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Intercontinental Exchange, the Fortune 500 owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said Thursday it has signed a definitive agreement to bring Trade[XYZ]’s perpetual futures markets — built on
Smart contracts cannot watch a football match. Every on-chain bet needs an outside source to report the final score, and that source decides which tickets pay. Oracles fill that role. Some pu
Two sportsbooks can both call themselves Web3 and work in completely different ways. One may hold every bet in a smart contract, while another keeps balances in a database and uses the blockc
Dubai-based blockchain startup Utexo says it will relaunch Tether’s USDT stablecoin on Bitcoin after a three-year gap, using the RGB protocol to keep transaction details off the public blockc
Google Cloud has unveiled Multi-party Compute (MPC), a custody service that breaks a crypto signing key into separate shares held in different places so no single party controls the whole key
AI agents bought coffee and merchandise from real merchants in Abu Dhabi without a card or checkout, as part of a build day hosted by @XDCNetwork that tested autonomous payments using the $US
Intercontinental Exchange (@ICE_Markets), the operator of the @NYSE, has partnered with and invested in @TradeXYZ to develop a federally regulated, round-the-clock perpetual futures exchange
Fresh US economic data has made the case for lower interest rates harder to argue, a development that matters for crypto traders who typically favour looser monetary policy. The Bureau of Eco
Chainlink's oracle network has now delivered 20.33 billion verified messages across smart contract-enabled blockchains, according to the latest figures from @Chainlink. The network has also e
@galaxyhq ($GLXY) has applied to the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Galaxy National Bank, a proposed national trust bank headquartered in New York. According
Chainlink has launched Chainlink 24/7, a data service designed to keep prices for tokenized stocks, commodities and other real-world assets (RWAs) updating through weekends and market holiday
@BNBCHAIN has activated the Jenner hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) testnet. The upgrade is aimed at keeping payments moving when the network is congested, and it introduces a new token
