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View More NewsBitcoin miner-turned-AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital has filed for a Nasdaq direct listing that could give former Celsius creditors a public market for shares they received through the bankrupt lender’s restructuring.Registered stockholders may sell up to 10.8 million Class A shares under the proposed IOND ticker, according to a registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.Ionic was formed in 2024 to acquire Celsius Mining’s assets through the bankrupt lender’s restructuring. In the filing, Ionic said it started repositioning itself in 2025 from a pure-play Bitcoin miner into a broader digital infrastructure company serving artificial intelligence…
In brief Developers are beginning to test the proposed XRP Ledger Lending Protocol, Ripple said Monday. If approved by network validators, then the dual upgrade would allow network participants to put digital assets to work that currently sit idle. XRP’s price recently fell to its lowest level since November 2024. XRP’s native blockchain inched closer on Monday toward functionality allowing institutions to borrow and lend digital assets directly on-chain, with Ripple announcing that developers can start experimenting with the XRPL Lending Protocol within a testing environment.In a blog post, the firm outlined how two technical specifications dubbed XLS-65 and XLS-66…
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On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’s eponymous 1782 novel.The book has also been denounced plenty of times since it first appeared—back then, it was described with words like “execrable” or “infamous.” Its authorship reportedly got Laclos,…
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In brief The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark rate to around 1%, its highest in over three decades. Bitcoin and the broader crypto…
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Dakar, June 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Malian authorities to release two prominent journalists imprisoned last week for criticizing the country’s…
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, may be unable to serve customers in Europe if its regulatory license application in Greece is turned down,…
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In brief SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in an all-stock deal valuing the company at $60 billion. The acquisition was disclosed…
from the more-vindictive-prosecutions-in-the-works dept Just once I’d like to see this administration engage in the slightest bit of subtlety. Just once. It would be…