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AI Financial, formerly known as Alt5 Sigma, wants the market to know it’s more than just its wLFI$0.06146 Token holdings and calling it a WLFI financial company is not the right way to describe it. “AiFi continues to operate an active fintech and digital payments business while executing on its broader long-term strategy in digital…
Binance has launched perpetual futures, allowing users to trade in expected valuations of private companies before they go public. The first contract to go into effect is with SpaceX, which is expected to be valued at $2 trillion or more when it goes public. Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts are designed to provide retail traders with early…
CME Group announced plans to further enter the US$95 trillion global digital asset derivatives market and launched Nasdaq CME Group Cryptocurrency Index futures on June 8, which is currently pending regulatory review. The futures will be the company’s first market capitalization-weighted futures contract, the world’s leading derivatives market said in a statement on Thursday. These…
network news “ALPENGLOW” upgrade tested on SOLANA: Solana developer Anza said Alpenglow, the network’s largest proposed consensus reform to date, has gone live on the community test cluster, marking an important step towards a potential mainnet launch. The update means validator operators can now test software designed to move Solana away from the current consensus…
Ethereum developer Consensys, led by Joe Lubin, has postponed its potential U.S. public offering to as early as the fall due to poor market conditions, according to two people familiar with the matter. The MetaMask wallet maker reportedly hired bankers from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs last year to lead the process. According to a…
Bitcoin’s bottom of $80,000 broke under successive inflationary shocks, and Xi Jinping’s Taiwan warning further weakened recovery expectations. Donald Trump visited Beijing on Wednesday, the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in nearly a decade. Xi Jinping pressed Trump on Taiwan at their first meeting at the Great Hall of the People, with the…
TRUMP tokens, the official meme currency of U.S. President Donald Trump, fell 5% as Trump Mobile announced that the long-awaited T1 phone will begin shipping next week, according to CoinDesk market data. As CoinDesk previously reported, neither the Trump mobile project nor the president’s meme coin is going particularly well. The phone’s shipping date has…
A viral X post claims that Crowder “hacked” a forgotten Bitcoin wallet and recovered 5 Bitcoins from the user’s computer. But don’t get caught up in the hype, because that’s not the case. Anthropic’s artificial intelligence simply helps owners search their computers for old wallet files and then decrypt the files using the password the…
As U.S. senators launch long-awaited hearings calling for the advancement of cryptocurrency market structure legislation, they acknowledge that differences remain between Republicans and Democrats over the latest version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Thursday’s hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, known as a “mark-up” hearing to weigh dozens of amendments to revise and…
The key driver purportedly driving Bitcoin’s recent rise above $80,000 appears to be fading. Eleven U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted $3.29 billion in investor funds in March and April, but are now experiencing capital leaks. There are also quite large ones. Investors withdrew $635 million from the funds on Wednesday, the highest single-day…