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U.S. airport chaos was set to end as the Senate in the early hours of Friday passed a bill that will fund the Transportation Security Administration and other key functions of the Department of Homeland Security.

Analyst Report: Brighthouse Financial Inc

Solum Global, Inc., a fully decentralized and permissionless blockchain protocol and DFINITY Foundation, creator and lead contributor of the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), today announced a strategic partnership to build an instant, transparent payment infrastructure for the U.S. healthcare industry, eliminating the 30-to-120-day reimbursement cycles that delay billions in provider payments. The platform will introduce sgUSD, a stablecoin purpose-built for healthcare transactions, running on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), a decentralized network that allows applications and services to operate fully on-chain without reliance on centralized cloud providers or legacy clearinghouses. Solum’s AI-driven system also identifies fraud, waste, and abuse, which…

Wall Street firms may embrace blockchain technology, just not in its current form. The open, distributed ledger visible to all comers runs counter to the way traditional finance works, said Don Wilson, the founder and CEO of DRW, a TradFi trading firm that’s been active in crypto for over a decade.”There is no world in which institutions are going to say, ‘Oh yeah, just publish all of my trades onchain,’” Wilson said at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on Thursday. “Any money manager would view it as a failure of fiduciary duty to publish to the world every…

Gold IRAs apply the tax advantages of traditional and Roth IRAs to your long-term precious metal holdings. These rules can work for or against you, depending on your financial situation and objectives. Gold IRAs follow the general IRA framework, which provides tax-deferred investment growth plus pretax contributions or tax-free withdrawals. As shown below, the timing of the tax perks depends on the type of gold IRA you own. Account type Tax-deferred growth Pretax contributions Withdrawals Traditional gold IRA Yes Yes Taxed as ordinary income Roth gold IRA Yes No Tax-free SEP gold IRA, for entrepreneurs and the self-employed Yes Yes…

  A strategic partnership brings Mansory into the LUKSO ecosystem through validator participation, economic alignment, Universal Profile onboarding, strategic introductions, and early product testing. For three decades, Mansory has built its name around custom automotive craft, material precision, and a clear sense of identity. Through a strategic partnership with the Foundation for the New Creative Economies, or FNCE, and LUKSO, the company is now bringing that same standard into web3. This partnership is built around participation. It brings Mansory into the LUKSO ecosystem through validator participation, economic alignment around Mansory utility token and LUKSO, Universal Profile onboarding, strategic introductions, and…

Led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the U.K. government has announced an immediate moratorium on cryptocurrency donations to political parties, citing concerns that digital assets could be used to hide the origins of foreign money in British politics, according to the Press Association. The move puts crypto at the centre of a wider crackdown on foreign interference, signaling that regulators are increasingly treating anonymous digital payments as a democratic risk rather than just a financial one.The ban, triggered by the government-commissioned Rycroft review, covers donations of any size and takes effect today. Parties have 30 days from now to return…

Global oil prices tumbled and U.S. stock futures rose on Tuesday evening following reports that the U.S., via intermediary Pakistan, had sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the conflict in the Middle East, now in its fourth week.

Daily Spotlight: War Roils Oil Price Outlook

Conflux Capital, a new member of the cryptocurrency community, recently released a new mobile application designed specifically for quantitative arbitrage users. Headquartered in the UK, the platform focuses on providing quantitative arbitrage services based on major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, ETH, XRP, and Dogecoin. With the launch of the new app, users no longer need to be in front of a computer; they can simply use their mobile phones to view strategy progress, profits, or adjust parameters in real time, greatly improving trading flexibility. Conflux Capital stated that it hopes to promote the popularization of cryptocurrency quantitative arbitrage by lowering…