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  • TON offers UAE golden visa for stakers, making residency by crypto a reality
    by Christina Comben on July 6, 2025 at 5:22 pm

    Telegram’s Open Network (TON) today announced an interesting initiative: a 10-year UAE Golden Visa to investors who stake $100,000 worth of Toncoin (TON) for three years. The program dramatically lowers the entry threshold for residency in the United Arab Emirates and is the first of its kind within the crypto space. How the TON golden The post TON offers UAE golden visa for stakers, making residency by crypto a reality appeared first on […]

  • Mainland China chipmaking capacity set to outpace Taiwan by 2030
    by Christina Comben on July 6, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Mainland China chipmaking capacity is accelerating, now poised to become the world’s leading semiconductor foundry hub by 2030, and overtaking Taiwan in total capacity, according to the latest projections from Yole Group. Chinese dominance in this field is fueled by the country’s push to manufacture its own tech as U.S. export restrictions continue to ramp The post Mainland China chipmaking capacity set to outpace Taiwan by 2030 appeared […]

  • Suspicion surrounds mysterious $8.6 billion Bitcoin move
    by Monika Ghosh on July 5, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    Conor Grogan, Head of Product at Coinbase, believes that there is a “small possibility” that the transfer of $8.6 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) on July 4 was a hack. Calling his claim “extreme speculation” in an X post on Friday, Grogan said he found the transaction movements to be “extremely odd.” He added: “If The post Suspicion surrounds mysterious $8.6 billion Bitcoin move appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Why loyalty is becoming web3 gaming’s next essential layer
    by Neil Mullins on July 5, 2025 at 8:00 pm

    The following is a guest post and opinion of Neil Mullins, CEO at Mojito  Web3 gaming is growing rapidly, but loyalty systems haven’t kept pace. In the last year, blockchain gaming didn’t just grow: it leveled up. According to the 2024 DappRadar Games Report, the space hit 7.4 million daily active wallets and added over The post Why loyalty is becoming web3 gaming’s next essential layer appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • DeFi Is outpacing Bitcoin’s maximalist mindset
    by Jeff Garzik on July 5, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    The following is a guest post and opinion of Jeff Garzik, Co-founder of Hemi Labs. Ever since Bitcoin stopped being the one and only crypto, a group of its stalwart devotees emerged called “Bitcoin maximalists,” arguing that BTC is the only “true” digital asset. As the crypto industry moves toward all-pervading decentralized finance (DeFi) interoperability, The post DeFi Is outpacing Bitcoin’s maximalist mindset appeared first on […]

  • U.S. House of Representatives declares July 14th “Crypto Week”
    by Christina Comben on July 5, 2025 at 1:31 pm

    The U.S. House of Representatives has designated the week starting July 14 as “Crypto Week,” as lawmakers consider three landmark bills: the CLARITY Act, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, and the Senate’s GENIUS Act, in a comprehensive push to establish the United States as a global leader in digital assets. Prominent crypto trader and influencer The post U.S. House of Representatives declares July 14th “Crypto Week” appeared […]

  • Ethereum’s growing pains and the crypto landscape
    by Daniel Polotsky on July 5, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    The following is a guest post and opinion from Daniel Polotsky, Founder & Chairman at CoinFlip. Ethereum has been the king of DeFi, NFTs, and smart contracts for years. But lately, its position of primacy has been threatened. Scalability struggles, internal shakeups, and fast-rising competitors like Solana are giving Ethereum a run for its money. The post Ethereum’s growing pains and the crypto landscape appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Hackers steal $140M from Brazilian central bank reserve accounts via partner breach
    by Gino Matos on July 5, 2025 at 12:00 am

    Hackers siphoned about R$800 million ($140 million) from six reserve accounts connected to Brazil’s central bank after breaching São Paulo-based software vendor C&M Software on June 30, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT and reports from local news outlets. Police said C&M employee João Nazareno Roque sold his corporate login for R$15,000 ($2,770) and later developed The post Hackers steal $140M from Brazilian central bank […]

  • Turkey blocks access to PancakeSwap, 45 crypto websites in regulatory crackdown
    by Assad Jafri on July 4, 2025 at 11:00 pm

    Turkish financial regulators have blocked access to decentralized exchange PancakeSwap and 45 other crypto-related websites as part of a broader crackdown on unauthorized digital asset services. In a July 3 bulletin, the Capital Markets Board (SPK) announced legal action against the websites, citing provisions of Turkey’s Capital Markets Law. The regulator said the targeted platforms The post Turkey blocks access to PancakeSwap, 45 crypto […]

  • Investor poll shows 73% approval for Trump’s crypto policy, bullish views on prices increase
    by Gino Matos on July 4, 2025 at 10:15 pm

    Over 70% of US crypto investors approve of President Donald Trump’s administration’s approach to crypto policy, according to a recent survey conducted by research firm HarrisX.  HarrisX polled 1,096 adults online from June 18 to June 19, including 230 self-identified crypto investors. Among that cohort, 81% said they follow the administration’s crypto actions, 73% approved of the The post Investor poll shows 73% approval for Trump’s […]

  • Tropical Storm Chantal Makes Landfall – All Eyes On Possible NYC Path
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 4:15 pm

    Tropical Storm Chantal Makes Landfall – All Eyes On Possible NYC Path With deadly Texas flooding dominating headlines this weekend, we now shift focus to Tropical Storm Chantal, which made landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, early Sunday. This marks the first tropical storm to make landfall in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season—and the earliest to do so since 2022. Chantal is the third tropical storm of this year’s […]

  • UK Restores Formal Diplomatic Ties With Syria After Grooming Sharaa For Power
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 3:40 pm

    UK Restores Formal Diplomatic Ties With Syria After Grooming Sharaa For Power Via The Cradle Britain reestablished full diplomatic relations with Syria on Sunday as part of the visit of UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy to Damascus to meet the country’s new de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa (Jolani). In a video message on X, Lammy claimed the UK had an interest in Syria’s recovery after 14 years of war. “It matters that it’s […]

  • Rickards: Superintelligence Will Never Arrive
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 2:30 pm

    Rickards: Superintelligence Will Never Arrive Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Readers know at least two things about artificial intelligence (AI). The first is that an AI frenzy has been driving the stock market higher for the past three years even with occasional drawdowns along the way. The second is that AI is a revolutionary technology that will change the world and potentially eliminate numerous jobs, […]

  • It’s Official: Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ Registers With Federal Election Commission
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    It’s Official: Elon Musk’s ‘America Party’ Registers With Federal Election Commission Update (Sunday): A new filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) confirms that Elon Musk’s America Party (AMEP) is now official, as the billionaire sets out to challenge the entrenched “uniparty” duopoly in Washington. Musk has voiced deep frustration with GOP lawmakers over their failure to codify DOGE cuts and President Trump’s “Big […]

  • Tesla Sales Drop 60% In Germany In June
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    Tesla Sales Drop 60% In Germany In June Tesla’s sales in Germany dropped 60% in June to 1,860 vehicles, according to the KBA. For the first half of 2025, sales fell 58.2% year-over-year to 8,890 units, despite overall growth in battery EV sales., according to Reuters. Tesla has also now seen six straight months of declining sales in France, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Chinese EV maker BYD saw its German sales nearly quadruple in […]

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  • To Make America Great Again, Start Here
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 1:20 pm

    To Make America Great Again, Start Here Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it’s no longer even seen as corruption, it’s just BAU–business as usual. It’s a big ask, but let’s depoliticize the phrase “make America great again” and consider what this would actually entail, not as a lobbyists’ grab-bag of tax breaks for the wealthy and arcane giveaways in 500-page […]

  • Texas Floods Kill 50; Search Ongoing For Dozens Of Missing Campers
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 1:18 pm

    Texas Floods Kill 50; Search Ongoing For Dozens Of Missing Campers Watch Live .    .     .    Update (Sunday Morning):  Search and rescue operations continued into the early hours of Sunday morning as officials in Central Texas confirmed the death toll has now exceeded 50. The urgent search remains focused on 27 missing children from Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls summer camp in Kerr County, after flash floods from […]

  • Which Countries Invest In The US The Most?
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Which Countries Invest In The US The Most? Foreign direct investment flows have steadily climbed in recent years, fueled by the expansion of multinational companies. A growing share of that capital is now concentrated in a small number of economies, including the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S. by country or region of origin in 2023. Data […]

  • Kazakhstan Plans To Establish Bitcoin And Crypto Reserve
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    Kazakhstan Plans To Establish Bitcoin And Crypto Reserve Authored by Vivek Sen via BitcoinMagazine.com, Kazakhstan’s National Bank has announced plans to establish a state Bitcoin and crypto reserve, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to Bitcoin amid growing institutional adoption of crypto. According to statements from National Bank Chair Timur Suleimenov, the bank is developing a comprehensive […]

  • France’s Fiscal Reckoning: Is The Eurozone’s Second Giant Next In Line?
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 11:00 am

    France’s Fiscal Reckoning: Is The Eurozone’s Second Giant Next In Line? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe  France is caught in a debt spiral. Now the president of the French Court of Auditors is warning of the consequences of political inaction. Pierre Moscovici has served as president of the French Court of Auditors for five years, overseeing regular audits of the nation’s public finances. From 2012 to 2014, he was France’s finance […]

  • Jaguar Sales Plummet By 97.5% After Awful They/Them Rebrand
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 11:00 am

    Jaguar Sales Plummet By 97.5% After Awful They/Them Rebrand Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Yet another stunning example of ‘go woke, go broke’ has come to pass after high end car brand Jaguar has seen vehicle sales fall off a cliff following a mind blowingly stupid non-binary rebrand. Sales in Europe dropped by a whoppping 97.5 percent year-over-year in April 2025,  figures from the European Automobile […]

  • US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 3:20 am

    US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price Via Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year — the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel. However, that answer massively understates the […]

  • US Reassesses Relations With Colombia As Crime And Cocaine Surge Under Leftist Regime 
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 2:45 am

    US Reassesses Relations With Colombia As Crime And Cocaine Surge Under Leftist Regime  The Trump administration recalled its top diplomat in Colombia, John McNamara, for “urgent consultations” on Thursday in response to what it described as “baseless and reprehensible” statements from senior Colombian officials. While the State Department did not specify which remarks prompted the move, it indicated that further actions would […]

  • 21 States Across US Now Reporting COVID ‘Razor Throat’ Variant
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 2:10 am

    21 States Across US Now Reporting COVID ‘Razor Throat’ Variant Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), At least 21 states are reporting a COVID-19 variant that spread across China earlier this year, according to newly updated data provided by a private company. A map released by the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) shows that 21 states in the United States are reporting COVID-19 […]

  • CNN Stunned As Majority Of Americans Back Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 1:35 am

    CNN Stunned As Majority Of Americans Back Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major deportation victory on Thursday. On the same day, the GOP-led House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in a narrow 218–214 vote—legislation that paves the way for over one million deportations annually. Meanwhile, the first illegals arrived at “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, with […]

  • Bitcoin Is The Benchmark: Why The Biggest Opportunity In The Next Decade Isn’t DeFi
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 1:00 am

    Bitcoin Is The Benchmark: Why The Biggest Opportunity In The Next Decade Isn’t DeFi Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Excerpt from the July Issue of The Bitcoin Capitalist – ‘The Stablecoin Standard’ Here is the the argument for this section of the Bitcoin Capitalist entitled ‘Bitcoin and Crypto Macro’: “This sums up everything we’ve been seeing over this past cycle – Bitcoin settling in as the base […]

  • Weakened By War And Syrian Regime Change, Hezbollah Considers Major Demilitarization
    by Tyler Durden on July 6, 2025 at 12:25 am

    Weakened By War And Syrian Regime Change, Hezbollah Considers Major Demilitarization Prompted by military losses and shifting regional geopolitics, the Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah is considering a major strategic shift that would see the group undertake a major disarmament, Reuters has reported, citing three sources familiar with the group’s deliberations.   In solidarity with Gaza, Hezbollah began attacking […]

  • Boxer Chávez Jr. Expected To Be Deported To Mexico To Serve Sentence, Mexican President Says
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 11:50 pm

    Boxer Chávez Jr. Expected To Be Deported To Mexico To Serve Sentence, Mexican President Says Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on July 4 that she expects boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. to be deported to Mexico to serve a prison sentence after his arrest in Los Angeles by U.S. immigration authorities. “The hope is that he will be deported and serve the sentence in Mexico,” […]

  • YouTuber Uncovers “Soros Soldier” Behind NYC Color Revolution Operation
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    YouTuber Uncovers “Soros Soldier” Behind NYC Color Revolution Operation Initial signs suggest a shift in federal posture toward increased scrutiny of rogue non-governmental organizations (NGOs) potentially engaged in domestic color revolution operations aimed at sowing chaos and destruction. These NGOs are reportedly backed by a mix of left-leaning (and often anti-American) high-net-worth individuals, U.S. taxpayer funds, corporate […]

  • ‘Egg-cellent News’: Waffle House Eliminates Surcharge On Eggs
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    ‘Egg-cellent News’: Waffle House Eliminates Surcharge On Eggs Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Restaurant chain Waffle House announced Tuesday that it has removed a surcharge on eggs that was implemented earlier this year amid soaring egg prices. A Waffle House restaurant in Miami Gardens, Fla., on July 30, 2024. Joe Raedle/Getty Images “Egg-cellent news … as of June 2, the egg surcharge is […]

  • “We’ve Already Defaulted!”: On Inflation, Deficits, Broken Markets, & The Fiscal Illusion
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 9:30 pm

    “We’ve Already Defaulted!”: On Inflation, Deficits, Broken Markets, & The Fiscal Illusion Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This weekend, I made an appearance on the Zero Hedge Podcast—a platform I’ve long loved to read and have been a friend of. The full video is below. At the outset, I explained why I’ve mostly stepped back from doing my own podcast. “I feel like I don’t have anything of dire importance to say […]

  • Watch: Boston Globe’s ‘Patriotism’ Segment Turns Into Scripted America-Bashing
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 8:55 pm

    Watch: Boston Globe’s ‘Patriotism’ Segment Turns Into Scripted America-Bashing A day after citing a Gallup poll showing collapsing patriotism among Democrats, we didn’t have to look far for proof: highly educated Boston leftists proudly proclaiming they’re “not proud to be American.” Yet, despite their anti-American rhetoric, they still choose to live here. Strange, isn’t it? The Boston Globe—owned by Boston Globe Media […]

  • US Expands Militarized Zones To One Third Of Southern Border
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 8:20 pm

    US Expands Militarized Zones To One Third Of Southern Border Via Headline USA, Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S. military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees. The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico and western Texas, declaring a “restricted area by […]

  • Victor Davis Hanson Dismantles “Experts” Who Keep Getting Trump Wrong
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 7:10 pm

    Victor Davis Hanson Dismantles “Experts” Who Keep Getting Trump Wrong Via VigilantFox.com Yes, they were all wrong. In spectacular fashion. Victor Davis Hanson just DISMANTLED the so-called “experts” who’ve been wrong about Trump’s policies at every turn. He dropped three brutal examples that leave no room for doubt—and ended with this warning to the media elites: “You should try to shed your Trump Derangement […]

  • Hamas Submits ‘Positive Response’ To US-Backed Ceasefire As Pressure Mounts On Netanyahu
    by Tyler Durden on July 5, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    Hamas Submits ‘Positive Response’ To US-Backed Ceasefire As Pressure Mounts On Netanyahu Hamas announced on Friday that it had delivered a “positive” response to the latest US-backed ceasefire and hostage release proposal for Gaza, stating it was ready to begin proximity talks with Israel “immediately” to resolve outstanding issues. But just like with prior instances of being near the “goal line” – a phrase often heard during the […]

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