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View More NewsSolana and Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base have been bridged together using Chainlink’s technology in a move to increase liquidity between the two networks.Base said on Thursday that it launched a bridge connecting it to Solana secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, enabling seamless asset transfers.The bridge is now live on mainnet for builders to integrate, and rolling out for anyone to use in apps, including Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch, and Relay.Users will also be able to trade Solana (SOL) and many Solana-based assets on Base. Base developers can also integrate the bridge to support Solana assets,…
Introduction: I’ll be your host this week, Iona Italia. My guest this week is Nicholas Wolfinger. Nick is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He is also the editor of a recent collection of tales of academic cancellation, called Professors Speak Out: The Truth about Campus Investigations. I’ll be talking to Nick today about the main topic of his research: marriage, divorce, and parenthood. I’ve been a fan of Nick’s work on the subject for years. He’s the author of the sociological study, Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single…
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Inbreeding has always occupied a strange place in the human imagination. It unsettles and fascinates at once. From the tangled family trees of Game of Thrones to the time-bending ironies of Back to the Future, stories about kinship and lineage invite us to peek behind the curtain of biology and culture, into that space where bloodlines, desire, and taboo converge.Anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers from Freud to Lévi-Strauss have long been preoccupied with it. And now, in an age of genetic sequencing and political debate, inbreeding has re-entered the public conversation. In Britain, for instance, Parliament has recently discussed the health…
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Bitcoin BTC$92,485.99 is once again behaving differently from the traditional risk asset complex, and the latest divergence may be sending an important signal.Negative correlation…
Solmate, formerly Brera Holdings PLC, has signed a nonbinding term sheet to acquire RockawayX, a deal that would shift the Abu Dhabi–based Solana company…
In brief Strategy’s cash reserve is a prudent move, TD Cowen analysts said. Still, the investment bank lowered its Strategy price target to $500…
from the destroying-the-nation-they-pretend-to-love dept A recent shooting involving a former Afghani US counter-terrorism asset who worked with the CIA (!!!) has become the tragedy…
The United States’ new approach to stablecoin regulation is reshaping global liquidity flows and driving a sharp structural split with the European Union’s Markets…
In brief Thai investigators have seized $8.6 million in Bitcoin mining equipment linked to “Chinese transnational scam networks” operating from Myanmar. The raid uncovered…
from the fake-plastic-presidency dept Earlier this year we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. Even calling it a…
On Thursday, The New York Times, represented by Gibson Dunn, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon over its new press access policy. Reporters Committee for Freedom…
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)Move over crypto-USD pairs. As bitcoin BTC$92,650.75 and the broader market consolidate on recent gains, this…
United Kingdom political party Reform UK has received a record 9 million British pounds (about $12 million) donation from early crypto investor Christopher Harborne.…
In brief 21Shares’ TSOL product was the sole source of a record $32.19M outflow from Solana ETFs on Wednesday. An analyst calls the outflow…
A geothermal startup said Thursday that it has hit gold in Nevada—metaphorically speaking. Zanskar, which uses AI to find hidden geothermal resources deep underground,…