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View More NewsThe Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its list of unauthorized online gambling websites on Monday, requiring internet service providers (ISP) to block access. The ministry listed the prediction market’s website under the country’s Gambling Act, which prohibits operators from offering unlicensed online gambling services to Czech users.Under the Gambling Act, ISPs must block access to websites included on the ministry’s blacklist within 15 days of publication of the name.Polymarket is a prediction market where users trade contracts tied to the outcomes of future events. The platform gained global attention during the 2024 US presidential election, with its markets widely…
DTCC safeguards more than $114 trillion in securities, making it one of the most important pieces of financial market infrastructure. Every day, it records ownership and settles transactions involving stocks, bonds and other securities. Rather than creating new digital assets, DTCC’s system converts existing securities into blockchain-based “digital twins” that retain the same legal ownership, dividend and governance rights as the underlying assets.That distinction separates DTCC’s approach from many tokenized stock offerings available today.Some crypto platforms issue tokenized “wrappers” that mirror a stock’s price but do not necessarily provide investors with the legal rights associated with owning the underlying shares.DTCC’s…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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US Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Sunday that the growing use of dollar-backed stablecoins could bolster the global influence of US monetary policy.Waller…
Strategy chairman Michael Saylor on Sunday signaled the Bitcoin treasury company would be announcing fresh purchases of the cryptocurrency in the coming days.The social…
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