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Blockchain-based versions of US stocks are drawing growing investor activity, with onchain wallets and cross-venue trading expanding rapidly. Kraken’s tokenized equities platform, xStocks, has surpassed $25 billion in total transaction volume less than eight months after launch, underscoring accelerating adoption as tokenization gains traction among mainstream investors. Kraken disclosed Thursday that the $25 billion figure includes trading across centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges, as well as minting and redemption activity. The milestone represents a 150% increase since November, when xStocks first crossed $10 billion in cumulative transaction volume. The xStocks tokens are issued by Backed Finance, a regulated asset provider that creates 1:1 backed tokenized representations of publicly traded equities and exchange-traded funds. Kraken serves as a primary distribution and trading venue, while Backed is responsible for structuring and issuing the tokenized instruments. Read more

Paradoxul termoficării în Capitală: mii de familii sunt obligate să achite facturi uriașe pentru servicii de care nu au beneficiat. După un ianuarie petrecut în frig, bucureștenii reclamă costuri de întreținere care nu reflectă numeroasele avarii din rețea.

Arestarea lui Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor este un moment cum rar a mai cunoscut monarhia britanică modernă – un episod care zguduie nu doar o familie, ci o instituție veche de secole.

Rather than reacting to market drops, Paul Atkins signaled regulators are prioritizing crypto frameworks over price stabilization efforts.

Cătălin Predoiu, ministrul Afacerilor Interne, a avut joi o întrevedere la sediul Departamentului de Justiţie din Washington cu procurorul general al Statelor Unite, Pamela Bondi. Discuțiile au vizat consolidarea cooperării dintre structurile MAI și agențiile americane de aplicare a legii.

“Silicon Valley” actor T.J. Miller joked that an AI bot “replaced” him as this week’s ETH Denver host, amid actual growing job fears.

Analysis by Bitcoin services company River forecasts a transaction surge as individuals and businesses experiment with AI agentic payments. Monthly transaction volume on the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network, a secondary layer for BTC that enables payment use cases, surpassed the $1 billion milestone in November 2025, according to a report from Bitcoin financial services company River. Transaction volume on the Lightning Network hit an estimated $1.1 billion in November, across 5.2 million transactions, according to a report shared by Sam Wouters, River’s director of marketing. The report said: However, the total transaction count in 2025 is lower compared with 2023, when monthly Lightning transactions peaked at 6.6 million in August of that year, which River attributed to experiments with micropayments in gaming and messaging apps. Read more

Недавно среди ночи над территорией Специализированной антикоррупционной прокуратуры (САП) зафиксировали беспилотник неизвестного происхождения.

Major repairs have been completed on apartment building No. 104b on Kyievo-Myrotska Street in Bucha, which was damaged during the temporary occupation of the community by Russian forces in the spring of 2022.

Oxfam will cease its Gaza operations after Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry revoked the registration of 37 NGOs for non-compliance with new rules. Oxfam refused to submit employee data due to humanitarian and data protection principles

AZ verloor in de Conference League tussenronde met 1-0 van FC Noah. En dat is de nummer vijf uit de Armeense competitie. In de AD Voetbalpodcast bespreken Etienne Verhoeff en Sjoerd Mossou de staat van het Nederlandse voetbal.

De carrière van Nicolas Isimat-Mirin (34) zit erop. De centrale verdediger heeft besloten een punt te zetten achter zijn sportieve loopbaan en gaat aan de slag bij PSV.

Een van de rijkste mannen van Duitsland is miljoenen euro’s kwijtgeraakt aan oplichters die hem overtuigden dat zijn dochter een dodelijk verkeersongeluk had veroorzaakt. Dat bevestigen bronnen aan het Duitse persbureau dpa. De politie spreekt van ‘een zeer hoge schade’.

Prima reuniune a Consiliului Păcii, organizată joi la Washington sub egida președintelui american Donald Trump, a oferit nu doar declarații politice, ci și o scenă surprinzător de relaxată.

Gadi Eisenkot says he has resisted advice until now to adopt the performative, populist style of behavior that informs Israeli politics today. 'I devote thought to words and I value words,' he says. He must continue to do so

В пятницу, 20 февраля, в большинстве регионов Украины будут применяться отключения света. Для некоторых потребителей сохраняются экстренные отключения из-за последствий российских массированных атак.

Bitcoin is on course to lock in another negative month, but one analyst says major differences in the current market structure could be a sign of a pending trend reversal. Bitcoin (BTC) is forming what may prove to be a fifth consecutive red monthly candle, which would be the longest losing streak since 2018. The silver lining is that data suggests that March may prove to be a profitable month for BTC. Historical price data from CoinGlass confirms Bitcoin is now facing its fifth consecutive red month, down 15% this month after closing the previous four months in the red. The last time this happened was in 2018, when it entered a bear market after reaching record highs in 2017.  Read more

The average bitcoin ETF investor now sits on a 20% paper loss, leaving the market vulnerable to capitulation selling if prices slide further, a Wintermute trader said.

Google AI music generator Lyria 3 is now available on the Gemini app. It works—mostly—but the competition has a big head start.