Category: DeFi Basics
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Morgan stanley opens bitcoin, ethereum and solana spot trading on E*trade
Morgan Stanley Opens Spot Trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana on E*TRADE Morgan Stanley has rolled out spot cryptocurrency trading on its E*TRADE platform, giving eligible clients direct access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana within the same interface they already use for stocks, ETFs, and other traditional assets. The new service is powered through a…
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Taiwan jails bitshine mastermind for crypto fraud as new licensing law bites
Taiwan has handed down one of its heaviest-ever crypto-related sentences, jailing the alleged architect of the BitShine exchange scheme for 22 years after finding he ran a massive fraud and money laundering operation that devastated more than 1,500 victims and moved tens of millions of dollars overseas. According to a judgment reported by Taiwan’s Central…
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Sec regulation crypto: how the $75 million exemption transforms token fundraising
SEC’s New Crypto Playbook: How the $75 Million Exemption Rewrites Token Fundraising As political energy in Washington fixates on whether the CLARITY Act can scrape together seven Democratic votes before the August recess, a quieter but equally decisive shift is unfolding in the background. The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing a comprehensive rule set…
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Ripple backs Uk roadmap for tokenized wholesale markets and £33bn boost
Ripple throws its weight behind an ambitious UK roadmap to overhaul wholesale financial markets with tokenized infrastructure, backing a strategy that could add as much as £33 billion a year to the country’s economic output by 2035. The blueprint, drawn up by Wholesale Digital Markets Champion Chris Woolard, appointed by HM Treasury in April, sets…
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Ai agents to botnets: how Llm hallucinations enable a new scalable cyberattack
AI agents that can browse the web and run code may be vulnerable to a new kind of large‑scale cyberattack: being quietly transformed into botnets through their own hallucinations. A team from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit has shown that the same tendency of large language models (LLMs) to “make things up” can be…
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Grok 4.5: musks cheaper Ai workhorse rival to claude opus and Gpt flagships
The new Grok 4.5 model has officially arrived-and Elon Musk is positioning it as a bargain alternative that can stand toe‑to‑toe with last year’s top‑tier AI systems like Claude Opus, while still trailing the very latest models from Anthropic and OpenAI by “about one generation.” Released on Wednesday by SpaceXAI, Grok 4.5 is the company’s…
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Kenya deploys blockchain analytics as new crypto licensing and surveillance law looms
Kenya races to roll out blockchain analytics as crypto licensing looms Kenya is moving to install sophisticated blockchain surveillance technology just as it prepares to formally license and monitor cryptocurrency firms under a new virtual assets law. The country’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a procurement process for an advanced analytics platform capable of…
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Kraken turns tokenized stocks into collateral for leveraged crypto trading
Kraken turns tokenized stocks into collateral for leveraged crypto trades Kraken is expanding what its tokenized equities can do. Eligible clients on Kraken Pro can now pledge selected tokenized stocks and ETFs as collateral for futures and margin positions, unlocking leverage in crypto markets without having to sell those tokenized assets first. In practice, this…
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Ai safety or market power?. Andy konwinski on anthropics fable 5 controversy
Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski argues that the way “AI safety” is being framed today has less to do with protecting society and more to do with entrenching the power of a few dominant labs. In his view, the rhetoric of existential risk and catastrophic scenarios is increasingly being weaponized to justify closing off access to…
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Bitcoin near $60k as exchange inflows spike, raising volatility risk toward $53k
Bitcoin briefly reclaimed the $60,000 mark this week, but on-chain data suggests the calm may not last. A sharp jump in BTC deposits to centralized exchanges is signaling that a period of elevated volatility could be approaching-with some analysts warning that a move toward the $53,000 area is increasingly plausible. Exchange inflows surge to yearly…