Sia x HackerNoon: Inviting Developers to Build the Future of Decentralized Cloud Storage

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Through this collaboration, Sia becomes the decentralized storage backbone for over 100,000 HackerNoon stories—and counting. By backing up every existing and future HackerNoon article on the Sia network, we’re helping ensure that tech journalism remains permanently accessible, censorship-resistant, and free from centralized control. Over 2,000 new stories will be added to Sia each month, showcasing … Read more

AVAX Underperforms Broader Crypto Market as Short-Term ‘Double Top’ Pattern Emerges

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Avalanche AVAX broke below critical $17.45 support level amid accelerated selling pressure, dropping 3.4% over 24 hours, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. The move underperformed CoinDesk 20 — an index of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins, memecoins and exchange coins — which has fallen 1.6% in the same period … Read more

The BBC is launching a paywall in the US

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The BBC wants to make people in the US pay for its content. The public broadcaster announced on Thursday that it will start offering US-based users an $8.99 per month (or $49.99 per year) subscription for “unlimited” access to news stories, feature reports, and the BBC News channel livestream. Users in the US will still … Read more

Meet Pepe Dollar: DeFi Integration and Institutional Appeal

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Ethereum (ETH) remains the backbone of the decentralized finance revolution, hosting everything from lending protocols to NFTs. Yet, the network faces a fundamental challenge—token inflation and scalability—impacting the potential for meme coins to gain serious institutional traction. Enter Pepe Dollar (PEPD), a Layer-2 meme coin designed to solve these issues with a fixed supply and … Read more

Most Illicit On-Chain Activity Now Involves Stablecoins: FATF

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Stablecoins now account for most illicit on-chain activity, according to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Mass adoption of stablecoins will amplify illicit finance risks, particularly when it is handled unevenly across difference jurisdictions, the FATF said in a new report about anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT). The FATF estimated there was approximately $51 … Read more

Taurus Releases Open Source Privacy Tech for Stablecoins, Starts With Circle’s USDC

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Taurus, the Swiss crypto custody technology firm that counts Deutsche Bank among its customers, is rolling out a zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) privacy layer for stablecoins, starting with Circle’s USDC. Taurus’s zero-knowledge carapace for stablecoins, a way of secretly sharing details about private data using mathematical proofs, was built on the privacy-centric Aztec Network. It continues … Read more

Real-World Asset Tokenization Market Has Grown Almost Fivefold in 3 Years

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The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has grown by 380% in just three years, reaching $24 billion this month in a sign that traditional finance is finding benefits from embracing blockchain technology, according to a report from RedStone, Gauntlet and RWA.xyz. “Asset tokenization has decisively transitioned from experimental pilots to scaled institutional adoption in 2024-2025,” … Read more

What’s Next for Tokenization?

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To many of us in and around crypto, this time feels different. Tokenization of financial assets has arrived in ways that we haven’t previously seen. As we charge ahead, it’s important to zoom out, slow down—something our industry is not known for—and take a snapshot of today and where we are going tomorrow. Stablecoins Are … Read more