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BitcoinWorld A Bank Just Gave Bithumb a Vote of Confidence. Six Months Ago, It Wouldn’t Have. Contract renewals between banks and crypto exchanges don’t usually make headlines. They’re admini
Key Takeaways A new mortgage product from Better Mortgage and Coinbase allows U.S. homebuyers to use bitcoin as collateral for down payments The program requires a 250% collateral ratio, mean
TLDR Kraken has introduced perpetual futures contracts that are cash-settled for OpenAI and Anthropic, enabling market participants to establish long or short positions prior to any public of
Sweepstakes mechanics have fundamentally reshaped the social casino experience, moving beyond traditional wagering to create a dynamic blend of entertainment, progression, and player reward.
BitcoinWorld The Real Deadline Isn’t September 15. It’s the Calendar Itself. Washington has a way of turning arithmetic into drama, and Senator Cynthia Lummis has just done exactly that with
BitcoinWorld Three Weeks of Inflows Doesn’t Erase a Bad Year – But It Might Be Telling You Something Else Headlines about ETF inflow streaks tend to flatten a more complicated picture into a
BitcoinWorld When “White Hat” Meets $320 Million: What the Liquid Network Drain Really Tells Us About Bitcoin’s Bridge Problem There’s a particular kind of unease that spreads through the cry
How Bittensor allocates $TAO across its AI subnets Bittensor is a decentralized network built around competing AI subnets, each one focused on a specific digital commodity: compute, inference
Key Takeaways SideSwap processed an apparently authorized peg-out. The disputed L-BTC may have been bug-created. Valid authorization did not prove legitimate issuance. Bitcoin’s base network
Hanwha Investment & Securities, one of South Korea's major brokerages, is tied to plans for a tokenized securities platform built on Avalanche, though the central claim linking the firm to th
August 28, 2026 — n.exchange, the non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange built for individuals and businesses, today announced the release of Private Swaps, an optional privacy-focused route a
Ondo Finance is pulling back USDY issuance from two of its supported networks. Ondo will discontinue minting USDY on Aptos and Noble effective September 8, 2026. The update does not affect US
