BREAKDOWN: Microsoft Bets on 'Metaverse' With $69B Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

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Senate Votes on Crypto's Clarity Act as Bitcoin Slides | CoinDesk Daily

The CLARITY Act comes down to a procedural vote. The U.S. Senate votes today on whether to advance the Clarity Act, crypto's market structure bill. A pass moves the industry closer to its first clear U.S. rules, while a failure would likely shelve the effort until after the Novem ...  Show more

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On this episode of CoinDesk's Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by Ram Ahluwalia, CEO and Founder of Lumida, who makes a non-consensus case that the Fed will hold rather than hike at its September meeting, and argues that AI has more ro ...  Show more

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