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The Hashgraph Group (THG) has launched a self-sovereign identity (SSI) platform called “IDTrust” to provide a blockchain-based digital identity solution for individuals and institutions
In an announcement sent exclusively to Cointelegraph, THG said the IDTrust platform is built on the Hedera

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is calling on US lawmakers to revise a draft crypto regulation bill, warning that the proposed framework could open dangerous loopholes and undermine investor protections.
In a Thursday open letter to the US Senate Banking Committee, the investment fi

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio has said his final goodbye to Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund giant he founded 50 years ago.
Dalio has sold his last remaining stake in Bridgewater and stepped off its board, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
After buying Dalio’s shares, Bridgewater

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El Salvador’s legislature has approved sweeping constitutional changes allowing indefinite presidential reelection, effectively enabling President Nayib Bukele to remain in power beyond his current term.
The package of five reforms, passed in a 57–3 vote by Bukele’s New Ideas party and allies,

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Strategy’s Michael Saylor has joined the call for the US to create a formal crypto taxonomy to clearly define when a security can be tokenized and what constitutes a digital security or commodity
“My opinion is it would be beneficial to the market if they nail down the digital assets taxonomy,” Sa

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer
The researcher proposed zero-knowledge

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent decision to let crypto ETF issuers swap Bitcoin and Ether directly for fund shares represents a structural upgrade, not a retail revolution, analysts say.
Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas called the change “a plumbing fix,” noting it won’t

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Blockstream, the developer of Bitcoin’s layer-2 protocol Liquid and led by Bitcoin cypherpunk Adam Back, has launched Simplicity, a new smart contract language designed for Bitcoin.
According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Simplicity smart contracts will be integrated into Li

Opinion by: Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance
The crypto world shifts its focus every few months, with headlines buzzing about AI, integrations, memecoins and grand Web3 visions
While the spotlight moves from trend to trend, a quieter, deeper transformation is taking place beneath the

A US federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea manager found guilty of wire fraud and money laundering for using insider information to trade non-fungible tokens.
In a Thursday decision, the Second Circuit ruled that the jury was improperly