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Trump Team Nets $3.39 Million Selling TRUMP Tokens in 10 Hours
The team behind Donald Trump’s TRUMP memecoin collected 3.39 million USDC over a 10-hour stretch by adding and removing liquidity on Solana, per Lookonchain. A Liquidity Pool Sale, Not a Straight Dump President Trump’s team…
PeaqOS and World ID Bring ZK Proofs to Autonomous Robots
An integration between PeaqOS and World ID allows autonomous machines to verify that they are interacting with real, unique humans without collecting personal data. Zero-Knowledge Identity Verification for Robotics Autonomous machines can…
Microsoft Axes a Cult Publishing App After 30 Years, With .pub Files at Risk
Microsoft is retiring Microsoft Publisher in October 2026, ending service for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1 and cutting off support for perpetual-license users on October 13. The shutdown puts years of proprietary .pub archives at…
Digital Gold Stirs at Last – Week in Review
This week, bitcoin awoke from its slumber, springing out of bed. Going in, bitcoin volatility was as compressed as it has been in a decade, with BVOL 7D at 2.82, the sixth-lowest reading in ten years, described at the time as a…
Stablecoin Depegs Explained: What Really Happens When a Digital Dollar Breaks the Buck
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether’s USDT at $0.88, and Terra’s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin…
Sandbox Bridge Hack Mints 14.9B SAND While Coinbase Delists Futures
Metaverse platform The Sandbox confirmed recently that an exploited bridge let an attacker mint unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, prompting an immediate shutdown. Exploit Hits Base and BSC Bridges Sandbox, the metaverse gaming…
EU Carbon Taxes Push Bitcoin Mining to Russia, Study Claims
The study, published by three Vietnamese investigators, found a positive relation between the EU’s carbon emissions pricing and a so-called “leakage” to cheaper jurisdictions, such as Russia. This means that as carbon…
Bitcoin Miners Get a Lifeline as Hashprice Explodes 20% Higher
Over the last four days, Bitcoin’s hashprice has climbed 20.41%, punching into territory not seen since May. Bitcoin miners are pocketing fatter revenue from the latest price rally, delivering a badly needed reprieve after months of tighter…
Big Banks Demand Identity Checks for Secondary Stablecoin Markets
The Bank Policy Institute, representing the massive U.S. banking lobby, filed a comment letter asking FinCEN to apply customer identification requirements to secondary stabilization markets, extending the provision applied to stablecoin…
Bitcoin’s ECX Fork Is Coming: When It Hits and Who Gets Free Coins
Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project kicks off its three-stage hard-fork rollout with an alpha launch around Bitcoin block height 963648. The launch comes from…