Author: Jeremy Ryan

Anti-money-laundering controls remain a central concern, he said, describing a need to understand and manage risks before introducing new rules.“We don’t want to create something with a big boom and then with a big collapse,” Valainis said. The government will implement solutions only when it is “1,000% sure” they would be transparent and understandable, he added.Members of the Latvian Blockchain Association (LBAA), which aims to make the country a major Web3 hub in the European Union, participate in working groups and testing, according to the minister.He named no individual commercial partners, though the LBAA’s members include crypto exchanges like Kraken…

San Francisco, United States, April 8, 2025 – AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation and sustainability, has been selected by Archaea Energy, the largest renewable natural gas (RNG) producer in the US, to build a comprehensive operations data management infrastructure. Using AVEVA’s software, Archaea Energy can collect, enrich and visualize its real-time operations data, enabling performance analysis across its growing network of plants. Using AVEVA PI Data Infrastructure, a hybrid solution with cloud data services, the plants will be able to share data to highlight operational opportunities and optimize efficiency. Caspar Herzberg, CEO, AVEVA, stated, “Through this collaboration…

New Daily Challenge in World of Dypians World of Dypians has officially launched Single Strike, a new game mode on BNB Chain that introduces a daily boss fight mechanic. In this mode, players select one hero to face a single Dark Lord once per day, aiming for victory in a one-shot challenge. Rewards and Game Mechanics Upon winning, players will earn Stars, Points, and the game’s native token, $WOD. However, specific information regarding reward amounts, the roster of heroes, and stats for the Dark Lord has not yet been disclosed. Additionally, the announcement does not clarify whether players need to…

OKXICE, backed by one of the world’s biggest exchange operators, issued its initial public notice on Oct. 4, outlining plans to use Uniswap (UNI) liquidity pools on OKX’s XLayer blockchain, with transactions settled in stablecoins. Venues must notify issuers and give them 30 days to object before offering tokenized versions of their shares.The venture’s original proposed trading roster covered 62 companies. Wells Fargo and ARM were not among them, while Cisco, Moderna, Intuit and Marvell were included.That means the 22 objections cannot all be counted as departures from the original selection. Cerebras Systems, whose objection was disclosed earlier, was also…

As part of an ongoing partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, OpenZeppelin is delivering the next major addition to its Stellar library: Confidential Token contracts.OpenZeppelin’s contracts already run as core infrastructure on Stellar with more than $1.7B in total value locked across the network. Bringing confidential token primitives to the network extends that foundation into institutional and commercial applications. It gives regulated activity something it has largely gone without: the ability to transact without putting every balance and amount in public view.The contracts are audited by OpenZeppelin and ready to be deployed on Stellar mainnet. They implement the ERC-7984 confidential…

An Argentine federal judge has dismissed the criminal case against President Javier Milei over his promotion of LIBRA, a memecoin that crashed soon after its launch in February 2025.The ruling also covers Milei’s sister Karina, the presidency’s secretary general. U.S. businessman Hayden Davis, who described himself as an adviser to the token’s launch, was also covered by the dismissal, Reuters reported.In all, 11 people were cleared, including lobbyist Mauricio Novelli and KIP Protocol CEO Julian Peh, according to Infobae. None of them had been formally questioned in the case.Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi acknowledged that Milei’s endorsement could have given the launch…

ETH trades near $2,360, on its $2,358 floor. A floor is a price where falls have stopped before.The price is down about 12% over the past 30 days. The slide has carried ETH back to a level with a long record. It is now testing that floor once more.The $2,358 Floor Has Turned ETH 10 TimesThe $2,358 floor has turned the price 10 times since early November 2024. It sits right at the price now.The last turn came on 15 September.ETH is not approaching this level from a distance. It is sitting on it, so each day of trading now…

The incident follows the problems faced by Ledger and Trezor in the past few months. Keystone Wallet has become the latest big hardware wallet provider to report a security issue after unauthorized access to its website exposed customer information. The breach came during a particularly uncomfortable period for the broader hardware wallet industry, with the two giants, Ledger and Trezor, dealing with separate security incidents since the summer. Keystone Customer Data Exposed The company disclosed over the weekend that it had detected unauthorized access to its official website on October 20. After reviewing API activity on Shopify, the team confirmed…

That gives public companies a say in whether unaffiliated third parties tokenize and trade their shares, but it also tilts the decision toward caution.Global law firm Latham & Watkins has warned issuers that silence effectively becomes an irrevocable decision: the SEC order provides no mechanism to object after the 30-day window or withdraw a prior non-objection once trading begins.So when a legal or investor-relations team receives notice about a new market structure it may know little about, saying no while it figures things out can be the rational choice.“Most of these companies had no idea a third party had tokenized…

The U.S. is quickly evacuating personnel from embassies and military bases throughout the Middle East as intelligence suggests Iran is prepping attacks against Americans, the WSJ reported Saturday morning.“Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel,” wrote Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, in a Friday memo to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries.”These evacuations appear to go well beyond reports from earlier this week that the U.S. was ordering some diplomatic staff in Saudi Arabia…