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View More NewsInvestment bank Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Morpho, calling the lending protocol a dual-play on decentralized finance (DeFi) that combines a lending market with infrastructure for onchain banks and asset managers.The bank has a $60 price target for MORPHO by the end of 2030, implying roughly 33x upside from its current price. This would see the token outperform both bitcoin BTC$60,018.01 and ether (ETH) over the same period.MORPHO was more than 13% higher over 24 hours, trading around $2.13 at publication time.”Given its status as one of the largest DeFi lending protocols and its comfortable financial position (it just…
Bitcoin (BTC) traded as high as $60,200 on Wednesday, up about 2.7% over the past 24 hours after falling to a 21-month low of $57,737 earlier in the session. Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) also gained, up 3% and 4.85%, respectively. The bounce took place amid deep investor caution, with sentiment trackers gauging the balance of fear and greed in crypto markets currently reading around 11 out of 100, in “Extreme Fear” territory. Despite the rebound from the yearly low, Bitcoin remains down roughly a third since the start of the year. Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Source: Alternative.meBitcoin dip-buyers overshadowed by…
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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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Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 10.09% on Sunday, marking the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment and easing some of the pressure on miners.Galaxy Research said…
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By the end of 2026, the United Nations will have selected a new Secretary-General. The incoming UN leader will take office at a time…
Illustration: Walter Arce/Natanael Alfredo Nemanita Ginting/Dreamstime Today, the US and Iran announced an agreement to end the war between them. The agreement may also…
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