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MIAMI — Decentralized finance (DeFi) is not dead but moving further into the financial mainstream with the rise of artificial intelligence agents and cryptocurrency executives at Consensus Miami 2026 on Thursday. “Cryptocurrencies are definitely entering the mainstream,” said Hunger Horsley, co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management. “Stablecoins, tokenized assets and DeFi are all part…
Authors: Anthony Slodkoski, Liz Lee, and Greg Torode BEIJING/HONG KONG, May 7 (Reuters) – China’s former defense ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu were both sentenced to death with a two-year suspended sentence, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday, underscoring the seriousness of a purge in the military. The armed forces have been one…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chet Holmgren and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander each scored 22 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series. Ajay Mitchell scored 20 points and Jaren McCain added 18 for the defending champion Thunder, which improved…
MIAMI – Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum finance company, may slow down the pace of its Ethereum (ETH) accumulation as the company inches closer to its accumulation target, Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine (BMNR), said Thursday at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Lee said the company holds more than 5.1 million ETH, worth about…
Led by LeBron James and Austin Reeves, all of the Lakers’ top brass put in their efforts. But the Lakers will face the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals, which remains a heavy slog for Los Angeles. advertise Although Reeves recovered and scored 31 points on 10-of-16 shooting with six…
The longer funding rates stay in the red, the louder the calls for a short squeeze get. Bitcoin Bitcoin$79,624.85 It traded at $79,614 during the Asian session on Friday, down 1.6% in 24 hours, but still up 3.3% for the week, retreating from Wednesday’s high of $81,500, its highest level since late January. Ethereum fell…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Chet Holmgren and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander each scored 22 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Lakers 125-107 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinal series. Ajay Mitchell scored 20 points and Jaren McCain added 18 for the defending champion Thunder, which improved to…
A BBC investigation based on satellite images and official photos of a new monument in Pyongyang showed that some 2,300 North Korean soldiers died fighting for Russia against Ukraine. After Ukraine’s surprise invasion of Kursk in August 2024, South Korea estimated that at least 11,000 North Korean personnel were sent to Russia to help retake…
MIAMI — The cryptocurrency industry sees the 2026 U.S. midterm elections as a key test of whether Washington’s recent embrace of digital assets is sustainable, said Jesse Spiro, head of government affairs at Tether.io. “We’ve seen a lot of good input and progress over the last year,” Spiro said during a panel discussion at Consensus…
Three Australian women with links to the Islamic State (IS) group have been formally charged after returning from Syria. Kawsar Ahmad, 53, and her daughter Zeinab Ahmad, 31, appeared in a Melbourne court on Friday, less than 24 hours after they were arrested at the airport and remanded in custody. Kawsar Ahmad faces four charges…