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BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Sparks Institutional Interest: Lessons from Canada’s Success

Some crypto investors will always distrust not directly controlling their coins. But the reality is that in Canada, strict regulatory oversight has forced fund providers to operate transparently and adhere to an operational framework that makes the potential for asset commingling, hacks and fraud extremely difficult. To date, investors who

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PayPal stablecoin launch sparks wave of fake PYUSD tokens

Less than 16 hours have passed since the launch of PayPal’s new stablecoin (PYUSD), and opportunists, degens and potential scammers are already attempting to cash in on the hype with their own copycat tokens.According to data from decentralized exchange scanner DexScreener, nearly 30 new token pairs sporting the ticker “PYUSD”

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Worldcoin launch sparks debate over data privacy and future of AI

The controversial digital ID crypto project Worldcoin launched on July 24 after three years of development. The project was co-founded by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI — the company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ChatGPT. Worldcoin made headlines right after its announcement in June 2021, as it promised

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DeFi Protocol Sparks Speculation Of $16 Million Rug Pull After Severing Lines of Communication

DeFi protocol, Hector Network, has closed its official Discord server, leaving many investors in the dark. The move comes amidst growing suspicions of a $16 million rug pull engineered through a so-called hard rug, a process where funds are quickly moved, leaving investors with shitcoins. This comes after a controversial

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BNB Chain’s Q2 Performance Sparks Optimism Amidst Regulatory Uncertainty

Binance Smart Chain (BNB) has seen significant growth in its daily active addresses and transactions in the second quarter of 2023, according to a report by blockchain analytics firm Messari.  The increase in activity was primarily driven by LayerZero, a cross-chain messaging protocol that enables lightweight and efficient communication between different

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Worldcoin token launch sparks response from Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum network, released a long-form essay with his thoughts on the recently launched Worldcoin human identity verification system. On July 24th, Buterin tweeted his response to Worldcoin which launched on the same day. What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?https://t.co/yozo1buW24— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) July

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the iris-scanning crypto project that sparks privacy debates

Worldcoin, by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, combines blockchain and UBI, igniting privacy and security debates. Will this iris-scanning global financial network shape socio-economic reform? The internet has always been a breeding ground for the bizarre and the extraordinary. As AI technologies like large language models (LLMs) and OpenAI’s ChatGPT continue to revolutionize

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