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View More NewsIn brief Circle acquired over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents from IBM, making it the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States; financial terms were not disclosed. The portfolio covers banking, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply chain verification, and secure cloud operations. Circle plans to deploy it across USDC, Circle Payments Network, its Arc blockchain, and AI-powered financial tools. Circle—the company behind USDC (the digital dollar used by millions worldwide for payments, savings, and international transfers)—just bought the blockchain patent library IBM spent more than a decade building. The deal, announced July 27, hands Circle over…
European authorities added 15 crypto companies including a BNY Mellon unit to the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework register in the third update of regulated providers since the July 1 transitional deadline.With the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) update on Friday, its interim MiCA register shows 309 licensed crypto-asset service providers (CASPs).The latest entries include four banking institutions, including BNY SA/NV, the Belgian subsidiary of US banking giant BNY Mellon, and three German banks, alongside digital asset platforms such as BitPay, Coinify and Bleap.The update comes as regulators continue building out the MiCA framework, which introduced the European Union’s…
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A review of Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America by Noah Rothman; 368 pages; Center Street (May 2026)The assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and insurance executive Brian Thompson, the murder of a Jewish couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum, the latest (as of this writing) attempt on the life of Donald Trump—these are some recent examples of serious violence in the name of left-wing causes. Others include the spate of bombing and shooting attacks against ICE facilities, and, going further back, the deadly and destructive riots of 2020. Noah Rothman’s Blood and Progress: A Century of…
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POSCO International, South Korea’s largest trading company, has begun tokenizing trade receivables on blockchain in a test that could speed up commercial payments between…
Clarity may get a vote, but don’t get your hopes up yetDespite wealthy memecoin entrepreneur Donald Trump agreeing to an ethics deal, the Clarity…
WEMIX suspended bridges, liquidity-pool trading and several services after an attacker compromised a WEMIX$-linked contract and moved 724,198 USDC.e. Read the full article here
The crypto industry, naturally, is urging passage. The common refrain online is that Clarity includes some investor protection rules and creates some structure for…
In brief The Digital Chamber urged the OCC to defend recent national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms. Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued the…
Meet the new Leo, same as the old Leo: On Monday, Pope Leo XIV dropped his first encyclical, “Magnificas Humanitas,” about how humanity can…
Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the Ethereum treasury firm helmed by chairman Tom Lee, ramped up purchases again, making its biggest haul since December.The company said…
Smaller Bitcoin treasury firms added 602.6 BTC worth about $46 million last week, even as the largest corporate holders appeared to pause their acquisitions.The…
A lucky trader bought $341 of a World Cup-themed Solana meme coin in mid-May, when it had a market capitalization of less than $40,000.…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept NPR is imposing a new round of buyouts and layoffs as it tries to survive the brutal Trump GOP attacks…
Some excerpts from the long opinion in Mullen v. Giordano, decided Thursday by Judge Susan Brnovich (D. Ariz.): The Ninth Circuit has distilled Pickering…
Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$77,166.67, repurchased $1.5 billion of…