Coinbase Launches UK Derivatives With Up to 50x Leverage for Professional Investors
Riot Platforms Jumps 25% After Signing $9.1B Data Center Lease With Anthropic
Coinsbuy Loses $8 Million in Coordinated Attack Across Ethereum and Tron
Brazil Sets October 30 Licensing Deadline for $319B Crypto Market
Keel Infrastructure Shuts All US Bitcoin Mining, Pivots to AI
Jupiter Lets the Same Dollar Earn Yield Twice on Solana, and the Risk Is the Point
Bitdeer Shares Drop 15% as Investors Balk at the Cost of Its AI Pivot
Vitalik Buterin Scraps 6-Phase Ethereum Roadmap for Post-Quantum and Privacy Blueprint
Solstice Finance Brings Strategy STRC Preferred Stock Income to Solana
Strategy Sells Around 1,650 BTC to Fund $109M Buyback of STRC Shares
Standard Chartered Puts LINK at $200 by 2030, Betting on a $4 Trillion Tokenization Wave
Bitcoin Holds Above $65,000 as Iran-Oman Deal Cools Hormuz Risk
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Riot Platforms Jumps 25% After Signing $9.1B Data Center Lease With Anthropic
Coinsbuy Loses $8 Million in Coordinated Attack Across Ethereum and Tron
Brazil Sets October 30 Licensing Deadline for $319B Crypto Market
Keel Infrastructure Shuts All US Bitcoin Mining, Pivots to AI
Bitdeer Shares Drop 15% as Investors Balk at the Cost of Its AI Pivot
Vitalik Buterin Scraps 6-Phase Ethereum Roadmap for Post-Quantum and Privacy Blueprint
Strategy Sells Around 1,650 BTC to Fund $109M Buyback of STRC Shares
Standard Chartered Puts LINK at $200 by 2030, Betting on a $4 Trillion Tokenization Wave
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Solstice Finance Brings Strategy STRC Preferred Stock Income to Solana
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Coinbase Launches UK Derivatives With Up to 50x Leverage for Professional Investors
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$9.1 billion over 20 years. Riot Platforms signed its largest deal in history, a long-term data center lease with Anthropic that sent shares surging 25% in after-hours trading. The agreement covers 191 megawatts at Riot's Rockdale, Texas campus and runs through June 2048.
Coinsbuy Loses $8 Million in Coordinated Attack Across Ethereum and Tron
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Keel Infrastructure Shuts All US Bitcoin Mining, Pivots to AI
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Regulation
Brazil Sets October 30 Licensing Deadline for $319B Crypto Market
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UK FCA Builds Tokenized Gold Framework to Defend London's 70% Share of Global Bullion Trade
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Grayscale: Crypto Can Advance Without CLARITY Act, But US Risks Investment Exodus
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DeFi
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Standard Chartered Puts LINK at $200 by 2030, Betting on a $4 Trillion Tokenization Wave
Standard Chartered is calling a 24x return on Chainlink by the end of the decade, anchoring the forecast to a projection that tokenized assets on public blockchains will reach $4 trillion. At LINK's current price of $8.22, that target implies a run to $200 before 2031.
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