VerifiedX claims its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting the growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.
In Qatar, a desert peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf, natural gas has transformed the country from a pearl-diving country to one of the richest countries in the world. Qatar has spent three decades building supply lines, shipping tens of billions of dollars of liquefied natural gas each year through the Strait of Hormuz to
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A7A5, the Russia-linked stablecoin designed to move money around banking restrictions, says faster trade settlement, yield and regional crypto infrastructure could keep it relevant even as geopolitical tensions ease.
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Swiss watchmaker Swatch closed dozens of its stores on Saturday as large crowds queued to try to snatch up Royal Pop pocket watches from its collaboration with luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet. The frenzy prompted police interventions at stores from London to New York and disappointed customers who queued for hours to buy the colorful
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An archived website of FiveThirtyEight, a data journalism publication known for its polling analysis and election models, now redirects readers to ABC News, its owner and former host. As a result, several thousand articles dating back to FiveThirtyEight’s founding in 2008 are no longer accessible online, according to Nathaniel Rakich, the publication’s former editor-in-chief. ABC
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In an interview with CoinDesk, Firedancer’s lead engineer provides an update on how the new client, also known as software, is performing in the Solana ecosystem.
DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the crypto boom of 2020. But as hacks evolved and users sought returns rather than protection, most of the industry collapsed under the same risks it was designed to address.
For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway in crypto: DeFi no longer primarily fights coding bugs. It’s about fighting complexity.
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The token jumped 5% after a Senate committee advanced the market structure bill, reviving hopes that legal clarity could attract more institutional money to XRP products.
A cascade of long-running asymmetric liquidations wiped out leverage on major tokens overnight, with the move following a sell-off in global bonds and the worst session for U.S. stocks since March.
