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Key TakeawaysJeff Bezos backed Blue Origin’s June 17 vision for off-Earth industry to cut Earth’s pollution.Bezos cited the $10B Bezos Earth Fund as space manufacturing remains decades from reality.Gerard O’Neill’s 1976 concept could shape Blue Origin’s long-term... 
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Key TakeawaysGomining mined the first live Bitcoin block via DMND pool, letting miners pick transactions.Gomining bypassed centralized pool operators for over a decade of tradition by constructing its own template.Advocates expect this production milestone to drive... 
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Key TakeawaysSpark seeded $150M into Uniswap v4 pools on June 25, covering USDS/ USDT and USDS/PYUSD pairs.The Stablecoin FX Layer targets banks and fintechs, as Paypal, Tether, and Sky join at launch.Spark plans to expand pools to additional issuers as cross-border... 
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Key TakeawaysOobit integrated Pix on Tuesday, next opening crypto payment markets to 170M Brazilian users.Tether led a $25M round for Oobit, next pushing USDT to capture 93% of Brazil’s payment market.Oobit usage grew 200% as users spend $400 monthly, expanding USDT... 
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Key TakeawaysSBI is making a bold JPY 46.7 billion bet to take over Bitbank and expand its crypto footprint.The deal still needs regulatory approval before it can officially close.If completed, the combined platform could significantly boost SBI’s assets under... 
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Key TakeawaysIBM’s nanostack chip at the 0.7 nm node packs nearly 100 billion transistors, nearly 2x the density of IBM’s 2021 chip.The 3D architecture delivers up to 70% greater energy efficiency, targeting artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator workloads with... 
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Key TakeawaysRipple and SBI brought RLUSD to Japan through SBI’s regulated crypto platform.Regulatory approval allows broader stablecoin access for institutions, consumers, and businesses in Japan.Future services may expand RLUSD use in payments, tokenization, and... 
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Key TakeawaysGrayscale said many revenue-producing crypto protocols are trading at low multiples relative to their trailing revenue.Financial applications dominate the highest-revenue protocols.The crypto asset manager said the CLARITY Act could support tokenized... 
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Key TakeawaysBase mainnet block production stalled for nearly 2 hours on June 25 after block #47,806,542 caused a consensus failure.Coinbase’s Base team confirmed all funds are safe, with sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC and monitoring ongoing.Base’s Beryl hard fork,... 
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Key TakeawaysThe MPF reaffirmed a crypto donation ban on Monday, shielding Brazil’s election market from fraud.Under a Dec 17, 2019, court ruling, candidates must use Pix or traditional banking to verify 100% of funds.Brazil allows digital crowdfunding from May 15th,... 
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Key TakeawaysVinny Lingham predicted in October 2024 that Saylor would damage bitcoin more than FTX, with MSTR now down over 80%.Strategy holds $6.7B in convertible notes; Shin cites an analyst who estimates covering early maturities requires selling up to 74,000 BTC... 
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Key TakeawaysJeremy Grantham, who manages $85 billion at GMO, calls AI the biggest U.S. investment bubble in history and warns of a potential 70% stock decline.Grantham recommends putting 60% of savings into non-U.S. equity indices, citing emerging markets’ 65% gain... Translate »
