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Chris Larsen, one of the co-founders and the chair of payments firm Ripple, who has donated millions of dollars to support Kamala Harris for president of the United States, explained that his endorsement for the Democratic candidate came down to crypto policy. In an Oct. 28 interview with CNBC, Larsen said he believed that regardless of whether […]

The United States Department of the Treasury has released its national strategy for financial inclusion, only including cryptocurrencies as a potential risk for consumers. In an Oct. 29 notice, the US Treasury said its National Strategy for Financial Inclusion in the United States report resulted from a request from Congress and included recommendations to “advance consumer access to safe […]

United States President Joe Biden spoke to President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, offering his appreciation that Binance’s head of financial crime compliance had been released on humanitarian grounds. According to an Oct. 29 notice from the White House, President Biden had a call with President Tinubu in which he thanked the Nigerian leader for helping […]

Share prices of Bitcoin miners soared as high as 24.4% on Oct. 28 as Bitcoin rallied over $70,000 — with an analyst pointing to an increasingly favorable macroeconomic climate and miners’ continued diversification into AI. “Deficit spending and lower interest rates are driving global liquidity higher [while] investors are fearful of high inflation over the […]

Kalshi will start taking deposits in USD Coin USDC$1.00, a popular stablecoin, as the prediction marketplace vies for users ahead of the United States’ November elections, the platform confirmed on Oct. 28. Cryptocurrency deposits will be live imminently, with offramping managed by ZeroHash, a crypto payments platform, according to a report by Fortune magazine. Competition is […]

Ripple Labs has filed a Form C in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, challenging a recent ruling from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said. Ripple’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, confirmed the filing in an X post on Oct. 25, adding that “the SEC can’t submit new […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has held the top spot in “KOL mindshare” for the last week on Crypto X amid a recent flood of criticism toward the blockchain and the Ethereum Foundation. According to Andy, host of the crypto show The Rollup, who cited data from Kaito AI, “wartime mode” Buterin had the highest relative KOL mindshare […]

The internet is awash with deepfakes, bots and artificial intelligence pretending to be humans — and a host of different projects are racing to come up with an effective solution. Multiple studies estimate that between 5% and 15% of accounts on X are bots, and Facebook bans hundreds of millions of fake users every quarter. Online games […]

Jack Booth, co-founder of TON Society, believes that achieving mass adoption of cryptocurrency hinges on advancing decentralization within The Open Network (TON). In an exclusive interview with Booth, whose organization is focused on decentralizing finance and data on TON, told Cointelegraph that the TON community “is building a decentralized ecosystem” to make decentralized finance (DeFi), […]

During a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, former President Trump said he was serious about eliminating the federal income tax in the United States and replacing the revenue stream with tariffs on imports. The 2024 Presidential candidate cited the tariff policies of former US President William McKinley during the 1890s as incredibly prosperous […]