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View More NewsThe US consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Tuesday reported that the cryptocurrency industry had contributed $189 million toward the 2026 election cycle, following its 2024 playbook.According to a report released Tuesday, the nonprofit organization said that about 37% of all corporate contributions in the 2026 US election cycle could be traced to crypto companies, totaling about $189 million so far, with more than four months until the November election. While the watchdog group said that the crypto-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake was responsible for spending more than $82 million so far, the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, largely backed…
The launch adds another blue-chip asset manager to Wall Street’s tokenization push. Firms including BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Apollo and Janus Henderson have embraced onchain versions of traditional funds, betting the technology can modernize how assets are issued, transferred and settled. Supporters argue the technology can shorten settlement times, improve operational efficiency and allow assets to move more easily across blockchain-based financial applications.For Centrifuge, the partnership adds another large asset manager to its platform. The company already tokenizes funds from Apollo, Janus Henderson, with those assets increasingly integrated into decentralized finance protocols such as Aave and Morpho. It is also the…
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A review of Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by JD Vance; 288 pages; HarperCollins: New York (June 2026)The novelist Evelyn Waugh was once asked how he reconciled his lousy personal behaviour—which included drunkenness, antisemitism, and cruelty to friends and foes alike—with his Catholic faith. No one could imagine, Waugh replied, how vile he would have been were he not a Catholic. That retort came to mind as I read US vice president JD Vance’s new book, Communion, about his conversion to Catholicism. Since joining the Church of Rome in 2019, Vance has not exactly been a paragon of virtue. Once…
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The race is also spreading beyond crypto. Last month, prediction market operator Kalshi launched its own perpetual futures business after regulatory approval, joining exchanges…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has requested public comment on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) investing in novel asset classes or using new investment…
In brief Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31,…
Get your ticketsAmerica’s 250th deserves more than fireworks. It deserves a celebration of the right to free speech that has helped make this nation…
from the less-competition-is-more-competition dept The Trump “Department of Justice’s” “antitrust division” dumped its unsurprising approval of the terrible Paramount Warner Brothers merger late on…
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading…
BitMine Immersion Technologies continued to expand its Ether holdings last week, acquiring more of the second-biggest digital asset despite a prolonged market downturn as…
In brief IplanRIO released Rio 3.5 Open 397B on June 13, billing it as a government-built frontier AI model with benchmark scores topping Qwen…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept The Lifetime Learner Bundle feature access to uTalk and Stack Skills. Through uTalk, you’ll be able to speak keywords and…
This morning, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Newman v. Moore. For years, I’ve thought that Chief Judge Moore is simply waiting for Judge Pauline…
A key player on the fast-growing derivatives exchange Hyperliquid’s private-company trading is shutting down, pointing to consolidation in one of the industry’s hottest new…
Non-fungible token (NFT) project Pudgy Penguins is winding down its mobile game Pudgy Party and halting further development.In an X post, the team said…