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Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is donating 500 BNB (BNB) each to Thailand and Myanmar following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that caused severe damage to buildings and widespread flooding.Zhao plans to distribute the funds through Binance and Binance Thailand if a third-party onchain donation platform cannot be found to distribute the disaster relief funds.“I hope everyone is safe in Thailand,” the Binance founder wrote in a March 28 X post before announcing the contributions to both countries affected by the earthquake.According to The Guardian, at least 144 people are confirmed to have died as a result of the catastrophic earthquake…
Hopes for the crypto recovery to continue vanished on Friday, as a market-wide rout erased virtually all gains from earlier this week.Bitcoin (BTC), hovering just below $88,000 a day ago, tumbled to $83,800 recently and is down 3.8% over the past 24 hours. The broad-market benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index declined 5.7%, with native cryptos Avalanche (AVAX), Polygon (POL), Near (NEAR), and Uniswap (UNI) all nursing almost 10% losses during the same period. Today’s sell-off wiped out $115 billion of the total market value of cryptocurrencies, TradingView data shows.Ethereum’s ether (ETH) declined over 6% to extend its downtrend against BTC, falling…
In an unexpected regulatory shift, the FDIC announced banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval. This decision opens the door for financial institutions to freely explore digital assets and blockchain technologies. Previously, banks had to notify regulators before participating in crypto markets. Now, banks supervised by the FDIC can independently pursue legally permissible crypto activities. The new guidance reverses the Financial Institution Letter (FIL-16-2022), issued in 2022, that required prior notification to regulators. Another big win!The FDIC just dropped its 2022 rule requiring banks to get pre-approval before engaging with crypto-related activities.A huge step forward towards innovation and…
Image: UbisoftThe prologue offers a glimpse of what it’s like to play the powerhouse that is Yasuke, and then the early game revolves around Naoe. It’s a taste, a teaser of what’s to come, what with his ability to smash through doors and gates, lift enemies off the ground, and slam opponents like paper dolls. But once you unlock more of Yasuke’s best early game skills in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you’ll find you don’t want to return to Naoe. It’s too much fun playing the giant yokai of a man!As his build may suggest, Yasuke is the complete opposite of…
Donald Trump’s upcoming “Liberation Day” tariff announcement is being framed by some experts as a reset of global trade and could have negative implications for crypto. While much of the attention is focused on the political fallout and trade disruptions, the broader consequences for digital assets, and the global frameworks that support them, deserve a closer look. Heidi Crebo-Rediker, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently described on Bloomberg TV U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans as a “tearing up” of existing free trade agreements with America’s closest allies. This includes the so-called “Dirty 15”, a group of major…
Play it on: just about anythingCurrent goal: Bring some justice to the streetsLately I’ve been on a kick of revisiting Capcom’s incredible beat ‘em ups of the late ‘80s through the mid ‘90s, or in some cases playing through them for the first time. This past week, a friend and I played the company’s excellent pair of licensed Dungeons & Dragons brawlers—Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara—via the compilation Chronicles of Mystara, and I was so impressed by their satisfying combat, their bevy of secrets and alternate pathways, and their incorporation of inventory systems and magic items. Now, this…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said in a March 28 letter that institutions under its oversight, including banks, can now engage in crypto-related activities without prior approval. The announcement comes as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that digital asset derivatives wouldn’t be treated differently than any other derivatives.The FDIC letter rescinds a previous instruction under former US President Joe Biden’s administration that required institutions to notify the agency before engaging in crypto-related activities. According to the FDIC’s definition:”Crypto-related activities include, but are not limited to, acting as crypto-asset custodians; maintaining stablecoin reserves; issuing crypto and other digital…
Part of the fun of role-playing games is changing things up and experimenting with unique builds, weapons, and spells. If you’re hoping to try a new build in AI Limit, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that you absolutely can respec in the game. The bad news, though, is that you don’t unlock this ability for some time.. Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’Before you can respec in AI Limit, what the game calls “Ability Reconstruction,” you’ll need to progress quite a ways through the game. As a matter of fact, by the…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will no longer instruct banks to get prior sign-off before they engage in crypto activities — a standard that was set in 2022 and that effectively severed institutions from the digital assets sector as they waited for approvals that never came.The FDIC, which is the chief federal supervisor of thousands of typically smaller banks and runs the banking industry’s government backstop, had occupied a significant role in the crypto debanking saga. A courtroom fight with crypto exchange Coinbase had recently unveiled dozens of letters between the regulator and banks it supervised. In that 2022 correspondence,…
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