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MINGO Tickets has launched on Hedera to enable digital sports ticket sales in 54 African countries. The website operates with verifiable tickets through a web application to minimize fraud and duplication of event access. MINGO has launched MINGO Tickets, a digital ticketing platform built on the Hedera network, alongside an expansion covering 54 countries across Africa. The company said the rollout will improve how fans access live events while giving organizers stronger tools to manage entry and reduce ticket-related challenges. Live event ticketing remains vulnerable to fraud in many regions. Organizers often face duplicated tickets, repeated entry attempts, and high…

In a significant development for decentralized finance, the Solana-based automated liquidity protocol Kamino has announced support for the politically notable stablecoin USD1. This integration, confirmed on February 15, 2025, fundamentally expands the collateral options for borrowers on one of blockchain’s most active networks. Consequently, users can now deposit the dollar-pegged USD1 to secure loans, marking a pivotal moment for both the protocol and the stablecoin’s issuer, World Liberty Financial. Kamino USD1 Integration: Technical and Market Implications The Kamino protocol automates complex liquidity management strategies on Solana. By adding USD1 to its supported asset list, Kamino directly enhances its lending market’s…

Ethereum traded near $3,093 on the 4-hour chart after a sharp pullback from the $3,403 peak, as sellers regained control and pushed price below key trend signals. The retreat followed a strong rally, but the latest move suggests short-term momentum has shifted into correction mode. Besides weakening price structure, traders are also watching leverage and spot flow behavior, which still point to cautious market positioning. Consequently, ETH now sits at a key decision point where bulls must defend nearby support levels and reclaim overhead resistance to restart upside continuation. ETH Faces Heavy Resistance Zones ETH remains capped below $3,163, which…

Hokanews also points out the rising expectations in the impending December 910 Federal Reserve meeting where the markets anticipate a 25-basis-point rate reduction to 3.503.75 percent. It would be the third cut that the Fed would have made in 2025 following a gradual slowdown of the inflation. Analysts believe that this is a move that can be used to tone down the whole year 2026, particularly when Chair Jerome Powell aligns a more permanent move toward long-term monetary easing. This meeting is more sensitive to the crypto market. Bitcoin usually increases by between five and fifteen percent when the rate…

The Senate Agriculture Committee plans to publish its crypto market structure bill on Jan. 21 and hold a key hearing on the text on Jan. 27. The committee announced Tuesday that its hearing — originally scheduled for Jan. 15 but postponed on Monday — would kick off at 3:00 p.m. The markup hearing is a crucial step toward advancing legislation. Lawmakers will be able to debate amendments, vote whether or not to add them to the base text and then vote on whether or not to advance the overall bill to the full Senate. The Senate Banking Committee is holding…

SwissBorg has stated that its Meta-Exchange will be upgraded significantly so that customers will be able to access native USDC and ETH within the Base network. The update will represent another move towards the goal of SwissBorg of simplifying the use of crypto, as well as transforming traditional finance and integrating it into onchain ecosystems. The platform encourages native assets as opposed to wrapped versions of the same, thus improving the security and efficiency of users who visit Base. 🟦 You can now access native $USDC and $ETH directly in the Meta-Exchange.SwissBorg isn’t just the one-tap gateway to an expanding…

Crunch, a collective intelligence platform for model coordination, has announced plans to open decentralized AI mining on the Bittensor network to academic and enterprise machine learning scientists. Under the approach, Crunch coordinators will manage Bittensor subnet mining infrastructure, including blockchain operations and technical coordination. This allows contributors to focus on building and improving machine learning models without handling staking, mining slots, or other Web3 mechanics. The model keeps Bittensor’s decentralized structure intact while lowering barriers for non-crypto-native participants. Rather than targeting existing blockchain miners, Crunch aims to onboard new contributors from universities, research institutions, and enterprise AI teams. These participants…

BNB Chain and Brevis are building a programmable privacy layer based on zero-knowledge proofs to configure privacy. Intelligent Privacy Pool on BNB Chain targets Q1 2026 launch with ZK attestations and Association Sets for clean funds. BNB Chain has extended collaboration with Brevis to develop a programmable privacy layer based on zero-knowledge proofs. This is to facilitate privacy setup capability in favor of various users and compliance requirements. The initiative moves the network beyond conventional transaction privacy systems that focus mainly on obscuring senders, receivers, and amounts. Instead, the framework is designed to let users verify credentials without exposing full…

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is facing criticism following a governance vote that approved a USD1 growth proposal, despite objections from the community over the lack of voting access for locked WLFI holders. Onchain voting data shows that the largest “FOR” votes were cast by top wallets flagged as team-linked or strategic partner addresses, according to pseudonymous crypto trader and researcher DeFi^2. The top nine wallets alone accounted for roughly 59% of total voting power, giving a small cluster of large holders effective control over the outcome of the USD1 growth proposal. The largest wallet alone contributed 18.786% of the total…

Yat Siu, the co-founder of Animoca Brands, says wealthy crypto collectors buying NFTs to own rather than sell are keeping the market alive. Siu explained in an interview at the CfC St. Moritz crypto conference that NFT collectors have a connection to digital artwork, just as traditional art collectors do with Picassos. Siu, who is also an avid NFT collector, noted that although the NFT market appears to be dwindling, it still reached monthly sales of about $300 million, driven mainly by wealthy digital art collectors. That is a notable drop from the $1 billion in monthly sales at the…