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World said Wednesday that ProveKit, the zero-knowledge proving toolkit already running inside its World ID identity checks, is open to outside developers to build on, letting a phone confirm a fact about its owner without transmitting the document that proves it.
The design points at a specific

New Jersey asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to decide whether states can still regulate sports betting when those bets are offered on a federally registered exchange. Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Division of Gaming Enforcement interim director Mary Jo Flaherty filed a 332-page

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a federal court on Wednesday to dismiss CME Group‘s lawsuit challenging its approval of crypto perpetual futures, telling the judge the case amounts to “much ado about nothing.”
In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of

Félix, the WhatsApp remittance service for Latinos in the United States, said Tuesday it raised $200 million in new financing: $87 million in equity led by Andreessen Horowitz, which announced the investment the same day, and a $113 million credit facility from General Catalyst’s Customer Value

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on Tuesday to overhaul the rules governing registered transfer agents, the firms that maintain the official record of who owns a company’s shares, writing blockchain-based recordkeeping into that framework for the first time. It would be the first

G20 finance ministers and central bank governors committed to clearer rules for digital assets at the close of a two-day meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, on Tuesday, framing the sector as a source of growth. The Chair’s statement said the group would advance supervisory frameworks that

Swan is building a custody product that splits a client’s bitcoin across three separate companies, with the client holding no key at all, founder and chief executive Cory Klippsten said on Monday’s episode of Unchained.
“We’re doing it now, so we will actually have that out hopefully by Q4. It’s

Bitcoin has dipped below $66,000 after climbing as much as 2.5% to trade just shy of $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since mid-June amid optimism around the Clarity Act and AI.
The move mirrors a broader market correction as investors await Alphabet’s earnings today.
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Balaji Srinivasan is opening his Network School in Kazakhstan after Malaysian authorities revoked the license of his Forest City community and ordered it to shut down.
The former Coinbase chief technology officer announced Tuesday that Network School had signed a memorandum of understanding with th

Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator allegedly used his advance knowledge of the president’s speeches to win more than $100,000 on the prediction market Kalshi, according to ABC News, citing sources familiar with a federal investigation on the matter. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the pr

Crypto.com has said it has received a $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at a $20 billion valuation.
The investment marks Crypto.com’s first institutional funding round, the exchange said in a statement Thursday.
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Aave has deployed Aave V4, the newest version of its lending protocol, on Avalanche. This is the first time the software has run on a blockchain other than Ethereum.
The rollout extends Aave’s Hub and Spoke architecture, the redesign that launched on Ethereum in March, to a network where Aave’s

Strategy says it raised $466.7 million last week by selling common stock and funneled all of it into cash, lifting its US dollar reserve to $3 billion and passing on a Bitcoin purchase for the third consecutive week.
The company sold about 4.8 million MSTR shares between July 6 and July 12 and