Bhutan’s investment arm, Druk Holdings, holds more than 13,000 BTC, which is more than double El Salvador’s stash.
cointelegraph.com/news/how-bhutan-quietly-acquired-twice-bitcoin-than-el-salvador
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s crypto project World Liberty Financial will reportedly launch on Sept. 16. The announcement was made yesterday in a video posted on X.
cointelegraph.com/news/trump-crypto-project-world-liberty-financial-launch-monday
The team behind World Liberty Financial, an upcoming crypto project promoted by the Trump family, said Wednesday that the DeFi platform aims to maintain global U.S. dollar supremacy through the use of stablecoins.
decrypt.co/247865/trump-crypto-project-aims-maintain-us-dollar-supremacy-stablecoins
Cardano, the layer-1 blockchain launched in 2017 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson, activated its highly anticipated “Chang” upgrade on Sunday, marking the ecosystem's long-planned shift towards decentralized governance.
www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/09/01/cardanos-chang-hard-fork-goes-live-introducing-on-chain-governance/
Bloomberg LP, the financial data and news service, is adding election odds data from crypto betting platform Polymarket to its Terminal, according to an Aug. 29 X post by Michael McDonough, Bloomberg’s chief economist for financial products.
American stock exchange market Nasdaq has reportedly filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking permission to launch and trade options tied to the price of bitcoin. The proposed Nasdaq Bitcoin Index Options (XBTX) is in partnership with index provider CF Benchmarks and would track the CME CF Bitcoin Real-Time Index operated on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange exchange.
cointelegraph.com/news/nasdaq-bitcoin-index-options-sec-approval
Hong Kong’s push for a digital-asset hub faces growing pains amid uncertainty over whether 11 crypto exchanges will all achieve full licenses after earlier receiving initial approvals.
A Polymarket wager garnering over $300,000 in total bets hinged on whether the scion of the Kennedy political dynasty would “drop out Friday.” The market would resolve “Yes,” it said, if Kennedy “officially announces his withdrawal” from November’s razor-thin election.
Solid-state batteries, which Samsung has launched, show a major evolution in EV battery technology and have the capacity to completely modify the EV market. With these new batteries, Samsung is putting itself at the front line of EV battery revolution, encouraging remarkable refinements in range, charging time, and lifespan.
Malaysian authorities crushed 985 Bitcoin mining rigs on Monday amid a countrywide crackdown on electricity theft, which is sometimes associated with crypto miners.
decrypt.co/245519/malaysian-police-crushed-bitcoin-mining-rigs-steamroller