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View More NewsIn brief GalaxyOne Head Zac Prince said he’s “not particularly excited” about prediction markets when it comes to enabling customers to build long-term wealth. The executive highlighted the retail investment platform’s recent support of Solana staking and associated lending products in the firm’s pipeline. Staking has enabled competitors like Coinbase to diversify revenue, while others like Robinhood have embraced prediction markets as growth drivers. For Galaxy’s retail investment platform, enabling customers to bet on the news isn’t a priority, according to Zac Prince, head of GalaxyOne. Rather, the service that debuted in October is being built in a way that’s…
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The landslide defeat suffered by Viktor Orbán in Hungary on 12 April has dealt a body blow to global postliberalism at a moment when the democratic recession may be on the brink of a reversal. Although Hungary is a nation of fewer than ten million people with a GDP about half the size of Elon Musk’s net worth, its global significance is magnified by the political model Orbán spent over a decade and a half building. He called it “illiberal democracy,” but it has attracted emulators and apologists from across the liberal-democratic world. Orbán’s massive defeat arrives as Donald Trump’s…
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Payward, the parent company of the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Friday that it has entered into a “definitive agreement” to acquire Bitnomial, a…
In brief A trader on Ethereum turned 1 ETH, or around $2,500 worth, into nearly $500,000 after making a meme coin trade on Thursday.…
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Europe needs more euro-issued stablecoins and banks across the European Union (EU) countries must explore tokenized deposits, French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said Friday,…
Bitcoin (BTC) rallied above $78,000 to hit another 10-week high on Friday as crypto and equity markets reacted to cooling tensions in the US…
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from the i’d-throw-my-computer-in-a-lake dept We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the…
The best sign of a U.S.-Iranian compromise is both sides insisting that they aren’t giving anything up. On Friday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump…
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World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the…