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Polkadot just delivered one of its biggest upgrades to date. Polkadot 2.0 is live, bringing Elastic Scaling, native smart contracts through PVM and EVM, and throughput tested near 600,000 transactions ...

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French restaurants are obliged by law to offer free tap water. Photo by PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP A restaurant has been fined €8,000 for refusing to serve tap water, contrary to French law which says that ...

IDB Invest, the arm of the Inter-American Development Bank that lends to the private sector, has tapped the $1bn securitization it issued last year — a step forward for MDBs’ use of risk transfer ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference as part of the European Council meeting in Brussels on December 18, 2025. JOHN THYS / AFP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ...

Analysis of micropollutants in water at the hydrology laboratory of Nancy, eastern France, December 17, 2024. ALEXANDRE MARCHI/L’EST RÉPUBLICAIN/MAXPPP A new warning has been raised over the quality ...

November has always been a rollercoaster ride for the market. And this time, top altcoins are struggling the most. Ethereum and Solana have lost the support levels they were clinging to for quite some ...

Model portfolios using exchange-traded funds are becoming the new darlings of the financial advisory world. According to Cerulli Associates, of the estimated $36 trillion allocated to model portfolios ...

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