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View More NewsTokenization platform Theo has received $100 million for a structured investment facility backing its yield-bearing stablecoin, thUSD, underscoring growing institutional appetite for digital dollars tied to alternative yield sources beyond US Treasurys.Theo co-founder Ari Pingle told Cointelegraph that the capital was committed through a structured facility known as the Genesis Vault, which reached its $100 million cap within 24 hours. The funds were deposited into the facility to support the launch of thUSD, rather than representing venture funding for the company.The company uses the deposited funds to buy tokenized gold while simultaneously shorting gold futures on the CME to hedge…
The First Amendment states that the government “shall make no law….abridging the freedom of speech.” But one prominent conservative judge, whose name has been mentioned as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, thinks that protection against government censorship may not apply to noncitizens in the United States. Is the judge right? Writing for himself in the December 2025 case of United States v. Escobar- Temal, Judge Amul Thapar of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit asserted that “neither history nor precedent indicates that the First Amendment definitively applies to aliens.” Yet in Bridges v.…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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In brief IBM expanded its free quantum computing program, increasing runtime and hardware access for researchers. The company opened its Heron R2 processor to…
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from the forfeiting-the-future dept It has long been clear: Trump needs to be removed from office before he can inflict even more damage than…