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Strive wants $500 million from a preferred share paying 15 percent, to keep buying bitcoin
Strive has doubled its holdings in three months, and the dividend now has to be paid for.
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Binance will close its mining pool and cloud mining on 10 November, and is not saying why
The exchange calls it a product review, while its energy is going into stock-linked trading.
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France is weighing a 31.4 percent tax on swapping into regulated stablecoins, and Chainalysis says it will push trades offshore
The amendment taxes the most compliant tokens and leaves USDT untouched.
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Solana has set 21 October for Alpenglow, and the 150-millisecond finality is still only a target
The upgrade removes vote transactions from blocks, so Solana’s headline transaction count may fall sharply for reasons that have nothing to do with use.
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The Air Force will pay WindBorne up to $49 million for balloon weather data, and has ordered $1.7 million so far
The contract was awarded without competition, on the grounds that nobody else could supply the data.
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Meta says its first frontier model matches GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1, and the only test cited is its own
Muse Wonder is priced like its rivals, and Meta has not said whether anyone outside will ever see the weights.
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Federated Hermes, with $911 billion under management, will issue its own tokenised fund shares in early 2027
It has not said which funds, or which blockchain.
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Russia’s biggest bank has been cleared to deal in crypto, and plans to open it to every customer on 1 December
Domestic crypto payments remain banned, and from July 2027 the peer-to-peer trade that Russians rely on loses its route.
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Blur is closing its website next month after monthly volume fell from $1.43 billion to under $7 million
The third project tied to the NFT boom to wind down in two weeks says its contracts will keep running, which is not the…
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A UK judge ruled Chinese law governs who can claim 61,000 seized bitcoin, which helps the government keep it
The court has still not decided who owns the coins, and the victims’ lawyers are appealing.