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View More NewsLatest developments: In an interview with Jennifer Sanasie on CoinDesk’s Public Keys Ginns said the convergence between traditional finance and crypto continues to gain momentum despite a prolonged market slump Franklin Crypto aims to build a leading fundamental crypto investment platform following Franklin Templeton’s acquisition of 250 Digital, the firm that emerged from CoinFund’s liquid investment business, Ginns said.While venture capital remains a natural fit for institutional allocators, Ginns said current market conditions also make liquid crypto investments increasingly attractive.”There’s a big disconnect between where prices are and real fundamentals,” Ginns said, pointing to growing institutional engagement across the sector.What…
Officials are often overly aggressive in pursuing leaks of classified information, but President Donald Trump remains in a league of his own. “The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times,” Michael M. Grynbaum wrote Saturday for the paper, “after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.” The subpoenas—which “in some cases” were “delivered by federal agents who showed up at reporters’ homes”—”seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday,” Grynbaum added. The summonses were issued by…
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Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people weep with joy, and everyone who wasn’t indoctrinated before the age of six sits there waiting for something…anything to happen. Then suddenly it almost does. Then just as quickly it doesn’t. Then it almost does again. This is the rhythm of the world’s most boring game.It’s “the beautiful game,” and for most of my adult life I’ve been patiently informed, usually by someone who calls it fútbol, that I simply lack the sophistication to appreciate it. But they’re wrong. Soccer…
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from the thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another dept For years I’ve noted that while Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband system can be very useful for people with no…
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I continue to find one small detail of the Slush Fund affair (Slushfundgate?) of particular interest. As you may recall, our President’s suit against…
A U.K. House of Lords committee said the Bank of England (BOE) should reconsider its proposed limits on consumer stablecoin holdings in a new…
Top Democrats on three House and Senate committees called on the US Labor Department to halt its plans to allow digital assets and “alternative…
In brief The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges for sanctions violations. Nobitex, Iran’s largest digital asset…