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View More NewsLatest NewsPublishedAug 10, 2026The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered. The Chainlink (LINK) token may see an more than 25-fold increase by the end of the decade, as tokenized real world assets (RWA) will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, according to a forecast by Geoff Kendrick, the global head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered.Kendrick said that the growth in tokenized assets will require more external data to…
In brief Supporters of BIP-110 split off into a minority Bitcoin chain on Saturday at block 961,632, but it mined only two blocks in about eight hours before stalling, falling dozens of blocks behind the main network. The fork inherited Bitcoin’s difficulty setting with barely any hashpower—about 2.53% of recent blocks signaled support, far below the 55% activation threshold, BIP-110 sought to temporarily block non-financial data like Ordinals inscriptions from transactions, a move critics including Michael Saylor call a dangerous precedent. The long-simmering fight over a controversial Bitcoin network proposal finally produced a chain split over the weekend, but the…
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In 1940, one of the great literary showdowns of the last century took place between one of Britain’s great men of letters and a writer whose name most readers of this essay will never have heard. From one corner of the literary ring strode George Orwell, the ancient-jacketed patron saint of plain speaking, cigarette adroop. Facing him was another assiduous smoker—a pipe man, in this case—and writer of popular children’s stories. This mismatched fight did not go as expected.The morbidly private Charles Hamilton was the undisputed world champion of that peculiarly British genre, the English school story, and over the…
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Russian consumers’ demand for hardware crypto wallets more than doubled in the first half of 2026, according to data from two major retailers, as…
In brief The Senate took its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with Thune filing the motion to proceed early Saturday…
In brief The initiative says it has scanned about 150 Bitcoin repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures. The team is developing…
Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rebounded sharply this week, signaling renewed investor appetite after months of uneven flows, even as uncertainty…
In brief Colossal Biosciences says its artificial womb platform now achieves a 100% development rate in current tests after years of iteration. The remaining…
Last year, Larry Bushart spent 37 days in a Tennessee jail because he had shared a widely circulated anti-Trump meme on Facebook. Today his…
SpaceX officially confirmed plans to go public on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could become the largest initial public offering in history and…
Key takeaways:$2 billion in spot Bitcoin ETF outflows spark downside fears, but this metric is typically backward-looking.A sustained discount on stablecoins in China signals…
In brief Bitcoin firm Nakamoto is instituting a 1-for-40 reverse stock split. The move is intended to help it achieve a share price of…
None of this proves that extreme views are always right, and moderate ones always misguided. The point is not that we should always adopt…
The U.S. Federal Reserve took another step toward special limited payment accounts that would give a lighter version of the master-account services the central…
Coinbase launched USDF with Flipcash, a Solana-based stablecoin backed 1:1 by Circle’s USD Coin, as the crypto exchange expands its infrastructure business for companies…