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Cross-chain bridges concentrate risk and centralize trust, creating vulnerabilities that could trigger a systemic crypto crisis under stressed market conditions. Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo Platform Crypto didn’t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The industry did this to itself. It handed control of cross-chain liquidity to a handful of intermediaries, who it called “bridges,” wrapped assets in slick tickers, and pretended that was decentralization. Every time one of these house-of-cards systems collapses, billions vanish, and the rest of the industry shrugs, as if these were isolated accidents instead of warning sirens blaring across the ecosystem. Read more

The decentralized perpetuals exchange said multiple core services were affected as it worked through a rollback and recovery process. Update Jan 19, 1:44 pm UTC: This article has been updated to add information from Paradex’s Telegram channel. Crypto derivatives exchange Paradex reported a platform-wide service outage on Monday, leaving its trading interface and supporting infrastructure unavailable as the team investigates the issue.  According to its public status page, the disruption affected multiple business services, including its user interface, cloud and API services, blockchain components, bridge, block explorer and remote procedure call proxy.  Read more

US President Donald Trump’s government has asked countries to pay $1 billion for a permanent spot on his “Board of Peace” aimed at resolving conflicts, according to US media reports. The White House has asked various world leaders to sit on the board, chaired by Trump himself, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban and Canada’s Mark Carney. Member countries — represented on the board by their head of state — would be allowed to join for three years, or longer if they contributed more than $1 billion within the first year, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the sum. “Each member state shall serve a term of no more than three years from this charter’s entry into force, subject to renewal by the chairman,” stated the board’s draft charter obtained by Bloomberg and other media. “The three-year membership term shall not apply to member states that contribute more than USD $1,000,000,000 in cash funds to the Board of Peace within the first...

He called for a new wave of DAOs that focus on critical functions, like data maintenance and dispute resolution, with more sophisticated governance.

В Днепропетровской областной военной администрации возникла дискуссия вокруг возможного кадрового назначения, которое связывают с представителями бывших пророссийских политических кругов.

The Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) officially welcomed Raiffeisen Bank as a Participant in the Exchange’s trading system today, during an event held at the BVB headquarters.

Мониторинговые каналы сообщают о подготовке РФ к предстоящему ракетному обстрелу. По данным пабликов, россияне планируют привлечь к массированному удару стратегическую авиацию одновременно с пяти аэродромов.

Odds of bitcoin rising to $100,000 by the end of January plunged on the Polymarket, highlighting how the token is trading more like a risk asset than "digital gold."

Romania's three-month ROBOR index, the interbank interest rate used as a reference to calculate variable interests for loans in lei taken out before May 2019, as well as for companies' leu-denominated loans, started the Jan. 19 - 23 week at 5.98%, lower than the 6% level recorded on Friday (Jan. 16), in line with central bank data.

Toobit is one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, and it has just announced the launch of its Elite Championship. This is a trading campaign that’s designed and organized together with the premier football league in Spain – La Liga. Campaign Spanning Until the End of February This opportunity will run from […]

De leiders van de drie partijen die werken aan een nieuw kabinet, steunen het ‘stevige signaal’ uit Europa als reactie op Donald Trumps handelen rond Groenland.

As maternal mortality surges in post-war Gaza, and newborns face cold, infection and malnutrition, pregnancy and childbirth are daily fights for survival. Women and their babies, universally noncombatants, are suffering disproportionately – and serve as a measure of our moral failure

Исследователи только что обнаружили, что крупные землетрясения в зонах субдукции оставляют следы на континентальном склоне в глубоководной части океана.

Обновление безопасности для Windows 11 за январь 2026 года содержит баг, который не позволяет пользователям выключать свои системы или переводить их в режим глубокого сна.

Городской голова Киева Виталий Кличко провел совещание с руководителями районных государственных администраций столицы. Оно было посвящено уборке улиц от снега и льда.

Княгиня Ольга — одна из самых загадочных и одновременно самых влиятельных фигур в истории. О ее происхождении, юности и даже ключевых событиях жизни историки до сих пор дискутируют, однако роль Ольги в формировании государства, дипломатии и религиозного выбора Руси является неоспоримой.

Bitcoin drove 71% of last week’s $2.17 billion in crypto fund inflows, while Ether and Solana held up despite US CLARITY Act proposals to restrict stablecoin yields. Crypto investment products continued gathering steam last week, with fund inflows outpacing every other week in 2026 so far and marking the largest gains since October. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) drew $2.17 billion of inflows last week, European crypto asset manager CoinShares reported on Monday. The bulk of inflows came earlier in the week, but Friday saw sentiment shift as $378 million in outflows amid Greenland geopolitical escalation and fresh tariff worries, CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, said. Read more

Life in the West Bank village of Mukhmas has changed since settlers founded a nearby outpost in October. Since then violent attacks have become common. 'I must stay. Otherwise, the settlers will destroy everything and take the land,' one resident said

Crypto prices fell alongside global equities after reports the EU is preparing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S.

Украинская певица Анастасия Приходько опубликовала резонансное сообщение на русском языке, в котором выразила свое видение войны, роли человека, власти и политики, а также прямо заявила о симпатиях к отдельным публичным деятелям.