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View More NewsCryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched a yield-bearing tokenized gold product that lets users earn interest on Tether Gold (XAUT), the latest entrant into a broader push to turn traditionally non-yielding assets into income-generating instruments.The product is designed to convert tokenized gold — typically a passive store of value — into a yield-bearing asset using XAUT, the largest tokenized gold product, the company announced Thursday. It allows holders to earn passive income while maintaining exposure to gold prices.The market cap of Tether Gold reached nearly $3 billion earlier this month. Source: CoinMarketCapBybit said the offering is part of its broader expansion…
New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely mistreated him. A court in the capital, Baku, sentenced Mammadli on Monday to six years in prison on charges of hooliganism and causing serious bodily harm. Mammadli denied the charges and said they had been fabricated in retaliation for the work of his outlet, Yoldash Media, one of the last independent media outlets that had continued to operate amid an ongoing wave of journalist arrests in Azerbaijan since 2023. He plans to appeal the sentence. “Given the way Azerbaijan…
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In 2022, James Cameron brought audiences the sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron continues the story of protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). In the first film, Sully is a crippled marine living on a dying future Earth. He travels to the alien world of Pandora to help the militaristic Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and corporate overseer Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) move the natives, the Na’vi, off their land so the humans can mine it. But then he falls in love with a native woman, her people, and their world, helps them…
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OP_NET said it is launching a “SlowFi” decentralized finance (DeFi) stack on Bitcoin that uses standard Bitcoin transactions and native BTC fees rather than…
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Amman, March 19, 2026 –– The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that at least three journalists were assaulted, and two of…
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from the being-forced-to-say-the-quiet-parts-loud dept It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re…
Amid a war in the Middle East that is, despite his assurances, still very much unresolved, President Donald Trump spent a substantial portion of…
Berlin, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Hungarian authorities to swiftly investigate the forcible removal of reporters Judit Presinszky and Nóra Siteri with…
Shares of stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) have surged more than 100% over the past month, turning what many investors once viewed as one of…
The US Secret Service, UK National Crime Agency, and Canadian authorities have partnered to disrupt fraudulent schemes related to crypto, raise awareness of scams,…
In brief The U.S. Secret Service is working with authorities in the United Kingdom and Canada to stop crypto fraud. Dubbed “Operation Atlantic,” the…
Brendan Carr’s authoritarian warning — that networks risk their broadcasting licenses for Iran war reporting that the government doesn’t like — is outrageous. When…