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Wrapped XRP went live on Solana on Friday, issued by custodian Hex Trust and bridged through LayerZero, making the token available in Solana’s DeFi applications for the first time. XRP holders can now use the wrapped asset on Jupiter, Phantom, Titan Exchange, and Meteora without selling their underlying positions. According to Hex Trust, each wXRP…
The post Giants receive ‘F’ in early 2026 grades originally appeared on The Sporting News. Click here to add Sports News as your go-to source. The San Francisco Giants are off to a rocky start in 2026. Through the first 20 games of the season, Bleacher Report gave them an “F” grade. advertise Judging from…
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his concerns about the economy to aides and asked them to come up with solutions. At a televised economic conference on Wednesday, he revealed that GDP shrank by 1.8% in January and February combined, adding that manufacturing, industrial production and construction all experienced negative growth. “I expect to hear today…
The next major inflection point for cryptocurrencies comes from artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to Joseph Lubin, CEO of Consensys and co-founder of Ethereum. He told CoinDesk that autonomous or semi-autonomous agents can transact, coordinate and verify each other on a decentralized network, using cryptographic rails as the basis for machine-driven activity. Lubin, who…
Social media users on “Why on earth would a major news network consider an extremely partisan campaign ad an ‘exclusive’?” asked RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway. This comes after ABC News labeled an exclusively obtained clip from a campaign ad by Obama urging Virginians to vote “yes” on a redistricting measure. If the measure is…
This is the live blog for Gilbert Burns vs. Mike Malott, Saturday’s welterweight main event at UFC Winnipeg at the Canadian Life Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Burns (22-9) has fallen into the worst slump of his career, with four consecutive losses dating back to 2023 and his back already in trouble. The one-time UFC…
A Bitcoin mining pool that aimed to reject the industrial pay-per-share model and pure lottery methods has now proven the effectiveness of its design. twice. Emerging mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 on Friday morning, its second block since its launch in April 2025, approximately 48 days after the pool’s first block #938,713 in…
The U.S. Navy on Saturday released photos of “fresh meals” being served aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli aircraft carriers to refute claims of food shortages on warships in the Middle East. Images purportedly showing sailors being given meager meals during the epic fury against Iran have been rejected by the highest levels…
San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle officially announced his commitment to Saturday’s WrestleMania by stealing a beer from the Indiana Pacers star point guard and spotting Brock Purdy’s Tyrese Haliburton. Between games, the cameras turned their attention to Haliburton, who famously stood up and raised his beer (Editor’s note: I think it’s 805) into the…
Troubles are growing at Polish cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto. The company has already been criticized after reports of freezing or delaying customer withdrawals, and also drew the ire of Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday, who told parliament that the company sponsors politicians who oppose regulation of the cryptocurrency market. According to the Associated Press, Tusk…