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View More NewsBlockchain Optimism’s governance has approved a proposal to repurpose 546.9 million OP tokens previously reserved for user airdrops to support ecosystem growth and institutional adoption.OP currently has a market cap of roughly $214 million, with a circulating supply of about 2.29 billion tokens, according to CoinGecko data.The new Strategic Ecosystem Fund will support partnerships with chains, protocols and institutions, as well as incentives to increase activity and liquidity on OP Mainnet and grow OP Enterprise.The decision drew pushback from some delegates who argued the tokens had been promised to users and questioned how the foundation would measure returns from the…
The conversations that are blooming around the death of Jason Arday are, in their broadest sense, not particularly new. Death is shocking, morality is messy, and we do what little we can to make sense of it when confronted with the two. Go back to any era of human history and you can likely find calls for censorship in the wake of death and disaster. But the same is true today as it was a year ago, a decade ago, or a century ago: Despite the current calls to the contrary, censorship is not a remedy for tragedy.Following a spike in reporting…
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I first came across French writer Jean Raspail’s infamous novel The Camp of the Saints while I was reading Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe back in 2017. Raspail’s novel imagines the invasion of Europe by large groups of unsanitary and ravenous migrants from the Global South led by a coprophage (“shit-eater”). Despite his own firmly anti-immigration views, Murray declines to defend the book’s inflammatory contents, but he is nonetheless struck by Raspail’s descriptions of Western passivity in the face of an unsustainable wave of immigration. The book’s overt racism notwithstanding, it has attracted some attention in recent years…
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The feature, which follows earlier moves into financial transactions, is not yet being tested anywhere, a spokesperson said. Read the full article here
Every major except tron posted double-digit weekly gains, with nearly $1.4 billion of short positions wiped out after the Treasury doubled its bond buybacks.…
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Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $517 million and ether funds $189 million on Aug. 19, the strongest daily hauls in months, as a broad…
In brief Crypto trading platform KuCoin is building out its presence in the Australian market through regulated compliance and new products. With recent research…
Bernstein analysts said Friday that Figure Technology Solutions’ first-quarter earnings report shows that the fintech is fast becoming a company that is unique among…
From Wikipedia, photo by Dmitry Rozhkov of display “Rock on bones” in Gallery “Vinzavod”, Moscow (2008) My father Vladimir was remarking yesterday about an…
In brief Arc is a blockchain built by USDC issuer Circle for stablecoin-focused applications. It uses USDC for gas, features a built-in FX engine,…
Unpacking Thursday’s at-times contentious markup hearing. Read the full article here
Strategy chairman Michael Saylor on Sunday signaled the Bitcoin treasury company would be buying more of the cryptocurrency in the week ahead while also…
Another 11 companies responded to a survey saying they would consider offering crypto funds once the regulatory environment becomes clear. Read the full article…
VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.…