryptographically verifiable architecture, adaptable APIs for custom logic, and a scalable infrastructure.

The crypto wallet infrastructure sector is expanding rapidly, with numerous key entities focusing on embedded wallets, key management, developer tooling, and user onboarding. This includes projects like Web3Auth and Privy. Turnkey power over 50 million embedded wallets and processes millions of transactions weekly across DeFi, payments, developer tools, and consumer apps. Some of its clients include Bridge, Magic Eden, Alchemy, and Moonshot.

Turnkey plans to utilize the new funding to grow its team and broaden its modular infrastructure, concentrating on open-source contributions, deeper integrations, and extensive support for payments, AI agents, DeFi, and other crypto applications. “We’re not just building tools, we’re building the infrastructure that lets crypto evolve the way the internet did: openly, collaboratively, and at scale,” said Ferguson. “We’re still early. Less than 10% of the global population uses crypto today, and the infrastructure reflects that. But the foundations we lay now will shape the next decade of digital finance. The future of finance is open.”

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