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Two of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector’s best known platforms, liquid staking protocol Lido and decentralized exchange Curve Finance, are considering slimming down. Despite a recent resurgence in DeFi markets, Lido co-founder Vasiliy Shapovalov announced a 15% cut of contributors, and a fresh Curve governance proposal suggests cutting development on Layer Two (L2) networks. As part of efforts to ensure long-term sustainability, Lido Labs, Lido Ecosystem, and Lido Alliance have made the h...

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3 days ago

While Tesla fanboys continue to post four and five-star reviews on Google, and excited YouTubers upload video after video raving about the car company's much-talked-about new diner, something odd appears to have happened with its menu. Namely, most of the items that were originally on there have vanished. According to publicly available photos of the menu that was offered in the diner's first week versus the selection that's online right now, at least 13 different items have been removed, includ...

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3 days ago

Tether, the world's largest stablecoin firm, has claimed that it made approximately $4.9 billion in profits for the second quarter of 2025. USDT, the main stablecoin issued by Tether, had grown to a market capitalization of over $150 billion by the end of June. Moreover, Tether claims that it has grown to be one of "the largest holders of US government debt globally." Read more: Tether: Ten years, 100,000,000,000 USDT, and still no audit Interestingly, despite the substantial growth in Tether's ...

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4 days ago

AI tools aren’t just helping you keep on top of your emails, they’re giving scammers the edge in stealing your crypto. Whether it's through giving a boost to traditional "social engineering" scams, or writing crypto-stealing code disguised as a legitimate Javascript package, AI is helping to part users from their tokens while the operators sit back and watch the profits roll in. Trust nobody According to Joey Santoro, the decentralized finance (DeFi) developer behind Fei Protocol and the ERC-462...

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15 hours ago

Yesterday, the leader of the world's 109th largest public bitcoin (BTC) treasury company declared his intention to form a political action committee (PAC). David Bailey of Nakamoto, which currently holds just 21 BTC yet plans to buy hundreds of millions more as early as August 11, has already raised about $1 billion “to cook with.” However, the media executive plans to raise another $100-200 million for his new PAC “to advance Bitcoin priorities” and “be part of the Bitcoin voter platform.” For ...

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13 hours ago

Prices are down this morning on another Donald Trump tariff announcement and disappointing unemployment report. However, crypto investors have found a silver lining around the market’s bright red heatmap. Last night, a website borrowing the naming convention of Mossack Fonseca’s Panama Papers claims to have discovered Spotify playlists and favorite songs of some of crypto's most high-profile key opinion leaders (KOLs). The so-called Panama Playlists website sources from Spotify and displays no o...

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3 days ago

Former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain had his convictions for wire fraud and money laundering overturned in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals today. Chastain had been convicted in what the United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York called the "First-Ever Digital Asset Insider Trading Scheme." He had taken advantage of his position and his knowledge about what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would be featured on the home page of OpenSea, purchasing them before t...

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4 days ago