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The Hyper Foundation has submitted a proposal to recognize the tokens sitting in the inaccessible Assistance Fund as officially “burned.” In practice, the fund functions like a continuous ...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is moving ahead with implementing parts of a stablecoin act passed into law this summer. On Tuesday, the FDIC's board of directors approved a notice of ...
BitMine has increased its ETH holdings to 3.97 million tokens following another week of buying after the slowdown in November. The firm also reaffirmed its plans for the MAVAN staking network in early ...
An AAVE token holder has proposed that Aave DAO commandeer Aave Labs’ IP and equity, essentially turning the company into a DAO subsidiary. A recent governance temp check raised questions about a ...
Italy’s Agnelli family has unanimously rejected stablecoin giant Tether’s $1.3 billion offer to buy the Juventus football club, according to a statement from Exor, the family’s holding company. Exor ...
Ripple is testing on Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain, leveraging Wormhole and its NTT token standard ahead of plans to launch RLUSD on Layer 2 blockchains next year. RLUSD has a total supply of over ...
Speaking Monday at the SEC Crypto Task Force’s most recent roundtable, Atkins cautioned that blockchains are particularly effective at linking transactions to senders. How to uphold privacy—and how ...
Binance’s futures API added a new endpoint for signing a “TradFi-Perps agreement contract,” hinting at preparatory work for stock perpetual futures. The exchange has not officially announced a launch, ...
The pilot program will be limited to bitcoin, ETH, and the USDC stablecoin for now, Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham said Monday. Pham, the agency’s lone commissioner, has forged ahead with defining ...
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