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Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — Currency traders looking for their next big idea could do worse than talk to Wong, who runs a news stand in Hong Kong’s Central District. Her business is one of many street stalls that line the city’s busy financial quarter, selling newspapers, magazines and bottled water to everyone from well-heeled…
Source: Coin Tegraph SAB 122 (after withdrawal of SAB 121) streamlines crypto custody operations and fosters greater trust in traditional financial firms offering cryptocurrency services. Read Full Article
Source: Bitcoinist Grayscale Investments has filed for a Solana ETF with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), reflecting a growing wave of pro-crypto regulations under President Donald Trump. Proposed Solana ETF By Grayscale According to the NYSE’s official posting of the 19b-4 Form, the proposed Trust is the largest Solana investment fund globally, boasting approximately…
Source: Coin Tegraph According to data from CoinMarketCap, the decentralized physical infrastructure network sector has a market capitalization of over $27 billion. Read Full Article
Source: Venture Beat OpenAI used its own o1-preview and o1-mini models to test whether additional inference time compute protected against various attacks. Read Full Article
Source: Live Mint MUMBAI, Jan 24 (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made net purchases of government bonds in the secondary market last week, marking the first such operation in over three years, data released on Friday showed. The RBI net bought bonds worth 101.75 billion rupees ($1.18 billion) in the week ending…
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Source: The Verge Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.” Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned…
Source: Venture Beat Y Combinator’s fastest-growing startup Origami Agents raises $2M seed round to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers, reaching $50K MRR in 8 weeks while rejecting the trend of AI sales rep replacement. Read Full Article
Source: Coin Tegraph While Democrats are calling for an investigation into Donald Trump’s potential conflicts of interest on crypto, House Republicans said they would explore debanking claims. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Nearly a week after it was removed, the TikTok app is still missing from Apple and Google’s app stores. The app was pulled from both stores after the US’ ban-or-divest law went into effect last weekend, which resulted in the service going dark within the United States. While TikTok came back online…
