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Orly Ades, who stepped down as head of the Central Elections Committee last week, said in closed-door conversations that she was worried that the right-wing elements who delegitimized chief justice Yitzhak Amit and undermined public faith in the Supreme Court would do the same to her and her committee, sources told Haaretz

Investors back a model that moves insurance risk and capital flows onto blockchain rails, as onchain reinsurance looks to attract institutional participation. Forward Industries and crypto investment company RockawayX have co-led a strategic investment in OnRe, a startup building reinsurance infrastructure on the Solana blockchain, in a move aimed at bringing traditional risk-transfer markets onto decentralized rails. The companies said Tuesday they co-led OnRe’s $5 million Series A round, with Forward planning to allocate up to $25 million into the platform’s yield-bearing token on Solana. The funding will be used to expand OnRe’s platform and attract more institutional participants to onchain reinsurance, a niche but emerging segment within decentralized finance. Read more

Brad Garlinghouse addressed attendees at a Tuesday crypto conference on the progress of the CLARITY Act after US lawmakers announced a compromise on stablecoin yield that could advance the legislation. Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple Labs, warned Tuesday that recent progress on the digital asset market structure bill in the US Senate did not guarantee success for the legislation, speculating that the next two weeks would be crucial. Speaking at the Consensus crypto conference in Miami, Garlinghouse said that the likelihood of the market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, passing would “drop precipitously” if not addressed in the next two weeks. According to the Ripple CEO, the bill would be “too much of a loaded issue” amid campaigns for the 2026 US midterms, with primaries ongoing until the November elections. “Do I think it's perfect? Hell no,“ said Garlinghouse, referring to CLARITY. “I challenge you to show me any piece of legislation that we would call perfect. There's tradeoffs and compromises, but I do ...

The protest's organizer said that the synagogue was hosting an exposition of the Great Israeli Real Estate Event, which it believed was selling "stolen Palestinian land."

The Consensys CEO and founder said tokenization can be traced back to Ethereum, the blockchain he helped co-found.

Execs from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com and 248 Ventures said the way to move retail into crypto and AI is to slow down, show your work, and put users back in control.

De economische verschillen tussen huishoudens nemen toe en het belastingstelsel helpt daarbij niet. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek van het CPB. Het belastingstelsel maakt de verschillen soms zelfs groter. Rijke huishoudens krijgen steeds meer.

CME's upcoming futures product will track whether the market thinks the price of Bitcoin is about to swing wildly or stay steady.

Al jaren nemen de economische verschillen tussen huishoudens toe. En al jaren roept het Centraal Planbureau op daar iets aan te doen, omdat het slecht is voor de welvaart: „De meeste mensen zijn van mening dat herverdeling via de belastingen gewenst is.”

Al jarenlang wijzen wetenschappers op de risico’s van big tech binnen de universiteitsmuren. De opkomst van chatbots en de geopolitieke ontwikkelingen maken de urgentie alleen maar groter. 

De huidige fiscale regels vergroten soms de inkomens- en vermogensverschillen, concludeert het Centraal Planbureau. Dat komt met name doordat de allerrijksten belastingbetaling langjarig uitstellen.

Senior leaders from Mastercard, the Crypto Council for Innovation and Clerisy said the right people in the right rooms can reshape internal decisions, citing examples from stablecoin-linked cards and financial access to staking-policy framing in Washington.

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content."

Trupele ucrainene accelerează ritmul atacurilor cu drone cu rază medie de acţiune asupra forţelor ruseşti, a declarat marţi preşedintele Volodimir Zelenski, fapt care arată o capacitate crescută a armatei Kievului, depăşită numeric în războiul cu Rusia, relatează Reuters.

Over minder dan vijftig dagen begint het WK voetbal in Canada, Mexico en de Verenigde Staten. Op 11 juni spelen Mexico en Zuid-Afrika de eerste wedstrijd. Via dit liveblog houden we je op de hoogte van al het laatste nieuws!

Experts warn that AI is exposing software bugs at scale, raising the risk of faster cyberattacks.

Jumătate dintre români consideră că România nu ar rezista 48 de ore în fața unui atac străin. Generalul (r) Dorin Toma, fost șef al Comandamentului Diviziei Multinaţionale Sud-Est a NATO, explică evoluțiile posibile ale unui astfel de scenariu și în ce măsură programul SAFE ne va îmbunătăți șansele.

Prophet, an AI-native prediction market platform, has launched its first live trading tranche, introducing a system where an AI model acts as the counterparty to user trades using real capital. Cape Town, South Africa, May 5, 2026 — Prophet, an AI-native prediction market platform, has launched its first live trading tranche, introducing a system where an AI model acts as the counterparty to user trades using real capital. The initial deployment allocates $10,000 in USDC to an AI-powered trading system and opens participation to users on the platform. Instead of matching buyers and sellers, the system allows users to trade directly against the AI, which generates probability-based pricing for each market. Prophet’s “Tranche 1” is a limited-access deployment designed to test the system under live market conditions. Users who deposit gain the ability to create markets, with the AI pricing each market upon creation. Once live, markets can be traded by other participants. Read more

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the exchange is “80% ready” to go public, as a new partnership with MoneyGram aims to expand access to digital assets by solving last-mile cash conversion.

In 2026, the government expects to raise about UAH 10 billion from large-scale privatization and an additional UAH 3 billion from the sale of smaller assets.