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XRP Healthcare plans to go public in Canada and expects to finish the deal in August 2025. The firm has bought Pharma Ville, the biggest pharmacy chain in Uganda, to support its growth in healthcare services across Africa. Dubai-based private company XRP Healthcare will trade publicly backed by a TSX Venture Exchange listed capital pool company, AAJ Capital 3 Corp. On May 14, 2025, the companies signed a letter of intent to complete a reverse takeover representing AAJ’s qualifying transaction under Exchange Policy 2.4. Once complete, AAJ will own all of XRP Healthcare and the combined operation will focus on…
Bitget Wallet is offering TRC‑20 USDT transfers at half cost in a new promotion, with the first transfer free. Bitget Wallet is giving users a cheaper way to send stablecoins. On Thursday, June 3, the platform announced an upgrade to its GetGas feature, cutting the cost of sending USDT across the Tron Network (TRX) in half. In addition, the wallet will offer a gas-free transfer for the first transaction. According to the Bitget Wallet team, the app is now the most efficient option among major wallets for USDT transactions. The team explains that this is part of its strategy to…
Nate Geraci, the cofounder of the ETF Institute and president of the ETF Store, issued an X post on May 19, expressing confidence about XRP’s next big move after the debut of the much-awaited XRP futures. The Ripple community is set for more institutional adoption, all thanks to CME’s decision to expand its suite of regulated crypto derivatives by including XRP. Per the development, the XRP futures contract will be issued based on the CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate, which represents cash-settled futures. CME-traded XRP futures are now *live*…CFTC-regulated contracts on XRP.Spot XRP ETFs only a matter of time. pic.twitter.com/MOhHtoGWbs…
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has estimated that the electricity that Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious co-founder of the leading cryptocurrency, paid to mine 1 million BTC would have been under $3,700 total. Hoskinson shared three different scenarios estimating how much electricity it would have cost Nakamoto to mine 1 million bitcoins between 2009–2010. The Bitcoin creator mined their coins during a time of extremely low mining difficulty, almost non-existent competition, and CPU mining. The scenarios in the table show various plausible ways Satoshi might have mined the coins with different assumptions about the number of mining machines, wattage, duty cycle, and…
SpoonOS and DBOS have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at supporting developers in building durable AI agentic applications. The partnership seeks to enable coordination between on-chain smart contracts and reliable off-chain workflows, offering a comprehensive infrastructure for production-ready AI agents. SpoonOS is an agentic operating system that supports LLM-powered agents in decentralized environments. The platform enables developers to build, coordinate, and scale on-chain applications using a standardized framework designed for Web3-native AI workflows. DBOS, or Durable By-Orchestration System, is an open-source library that offers workflow orchestration and execution durability in Python and TypeScript. With built-in checkpointing, DBOS ensures that workflow…
Sei Labs, the main contributor to the layer 1 blockchain Sei, has announced the release of the Sei Giga whitepaper that outlines the design of the industry’s first multi-proposer Ethereum Virtual Machine layer 1 blockchain. Sei Giga is Sei (SEI) blockchain network’s new path towards becoming the first multi-proposer Ethereum Virtual Machine L1. According to an announcement shared with crypto.news, the upgrade proposes a design of parallel blocks, powered by the Autobahn consensus protocol. It means Sei Giga brings a solution to network bottlenecks related to data availability, execution, and storage, among others. The whitepaper release is the latest major…
ADX lists MENA’s first blockchain bond, issued by FAB on HSBC Orion platform Blockchain bond enhances market efficiency, transparency, and investor access Strategic ADX, HSBC, FAB partnership signals shift toward digital capital markets The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) is preparing to list the first-ever blockchain-based digital bond in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Issued by First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the nation’s largest bank, and powered by HSBC’s Orion digital asset platform, the listing integrates distributed ledger technology (DLT) directly into capital markets infrastructure.. Partnership Forged for Innovation This milestone comes as a result of strategic collaboration…
Bitcoin price has pulled back from its all-time high as investors take profits following a 50% surge from its April lows. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $108,645 on Thursday, around $4,000 below its all-time high of $112,965. Analysts remain optimistic about further upside, citing ongoing demand and tightening supply dynamics. Speaking at a Bitcoin conference, Adam Back, the founder of Blockstream, noted the coin could climb to $1 million within the next five years. With Bitcoin trading at $108,645, a move to $1 million would represent an 825% gain from current levels. It would also give the cryptocurrency a fully…
As the crypto market currently moves in consolidation, smart investors see this as the ideal time to make big purchases. Today, a whale made a bold move by accumulating multiple altcoins he believes will surge in the long run – an indicator that whales see something that others don’t. 6 hours ago, a whale spent:– $1.5M to buy 1.14M $FARTCOIN– $1.49M to buy 1.48M $WIF– $682K to buy 33.8B $BONK– $681K to buy 200.1M $MEW– $680K to buy 1.45M $POPCATAddress: 8L8qZp9KGSCYNYChYCNJ8NNkB296r2U7N9d9JcLmYRuGData by @nansen_ai pic.twitter.com/yXrVY8wBQF — Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) May 19, 2025 The whale’s buying spree Onchain Lens shared data on…
BlockSec, a well-known platform for blockchain security, has announced its new partnership wth FinTax, a popular platform offering services and software dealing with crypto tax. The collaboration focuses on providing a unified solution to enable crypto security protection, compliance risk control, and tax management. The platform revealed the details of this development in a recent X post. BlockSec is proud to announce a strategic partnership with @FinTax_Official.As a cryptocurrency tax software and service provider, FinTax has developed comprehensive Crypto tax systems and professional tax teams, providing customized solutions for numerous industry institutions… pic.twitter.com/5Dmn38imoF — BlockSec (@BlockSecTeam) July 3, 2025 BlockSec…