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Solana-Based RWA Platform AgriDex Taps Stripe's Bridge to Lower Cost for Agricultural Trade Settlements

AgriDex is an example of how stablecoins are being increasingly used as a payment vehicle in emerging regions as a cheaper alternative for traditional banking rails.

Agriculture (Pete Linforth/Pixabay)

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An Arctic Circle Bitcoin Mine Will Heat a Building in a Fishing Village

Retail-focused Sazmining is starting a modest-sized bitcoin mining operation, using hydropower, in a small Norwegian fishing town.

A Norwegian town (Michael Fousert/Unsplash)

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FCA-Regulated Crypto Trading Firm Portofino Technologies Sees Staff Exodus

Co-founder Alex Casimo and CFO Jae Park were fired in July, which triggered a number of departures from the market making firm.

Sign saying "Now Hiring" sits on a lawn.

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Solana's Crypto-Governance Hub Realms Is Under New Management

The project is spinning out of Solana Labs and its new leaders want to turn a profit.

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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U.K. Pension Giant L&G Looks to Enter Crypto's Tokenization Space

London-based L&G, which has $1.5 trillion in assets, is evaluating ways to join other big traditional players like BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Abrdn that are offering blockchain-based money-market funds and the like.

City of London, England (Shutterstock)

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Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches Wrapped Bitcoin Token kBTC

The token will be available on both Ethereum and OP Mainnet.

Kraken Crypto App

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GraFun Starts Labs Division to Boost Memecoin Ecosystem on BNB Chain

Partners include trading firm DWF Labs and the Floki, BNB Chain’s largest memecoin by market capitalization.

Ledn's Mauricio Di Bartolomeo argues that the crypto lending industry can rebuild trust following a disastrous 2022. (Mathieu Stern/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto-Real Estate's USDR Misled Investors as Tangible Brothers Made Millions

The 2023 crash of Tangible's USDR stablecoin is infamous in crypto circles. But a CoinDesk investigation reveals there's another story to be told.

Tangible CEO Jagpal Singh (Photo illustration by Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk based on images from Tangible and Images Money)

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SingularityDAO Plans to Merge With Cogito Finance, SelfKey to Form AI-Focused Layer-2

The three projects' tokens will consolidate into Singularity Finance (SFI).

Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

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Solv Raises $11M to Grow the $1.3B Bitcoin Staking Protocol

Solv Protocol's SolvBTC product has more than 20,000 BTC staked ($1.24 billion) deployed across 10 major blockchain networks

Staking (ivabalk/Pixabay)