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Latency Challenges in Price Feeds: Why Milliseconds Matter in Blockchain and De Fi
37+ min ago (419+ words) Latency measures the delay between a market event occurring and the updated price reaching a blockchain application. Consider Bitcoin falling from $100, 000 to $98, 000 across major exchanges, where an oracle that updates immediately lets De Fi protocols react in step while an…...
Singapore Doctor Fined S$120, 000 After Buying Shares Ahead Of Medical Group Takeover
4+ hour ago (652+ words) The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Commercial Affairs Department have taken civil enforcement action against Dr Chua Han Boon Kenneth, imposing a civil penalty of S$120, 000 after he admitted to insider trading ahead of the proposed privatisation of Singapore…...
SEC Seeks Permanent Ban After $2. 1 Million Investment Fraud Paid For Mercedes And Hamptons Rental
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (826+ words) The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed proposed partial judgments against David Kushner and La Mancha Funding Corp. in a securities fraud case involving nearly two dozen investors and approximately $2. 14 million in allegedly misappropriated funds. The SEC said Kushner, a…...
EIP-7732 Explained: How Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation Removes Third-Party MEV Relays
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (780+ words) Ethereum's block production process has changed notably over the years. As the network grows, the importance of maximizing block rewards and improving efficiency has increased." One significant development has been the rise of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), which enables validators…...
Trade Republic Brings Institutional Best Execution To Retail With 30-Exchange Smart Order Routing
8+ hour, 26+ min ago (816+ words) The announcement marks a strategic shift for one of Europe's largest retail investment platforms. Rather than competing solely on commission-free investing and mobile simplicity, Trade Republic is expanding into areas traditionally associated with professional trading platforms, including smart order routing,…...
Crypto ETFs Lose $281 Million as Bitcoin Redemptions Continue on July 1
5+ hour, 45+ min ago (343+ words) U. S. spot crypto exchange-traded funds recorded approximately $280. 7 million in combined net outflows on Wednesday, July 1, as continued Bitcoin ETF redemptions outweighed modest inflows into Ether and Solana products. The persistence of IBIT outflows is especially important. Black Rock's fund has been…...
Cloudflare Opens Waitlist for Stablecoin Monetization Gateway
6+ hour, 30+ min ago (201+ words) Cloudflare has opened the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, a new stablecoin-based payments product that will allow customers to charge for digital resources behind Cloudflare's network. The product is designed to let publishers, developers and data providers monetize web pages,…...
DOJ Extradites Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Linked To $100 Million In Crypto Ransom Attacks
7+ hour, 47+ min ago (655+ words) The U. S. Department of Justice has unsealed criminal charges against Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual U. S. -Estonian citizen accused of belonging to the cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, following his extradition from Finland to the United States. Federal prosecutors allege that…...
South Korean DAT Firm Exits Bitcoin After Once Touting 10, 000-BTC Target
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (528+ words) South Korean media company K Wave Media has exited its Bitcoin treasury position after once setting an ambitious target of accumulating 10, 000 BTC, marking another reversal in the digital asset treasury trade as weaker market conditions pressure balance-sheet strategies. The Nasdaq-listed…...
Robinhood Opens 24/7 Stock Token Trading on Its New Layer 2 Chain
17+ hour, 13+ min ago (1051+ words) Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built using Arbitrum's technology stack, as the company moves deeper into tokenized assets, decentralized finance, and international crypto products. The launch was presented as part of a…...