Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. We’re Margaux Nijkerk & Jamie Crawley, reporters at CoinDesk.In this issue:Nasdaq-Listed SoFi Taps Bitcoin…
SoFi Technologies (SOFI) will soon allow remittance payments on top of the Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning Network through a partnership with Lightspark, aiming to bring real-time international money transfers to its…
A co-founder of the defunct crypto lending business BlockFi has made her next move. Flori Gilroy is now the senior vice president of SoFi’s crypto unit.The new hire was quietly made…
In brief
Financial services giant SoFi is bringing Bitcoin and Ethereum trading back to its users.
The firm once allowed users to buy and sell crypto, but stopped in 2023.
The trading…