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View More NewsIn brief Zhibao Technology signed a non-binding term sheet with Joyertech and Information OPC for a PIPE financing deal involving roughly 3,500 Bitcoin, worth approximately $220 million at current prices. The buyer would designate a majority of Zhibao’s board of directors at closing, effectively taking control of the company while current management continues running day-to-day operations. Zhibao received a Nasdaq deficiency letter on July 15 for trading below $1 per share, and its stock briefly doubled after the Bitcoin treasury announcement. Zhibao Technology Inc., a Nasdaq-listed Shanghai-based company that sells digital insurance products in China, announced Wednesday that it has…
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In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Rachel Moiselle, a doctoral student in linguistics at Trinity College Dublin who has become one of the most visible voices against antisemitism in Irish public life. Of paternal Jewish heritage and raised Catholic, Moiselle began speaking out after October 7th and found herself, almost overnight, both a target and a lightning rod. She and Zoe discuss why a country with fewer than 3,000 Jews devotes so much of its political and media energy to Israel, how anti-Zionism has taken on the fervour of a replacement faith in post-Catholic Ireland, and…
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David Solomon, chair and CEO of financial giant Goldman Sachs, has given his support for a “not perfect” cryptocurrency market structure bill under consideration…
In brief Ten cows at Fazenda Engenho Velho in Imbituva, Paraná, backed a R$100,000 CPR-F loan registered on B3. This is the first tokenized…
from the acceptable-collateral-damage dept The Trump administration’s continual trend towards maximum awfulness means that every report seems to be “I’ve got bad news and…
Q. Not all tokenized equity products are the same. What is the most important distinction to understand?The central question is what the token actually…
In brief Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, just six weeks after Opus 4.7. The update comes with gains across software engineering, reasoning,…
Qualified immunity is a judge-made doctrine that routinely shields bad cops from facing civil lawsuits over their abusive and unconstitutional behavior. All too often,…
Europe may struggle to contain a financial shock tied to crypto firms and banks because its crisis tools are more limited than those used…
Solana (SOL) futures dropped sharply in May as traders reduced leveraged exposure across all exchanges. SOL open interest (OI) dropped to $1.90 billion on…
In brief Bloomberg published leaked renders of iOS 27’s revamped Siri ahead of WWDC 2026 on June 8, showing a dedicated chatbot app, Dynamic…
from the it’s-almost-as-if-they-want-more-crime dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The United States is experiencing one of…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new memo on Tuesday, directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take additional steps to enforce…
Latest developments: Calamos says its protected Bitcoin ETFs are attracting inflows even as spot Bitcoin ETFs see redemptions.Matt Kaufman, head of ETFs at Calamos,…