According to the New York Times, Trump exchanged Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik for the release of American teacher Marc Fogel. Vinnik was arrested in Greece in 2017 and extradited to the United States, accused of operating the digital currency exchange BTC-e and laundering money through the site. — link : Wu Blockchain News
New York Post
Trump agreed to release Russian bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander...
Vinnik -- accused of running digital currency exchange BTC-e and committing money laundering -- was arrested in 2017 in Greece and extradited to the US.
Without more Bitcoin transactions, miner revenue shrinks and network security faces risks. - news.bitcoin : Leviathan News
CANADA'S PM TRUDEAU: CANADA WILL RESPOND AS APPROPRIATE IN A CALIBRATED BUT EXTREMELY STRONG WAY, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE US MOVES FORWARD AS REGARDS TO TARIFFS : infinityhedge
CANADA'S PM TRUDEAU: CANADA WILL, IF NEED BE, PAUSE ITS RESPONSE TO ANY US TARIFFS : infinityhedge
Hyperliquid introduces native multi-sig transactions, enabling users to configure multiple wallets to jointly sign transactions for an address. - 𝕏/@HyperliquidX : Leviathan News
Plume Network and Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin to tokenize $40 million worth of RWAs — link | tl;dr : unfolded. DeFi
The Block
Plume Network and Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin to tokenize $40 million worth of RWAs
The partnership will use Plume’s Layer 1 to offer global investors tokenized Brazilian securities, credit, debt and receivables.
FED'S POWELL: WE ARE CLOSE BUT NOT THERE ON INFLATION. TODAY'S INFLATION PRINT SAYS THAT AS WELL, WE WANT TO KEEP POLICY RESTRICTIVE FOR NOW : infinityhedge
MANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES ON CRYPTO CAN VERY WELL BE DONE AT BANKS - RTRS: POWELL : Tree News
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve won't block banks from serving legal crypto customer. : Watcher Guru
Wyoming Highway Patrol could be the first U.S. law enforcement agency to hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet, pioneering the "Get Off Zero" initiative. - 𝕏/@workforcebtc : Leviathan News
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*TRUMP SAYS HE AND PUTIN AGREED TO WORK TOGETHER, VISIT EACH OTHER'S NATIONS : infinityhedge
Franklin Templeton has launched the OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX) on Solana, making it the third-largest tokenized money market fund. The fund is already available on Ethereum, Coinbase Base, Aptos, and Avalanche, using the Stellar network as the primary blockchain. Since its launch in 2021, FOBXX has reached a market capitalization of $594 million. — link : Wu Blockchain News
Coindesk
Franklin Templeton Expands $594M Market Money Fund FOBXX to Solana
Tokenization on Solana is accelerating after Securitize integrated Solana to bring tokenized real-world assets to the network.