Bitcoin BTC$68,503.15 surged Wednesday, underscoring it’s growing resilience to turmoil in the Middle East, while gold, a traditional safe haven, lagged. The leading cryptocurrency by market value rose to $71,023 during the European hours, up over 6% on a 24-hour basis, according to CoinDesk data. Other majors such as ether (ETH), XRP (XRP) and solana […]
Solana Company (HSDT) said it plans to build a high-speed infrastructure network across the Asia-Pacific region to support the growth of the Solana blockchain and diversify its revenue streams. The initiative, called the “Pacific Backbone,” will connect Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong with a low-latency cluster designed to support staking, validation and trading services […]
SGX’s bitcoin BTC$90,301.29 and ether ETH$3,113.55 perpetual futures have become increasingly popular since their debut two weeks ago, and that growth represents new liquidity rather than cash redirected from elsewhere, said Michael Syn, president of the SGX Group. The products, cryptocurrency derivatives that allow institutional traders to speculate on the price of an asset without […]
Building Insurance Primitives in DeFi
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Insurance stands as one of finance’s foundational primitives—an essential scaffold that undergirds every major market from commodities to credit. Since the 1600s, no vibrant financial ecosystem has thrived without a robust insurance mechanism: market participants demand quantifiable measures of risk before committing capital. Yet in decentralized finance(DeFi)’s first wave—lending, exchanges, derivatives—insurance remained an afterthought, implemented […]
Building an Open and Trusted Internet
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Did AI write the sentence that you’re reading right now? Did AI create the photograph you just saw online? Was the shocking, controversial story that tipped an election actually real, or AI-fueled misinformation? These are questions Clara Tsao has wrestled with for years, ranging from protecting national security (where she was the CTO of a […]