San Francisco-based lender Divine Research has issued around 30,000 unbacked short-term crypto loans since December, using OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s iris-scanning platform World ID to verify borrowers. Divine offers loans under $1,000... Read more »
A routine $10,000 prediction market on Polymarket covering Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race erupted into a dispute in UMA’s history after the oracle rejected an early settlement proposal, despite it being accurate. ... Read more »
A solo miner hit the jackpot on Saturday morning by solving block 907283, and data shows they did it with a modest hashrate of about 48.3 terahash per second (TH/s). Not bad... Read more »
Top Stories of The Week Australian fintech Finder wins court battle over crypto yield product The Australian Federal Court ruled in favor of fintech company Finder.com, clearing it and its yield-generating product,... Read more »
Decentralization was blockchain’s founding promise—but in finance, milliseconds move markets. Unless Web3 can match Wall Street’s sub-second speed, users will keep choosing the faster rails of traditional finance. We see this in... Read more »
Key points: Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen sparks warnings to XRP investors after a wallet linked to him sends 50 million tokens to exchanges. Larsen notionally has over 2.5 billion XRP left, which... Read more »
Based on the most recent figures, the Bitcoin network just nudged its difficulty up by 1.07% on July 25, making block discovery ever so slightly trickier. At 127.62 trillion, the current difficulty... Read more »
Spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted another strong session on Friday, drawing $452.72 million in net inflows and extending their inflow streak to 16 consecutive trading days, according to data from SoSoValue.... Read more »
Investor and “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki warned investors to beware of holding Bitcoin (BTC), gold and silver through exchange‑traded funds, saying those paper‑based instruments are no substitute for the... Read more »
Key Takeaways MARA Holdings will raise $850 million through zero-coupon convertible notes to fund Bitcoin acquisitions and strategic purposes. A portion of the proceeds will be used to repurchase existing notes and... Read more »
