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The U.S. government has moved Bitcoin seized from Alameda-linked accounts, a fresh on-chain transfer that renews scrutiny of how federal authorities custody and eventually dispose of confisca
The Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund yield has risen to 6%, with the increase attributed to an expansion in basis, the spread that carry strategies harvest between spot and futures pricing. TLDR KEY
The U.S. housing market suffered another setback in July as high mortgage rates continued to keep potential buyers on the sidelines. Sales of newly built single-family homes fell 10.5% from J
Chainalysis estimates that potentially taxable crypto activity on major public blockchains reached at least $457 billion worldwide in 2025. But the firm argues that current international tax
For institutional traders, the gap between execution and final settlement is where counterparty risk lives. Caladan, Asia’s largest digital asset market maker, is narrowing that window by int
The U.S. government has transferred a small amount of Bitcoin seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts three years ago, renewing attention on how federal agencies will handle the re
BlackRock is framing Bitcoin's long-term investment case around the nearly $40 trillion U.S. debt burden, shifting the argument away from short-term price swings and toward sovereign fiscal s
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Turning arbitrage pressure into an auction In most automated market maker designs, a price gap between the pool and external markets is a gift to arbitrage traders. They pocket the difference
How Chain Signatures Work @NEARProtocol's Chain Signatures feature allows a single NEAR account, including smart contracts, to sign and execute transactions on external blockchains without re
How Overledger Routes Your Request Every API call made through @quantnetwork's Overledger passes through a Connector, one per blockchain family. That Connector checks node health and routes t
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
