Under the agreement, Saga phones sold in the U.S. will get a 30-day free subscription to Helium Mobile. Author: Lyllah Ledesma

The network’s mining difficulty peaked on Friday, indicating increased competition for miner rewards. Author: Frederick Munawa

Earlier this week, three top executives departed the developer of play-to-earn video games. Author: Cameron Thompson

A surprisingly robust jobs report and other signals spur investors’ return to riskier assets. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets. Author: James Rubin, Glenn Williams, Jocelyn Yang

Foreign exchange transactions could drop from a two-day process to less than 10 seconds if central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) were involved, according to an experiment conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Author: Nikhilesh De, Jesse Hamilton