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View More NewsIn brief Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, will let customers trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana inside Leumi Trade through Galaxy’s trading and custody rails. It’s Bank Leumi’s second attempt at crypto trading, after a failed run back in 2022. The target is early 2027, still subject to Bank of Israel approval—the same gate that killed Leumi’s 2022 Paxos plan. Bank Leumi and Galaxy Digital said Thursday they’ll bring cryptocurrency trading to Israel’s largest bank through its digital investment arm, Pepper.“Customers of Leumi and PEPPER, the bank’s mobile digital banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell selected digital…
São Paulo, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court has decided personal allegations are a reason to break source confidentiality, a right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution, in journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida’s reporting. Brazilian Supreme Federal (STF) Judge Flávio Dino accused Luís Pablo of “stalking” him last year after the journalist published three blog posts reporting that Dino’s family regularly used a state vehicle. As part of an investigation ordered by STF Judge Alexandre de Moraes into Dino’s claims, Federal Police raided the former secretary of Maranhão state government Raimundo Cutrim’s…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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from the pinky-swears dept It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the…
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives,…
Credit card and staking revenue drove Gemini’s services growth in Q2 as exchange revenue fell 38% and trading volume dropped by two-thirds. Read the…
In brief Ireland published its first National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy on Thursday, with crypto-asset rules among the reforms it sets out. The final elements…
US-based exchange-traded funds tied to HYPE recorded a 50% trading volume jump on Wednesday, in a rare move for newly debuted ETFs, according to…
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Conservatives have been slamming Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper for getting married and embracing motherhood after creating a podcast that failed to…
A South Korean funeral services company has reported an unrealized loss of about 45 billion won ($33 million) tied to investments in leveraged ether…
Singapore’s central bank has pulled the crypto payment license of Bsquared Technology Pte. Ltd., stripping the firm of its right to provide digital payment…
In brief AI agents at top labs can potentially initiate unauthorized “rogue” operations, an independent report details, but agents currently lack the sophistication to…
Last month, I wrote about the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion finding that the Presidential Records Act was inconsistent with Trump v. Mazars. Somewhat…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Alec Beckman on why BTC-backed lending is not a crypto story, but a capital…