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View More NewsIn brief Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will let customers trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana inside Leumi Trade through Galaxy’s trading and custody rails. It’s Bank Leumi’s second attempt at crypto trading, after a failed run back in 2022. The target is early 2027, still subject to Bank of Israel approval—the same gate that killed Leumi’s 2022 Paxos plan. Bank Leumi and Galaxy Digital said Thursday they’ll bring cryptocurrency trading to Israel’s largest bank through its digital investment arm, Pepper.“Customers of Leumi and PEPPER, the bank’s mobile digital banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell selected digital…
São Paulo, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court has decided personal allegations are a reason to break source confidentiality, a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution, in journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida’s reporting. Brazilian Supreme Federal (STF) Judge Flávio Dino accused Luís Pablo of “stalking” him last year after the journalist published three blog posts reporting that Dino’s family regularly used a state vehicle. As part of an investigation ordered by STF Judge Alexandre de Moraes into Dino’s claims, Federal Police raided the former secretary of Maranhão state government Raimundo Cutrim’s…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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from the pinky-swears dept It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the…
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives,…
Credit card and staking revenue drove Gemini’s services growth in Q2 as exchange revenue fell 38% and trading volume dropped by two-thirds. Read the…
In brief Ireland published its first National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy on Thursday, with crypto-asset rules among the reforms it sets out. The final elements…
If it fails that, it moves to an exclusion screen that uses five ratios – operating asset intensity, expense intensity, cash flow, fair value…
JPMorgan Chase stopped providing its banking services to the decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket late last year, according to the Financial Times. In October…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Neutrl has suspended minting and redemptions for its NUSD synthetic dollar after unspecified circumstances affected protocol reserves, leaving the cause…
Copper Markets US will offer qualified custody, staking, financing and OTC services after securing its regulated US presence. Read the full article here
In brief Twitch has begun letting Amazon use streamer content to train generative AI models, with the setting switched on by default. Chief product…
from the ╭∩╮(-•̀_•́-)╭∩╮ dept As expected, this didn’t take very long. Earlier this week we pointed out that Donald Trump supplanted RFK Jr. as…
Bitcoin (BTC) recent buyers are the latest hurdle to a breakout from a stubborn trading range in place since June.Key points:Bitcoin short-term holders are…
In brief A breach at ShipMonk, one of Trezor’s fulfillment partners, exposed personal data belonging to 13,689 Trezor customers. Full names, phone numbers, email…