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World Liberty Financial Ties Voting Power to Staking as $1 Supply Surpasses $4.7 Billion

World Liberty Financial is set to lock down governance power, requiring token holders to stake their WLFI for six months before being able to vote on the future of the protocol. A new proposal would require unlocked WLFI token holders to stake for at least 180 days to vote, while creating “Node” and “Super Node”

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Bitcoin ETF Holders, Treasury Firms Protect Against Price Drop Below $60,000, Options Exchange Says

Bitcoin BTC$67,840.06 ETF holders and corporate treasuries – the players everyone praises for their long-term vision – are stacking insurance against a price drop below $60,000, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit told CoinDesk. “ETF holders and corporate treasuries buy 6-month and 1-year puts at $60,000 or less ($60,000 put, a derivative contract offering protection against a possible

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Polymarket punters appear to have made insider trades in a market designed to catch insider traders.

Can you perform insider trading as part of an investigation into your own insider trading? Polymarket has just transformed this philosophical question into a practical question. Blockchain detective ZachXBT released his findings Thursday morning naming Axiom, a cryptocurrency trading platform, as the company whose employees he said used non-public information to make profitable trades. The

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Block’s return to scale in 2019 could be a sign of deeper changes in the payments economy.

Fintech company Block is returning to its pre-pandemic size, reducing its workforce to around 6,000 people, down from a Covid-era peak of more than 10,000, down from just 3,800 in 2019. CEO Jack Dorsey says AI allows small teams to move faster. While this is certainly true, the deeper reset may reflect a harsher reality:

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Why infrastructure company Solana is moving its servers to win the global crypto trading war

DoubleZero, a crypto infrastructure startup co-founded by Austin Federa, former director of the Solana Foundation, is rolling out a major update aimed at spreading Solana’s network more evenly around the world and making it faster in the process. On March 9, the company will launch “Phase II” of its DoubleZero delegation program, redirecting 2.4 million

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Blockchain detective ZachXBT alleges Axiom employee committed insider trading

Network News AXIOM EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF INSIDE TRAINING BY ZACHXBT: Blockchain Detective ZachXBT said a senior employee at on-chain trading platform Axiom Exchange allegedly abused internal access to user data to track private wallets and potentially trade memecoins using inside information. In a thread posted on Axiom, founded in 2024 by Mist and Cal and

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