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UK sanctions Huobi and ruble stablecoin issuer in crackdown on Russia crypto networks
The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on a group of cryptocurrency exchanges, payment firms and individuals accused of helping Russia evade Western restrictions and finance its war in Ukraine, including crypto exchange Huobi.
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Bermuda, the small island nation with huge crypto ambitions
Craig Swan’s eyes light up, and his smile widens when he speaks of Bermuda's ambitions to become the world’s first economy to go fully onchain, a move he is certain will create amazing new opportunities for the country's citizens.
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New Instrument Used Antarctic Ice Sheet to Probe Extreme Universe
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program mission designed to detect the most energetic particles in the universe. The PUEO mission flew high above Antarctica on a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) and used the Antarctic ice sheet as an enormous detection volume to look for radio signals generated by the interactions of extremely energetic astrophysical neutrinos as they passed through the ice. In addition to searching for the highest energy neutrinos, PUEO could also detect radio signals from high energy cosmic rays showering in Earth’s atmosphere (a.k.a. air showers), either as the signals entered directly into the instrument or reflected off the ice below. The sensitivity achieved with the PUEO instrument was a result of technology advancements and careful optimization of the experimental design to enable accommodation within the balloon platform’s launch volume.
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The agentic CFO in your pocket
The next wave of financial disruption is not arriving as a better app or a cheaper brokerage built on decades-old infrastructure. It is a complete overhaul of the legacy system of rent-seeking middlemen and inefficient rails, ushered in by three forces converging at once: stablecoins as always-on digital cash, the tokenization of real-world assets from stocks to bonds to real estate, and autonomous AI agents capable of managing money. Together, they are about to put a turbo-charged CFO in every investor's pocket.
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Iran war shows markets no longer sleep
As geopolitical tensions escalated and headlines broke across time zones, traders didn’t wait for markets to open, but instead used blockchain rails to trade oil and gold futures. Blockchain-native platforms like Hyperliquid became venues for round-the-clock price discovery, offering synthetic exposure to traditional assets without the constraints of legacy market hours.
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Web3 VCs have a differentiation problem
The average Web3 VC pitch sounds like ours did three years ago. "We have deep relationships across the ecosystem." "We add value beyond capital." "Our network is our edge." It's not that any of these statements is a lie; it's that everyone says them, which makes them effectively meaningless.
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The Lightning Network isn’t ‘helplessly broken’
Apost from Udi Wertheimer a few weeks ago made headlines across crypto media with a stark claim: the Lightning Network is "helplessly broken" in a post-quantum world, and its developers can do nothing about it. The headline traveled fast. For businesses that have built real payment infrastructure on Lightning or are evaluating it, the implications were unsettling.
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DeFi’s shakeout is a stress test, not a death sentence
DeFi protocol ZeroLend’s decision to shut down after three years in February, citing thin margins, hacks and inactive chains, landed with a tone the market now recognizes. Another reminder that the industry’s early optimism has given way to a far more demanding reality.
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Bitcoin traders keep chasing Trump’s Iran noise. The real signals are elsewhere.
The past four weeks have been brutal for bitcoin traders as prices keep chasing comments by President Donald Trump, who can't make up his mind about Iran.
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