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Canary Capital Files for Tron ETF With Staking Capabilities

Canary Capital is looking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the price of Tron’s native token, TRX, according to a filing.The hedge fund submitted a Form S-1 for the Canary Staked TRX ETF with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. As the name suggests, the fund — if approved — would stake portions of its holdings.This would...
CoinDesk Weekly Recap: EigenLayer, Kraken, Coinbase, AWS

Following last week’s tariff-caused drama, this was a relatively quiet week in crypto. Bitcoin remained stable around $84k. The CoinDesk 20, which tracks about 80% of the market, was up about 4% in the last seven days — i.e. nothing historic.Still, plenty happened. On Tuesday, much of crypto went offline because of a tech issue at AWS, showing how the...
Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches FX Perpetual Futures, Offers 24/7 Trading in Forex Majors

Crypto exchange Kraken has launched FX perpetual futures, expanding into traditional markets with round-the-clock trading for major forex pairs, the company said in a blog post Friday.The first contracts, EUR/USD and GBP/USD, are now live on Kraken Pro, with more to follow.Unlike standard forex products, FX perps have no expiry and operate 24/7, mirroring crypto futures. With FX perps, Kraken...
Feds Mistakenly Order Estonian HashFlare Fraudsters to Self-Deport Ahead of Sentencing

Just four months ahead of their criminal sentencing for operating a $577 million cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme, the two Estonian founders of HashFlare were seemingly mistakenly ordered to self-deport by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — an instruction that directly contradicted a court order for the men to remain in Washington state until they are sentenced in August.In a...
Friends With Benefits Grows Up

When Friends With Benefits burst into crypto consciousness in 2020, it was the kind of FOMO-inducing project that immediately had people talking. With a wink-wink, sexy name and members including musicians Erykah Badu and Azealia Banks, it was a club that many wanted to be a part of.Emerging at a time when everyone was locked down and hankering for connection,...
The Case for User-Owned AI

Who truly controls your AI assistant? That’s a question most people haven’t asked yet. Today, millions rely on digital assistants, from voice-controlled devices to smart bots embedded in tools like Google Workspace or ChatGPT. These systems help us write, organize, search, and even think. However, the vast majority of them are rented. We don’t own the intelligence we depend on....

Bitcoin Core Developer Antoine Poinsot: The Great Consensus Cleanup

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Antoine Poinsot: The Great Consensus Cleanup While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot. Currently at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was previously at Wizardsardine, a bitcoin security company behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction based vault, and Liana, a miniscript based Bitcoin wallet. Antoine’s first commit...
Bitcoin Covenants: TXHASH And CHECKTXHASHVERIFY(BIP 346)

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Covenants: TXHASH And CHECKTXHASHVERIFY(BIP 346) This is the third article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown. TXHASH and CHECKTXHASHVERIFY (TXHASH), put forward by Steven Roose and Brandon Black with a BIP number currently unassigned, is a “template based” covenant that can conceptually seen as an extension...
Spar Supermarket in Switzerland Starts Accepting Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine Spar Supermarket in Switzerland Starts Accepting Bitcoin SPAR has begun accepting Bitcoin payments at its Zug, Switzerland location, marking another milestone in Switzerland’s progressive approach to bitcoin adoption. The implementation uses the Lightning Network through DFX Swiss’s OpenCryptoPay solution, enabling instant transactions at the point of sale. The store’s location in Zug, often called “Crypto Valley,” reflects Switzerland’s embrace of technology....
What Bitcoin Indicators Predict for Q3 2025?

Bitcoin Magazine What Bitcoin Indicators Predict for Q3 2025? Bitcoin’s 2025 journey hasn’t delivered the explosive bull market surge many expected. After peaking above $100,000, the 2025 Bitcoin price retraced sharply to as low as $75,000, sparking debate among investors and analysts about where we stand in the Bitcoin cycle. In this analysis, we cut through the noise, leveraging on-chain indicators and...
How Bitcoin Offers a Speed Advantage for Driving Shareholder Value

Bitcoin Magazine How Bitcoin Offers a Speed Advantage for Driving Shareholder Value Bitcoin is the first instantiation of digitally scarce capital—allowing companies to raise, deploy, and prove value faster than ever before. In legacy finance, capital formation is a slow, friction-filled process. A company raises funds, deploys them over months or years into infrastructure, products, or real estate—and only then begins the long...
How Do We Protect Bitcoin From Quantum Computers? Not With A Joke

Bitcoin Magazine How Do We Protect Bitcoin From Quantum Computers? Not With A Joke Recently, Project Eleven (a quantum computing research group) announced a 1 bitcoin reward for the first team able to complete a challenge to demonstrate breaking a ECC (elliptic curve cryptograph) key using Shor’s algorithm on a quantum computer. The deadline for this challenge is April 5th, 2026, meaning in...

White Swan Capital Sets Up Zurich Office to Deliver MiCA-Ready Crypto-Backed Lending Across Europe

ZURICH -- White Swan Capital, the FCA-regulated digital-asset finance company, today confirmed plans to establish its continental European headquarters in Zurich before year-end 2025 and to launchtailor-made crypto-collateralised loans throughout the European Economic Area. The expansion will let investors unlock liquidity in bitcoin, ether and other major assets without selling their positions, whiletaking advantage of Switzerland's fintech ecosystem and the...
STIX and Accomplice Lead Neutrl's $5 Million Raise to Launch $NUSD, a High-Yield Synthetic Dollar

$NUSD, Neutrl’s synthetic dollar, offers stable and institutional-grade yields to professional investors by leveraging OTC discounts for major altcoins and delta-neutral hedging using perpetual futuresNeutrl targets the $10 billion locked token trading market by democratising access to OTC arbitrage strategies through its market-neutral yield offeringNeutrl, a DeFi protocol developing a scalable, market-neutral synthetic dollar called $NUSD targeting OTC arbitrage strategies,...
Unstoppable Domains and Bitcoin Cash Launch .BCH Web3 Domains to Streamline Crypto Payments

Unstoppable Domains, a Web3 digital identity platform, and the Bitcoin Cash have joined forces to launch .BCH, marking a major step forward in simplifying blockchain-based payments. The new domain extension gives Bitcoin Cash (BCH) users a personalized, secure, and user-friendly way to manage their crypto presence.Bitcoin Cash, one of the leading peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies, processes over $4 billion in transactions each...
Capricornx Powers Autonomous Trade Management for High-Frequency Canadian Accounts

Capricornx has announced the deployment of its full-scale autonomous trade management module, designed to handle high-frequency trade environments across Canadian markets. The release introduces a closed-loop execution cycle where trades are not only generated, but also managed, exited, and recalibrated without human input.This marks a critical evolution of
Capricornx's automation infrastructure, targeting Canadian users who require millisecond-level responsiveness, continuous strategy...
Capricornx Introduces High-Frequency Signal Engine to Boost Trading Accuracy

Capricornx has officially released a new high-frequency signal engine aimed at improving the accuracy and speed of trade decision-making for Canadian investors. The launch represents a significant development in the firm's ongoing effort to enhance market analysis through real-time data and predictive analytics.The signal engine, which has been under development for over 18 months, leverages advanced logic modeling and low-latency...
Michael Emanuele's "Rehabber Secrets" Tops Amazon Charts, Delivering a Blueprint for Real Estate Project Management Excellence

Canadian author and project management expert offers real-world systems to help homeowners and investors build smarter, faster, and more profitably.TORONTO, ON - As North America faces rising construction costs, tightening housing supply, and increased demand for rental housing, real estate investors are seeking smarter strategies to manage renovation projects more effectively. Stepping up to meet that need is Canadian project...

Canary Capital Files for Tron ETF With Staking Capabilities

Canary Capital is looking to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the price of Tron’s native token, TRX, according to a filing.The hedge fund submitted a Form S-1 for the Canary Staked TRX ETF with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday. As the name suggests, the fund — if approved — would stake portions of its holdings.This would...
CoinDesk Weekly Recap: EigenLayer, Kraken, Coinbase, AWS

Following last week’s tariff-caused drama, this was a relatively quiet week in crypto. Bitcoin remained stable around $84k. The CoinDesk 20, which tracks about 80% of the market, was up about 4% in the last seven days — i.e. nothing historic.Still, plenty happened. On Tuesday, much of crypto went offline because of a tech issue at AWS, showing how the...
Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches FX Perpetual Futures, Offers 24/7 Trading in Forex Majors

Crypto exchange Kraken has launched FX perpetual futures, expanding into traditional markets with round-the-clock trading for major forex pairs, the company said in a blog post Friday.The first contracts, EUR/USD and GBP/USD, are now live on Kraken Pro, with more to follow.Unlike standard forex products, FX perps have no expiry and operate 24/7, mirroring crypto futures. With FX perps, Kraken...
Feds Mistakenly Order Estonian HashFlare Fraudsters to Self-Deport Ahead of Sentencing

Just four months ahead of their criminal sentencing for operating a $577 million cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme, the two Estonian founders of HashFlare were seemingly mistakenly ordered to self-deport by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — an instruction that directly contradicted a court order for the men to remain in Washington state until they are sentenced in August.In a...
Friends With Benefits Grows Up

When Friends With Benefits burst into crypto consciousness in 2020, it was the kind of FOMO-inducing project that immediately had people talking. With a wink-wink, sexy name and members including musicians Erykah Badu and Azealia Banks, it was a club that many wanted to be a part of.Emerging at a time when everyone was locked down and hankering for connection,...
The Case for User-Owned AI

Who truly controls your AI assistant? That’s a question most people haven’t asked yet. Today, millions rely on digital assistants, from voice-controlled devices to smart bots embedded in tools like Google Workspace or ChatGPT. These systems help us write, organize, search, and even think. However, the vast majority of them are rented. We don’t own the intelligence we depend on....

Editorial: The Case for a Government Agency to Foster Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Innovation

November 10, 2024 Editor

Blockchain and cryptocurrency are transforming everything from finance to data security and supply chain management, with global markets increasingly recognizing…

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Editorial: How Local Governments Can Embrace Cryptocurrency for Community Benefit

November 9, 2024 Editor

As the world of cryptocurrency continues to expand, its potential applications are no longer confined to private investment and financial…

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Editorial: Cryptocurrency and Web3 technology will accelerate under a Trump administration:

November 6, 2024 Editor

1. Deregulation and Crypto Innovation Trump’s previous administration favored deregulation in industries like finance, potentially fostering an environment in which…

Month: November 2024