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View More NewsIn brief Kalshi filed with the CFTC to launch a perpetual futures contract tied to copper prices. The proposed contract would use Pyth Network price data and have no expiration date. Kalshi has also filed for stock-index perpetuals after winning approval for a Bitcoin perpetual in May. Prediction market operator Kalshi filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to launch perpetual futures tied to copper prices.Filed August 18, the proposed COPPERPERP contract would track the spot price of copper in U.S. dollars per pound using a price feed from Pyth Network, a blockchain-based market data provider that aggregates pricing from…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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BTC rose about 6% while ether, solana and crypto stocks climbed after the Treasury doubled the size of its bond buybacks. Read the full…
Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross-border transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, demonstrating interoperability between the banks’ tokenized deposit systems a…
In brief The Base accelerator plans to select 10 startups for its eight-week Batches 004 accelerator. Each selected team will receive a $100,000 investment…
From 2000 through 2024, FIRE recorded 102 cases of politicians trying to silence faculty. That’s four cases a year on average. Then, in 2025…
The revenue share deal could shift an estimated $160 million in revenue from Coinbase and Circle into Hyperliquid’s ecosystem, Compass Point analysts said. Read…
Bitcoin (BTC) lost its hold on the $80,000 level over the weekend, and data suggest that the cryptocurrency needs to trade above the $74,000-$75,000…
In brief PCT Litigation Trust sued financial services firm Swan Bitcoin seeking repayment of nearly $1 billion in assets. The lawsuit alleges that Swan…
Today the Supreme Court GVR’d two cases in light of Callais. State Board of Election Commissioners v. Mississippi NAACP and Turtle Mountain Band of…
Memphis Residents Challenge Pattern of Retaliation for Recording Memphis Safe Task Force Agents MEMPHIS – Four Memphis residents filed suit in federal court to…
The European fintech giant is launching a physical debit card that lets users spend the popular meme coin anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted…
Minnesota-based banking institutions and credit unions are set to offer some crypto custody services beginning in August.On Friday, Governor Tim Walz signed House File…
In brief X-OmniClaw is an open-source Android AI agent from Oppo that keeps its core logic on-device and only calls the cloud for high-level…