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Ripple is broadening its arrangement with Brevan Howard by adding prime brokerage services, a move that gives the crypto firm a larger role in the trading infrastructure used by institutional clients.
Why DefiLlama held back its mobile app after spotting crypto phishing lookalikes
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Bybit expands pre-IPO perpetuals with Unitree and Moonshot AI as trading volume rises
Bybit has added Unitree and Moonshot AI to its pre-IPO perpetuals lineup, alongside a reported surge in monthly volume and a more than doubling of tokenized stock holders.
Why some public Bitcoin miners are dialing back as AI infrastructure becomes more valuable
Publicly traded Bitcoin miners reduced their hashrate by 13.4% while revenue from AI infrastructure continued to grow, highlighting a shift in how some operators are weighing computing capacity.
Russia’s regulators move to formalize exchange trading for Bitcoin, Ether and USDT
Russia is proposing exchange trading for Bitcoin, Ether and Tether’s USDT, a step that could bring some of the most widely used crypto assets into a more formal trading framework.