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In an utterly unsurprising turn of events, Robinhood has officially made Binance’s native token available for spot trading. Yes, the very token that’s been making waves and causing ripples across the crypto sea. BNB, the underdog, is now officially the belle of the ball. 💃

Behold, these AI browsers-Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic-promise to revolutionize your web-surfing escapades! Yet, alas, the price of convenience? A buffet for cyber-thieves, served on a silver platter of poor security. 🍽️

BNB price must cling to $1,000 like a lover’s last embrace, lest it plunge into the abyss of $845. 🕳️

Deal terms? Undisclosed. Because nothing says “transparency” like buying a company and then hiding the receipt like it’s a surprise birthday party. 🕵️♂️

The MiCA framework, Europe’s crypto cradle, has birthed this bold move. Traditional banks, like Santander’s Openbank, now offer Bitcoin to the masses. Yet Aifinyo dares to go deeper, embedding Bitcoin into its very marrow. A ‘Bitcoin-first capital structure,’ they call it. CEO Stefan Kempf, with a wink and a nod, declares his firm a ‘Bitcoin machine.’ 🛠️ But can this machine hum, or will it sputter and die?

They’re planning to cook up some shiny new regulated digital asset investment goodies that will make both the suits in the office and the weekend traders go wild. It’s like the Crypto Avengers assembling, but with less spandex and more spreadsheets. ⚡📈

World App, that noble fusion of digital wallet and decentralized identity tool (World ID, because of course it has an ID), now hosts the Polymarket Mini App. Users, if you reside in a country where such vices are permitted, may download it today. Restrictions apply. Terms and conditions. Ask your lawyer. 📜

The acquisition of Iron Fish’s brain trust (and their secret sauce) was part of Coinbase’s grand scheme to blur the lines-like a detective with a charcoal suit-building what they call “privacy-preserving primitives.” Think of it as turning your financial statements into a sudoku puzzle-nearly impossible to decipher.

Here’s the kicker: This nifty technology allows anyone to submit cryptographically attested phishing reports. Not just any reports, mind you. These reports are authenticated with the kind of cryptographic precision that would make even your grandma’s knitting patterns jealous. 🧶