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AO ‘supercomputer on Arweave’ blockchain fair launch set for June 13
AO, a new protocol built on Arweave’s permanent data storage layer, will launch on June 13, according to a statement released on May 30 Arweave co-founder Sam Williams described the project as
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Bitcoin benchmark: Only eight digital asset tokens hit ATHs in BTC post-FTX collapse
Quick Take Since the collapse of FTX in November 2022, only eight digital asset tokens have broken their previous all-time highs (ATH) against Bitcoin (BTC) This data, shared by the anonymous X
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Real-world assets platform TVVIN leverages Polkadot to scale gold tokenization
Real-world assets (RWAs) tokenization platform TVVIN has expanded to Polkadot as part of its strategy to become an omni-chain platform In a May 29 statement, the platform revealed it was launching
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Singapore bank DBS in top 40 Ethereum holders with $648 million stash, Nansen finds
Blockchain analytical platform Nansen said Singapore’s largest bank, DBS, is an Ethereum whale after identifying a wallet purportedly belonging to the financial institution In a May 30 social
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Semler Scientific Bitcoin strategy sets BTC per share at 0.0000842
Quick Take MicroStrategy was the first publicly traded company in the US to acquire Bitcoin and use it as a treasury asset, beginning this practice in August 2020 Since then, the company has amassed
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Vitalik Buterin donates over $100,000 to Tornado Cash developers’ legal defense
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 30 ETH, approximately $113,000, to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm Etherscan data shows that Buterin
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BlackRock IBIT on track to surpass iShares Gold ETF $29 billion AUM by year-end
The latest data from Farside reveals slowing inflows into Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs), totaling $283 million on May 29 Of the 11 ETF issuers, six experienced positive inflows, with
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Senator Lummis says crypto will play important role in US economy post-elections
Senator Cynthia Lummis recently said the crypto market will play a significant role in the US economy unless the opportunity is squandered Lummis, a vocal advocate for pro-crypto legislation,
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Bitcoin addresses with positive balances surpass 52.5 million amid strong growth since 2020
Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: Number of Addresses with a Non-Zero Balance by Glassnode is the number of unique addresses holding a positive (non-zero) amount of coins The number of addresses with a
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Cathie Wood says ETH ETF approvals were political, praises El Salvador’s BTC approach
ARK Invest CEO and CIO Cathie Wood asserted on May 29 that the US SEC greenlit spot Ethereum ETFs for political reasons At Coindesk’s Consensus 2024, Wood identified two developments that
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Mastercard launches Crypto Credentials system to simplify crypto transactions
Mastercard launched Mastercard Crypto Credential on May 29, enabling users to send and receive crypto using simplified aliases instead of complex blockchain addresses, according to a press release
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Deutsche Bank sees blockchain as key to tackling margin compression
Deutsche Bank AG has announced its strategic push into blockchain technology as a potential remedy for the margin compression challenges facing the financial services industry, Bloomberg News