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View More NewsRedotPay, a Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments startup, is facing internal strain and executive turnover as it seeks up to $150 million in fresh funding and works toward a U.S. IPO that could value the company at more than $4 billion.Those ambitions are being clouded by executive turnover. At least five senior hires left within 12 months, and the company is pursuing its listing plans without a chief financial officer. Staff, according to a Bloomberg report, have often been asked to work late for extended periods.The fundraising talks come only months after RedotPay raised more than $150 million across two rounds…
In brief Blockchain data platform Allium is partnering with Walrus to bring over 65TB of indexed historical data from major blockchains to its on-chain data platform. The collaboration will launch with data from Bitcoin, Sui, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Tron and XRP. With the partnership, Walrus and Allium aim to provide institutions and developers with verifiable, always-available, and programmable access to institutional-grade blockchain data. Blockchain data platform Allium is bringing more than 65TB of indexed historical records from leading blockchains to on-chain data layer Walrus.The trove of data is being provided through a partnership with Allium, which counts Visa, Stripe and Coinbase…
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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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