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View More NewsTradeweb, an institutional electronic trading platform, has executed an onchain transaction involving tokenized US Treasuries, with Franklin Templeton transferring a tokenized Treasury security to Virtu Financial in exchange for tokenized cash over the Canton Network.Tradeweb provided execution and price discovery, while the Canton Network synchronized settlement between the tokenized Treasury and tokenized cash. The companies said the trade settled in real time, but did not disclose its size.A Tradeweb spokesperson told Cointelegraph the deal marked the industry’s first real-time purchase and sale of a tokenized US Treasury settled against USDCx, a USDC-backed stablecoin issued on Canton. Participants included Blockdaemon, Digital…
from the and-perhaps-not-for-long dept Look, 5-4 Supreme Court decisions count just as much as 9-0 ones, and a 5-4 decision getting it right is still a win, but for a number of reasons, the 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara, regarding the issue of birthright citizenship is terrifying. This isn’t a complicated issue. This isn’t an issue that should even be before the Supreme Court at all. The text of the Fourteenth Amendment is crystal clear: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the…
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A review of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours by Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano; 256 pages; Liveright (June 2026)The three essays in this new volume about Thomas Jefferson hope to show that Jefferson remains relevant to our time while they rescue him from trite generalisation. “Across generations,” write historians Onuf and Cogliano, “Americans have reinvented and reimagined Jefferson according to their contemporary needs and concerns, effectively taking him out of history and making them their contemporary.”A historiography follows that illustrates how Jefferson has often been used and misused as a flag of convenience, and…
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Strategy (MSTR) last week acquired 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million, increasing its total holdings to 846,842 BTC, according to a Monday morning filing.The…
Bitbank, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, warned users that transactions linked to prediction market platforms such as Polymarket could result in account suspensions…
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