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View More NewsPerpetual futures are on track to become one of the dominant trading instruments in global finance, with decentralized exchange Hyperliquid demonstrating how blockchain-based infrastructure could challenge traditional markets, according to Pantera Capital.The blockchain-focused asset manager said in a Wednesday X post that perpetual futures offer structural advantages over traditional derivatives, including 24/7 trading, no contract expiries, simpler position management and continuous price discovery, making them increasingly attractive beyond crypto markets.Pantera, an investor in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, said Hyperliquid has become the leading example of that shift by expanding perpetual futures beyond cryptocurrencies into equities, commodities and stock indices as part…
Google owes its existence to the open web, but today, its technological “innovations” have much to do with locking users into a “walled garden.” The latest of these is “reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification,” an experimental initiative that will let companies block users if they are running independent, “de-googled” versions of Android. These “indie Android” versions are favored by people who want to protect their privacy and their attention by blocking trackers and ads. Worse, this is just the latest in a line of similarly user-hostile measures. Long before “agentic AI,” we had the idea that software would act as your agent…
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The questions were put to me without malice: Are you Jewish? And is that why you have written about antisemitism and antizionism from so far outside the immediate theatre of war? I understand these questions. They were asked in good faith, and I will answer them seriously in return. Antisemitism is unequivocally a Jewish wound, a Jewish danger, and a Jewish historical burden. Jews are its direct targets, and nothing in this essay seeks to diminish that fact. But it is also my belief that antisemitism is more than a problem of Jewish identity, memory, and self-defence. It reveals, above…
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