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Make CryptoSlate preferred on The SEC has approved a rule change that eliminates one of Wall Street’s most recognizable barriers for small traders: the old $25,000 minimum tied to pattern day-trading restrictions.Regulators signed off on FINRA’s proposal to scrap a framework that long made it harder for smaller investors to make rapid-fire stock trades, replacing it with a system aimed at measuring intraday risk.The change might not be a rewrite of crypto regulation per se, but it carries certain implications for Bitcoin because the same retail crowd that speculates in stocks and options often moves through crypto too. Related ReadingWhy…

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Warning: This article contains spoilers for season 3 of From. You can catch up with MGM Plus.Three mysterious and terrifying seasons in, MGM’s popular series From continues to put its unwitting residents through unimaginable horrors. The town, known to fans as Fromville, has a sick way of teasing hope and taking it away, with characters seeming to escape or kill one of its monsters only to end up right back where they were before.Last season, town sheriff and decision-maker Boyd Stevens, played by Harold Perrineau, watched as one of Fromville’s seemingly dead creatures returned with its signature creepy grin intact.”I…

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Wirex has reached over $1 billion in annualised onchain stablecoin volume in 131 days on its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) service. We’ve achieved this in less than half the time taken by leading competitors, a milestone that reflects surging demand for our infrastructure and the growing role of stablecoins within everyday financial services.  Wirex BaaS’s Growth Highlights Processed $105 million in onchain card volume in March, equivalent to ~$1.3 billion annualised. Wirex reached $1 billion in annualised volume just 131 days after launch, surpassing RedotPay’s previous industry record of 276 days to reach the same Achieved 34% growth in onchain card volume from February to…

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They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer for his college paper. This early love for storytelling paved…

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The following article originally appeared on Jennifer Pahlka’s Eating Policy website and is being republished here with the author’s permission.I read Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire when I was a teenager, I think, so it’s been many years, but I still remember its turning point vividly. It’s set in 1949 in Montana, at the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, about an hour north of Helena. A fire is burning, and the Forest Service sends out their smokejumpers to fight it. But the fire changes direction without warning, and a group of smokejumpers working in the Mann Gulch find themselves…

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Roughly $13 million in user funds vanished from Russia crypto exchange Grinex in April 2026, and by the time the exchange suspended trading, the money was already moving fast across blockchain networks toward a single destination wallet. The halt left users unable to access their funds, withdraw balances, or execute trades, with no timeline given for restoration of services. Blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic confirmed the exploit and began tracking the stolen assets on-chain. The firm identified Grinex as one of the largest venues for converting Russian rubles into crypto assets, despite the exchange being formally registered in Kyrgyzstan, a detail…

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Trump and Iran said the Strait of Hormuz is open again to commercial shipping after the new ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, putting one of the world’s most important energy routes back in business for now. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said in a social media post that, in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, all commercial vessels could use the Strait of Hormuz for the rest of the truce on the route already set by Iran’s ports authority.  Trump followed with his own message and said: “THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND…

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On 8 January 2026, the Iranian government imposed a near-total communications shutdown. It was the country’s first full information blackout: For weeks, the internet was off across all provinces while services including the government-run intranet, VPNs, text messaging, mobile calls, and even landlines were severely throttled. It was an unprecedented lockdown that left more than 90 million people cut off not only from the world, but from one another.Since then, connectivity has never fully returned. Following U.S. and Israeli airstrikes in late February, Iran again imposed near-total restrictions, and people inside the country again saw global information flows dry up.The…

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