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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday imposed a permanent ban on the poisoning, shooting, and indiscriminate killing of stray dogs in the federal capital, directing authorities to implement a “catch, neuter, vaccinate and release” programme for controlling the population. In a 24-page detailed judgment, Justice Khadim Hussain Soomro disposed of two constitutional petitions challenging the alleged non-implementation of the Stray Dog Population Control Policy for the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). The petitions were filed by an Islamabad resident named Niloofar and others. The court ordered the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad, the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the ICT administration and other relevant bodies to ensure that no arbitrary, ad hoc or inhumane action was taken against stray dogs. The judgement noted with concern photographic evidence produced during proceedings showing dead dogs in a CDA vehicle, observing that the respondents could not furnish any satisfactory explanatio...

The transfer was executed on ADI Chain, a layer-2 blockchain designed for institutional payments, treasury operations and trade settlement. The International Holding Company (IHC) executed a 110 million dirham ($30 million) transaction using the DDSC stablecoin on ADI Chain. The company described the transfer as one of the largest disclosed stablecoin transactions executed in the United Arab Emirates. The transaction follows recent approval from the UAE central bank for the dirham-backed stablecoin ecosystem launched by IHC, First Abu Dhabi Bank and Sirius International Holding. DDSC operates on ADI Chain, a layer-2 blockchain developed by ADI Foundation. According to the announcement, the system is designed for institutional use cases including cross-border payments, treasury operations and trade settlement. Read more

The proposed fund would use covered-call and short-term options strategies designed to generate monthly income alongside Bitcoin exposure through a leveraged structure. Hamilton ETFs filed a preliminary prospectus in Canada for an actively managed Bitcoin income exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would use leverage and short-term options strategies to generate yield alongside Bitcoin exposure. The proposed Hamilton Enhanced Bitcoin DayMAX ETF would use covered-call strategies and leverage capped at roughly 25% of net asset value. The strategy is designed to generate income by collecting premiums from short-term options contracts tied to Bitcoin (BTC) price movements. The fund is intended to combine Bitcoin exposure with monthly income generation. The company said the ETF would seek listing approval on Cboe Canada under the ticker symbol BDAY. Read more

Voor een gaststad zijn de kosten van een internationaal toernooi veel hoger dan de financiële baten, ziet FT-journalist Simon Kuper. Maar onder inwoners wordt naderhand meer geluk gemeten.

Financial discipline is often misunderstood as a restrictive behaviour, an exercise in limitation, austerity, or delayed gratification alone.

Россия, возможно, годами работала над размещением баллистических ракет с ядерными боеголовками в океане с использованием ранее неизвестных методов.

TradFi views the breakup of its previously consolidated, centralized liquidity as a “serious structural threat,” said Tiger Research director Ryan Yoon. The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s move to allow third parties to list tokenized stocks could risk two structural disruptions with liquidity and revenue fragmentation, according to Tiger Research. Liquidity fragmentation may occur as capital disperses from centralized exchanges across multiple blockchain platforms, said Tiger Research director and head of research Ryan Yoon on Friday. "Traditional finance views the breakup of its previously consolidated, centralized liquidity as a serious structural threat,” said Yoon. Read more

Het technieuws van deze week ging over de rechtszaak tussen Musk en Altman. Ik vond het fascinerend én onbevredigend, want over de inhoud ging het vrijwel niet. Hoe gaan we het daar dan wel over hebben? Ik heb een voorstel.

Например, человек возрастом 81 года, преодолел расстояние 565 850 000 000 километров во время движения Земли и Солнечной системы вокруг центра Млечного Пути. При этом его ноги на 475,827593 наносекунды моложе его головы из-за эффекта замедления времени.

Европу в ближайшие дни накроет первая масштабная волна летней жары. В Великобритании, Франции и Испании температура воздуха может быть на 5-11 °C выше нормы, а местами приблизиться к рекордам для мая.

Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz reportedly told a court the SEC made it “very difficult” to complete a planned 2021 merger with BitGo. Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz appeared in court on Tuesday to face off against BitGo CEO Mike Belshe in a long-running legal fight over a failed proposed $1.2 billion merger in 2021. The planned deal was the largest-ever crypto merger at the time, set to create a massive conglomerate offering a suite of services at a time when investor interest in crypto was high. Galaxy called off the deal in August 2022 as the crypto market was reeling from the collapse of the Terra ecosystem. BitGo has asked Galaxy to pay a $100 million fee for pulling out of the deal and also hid it was being probed by US authorities, while Galaxy has claimed BitGo failed to provide financial information on time. Read more

Концерн Stellantis начинает масштабное обновление модельного ряда. В ближайшие годы ожидаются десятки новых авто разных классов и ценовых категорий.

Fresh inflows into XRP-linked funds and a spike in newly created wallets suggest some traders may be rotating into the token while trimming exposure to crypto’s largest assets.

An executive at tokenization platforms Superstate said the stricter approach suggested by Hester Peirce would enable DeFi to expand without compromising rules in traditional capital markets. US Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce has told the crypto industry to cool its expectations about a potential “innovation exemption” to allow tokenized stock trading after a report earlier this week about what it could entail.  Her comments were made after a Bloomberg report on Monday. Brett Redfearn, president of tokenization platform Securitize, expressed concern following the report, arguing that enabling third parties to tokenize stock “without an issuer at the table” could lead to fragmentation issues.  In a post to X on Thursday, Peirce said her expectation has always been that any exemption would be “limited in scope” by only permitting “digital representations of the same underlying equity security that an investor could purchase in the secondary market today.” Read more

На территории США, как и по всему миру, ученые находят окаменелости деревьев, которые стоят вертикально в массивных слоях горных пород. Некоторые считают, что это прямое доказательство того, что на Земле действительно произошел библейский Великий потоп.

Bitcoin price reached $82,400 on May 20 and ran into a line on a chart. Up 37% from its April lows, BTC stalled at the 200-day moving average, pulled back to as low as $76,000, and left the market wondering what the rejection showed about the market's underlying structure. That line, a simple arithmetic average, […] The post Why do Bitcoin traders care so much about the 200-day moving average? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Oil prices climbed on Friday but were on track for a weekly loss as investors doubted the prospects of a breakthrough in US-Iran peace talks. Brent crude futures rose $1.66, or 1.6 per cent, to $104.24 a barrel by 0405 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate futures were up $1.11, or 1.2pc, at $97.46. On a weekly basis, Brent was 4.6pc lower and WTI was down 7.6pc, with prices fluctuating sharply as expectations for a peace deal shifted. A senior Iranian source told Reuters gaps with the US have narrowed and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke of “some good signs” in talks, but the countries are still divided on Tehran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait of Hormuz. “Oil prices would only trend lower when oil market fundamentals materially improve, which looks destined to stretch into 2027,” said David Oxley, chief commodities economist at Capital Economics. Six weeks since a fragile ceasefire took effect, efforts to end the war have shown little progress, while elevated oil prices have fuelled co...

Самая мощная ракета в мире Starship V3 от компании SpaceX из-за технических проблем на стартовой площадке не отправилась в долгожданный первый полет. Названа дата нового старта. Ждать осталось недолго.

The entity acquired its BTC stash at prices of almost $120,000, but might be selling at a heavy loss now.