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View More NewsIn brief Grayscale’s Zcash fund began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. The product began as a private placement in October 2017. Its listing follows the disclosure and patching of a critical vulnerability in Zcash’s shielded transaction system. Grayscale’s Zcash Exchange Traded Fund, better known as an ETF, began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca, listing a nine-year-old investment product months after developers disclosed and patched a critical vulnerability in the privacy coin’s shielded transaction system.Trading under the ticker ZCSH, the world’s first exchange-traded product offering spot Zcash exposure allows investors to track the price of ZEC through…
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the final week of August near its highest levels since mid-May as its bear-market recovery reaches a critical stage.Key points:Bitcoin sees a weekly candle close above its 50-week exponential moving average (EMA) for the first time since November 2025.Amid its best August gains in almost a decade, BTC/USD returns investor cohorts to net profit, while new money enters at $73,000.Fed chair Kevin Warsh is in the spotlight ahead of the Jackson Hole symposium.US PCE data will be released on Wednesday as markets continue to respond to last week’s US Treasury debt buyback.Investor capital returns to exchange-traded products…
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The gene genie has been out of the bottle for some time. In late 2023, two graduate students working under FBI supervision at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab ordered fragments of a virus from 38 commercial DNA synthesis companies. The virus in question was the 1918 “Spanish flu” variant of influenza—the pathogen responsible for one of history’s most devastating pandemics, which killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide. The orders were placed on behalf of an organisation that conducts no laboratory experiments, and shipping was requested to an address with no laboratory facilities—both details that should have triggered…
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In brief Strive purchased 1,110 Bitcoin at an average price of $73,409. The company issued 3.65 million common shares and 441,313 preferred shares during…
A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over an anti-ICE cartoon. After FIRE objected, the district adopted a new policy that gives administrators…
BTC was little changed Monday after last week’s 24% surge triggered by a Treasury buyback announcement that squeezed over $3 billion in shorts. Read…
The proposed deal would make Gemini the exclusive venue for crypto event contracts offered through Apex’s FCM, expanding its prediction-market reach to brokerage clients.…
Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to…
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Exodus Movement (EXOD) cut its bitcoin holdings by 1,076 BTC in the first quarter, while adding 5,068 SOL, as it moved more of its…
Bakkt swung to a first-quarter loss as crypto services revenue fell 77%, underscoring the digital asset platform’s push to reposition itself around stablecoin payments…
In brief Bitcoin’s current bear market drawdown of around 36% from its ATH is shallower than historical cycles, which saw 40–50% declines. ETF inflows…
Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through…
New York, May 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately and unconditionally release two journalists from TOLOnews…