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View More NewsThe exchange has immediately halted all new account registrations following a strategic business review by its parent company, HDR Global Trading Limited. The wind-down ends an 11-year run for the Seychelles-incorporated venue, which debuted in 2014 and pioneered the foundational plumbing for modern digital asset derivatives trading.The wind-down forces an immediate reduction of risk across the system, because while standard trading will continue for the next few weeks, the platform will apply strict limits on Aug. 26 to stop users from opening any new positions. Between that date and the final September deadline, operators will systematically force close all remaining…
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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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In response to the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters after a hearing today,…
White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt responded to Thune’s remarks in an interview with CoinDesk on Thursday, arguing that the first week in August…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $65,000 on Thursday as US stocks slid amid another round of escalation in Iran.Key points:Several days of US-Iran escalation are…
California’s onerous and easily exploitable environmental review law is being pushed to new levels of absurdity by unionized state workers who are threatening to…
Crypto trading firm FalconX has confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the initial step toward a…
Standard Chartered says Ethereum’s network activity remains close to record levels even as Ether (ETH) trades far below last year’s highs, arguing that the…
In brief Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tencent developed ProAct, an AI agent designed to predict likely user needs before users ask.…
About a month after federal prosecutors accused former CNN anchor Don Lemon and eight other people of violating civil rights laws by disrupting a…
The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization that has long served as the closest thing Ethereum has to a central steward, has been facing renewed…
The France-based semiconductor company that announced a move into crypto is “no longer pursuing” a treasury strategy after less than a year.In a Thursday…
In brief Kalshi sued Minnesota to block the state’s new law making prediction markets operations a felony. The lawsuit aligns with the Trump administration,…