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Independent committees are assessing a potential tie-up, while strong SpaceX earnings lift shares ahead of Tesla’s results. SpaceX SPCX and Tesla TSLA are exploring a potential merger, Elon Musk, the CEO and a shareholder of both companies, said on Tuesday, raising the prospect of combining two of his biggest companies and more than 30,000 bitcoin BTC$82,687.80. Musk owns about 36% of space and AI-focused SpaceX outright, rising to 48.4% including.

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The Series A round, which included participation from North Island Ventures and existing investors, brings New York-based Mural's total funding to $28 million. Tether led a $15 million funding round in Mural, expanding the stablecoin issuer’s investments in technology that enables AI agents to handle payments. The Series A round, which included participation from North Island Ventures and existing investors, brings New York-based Mural's total funding to $28 million, according.

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The NU7 upgrade will cut the time between Zcash blocks to 25 seconds from 75 seconds. The chosen block height still has to be merged into the spec and shipped in node software. Zcash is a step closer to confirming a change that would speed payments on the privacy-focused blockchain by a factor of three after developers settled on the exact block at which the upgrade, known as NU7, would.

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Institutions can trade through Ripple Prime and post RLUSD as collateral. Finding enough buyers and sellers for large positions could prove harder. Ripple is giving institutions a way to bet on stocks, gold and oil over the weekend through its brokerage business, but HSBC says thin trading could limit how much money follows them in. Daragh Maher, head of digital assets research at HSBC, called the launch an “evolutionary, not.

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Alpenglow will replace the voting system Solana has used since 2020, targeting roughly 150-millisecond finality after months of testing that included a failed migration and rollback. Solana transactions could soon become irreversible in just 150 milliseconds, or roughly 40 times faster than today, as the network switches on its Alpenglow upgrade on Wednesday. The upgrade changes how validators, the computers that process transactions and vote on which ones are valid,.

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Eight secret keys at eMudhra, an Indian firm that vouches for websites, were compromised. Browsers and software makers are rushing out fixes. The internet has been scrambling to patch a hole in the system that tells your browser which websites are real. It started on Oct. 17, when a researcher told browser makers that eight secret keys at eMudhra, an Indian company that vouches for websites, have been compromised. A.