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Oxford University physics spinout Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) recently announced the launch of Toshiko, a 32-qubit quantum computing services platform, alongside a $100-million Series B funding round led by Japan’s SBI Group’s investment arm.The company claims that Toshiko is the “world’s first enterprise ready quantum computing platform.” Great question! We
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Together, those ETFs have $96.8 million of assets under management (AUM) as of November 21, led by Hashdex's Nasdaq Bitcoin Reference Price FDI (BITH11) with $57.8 million in AUM as of November 21, or a market share of about 60%. As comparison, the largest ETF in the nation, iShares Ibovespa
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100% of Coindesk stocks were acquired by Bullish, a cryptocurrency exchange run by former NYSE President. Just recently it has been revealed that Bullish, a crypto exchange that is led by former NYSE President Tom Farley, has bought 100% of CoinDesk stocks. It is known that it was an all-cash deal.
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Decentralized exchange (DEX) dYdX was forced to use its insurance fund to cover $9 million in user liquidations on Nov. 17. According to dYdX founder Antonio Juliano, the losses resulted from a "targeted attack" against the exchange. Based on reports from the dYdX team on X (formerly Twitter), the v3 insurance
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With the recently secured Series B funding, Fnality is poised to continue its pioneering work in the tokenization of fiat currencies backed by Central Bank cash. Fnality, a fintech firm focused on building tokenized versions of major currencies collateralized by cash held at central banks, has successfully secured $95 million
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After FTX scrutinized 75 bidders that were interested in restarting the distressed cryptocurrency exchange, only three firms, including Bullish, Figure Technologies, and Proof Group, have been chosen. The future of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd, popularly known as FTX, is expected to be decided before the end of this
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“The consolidation of AI among a small group of powerful companies poses a significant threat to the future of technology," Ritual co-founder Niraj Pant said. "We founded Ritual to end the ecosystem’s reliance on the few, to open access to this critical infrastructure, and ensure a future of building better
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In two weeks, the total value of assets locked in Solana-based DeFi protocols has declined from 12.03 million SOL to 10.23 million SOL, the lowest since April 2021, according to DefiLlama. TVL, though an imperfect measure, is widely tracked to gauge the usage of smart contracts. Source
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According to CEO Riad Wahby, who's an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon, the new wallet will be "a hundred times faster" than competing products. Source
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Still, centralization by any entity or protocol creates risks for Ethereum as a “concentrated number of liquidity providers or node operators could act as a single point of failure or become targets for attacks or collude to create an oligopoly that would promote their own interests at the expense of
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