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View More NewsIn brief Backpack plans to offer equity to users that stake its upcoming token. But they will also need to become a VIP at the exchange, co-founder Can Sun said. The exchange is preparing to register the tokens as securities in a “worst case scenario.” Not long after Backpack teased last Monday that its upcoming token would enable users to earn equity in the crypto exchange, people from across the industry began reaching out with the exact same question, according to co-founder and Chief Compliance Officer Can Sun.Everyone wanted to know how the arrangement was structured in a way that…
Crypto markets have lacked conviction, as traders struggle to identify a catalyst strong enough to lift prices out of their current lull. Bitcoin has remained range-bound around mid-$60,000, while ether is trading around $2,000, and volumes across major exchanges have thinned. The digital assets market is thirsty for a solid catalyst, and JPMorgan says it has identified one — market structure legislation in the U.S., called the Clarity Act. “While sentiment remains negative in crypto markets, we continue to believe that a potential approval of the market structure legislation most likely by mid year could serve as a positive catalyst…
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“A lesson for Trump to consider,” a headline in France’s Le Figaro cautioned the American president during his first administration: “Even Rome did not succeed in conquering Persia!” This warning was not applicable a decade ago, and it is even less applicable now, when one ought to be able to support US military action against Iran with a clear head and a good conscience. The biggest problem America faces as it prepares for a possible war in Persia is not the nature of the enemy, but the character of its own leadership.Strategic appraisal is never one-dimensional. In evaluating the prospects of a looming conflict,…
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Ethereum continues to host the largest concentration of stablecoins and decentralized finance (DeFi) capital, even as successive waves of faster networks emerge.Newer blockchains have…
What started as an Israeli strike on Iran hours earlier has escalated into the broadest Middle Eastern military conflict in decades, posing a risk…
The taxman cometh. In February, the tax authorities of four countries began to reconsider how they tax crypto.In the US, the number of crypto…
Bitcoin is looking to reclaim $64,000 on possible short squeeze after earlier falling to as low as $63,000 following U.S. and Israeli strikes on…
This week, rumors of a “10 a.m. Bitcoin dump” blamed on quantitative trading company Jane Street gained traction online after it was sued by…
Morgan Stanley has applied for a de novo national trust bank charter, allowing the bank to hold digital assets on behalf of its clients…
Blockchain infrastructure company Alchemy has launched a system that allows autonomous AI agents to buy compute credits and access its blockchain data services using onchain…
Last month, a federal judge in New Hampshire issued an injunction purporting to prevent the state from ending its vehicle emission inspection program. The…
Crypto investment firm Paradigm is seeking to raise $1.5 billion for a new fund that will invest in companies in AI, robotics and other…
In brief A RUSI paper based on a public-private roundtable discussion has called for greater collaboration between privacy tool developers and law enforcement. Participants…
After searching for five days, a partially blind refugee was found dead on Tuesday, only five miles from where U.S. Customs and Border Protection…
After months of sliding digital asset prices, public companies that embraced Bitcoin (BTC) as a treasury strategy are facing renewed scrutiny. Activist investors are…