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In brief Tether reported $1.04 billion in Q1 2026 profit. The USDT issuer said it has also grown its reserve buffer to a record $8.23 billion. The company claims it holds $141 billion in U.S. Treasuries, though these figures have not yet been fully audited. Tether reported more than $1 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2026, against a backdrop of broader crypto market volatility, the company announced Friday.The world’s top stablecoin issuer said net profit reached approximately $1.04 billion for the quarter. The company also reported that its buffer between the total value of its stablecoins in…
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A review of Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground by Zayd Ayers Dohrn; 352 pages; Chatto & Windus (June 2026)In his memoir detailing his experiences growing up with revolutionary parents on the run from the federal government in the 1970s, Zayd Ayers Dohrn captures a bizarro life organised around the need to stay one step ahead of the FBI:I was used to this routine. It wasn’t the first time we’d had to pack up all our things in the middle of the night and take off on another long cross-country drive. We ditched cars…
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Faculty and students at Tennessee’s public universities can speak more freely today after Governor Bill Lee signed the amended version of SB 1741 — the…
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Ripple-linked xrp tokens are back in positive social media chatter in a historically contrarian price signal.The token’s positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders pushed the price to $77,400, but data suggests profit-taking may thwart the bull’s goal of turning the $77,000 to $80,000 zone…
DeFi can’t stop bleeding, and Wasabi Protocol is the latest to find out why.The protocol, a perpetuals trading platform built on Ethereum and Base,…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) attempt to trade above $77,000 have failed multiple times over the past week, despite traders managing a one-day breakout to $79,500. Data…
In brief Tether Investments announced proposals for a triple merger between Twenty-One Capital, Strike, and Elektron Energy to create an integrated Bitcoin platform. XXI…
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided Callais. The last paragraph of the opinion stated: The judgment of the District Court is affirmed, and thesecases are…
Bitcoin BTC$77,139.33, while it’s slightly in the green may be in for a shock. The largest cryptocurrency has gained less than 0.5% since midnight…
The US Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution banning its members and staff, who are often exposed to sensitive information, from using prediction…