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View More NewsBlock’s Cash App has quietly begun rolling out its highly anticipated stablecoin payment feature, a source familiar with the matter told CoinDesk Wednesday. According to this individual, the feature is now active for 25% of Cash App’s nearly 60 million users, with plans to scale to 100% by the end of the week.Block did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment.The launch marks an unprecedented ideological shift for Block’s leadership and changes how the platform handles digital fiat currency.The source familiar with the matter said that integrating alternative blockchain rails indicates Block CEO Jack Dorsey, a historically staunch…
A range of crypto companies appears in a preliminary list for the Russell 3000 index, including treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries, along with crypto exchange Gemini and crypto services firm Galaxy Digital. A preliminary index list for the Russell 3000 was published by the index’s provider, FTSE Russell, on Friday. The index tracks the 3,000 largest companies in the US and requires a market capitalization of at least $146.4 million.Sharplink has a market cap of $1.2 billion, and the company’s CEO, Joseph Chalom, said in a statement on Tuesday that it means the firm could make the Russell 2000, an…
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A review of Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior; 462 pages; New York, Public Affairs (May 2026)I.The Cambridge spies—three of whom were members of the Apostles society at Cambridge University—are the best-known and most written-about group of Western agents of Josef Stalin from the 1930s and ’40s. A Spy Among Friends, Ben Macintyre’s bestselling 2014 biography of Kim Philby, the most notorious of the bunch, was made into a well-received television miniseries in 2022. Recruited while they were at Cambridge as young men, Philby’s fellow spies were Anthony Blunt, Donald MacLean,…
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European stablecoin issuer StablR has suspended minting and redemption services for its USDR and EURR tokens after a cyberattack left the assets under-collateralized, according…
US President Donald Trump has backed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as having the “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, as state regulators’ action against…
In brief The U.K. sanctioned HTX and other crypto firms over alleged ties to Russian sanctions evasion networks. British institutions are now barred from…
from the rake-after-rake-after-rake dept I’m starting to wonder if RFK Jr. can do anything right at all. After the courts put an injunction on…
from the sometimes-it-can-be-a-useful-tool dept I’ve spoken to enough teachers and professors to know that LLM tools are absolutely a challenge for many of them…
U.S. President Donald Trump said it was “critically important” that the CFTC keep “exclusive authority” over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig in…
Several Bitcoin mining stocks rallied Tuesday, reflecting a broader equity surge driven by optimism around artificial intelligence productivity gains as more miners pivot toward…
In brief Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev posted an unofficial world-record time in the men’s 50-meter freestyle. Non-enhanced athletes won both the 100-meter sprint finals…
An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in…
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the latest edition of Rent Free. This week’s slightly abbreviated post-Memorial Day issue includes a breakdown of the latest version…
A growing number of people see the Clarity Act, which intends to establish clear and enforceable guardrails for the U.S. crypto industry, as a…
Near Protocol’s native token, NEAR, has the potential to grow 20x by 2027, according to Arthur Hayes, co-founder of the crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX.Key…