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View More NewsThe Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global financial watchdog hosted by the Bank for International Settlements, warned on Tuesday that foreign currency-denominated stablecoins can pose financial stability and macroeconomic risks for emerging market and developing economies.In its annual report for 2025, the FSB said that US dollar-denominated stablecoins circulating across multiple jurisdictions pose “potentially more acute” risks to the financial stability of emerging economies.The report said those risks can include currency substitution, reduced use of domestic payment systems, lower effectiveness of domestic monetary policy, strains on fiscal resources and the circumvention of capital flow measures.The FSB said it remains necessary…
TRON DAO has scaled up its artificial intelligence fund by a factor of ten, from $100 million to $1 billion, targeting investments in and acquisitions of early-stage startups building core infrastructure for the agentic economy.The billion-dollar fund, announced on Monday, will focus investments in four areas: agent identity systems, stablecoin-based payment rails, tokenized real-world assets (RWA), and developer tooling for autonomous financial systems.The expansion is built on Tron DAO’s theses dating back to 2023, which foresees stablecoins becoming the practical medium of exchange between AI agents, stablecoins becoming the natural payment layer for “AI-augmented people,” and the rise of tokenized…
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A review of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney, 448 pages, Dutton (May 2023).At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego, California, independent scholar Mary Frances Williams stood up at the end of a panel on “the future of classics,” and suggested that classicists should view their field as the study of the foundations of Western civilisation. Classics “matters,” she went on, “because it’s the West.” Sarah Bond, a professor at the University of Iowa, cut in, declaring that ‘‘Western civilisation is a construct—a complete construction.”Since then, how…
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In brief BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) acquired 65,341 ETH last week. The company now holds over 4.66 million ETH tokens, valued above $10.1 billion.…
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Bitcoin BTC$75,594.79 surged past $75,000 early Tuesday, helped by shifting dynamics in the derivatives market.Prices hit a high of $75,800, convincingly topping the long-term…
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In brief OpenAI advisers warned ChatGPT that its planned erotic mode could create dangerous emotional dependency, per a WSJ report. The AI giant reportedly…