Colette Shulman, whose career as an influential analyst of Soviet affairs began in the late 1950s as a Moscow correspondent for the United Press wire service, covering earth-shattering events and the lives of everyday people, died June 20 in Danbury, Connecticut. She was 94 years old. Her death, at a hospice center, was due to […]
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he remains bullish on bitcoin, but that Michael Saylor’s approach to financing bitcoin purchases has hurt the broader crypto market, in a CNBC interview Friday, as the preferred stock at the center of Strategy’s model fell to a record low. “Financial engineering does not drive long-term value,” Garlinghouse said, arguing
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Dogecoin and Hyperliquid’s HYPE led the week’s losses across crypto, falling nearly 10% as money continued to flow towards stocks linked to the artificial intelligence boom and away from major tokens. Dogecoin fell 9.6% over seven days to around $0.076 and HYPE lost 9.9%, the steepest drop among the majors. Ether fell 8.4% to around
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Latest developments: Teng says Virtuals has expanded beyond game-focused AI agents and is now building infrastructure for what it calls an “agent community.” The company began by creating autonomous agents for games before expanding to crypto-influencers, trading agents and other autonomous software systems. Virtuals now focuses on five pillars: creating digital agents, creating physical agents
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Bitcoin BTC$59,576.28 found some footing around $60,000 on Friday after this week’s sell-off, but the biggest gains came from decentralized finance (DeFi) and the Solana ecosystem. Leading the advance was Aave’s native sign AAVE$94.23the largest DeFi lending protocol, which rose 19% in the last 24 hours. CoinDesk reported Thursday that crypto exchange Kraken is exploring
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U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters could soon return to the helm of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats perform as expected in the November elections, and she is requesting that the Department of Labor back off a proposal that would encourage managers of 401(k) retirement plans to offer alternative investments, including cryptocurrency. In March, the
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Latest developments: Trent Van Epps says Ethereum’s long-term decentralization strategy is entering a critical transition phase. Van Epps said he left the Ethereum Foundation after it became clear the organization would accelerate its “subtraction” philosophy of pushing authority and legitimacy into the broader ecosystem. He described the Ethereum Foundation as deliberately reducing its central role
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Latest developments: The Alliance to End Human Trafficking is calling on lawmakers to revise Section 604 of the Clarity Act, arguing that the provision could make it harder to hold some crypto platform developers accountable when their technology is used to facilitate human trafficking. Katie Boller Gosewisch, executive director of the Alliance to End Human
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President Trump threatened to scrap a just-concluded trade deal with the European Union on Friday, saying any country that levies a tax on digital services will immediately be hit with a 100 percent tariff on all exports to the United States. Mr. Trump seized on the fact that several European countries are debating imposing such
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Securitize, one of the largest providers of tokenization infrastructure to Wall Street, expects to raise about $400 million as it prepares to go public through a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald-backed special-purpose buyout firm. The company said Friday that following lower-than-expected shareholder redemptions, the business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II ( CEPT ) is
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