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In brief Webull has launched crypto trading for Australian users, with access to 240 digital assets and a 30 basis point spread through Coinbase Prime. Experts say Australian exchanges charge double the spreads of international peers for major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The launch follows Webull’s Monday announcement of resuming U.S. crypto trading after…
In brief Senator Bam Aquino called for budget transactions to be recorded on-chain. A formal bill proposing the measure is yet to be filed. Blockchain solutions aren’t “a silver bullet against corruption,” a local blockchain infrastructure firm told Decrypt. Philippine Senator Bam Aquino wants the country’s national budget placed on a blockchain platform, a move…
In brief Nvidia beat Q2 estimates with $46.7B in revenue and $1.05 adjusted EPS, driven by strong Blackwell chip sales. Shares fell 3.4% after the company disclosed zero H20 chip sales to China due to tightened U.S. export controls. The muted reaction also reflects investor concerns over geopolitical risk and slowing sequential growth in data…
In brief Football.fun is a new on-chain soccer platform that blends crypto trading with fantasy sports gameplay. The platform has grown by more than 10x in the last two weeks. Users can buy shares in their favorite soccer players from the world’s top pro leagues and profit on their success. The growing soccer talk among…
In brief CRO, the native coin of the Cronos network, hit a three-year high price on Wednesday. The surge comes after President Donald Trump-backed Trump Media announced it would build a reserve of the cryptocurrency. The coin is linked to crypto exchange Crypto.com, which is teaming with Trump Media on the treasury and other moves.…
In brief The sanctions provide some insight into North Korea’s sophisticated, globe-spanning IT worker operation. The operation has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the pariah state over the last several years. The operation has placed spies posing as remote workers within foreign companies and used them to rob the companies of cryptocurrency. The…
In brief Solana is steadily climbing up the price charts, leading today among crypto majors. The price of SOL jumped by as much as 8% today, and the odds of SOL hitting a new all-time high this year have increased on Myriad by almost 20%. Here’s what the charts have to say about it. Solana…
In brief Hut 8’s expansion plans mean its stock will rise and is worth buying, according to investment bank Benchmark. The Bitcoin miner on Tuesday unveiled plans to develop 1.53 gigawatts of new capacity across four U.S. sites. Hut 8 earlier this year signed a deal to contribute its Bitcoin mining equipment and help debut…
In brief Blueprynt’s pilot program for “Know Your Issuer” tapped USDC and PYUSD. The solution is aimed at stifling counterfeit cryptocurrencies. The pilot comes amid new guidance for banks and safeguarding crypto. Bluprynt recently completed a pilot project aimed at stifling counterfeit cryptocurrencies, integrating a “Know Your Issuer” framework into stablecoins from Circle and PayPal,…
In brief Rich Widmann, Google Cloud’s head of Web3 strategy, confirmed that the Universal Ledger is a layer-1 blockchain. The system uses Python for smart contracts, diverging from industry standards like Solidity and Rust. Analysts question Google’s neutrality as it competes with Stripe and Circle for institutional blockchain infrastructure. Over five months after Google Cloud…
