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Just one day after surviving a second assassination attempt, Donald Trump today launched his long-rumored crypto project, World Liberty Financial. Though much about the project remains unclear, the team behind World Liberty Financial unveiled previously unconfirmed details during a live interview with Rug Radio, Decrypt’s sister company. The project will offer borrowing and lending services for cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum blockchain network, not unlike the vast array of existing application...

During Monday's World Liberty Financial launch event hosted by Decrypt's sister company Rug Radio, former U.S. President Donald Trump credited the excitement over his own branded NFT projects with his change of heart towards cryptocurrency. As the Republican candidate for president explained, Trump saw that the majority of his NFT trading cards minted on Ethereum scaling network Polygon were being purchased with cryptocurrency—and that his supporters were excited about his entry into the space....

During the launch event for his World Liberty Financial crypto platform, former U.S. President Donald Trump said that he believes U.S. crypto builders under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission "will be living in hell" if he is not elected for a second term this November. "If we don't win the election, those people that were under investigation and that are free as a bird right now," Trump said, "and people that weren't being looked at in the crypto world, they will be living...

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U.S.-listed bitcoin miners fell in the first half of the month as the world's largest cryptocurrency loitered below $60K and the network hashrate returned to pre-halving level...

The company behind Pipe is trying to take on internet giants like Cloudflare and Akamai, by giving crypto incentives to those hosting the servers.