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According to BitcoinTreasuries.net, American Bitcoin Corp now holds 6,039 BTC, placing the firm among the top 20 public corporate Bitcoin treasuries in the world. Related Reading: What Bitcoin Rout? Michael Saylor Unfazed, Teases New Accumulation That number is big on its face. It also carries more questions than answers for anyone who follows both crypto and small-cap stocks. Fast Accumulation Through Mining And Purchases Reports note the company has been piling on coins by keeping what it mines and by buying on the open market. Blockchain trackers and industry write-ups say roughly 217 BTC were added over the course of January alone, a fast clip for a company that listed barely six months ago. Today we reached an incredible milestone for American Bitcoin — Crossing...

Uniswap proposes expanding protocol fees to eight chains and all v3 pools, routing revenue to Ethereum for automated UNI burns.
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Decibel is building on Aptos to become the world's most powerful and trusted decentralized exchange, driving innovation in trading and markets. Mainnet Beta is imminent, and Testnet is live, with an average of 132K daily active accounts during its recent trading competition. On Feb. 12, the Decibel Foundation announced USDCBL, which will be Decibel's default collateral. USDC pre-deposits to Decibel opened on Feb. 10 and run through Feb. 24, with participants eligible to earn Season 0 Decibel points (AMPs), USDC-denominated rewards, priority access to Mainnet Beta, and early allocation to Decibel Liquidity Provider (DLP) vault.

The US faces significant vulnerabilities due to its reliance on China for strategic minerals. China's dominance in the rare earths market is a result of strategic planning and state support. US efforts to compete with China in critical minerals are hampered by scale and cost challenges.
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XRP is quietly leaving Binance at a pace that’s beginning to register in CryptoQuant’s exchange supply metrics, a pattern one CryptoQuant contributor Darkfost (X: @Darkfost_Coc)says is consistent with renewed accumulation after a sharp year-to-date drawdown. In a note published on CryptoQuant, Darkfost pointed to a steady decline in Binance’s XRP “supply ratio”, a measure of how much of the asset’s total supply sits on a given exchange as a signal that some holders are opting for custody over liquidity. Binance Ratio Slides As XRP Moves Off-Platform CryptoQuant’s framing is straightforward: rising exchange reserves often track increased readiness to sell, while falling reserves tend to reflect withdrawals into private wallets and longer time horizons. Darkfost descri...

AI's capability to understand and predict human behavior poses ethical concerns about privacy and autonomy. The average person's digital privacy is increasingly compromised due to advancing technologies. AI accelerates intimate data collection, enhancing existing business models.
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CME crypto futures move to 24 7 trading on May 29 after record $3T in 2025 volume and rising institutional demand.
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Socit Gnrale expands its euro stablecoin to the XRP Ledger, enhancing access to regulated digital assets and fast settlement.
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In Q4, Rootstock’s total transactions rose 2.9% QoQ to 783,286, while merged-mining participation strengthened to 88.0% (+3.7% QoQ; +51.7% YoY), reinforcing network security even as user activity declined, with average daily active addresses falling to 280 (−33.1% QoQ) and new addresses to 26 (−35.5% QoQ). DeFi TVL pulled back 24.9% QoQ to $197.0 million (−3.3% YoY), with total protocol TVL down 30.3% QoQ to $168 million, though DeFi diversity improved YoY from 3 to 4. Stablecoin balances declined 8.0% QoQ to $12.8 million, with DOC leading at $3.7 million. On the technical side, Reed 8.0 reduced BTC peg-out costs by ~60% via SegWit-enabled PowPeg, Flyover v2.3 improved bridge automation, and Reed 8.1 advanced parallel transaction processing on testnet. The quarter a...

UXLink is a SocialFi infrastructure project that provides partner-facing onboarding tools for Web3 user acquisition. The protocol structures user activation through its Social Growth Layer, which organizes campaigns, referrals, and quest-based participation flows across external ecosystems. UXLink's infrastructure extends into emerging application environments through integrations with Sonic SVM, DeAgentAI, and KiteAI, enabling partners to leverage campaign mechanics like AIRDROP2049 to route users into their ecosystems via UXUY incentives. The protocol combines this partner distribution model with expanded market access through OKX spot trading and Binance Futures perpetual contracts.