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Onchain gold products added billions in new value last year, outpacing physical bullion and most gold ETFs as trading activity increasingly shifted to blockchain rails. Onchain gold products added billions in new value last year, growing faster than the overall gold market and most major spot gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as onchain trading activity accelerated. The market capitalization of tokenized gold jumped 177% over the past year, while the number of holders nearly tripled, with more than 115,000 new wallets added during the year, outpacing most other RWA categories, according to data compiled by Cex.io from public blockchain and market sources. The tokenized gold market added close to $2.8 billion in net value in 2025, expanding from about $1.6 billion to $4.4 billion, per the report. That increase alone represented almost 25% of total net inflows across the RWA sector, exceeding the combined growth seen in tokenized stocks, corporate bonds and non-US Treasurys. Read more

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Bitpanda has reportedly tapped Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank to work on the offering, planned for Frankfurt’s stock exchange.

De Europese Commissie schetst de condities voor een lening van €90 mrd aan Oekraïne. Het geld uit Brussel moet het land helpen in de oorlog met Rusland.

Reuters was not able to establish how many Chinese companies received the notice, which the sources said was issued in recent days.

Верховная Рада со второй попытки назначила Дениса Шмыгаля первым вице-премьер-министром – министром энергетики.

Danish badminton player and world number three Anders Antonsen has announced his withdrawal from the India Open due to “extreme pollution” in New Delhi. “Many is [sic] curious as to why I have pulled out of the India Open for the third consecutive year,” the 28-year-old said on his Instagram stories early on Wednesday morning. “Due to the extreme pollution in Delhi at the moment, I don‘t think it’s a place to host a badminton tournament. “Crossing my fingers that it will be better in the summer when the World Championships will take place in Delhi,” Antonsen, who was seeded sixth in the tournament, added. He added that the Badminton World Federation had “once again” fined him $5,000 as a result of his withdrawal from the tournament. In another Instagram story, Antonsen posted a screenshot of air quality monitor IQAir, which showed Delhi’s AQI at 348, falling in the “hazardous” category, at 3:30am local time. Delhi and its neighbouring districts are prone to a thick smog every winter as cold, heavy air traps c...

'He mobilizes thousands to the streets with a phone call,' police argued, calling him 'an operational arm organizing the call for protests.' About 15,000 ultra-Orthodox took part in a protest last week that deteriorated into violent clashes, resulting in the death of a 14-year-old protester

Британский бренд Jensen вернется на рынок. Возрожденный автопроизводитель уже готовит новую спортивную модель.

Децентрализованная генерация кажется выходом из энергетического тупика, в который загнала Украину война. На самом деле все не так просто — эксперт рынка Олег Попенко видит 6 препятствий на пути к этой цели и утверждает, что без четкого и просчитанного плана это будет пустая трата денег.

Studying market crashes since 2018, Bitwise finds gold limits losses while bitcoin drives rebounds.

Аи называли гением среди шимпанзе. Она обладала удивительными когнитивными способностями, могла читать, считать и рисовать. А однажды даже сбежала из клетки, открыв ее ключом. 

To many Europeans, the most urgent threat to Greenland right now seems not to be China, Russia or North Korea but rather their longtime U.S. ally.

Bankinter joins Tether and BBVA in the $35 million investment round after the Spanish crypto exchange received its MiCA license in 2025. Spanish bank Bankinter has taken a minority stake in Spanish cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me, joining stablecoin issuer Tether and other investors as traditional banks deepen their ties to the digital asset industry. The investment, announced Wednesday, makes Bankinter the latest large financial institution to back Bit2Me following the exchange’s 30 million euro ($34.9 million) funding round announced in August. That round included Tether and Spain’s BBVA, and was aimed at supporting Bit2Me’s expansion across Spain and the wider European Union. The scope of the investments is to “achieve technological and knowledge synergies,” while supporting Bit2Me's fintech expansion throughout Spain and the European Union, Bankinter said. Read more

Klanten van thuisbezorgsupermarkt Picnic kregen onlangs hun ‘persoonlijke statistieken’ in de mail. Een geinige samenvatting van je bestelgedrag. Zo kan je de titel ‘Groenteguru’ krijgen, maar wat doet Picnic met iemand die vooral chips en bier bestelt? Goeie vraag voor directeur Michiel Muller.

67-летняя американская певица Мадонна продолжает свой зимний отдых. Вместе с 29-летним бойфрендом Акимом Моррисом звезда отправилась в Марокко, взяв с собой детей — Рокко, Дэвида, Мерси и 13-летних близняшек Стеллу и Эстер.

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab on Wednesday announced that the city administration would soon end the supply of water through hydrants, saying he had directed the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) to develop an alternative water distribution strategy. Karachi faces an acute water shortage as the metropolis requires over 1,200 million gallons of water daily (MGD), but gets only 650MGD. Many parts of the city are supplied via water tankers from hydrants. Speaking to the media after the inauguration of the Jehangir Road Rehabilitation project, Mayor Wahab outlined plans to “abolish” the hydrant system and directed KWSC officials to develop a strategy for fair distribution of water across the metropolis. “The contract period for each hydrant is two years, and that period for the city’s seven hydrants has expired,” the mayor said, adding that when deciding if the contracts should be renewed, he recommended that the hydrants should be closed instead. “There should be fair distribution of water in the city,...

Женщина по имени Лили утверждает, что пережила несколько встреч с существами внеземного происхождения, которые, по ее словам, со временем перестали быть пугающими и стали привычной частью ее жизни.

В Верховной Раде был зарегистрирован законопроект, которым предлагается установить наказание за публичные угрозы чиновникам в интернете.