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Polymarket is pushing more traders toward identity checks as regulatory pressure grows over sanctions exposure, geoblocking failures and jurisdictional misuse. Summary Polymarket is weighing
Mastercard has secured a coveted New York BitLicense for a U.S. subsidiary, clearing the way to expand stablecoin and tokenized deposit infrastructure inside one of the world’s toughest regul
Not at today's scale, although World Liberty Financial's (@worldlibertyfi) USD1 has done something most stablecoins never manage: break into the top four in its first year. But it’s still “on
Senate lawmakers failed to reach a bipartisan deal on the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act ahead of the May 14 Senate Banking Committee markup. Democrats demanded stronger ethics language, an
Iran has launched a state-backed maritime insurance platform called Hormuz Safe that accepts payments in cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, for coverage on cargo vessels crossing the Strait o
The Senate Banking Committee approved the CLARITY Act on Thursday by a 15-9 vote, marking the first time a wide-ranging piece of crypto legislation has cleared a major Senate panel in the Uni
Hana Bank has agreed to buy a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, the operator of Upbit (@Official_Upbit), for about 1 trillion won, or roughly $670 million. The deal, approved by Hana's board on Friday,
The CLARITY Act cleared a major legislative hurdle on May 14, 2026, when the US Senate Banking Committee voted 15-9 to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 to the full Senate.
Pavel Durov (@durov) is the Russian-born billionaire founder of Telegram (@telegram), the messaging app with more than one billion monthly active users, and the most public face of The Open N
Hedera is a distributed ledger platform currently running live deployments in supply chain tracking, asset tokenization, carbon markets, insurance data infrastructure, AI verification, and cr
Both TON and Solana are built for high throughput, but they take different technical paths to get there. TON uses dynamic infinite sharding and a deep Telegram integration to serve consumer-s
Reports and on-chain chatter suggest Bitmine has been steadily adding Ether (ETH). Whether or not specific wallet attributions prove accurate, the pattern is worth examining: institutions app
