The Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), the agricultural regulator for the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced a ban on using agricultural land for crypto mining.
Violators will face a 100,000 AED fine ($27,229), and the ADAFSA will suspend municipal

A new network is seeking to claim the role of tomorrow’s stablecoin rails. Neura, a blockchain designed to eliminate barriers that hold down stablecoin adoption, is betting big on the need for a network different from those proposed by fintech giants and stablecoin issuers.
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An ETH price bull flag is in play on the weekly chart, targeting $10,000.
Ether ETFs recorded inflows for two straight days totaling $674 million.
Strategic Ether reserves and ETF holdings have jumped by 250% since April 1.
Ether’s (ETH) price printed a bull flag pattern on the w

Stablecoin transfers surged to a record $15.6 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, with much of the activity linked to automated trading bots, according to new research from crypto exchange CEX.io.
On Wednesday, CEX.io’s market research analyst Illya Otychenko dubbed the third quarter of 2025 the

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Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, has asked a US federal judge to acquit him of his sole conviction for unlicensed money transmission and the jury’s hung counts for money laundering and sanctions violations, arguing prosecutors failed to prove he intended to help bad actors misuse the

Artificial intelligence is developing at an unprecedented pace, with the global AI market projected to surpass $1.8 trillion by 2030. Advancements in machine learning, natural language processing and other AI technologies are projected to result in a compound annual growth rate of 19.1% for the

US House Republicans have told Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins that they are investigating the loss of text messages from former SEC Chair Gary Gensler from when he led the agency.
The SEC’s Office of Inspector General’s findings in early September cast doubt on whether the Gen

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Messaging app Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov says he invested in Bitcoin when the cryptocurrency was in its infancy and has since used his holdings to fund his lifestyle.
“I was a big believer in Bitcoin since more or less the start of it. I got to buy my first few thousand Bitcoin in 2013, a

The Trump administration has reportedly pulled Brian Quintenz’s nomination to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two people who knew of the decision ahead of its public announcement, that the White House withdrew Quintenz’s nomination to be a