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Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum’s Next Major Upgrade Will Take Three to Four Years and Rival the Merge

Buterin says “Lean Ethereum,” a rebuild touching nearly every layer of the protocol, will take three to four years and rival the Merge in scope. The post Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum’s Next Major Upgrade Will Take Three to Four Years……
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Crypto bounces back from the brink as altcoin optimism returns despite pockets of weakness

BTC holds at $62,800 after last week’s brush with $58,000, while LIT surges 50% and the Altcoin Season indicator hits its highest reading in three…
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ESMA Warns Prediction Market Contracts May Fall Under EU’s Retail Binary Options Ban

Europe’s securities regulator says yes-or-no “event contracts” like those offered by Kalshi and Polymarket could be barred from retail investors under the bloc’s decade-old binary…
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Samsung and Dunamu Say They Never Agreed to Join Open Standard’s OUSD Stablecoin Consortium

Samsung, Dunamu, and other South Korean firms say they were named as OUSD founding partners without ever signing on, raising fresh doubts about Open Standard’s…
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Trump Defends $1.4 Billion Crypto Income as Memecoin Investors Lose $3.8 Billion

President Trump called his family’s cryptocurrency windfall “nothing wrong,” even as Nansen data show most TRUMP memecoin buyers are deep in the red. The post…
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$60.4K Becomes 'most important area': Five things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin saw its highest levels in nearly two weeks at the weekly close, but bulls needed a push beyond $65,000 for real trend inflection, said…
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Bitcoin's Sharpe Ratio slides to lowest since 2022. Here's what it means.

A reading that negative means investors would have been better off in risk-free assets like 10-year U.S. Treasuries. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
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New UK Election Funding Rules Could Hit Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donors

The crackdown on overseas cash comes after billionaire Tether investor and Reform donor Christopher Harborne registered to vote in the UK. Read Full Story at…
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South Korea weighs action against Polymarket over gambling concerns

South Korea’s media and communications review body will hear from Polymarket before deciding whether to issue a corrective request against the prediction market platform. Read…