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Oil shock, war risk keep crypto investors on sidelines: Grayscale

Crypto asset management company Grayscale said the crypto market has stalled as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have brought improvements to the macro backdrop. “The Iran war overshadowed nearly all other market developments in March,” Grayscale Research said in a note on Wednesday. Before the conflict escalated, global economic growth appeared to be strengthening…

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Trump uses Iran war address to urge an increasingly skeptical electorate to give him a bit more time

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump delivered his first major speech since launching a war with Iran, assuring Americans that all of his military goals will be accomplished “very soon” and urging an increasingly skeptical electorate to give him a little more time. In a speech late on Wednesday, Trump dialed back the bluster that…

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Coinbase’s AI payments system joins Linux Foundation, gathers support from Google, Stripe, AWS and others

Coinbase’s AI-focused payments protocol x402 is becoming an open, standardized infrastructure under the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit center for open source software development. This move aims to create a community-governed ecosystem for high-frequency, micro-transactions that traditional finance cannot effectively handle. The protocol has established an initial governing body, the x402 Foundation, which includes internet services…

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Startup lets researchers test blockchain tasks on a quantum computer for the first time

Most in the crypto industry have been dealing with Google’s paper this week on how quantum computers can break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a different question – whether quantum hardware can make blockchain better. Postquant Labs, which is building a quantum computer shared by the world, announced on Wednesday the launch of the…

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Back to Israeli occupation of south Lebanon?

Israel’s war against Hezbollah has been raging for a month, with invading Israeli forces gradually advancing into southern Lebanon, raising concerns about the fate of the region nearly two decades after Israel’s last occupation. Since the war broke out last month, Israeli officials have said Israel intends to establish a “safe zone” within Lebanon. Recently,…

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