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Crypto can solve its latency fairness problem. Nobody asks for it yet.

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Austin Federa left his role as head of strategy at the Solana Foundation in 2024 to fight what he saw as injustice in the cryptocurrency trading environment. Eighteen months later, his company, DoubleZero, says it is ready. DoubleZero aims to eliminate proximity to an exchange’s servers as a competitive advantage for traders. The private fiber […]

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Trump-backed WLFI moves to release 62 billion tokens after controversy over $75 million loan

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Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial offered to unlock 62.3 billion WLFI governance tokens on Tuesday, less than a week after CoinDesk reported the company used 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral on lending platform Dolomite to borrow $75 million in stablecoins. WLFI’s token was originally sold as a governance token only, with no

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Tron Founder Justin Sun Slams Trump-Linked WLFI Vote, Intensifying Rows Over Governance

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A public dispute between Tron founder Justin Sun and the Trump-linked crypto project WLFI$0.08034 The situation worsened on Wednesday after Sun sharply criticized a new governance proposal, calling it “one of the most absurd governance scams” he had seen. In a lengthy post on X, Sun accused the project of designing a vote that punishes

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Solana Policy Institute-backed PAC spends millions to block Sherrod Brown’s Senate bid

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A conservative US political action committee backed by the Solana Policy Institute – the Sentinel Action Fund – has pledged to spend heavily on advertising for the political opponent of former Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat and prominent crypto-skeptic who is trying to return to Washington in this year’s Ohio Senate elections. Sentinel and its

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S&P and Nasdaq hit records as BTC stalls at $75,000, 40% of October peak

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The tone of Bitcoin BTC$75,072.57 has been more positive of late, but the recovery from the February lows has been rather muted, with any attempt to return to $80,000 quickly dismissed. US stocks, however, continued their remarkable advance in the face of the Iran war, with the Nasdaq gaining 1.6% for its 11th consecutive daily

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Wall Street broker Bernstein predicts market volumes will reach $1 trillion by 2030, with HOOD and COIN as key players.

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Wall Street broker Bernstein expects prediction market volumes to reach around $1 trillion by 2030, as the industry evolves from niche betting to large-scale “information markets” covering sports, crypto, politics and economics. Volumes reached $51 billion last year and are on track to reach around $240 billion in 2026, implying compound annual growth of around

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Bitcoin War Rally Forces Rethinking Beyond “Digital Gold”

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Bitcoin BTC$73,725.85 overperformance during the Iran conflict doesn’t fit the standard playbook, and Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan thinks he knows why. The largest cryptocurrency has gained 12% since U.S. and Israeli airstrikes began on Feb. 28, while the S&P 500 has fallen 1% and gold 10%. For an asset regularly seen as a leveraged technology

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Tether continues to stack BTC, adding $70 million in tokens to the stablecoin reserve

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Tether, the company behind the world’s largest USDT stablecoin USDT$1.0001added another $70 million worth of bitcoin BTC$74,763.28 to its reserves, extending a strategy of constant accumulation linked to its stablecoin activity. Blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence shows that 951 BTC were moved from Bitfinex to a wallet titled “Tether: BTC Reserve” on Wednesday. The address

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Crypto’s New $11M PAC Booked Millions of Ads With Company Launched by Tether’s US CEO

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The crypto industry’s emerging political action committee, Fellowship PAC, swooped in with $11 million in support this month, and it has so far reserved $3 million in advertising services through a company co-founded by US Tether CEO Bo Hines. The super PAC is focusing its support on Republican politicians in congressional and gubernatorial races, and

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Asset manager L&G brings its $68 billion money market funds online through Calastone

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Legal & General Asset Management announced Wednesday that it has placed more than 50 billion pounds (about $68 million) in liquidity funds that it manages on-chain through a new distribution channel built by Calastone. “We are excited to make our liquidity funds available on the tokenized calastone distribution network,” said Ross McDonald, Liquidity Investment Specialist

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