Warning Savings protection Warning The AMF and the ACPR warn the public against the activities of several entities offering investments in Forex and in crypto-assets derivatives in France without being authorized to do so

1.3 Wed 30/09/2020 - 12:00 Reference texts Articles 318-44, 321-77, 321-81 and 323-39 of the General Regulation Articles 47, 48 and 92 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 231/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 December 2012 …

If you entered at 1st stage ($0.00050 per token, 2,000,000 $SEERX for every $1,000), you hold the lowest cost basis in the entire presale. Every buyer since has paid more. If you missed 1st stage and are still running the numbers: the presale is running, but the entry price has moved. Either way, the same […]Read the full article on TechBullion.

iFOREX Appoints Daniel Shalom as COOiFOREX appointed Daniel Shalom as chief operating officer. He assumes responsibility for business operations, customer experience, product, and technology with immediate effect. iFOREX has previously emphasized this strategy, including bringing back a head of innovation last year to oversee AI initiatives shortly after launching its AI-powered trading recommendation service, Pulse.Shalom joins from Yad Vashem, Israel’s World Holocaust Remembrance Center, where he served as chief information officer and led a technology overhaul that included a six-petabyte data environment. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Amdocs, a software and services provider to telecom, media, and financial services firms, most recently as vice president of data and AI, where he led a 500-person team.Show more about iFOREX's appointment of Daniel Shalom as COO.BitGo names Angela Ang APAC, Singapore HeadIn the crypto space, BitGo appointed Angela Ang as managing director for Asia-Pacific and president of BitGo Singapore. The company said she assumes the role after meeting regulatory and fit-and-proper requirements. Ang joins from TRM Labs, where she served as head of APAC public policy and strategic partnerships and was part of the firm’s founding regional team.Ang previously spent more than a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she helped develop the country’s payments and crypto licensing framework. She led the team that operationalized the licensing regime under which BitGo’s local unit is authorized as a Major Payment Institution.Disclose more about BitGo's naming of Angela Ang as Managing Director for Asia Pacific.CME CEO Terry Duffy to step downAt the same time, CME announced that Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy will step down in March next year, ending more than two decades leading the derivatives exchange operator. The firm said Duffy will transition to Executive Chairman, while current President and Chief Financial Officer Lynne Fitzpatrick will become CEO and join the board.Duffy has led CME Group since 2002, when he became Chairman, and took on the CEO role in 2016. During his tenure, he oversaw the shift from floor-based trading to electronic markets and led major acquisitions, including the Chicago Board of Trade in 2007 and the New York Mercantile Exchange in 2008.Discover more about CME CEO plans to step down from his role.HFM names Jean Nahas UAE headHFM brought Jean Nahas as Head of Category in the UAE, where he will lead the company’s newly established licensed entity and head its Dubai office. The appointment brings in a senior executive with experience across FX, CFDs, and financial services, as brokers continue to expand their regulated presence in the region.In his role, Nahas will be responsible for driving business growth, ensuring compliance with local requirements, and strengthening HFM’s footprint in the Middle East. Before joining HFM, he worked as an independent strategic advisor and board member for firms in brokerage, fintech, and financial services. He also co-founded 357 Group and served as Group Chief Operating Officer at Zarvista Capital Markets between 2023 and 2025.Highlight more about HFM's naming of Jean Nahas as Head of Category in the UAE.Kraken EU taps CFD veteran as HeadKraken has promoted Stavros Vassiliades to Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of its European Union business, placing him in charge of its regulated EU arm. Vassiliades joined the crypto exchange last year from Pepperstone EU, the Cyprus-licensed unit of the Australian CFD broker. His background is rooted in retail brokerage rather than crypto.Before spending three years as executive director at Pepperstone EU, he was head of compliance at MPS Marketplace Securities and worked as an operations and compliance manager at MAP Fintech. The appointment continues a pattern at Kraken, which began offering crypto derivatives in Europe under a Cyprus license.Learn more about Kraken's promotion of Stavros Vassiliades to Chief Operating Officer.CLS names six directors as cyber focus growsCLS, the financial market infrastructure group that operates the largest payment-versus-payment settlement system for foreign exchange, has appointed six new members to its board of directors. The new directors are James Hardy (independent), Richard James of Deutsche Bank, Sandra Laielli van Scherpenzeel of UBS Switzerland AG, Matthieu Mercier of BNP Paribas CIB, Chadwick Renfro (independent), and Boyd Winston of JPMorgan Chase Bank. Following the appointments, the CLS board now has 21 directors, including eight independent members. Chairman Gottfried Leibbrandt said the additions bring expertise that supports the company’s risk agenda.More about CLS naming of six new members to its board of Directors.TenTrade hires partner, CRO and CSO from INGOT BrokersElsewhere, Andreas Andreou took on a new role as Partner and Chief Revenue Officer at TenTrade, a global multi-asset broker that also operates a funded trading programme. The firm also appointed Marios Morfakis as Chief Sales Officer. Before joining TenTrade, Andreou held senior roles at several retail FX and CFD firms, primarily in Dubai.Most recently, he served as Chief Sales Officer at INGOT Brokers up to June 2026. TenTrade has also recently appointed former Portugal footballer Luis Figo as its global ambassador as part of a campaign titled “Inspiring the Next Number 10.”Read more about the latest executive changes at TenTrade.Georgios Papassavas becomes HFM CEOLastly, Georgios Papassavas became CEO of HFM in February, following nearly a decade at the Larnaca-based broker. He previously served as Chief Information Officer, where he oversaw the company’s technology infrastructure.Papassavas began his career in software development at Amdocs in 2008 and later led financial software teams at FxPro. HFM, formerly known as HotForex, rebranded in 2022 as part of a shift toward a broader multi-asset offering beyond traditional currency trading.Name more about Georgios Papassavas becoming the CEO of HFM. This article was written by Jared Kirui at www.financemagnates.com.

The Observer report said Starmer was discussing the matter with his wife at his Chequers country residence before making a final decision.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju has questioned whether Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin purchases can prevent further market weakness. He said the cryptocurrency faces a deeper problem than short-term price losses as investor interest fades.Ju argued that Bitcoin needs a fresh reason to attract capital and rebuild market confidence. Strategy has kept buying BTC, but pressure on its shares and preferred stock has raised fresh doubts about its funding model.Ki Young Ju Warns Bitcoin Faces a Crisis of ConfidenceJu said Bitcoin’s main threat may not come from a sudden market crash. Instead, he warned that years of weak or sideways trading could cause investors to lose interest.“Bitcoin’s biggest risk is not a crash. It is boredom,” Ju wrote in a post on X.According to Ju, investors may accept a sharp fall when they expect prices to recover. A long period without gains creates a different problem, as demand can decline and popular market stories can lose support.He also questioned whether Strategy’s continued Bitcoin purchases can solve that challenge. “That’s why Saylor’s real challenge is not just buying more Bitcoin. It is giving the market a new reason to believe,” he said.Strategy’s Funding Model Draws Fresh DoubtsStrategy has used stock sales and other financial products to raise money for Bitcoin purchases. However, Ju said the model could face pressure if BTC trades within a narrow range for several years.“Saylor’s STRC structure becomes truly dangerous not when Bitcoin simply crashes, but when Bitcoin spends years moving sideways and the bear market drags on,” Ju wrote.STRC, Strategy’s preferred stock, recently traded near a record low of about $82. The weakness has raised questions about whether the company can keep issuing preferred shares under favorable terms.Strategy reportedly paused new preferred stock issuance and sold a small amount of Bitcoin to cover dividend payments. The move attracted attention as the company had previously promoted a long-term holding policy.Strategy Adds Bitcoin as Holdings Lose ValueStrategy purchased 1,587 Bitcoin for about $100 million between June 8 and June 14. The company funded the deal after raising about $209 million through sales of MSTR shares under its at-the-market program.A June 15 regulatory filing stated that the purchase increased Strategy’s total holdings to 846,842 BTC. The company bought the coins while Bitcoin traded below Strategy’s reported average purchase cost of about $75,700.Meanwhile, lower Bitcoin prices have reduced the market value of the company’s reserves. Strategy’s BTC position has lost billions of dollars in value in 2026, despite the company adding more coins.Critics have also questioned whether dividend payments and weaker preferred shares could force Strategy to sell more Bitcoin. Saylor has dismissed concerns about the company’s long-term plan and has signaled that additional purchases may follow.Also Read: Top Blockchain Use Cases Beyond CryptoCryptoQuant CEO Calls for a New Bitcoin NarrativeJu said Bitcoin’s core network has not changed, but the stories supporting each market cycle have shifted. Past narratives included digital gold, financial freedom, institutional adoption and approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.Many of those events have already happened. Ju doubts that Bitcoin banking and digital credit can attract ordinary investors. “Saylor is now pushing Bitcoin banking and digital credit, but I don’t think those concepts are easy for ordinary people to understand,” he wrote.Ju said more financial institutions could still enter the market and Bitcoin could rise over the long term. Still, he questioned what could drive the next large wave of capital.“Bitcoin does not just need another catalyst,” Ju said. “It needs a new center of gravity that can unite believers again.”Join our WhatsApp Channel to get the latest news, exclusives and videos on WhatsApp

All of the FIFA World Cup Host Countries in History This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways: Mexico has become the first country to host three FIFA World Cups. European nations have hosted 11 World Cups, more than any other region. World Cup hosting is becoming increasingly multinational, with six countries involved in the 2030 tournament. The FIFA World Cup has been staged in just 19 countries since the tournament began in 1930, despite being watched by billions of fans worldwide every four years. This graphic by Harris Saleem, using data from Top End Sports, shows every World Cup host nation through 2026 and reveals which countries have hosted football’s biggest event most often. Mexico leads all nations with three tournaments, while Europe remains the dominant host region with 11 World Cups across nine countries. Looking ahead, FIFA is increasingly embracing multi-country tournaments, a trend that will reach a new scale in 2030. Which Countries Have Hosted the FIFA World Cup? While the World Cup is a global event, hosting opportunities have been concentrated among a relatively small group of countries. Since 1930, just 19 nations have staged the tournament, with several countries returning as hosts multiple times. The table below shows every FIFA World Cup host nation and the years they staged the tournament. CountryWorld Cups HostedHosting Years Mexico31970, 1986, 2026 United States21994, 2026 Germany21974, 2006 Italy21934, 1990 Brazil21950, 2014 France21938, 1998 Canada12026 Qatar12022 Russia12018 South Africa12010 Japan12002 South Korea12002 Spain11982 Argentina11978 England11966 Chile11962 Sweden11958 Switzerland11954 Uruguay11930 Mexico is now the first nation to host three World Cups, having previously staged the tournament in 1970 and 1986. A second tier of hosts includes Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States, each with two tournaments. Europe has been the center of World Cup hosting activity, accounting for 11 tournaments across Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England, Sweden, Switzerland, and Russia. South America has hosted five editions, while Asia and Africa only began hosting in the 21st century. How FIFA Chooses Host Nations Hosting the World Cup has become increasingly competitive. FIFA evaluates bids based on factors such as stadium capacity, transportation networks, accommodation availability, security planning, financial guarantees, and sustainability initiatives. In recent decades, FIFA has also sought to expand the tournament’s geographic reach. South Africa became the first African host in 2010, Russia hosted in 2018, and Qatar became the first Middle Eastern nation to stage the tournament in 2022. These newer hosts demonstrate how the World Cup has evolved into a truly global event rather than one concentrated in Europe and South America. The shift toward co-hosting has accelerated as tournament requirements grow. The 2026 World Cup, hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada, will feature a record 48 teams and more than 100 matches. The Future of World Cup Hosting The World Cup’s hosting model is undergoing one of its biggest shifts. As tournament sizes expand and infrastructure requirements grow, FIFA has increasingly favored multi-country bids over single-nation hosts. FIFA has already confirmed hosts for the next two tournaments beyond 2026. The 2030 World Cup will be jointly hosted by Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, with centenary celebration matches taking place in Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay to mark 100 years since the first tournament. FIFA officially approved the six-country hosting arrangement in late 2024. Four years later, Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 FIFA World Cup, becoming only the second Middle Eastern nation to stage the competition. These selections reflect FIFA’s continued emphasis on regional rotation and expanding football’s global footprint. Learn More on the Voronoi App Want to explore the business behind the games? Check out Breaking Down the $417 Billion Sports Industry on the Voronoi app.

A look at the Iran deal that pushed silver to a weekly high, the hawkish dot plot that erased it, and what could drive silver’s next major move.

Why Does The Target Rollout Matter? Pudgy Penguins has expanded the retail reach of its trading card game through a nationwide rollout at Target stores in the United States, marking another step in the NFT project’s push into mainstream consumer products. The launch covers Vibes Series 3, the latest release in the project’s physical trading card game. The expansion is the game’s largest retail rollout to date and brings the total number of circulated cards to 15 million. The new set includes additional gameplay mechanics, original artwork, and appearances by characters from the Moonbirds collection. The move is important because it places Pudgy Penguins in a retail environment far removed from the NFT marketplaces where the project began. Target gives the brand access to casual shoppers, families, collectors, and card-game buyers who may have little direct exposure to blockchain-based assets. That shift helps separate the franchise from the narrower NFT trading cycle and places it closer to traditional entertainment and collectibles businesses. Pudgy Penguins developed Vibes with Orange Cap Games, with Series 3 following 2 earlier releases. The project remains one of the largest NFT collections by market capitalization, but its recent growth strategy has relied increasingly on consumer products rather than floor-price momentum alone. How Is Pudgy Penguins Moving Beyond NFTs? Pudgy Penguins has spent the past several years turning its Ethereum-based NFT collection into a broader consumer brand. The strategy has included toys, licensing, games, and physical products that use the project’s penguin characters as intellectual property rather than treating them only as digital collectibles. The project’s toys entered more than 2,000 Walmart stores in 2023, giving the brand an early foothold in mass retail. CEO Luca Netz said in May 2024 that more than 1 million toys had been sold over the preceding 12 months. That performance helped support the idea that NFT-linked brands can reach buyers who are interested in characters and products without necessarily buying tokens. The trading card rollout builds on that same model. Cards are easier to distribute, easier to collect, and more familiar to mainstream consumers than NFTs. They also give Pudgy Penguins a product line that can scale through repeat releases, limited editions, gameplay updates, and collaborations with other intellectual property. The inclusion of Moonbirds characters in Vibes Series 3 also points to a wider franchise strategy. Instead of keeping each collection isolated, Pudgy Penguins is using physical products to connect different digital-native brands under a more accessible consumer format. Investor Takeaway Pudgy Penguins is trying to reduce its dependence on NFT market cycles by building revenue lines tied to toys, cards, licensing, and games. The Target rollout gives the brand more mainstream distribution, but execution will depend on whether consumer demand can extend beyond crypto-native collectors. What Does This Mean For NFT Holders? The Pudgy Penguins model is closely watched because it links NFT ownership to commercial licensing. The project allows holders to receive 5% of net revenue from physical products featuring their individual penguins. That gives NFT holders a potential economic connection to the brand’s retail expansion, though the value of that connection depends on which characters are used and how well products sell. This licensing structure is part of a broader attempt to give NFT ownership a role beyond speculation. In theory, holders can benefit when their specific characters appear in products. In practice, the model depends on brand management, retail partnerships, product quality, and consumer adoption outside crypto markets. The Target rollout could strengthen that case if Vibes Series 3 performs well. A successful card line would show that NFT intellectual property can be packaged into lower-cost physical products with wider reach. It would also give Pudgy Penguins more evidence that its brand can compete in the same attention market as traditional toy, card, and gaming franchises. Still, the expansion does not remove the risks tied to NFT-based consumer brands. Physical retail brings inventory, shelf-space competition, marketing costs, and demand uncertainty. For NFT holders, the larger question is whether retail growth can support long-term brand value rather than short-term visibility. Why Is Gaming Part Of The Strategy? Pudgy Penguins has also pushed further into gaming as part of its attempt to build a larger entertainment franchise. In 2025, the project launched Pengu Clash on The Open Network, with Netz describing gaming as a way to bring the project’s intellectual property to wider audiences. The project later launched a mobile game called Pudgy Party in August 2025. Pudgy Penguins said the game surpassed 1 million downloads, but the project said on Monday that it would halt further development and shift resources toward a browser-based game called Pudgy World. That decision shows a more selective approach to product development. Downloads alone do not guarantee a durable gaming business, especially if user retention, monetization, or development costs fall short. By moving resources toward Pudgy World, the project appears to be prioritizing a game format that can better support its broader brand ecosystem. The trading card expansion, retail partnerships, licensing model, and gaming strategy all point to the same objective: making Pudgy Penguins less dependent on NFT trading and more dependent on intellectual property that can move across formats. The Target rollout is therefore not only a distribution update. It is a test of whether an NFT-born brand can turn digital recognition into repeat consumer demand in mainstream retail.

It's official: Microsoft is terminating future support for its popular Office 2021 suite of productivity applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While the computing giant claims that your apps "may continue to function," it also warns of exposure to "serious and potentially harmful security risks" if you continue using their now unsupported software after Oct. 13, 2026, the official end date.In all likelihood, Office 2021 will continue to work as intended for most users in most use cases, much as you can still use Office 2010 or Office 2013, provided you're willing to put up with the limitations of those iterations. And for all the consumers concerned with owning rather than leasing their software, Office 2024 offers a "lifetime license" purchase, conferring permanent access to essential applications like Word, Powerpoint and Excel without the costly infrastructure of cloud storage or frequent, down-the-line software updates. Otherwise, upgrading means switching to Microsoft 365.To learn more about the end of support for Office 2021, Microsoft has an entire post on its support section with all the details.

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Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz after accusing the United States (US) and Israel of violating the ceasefire. According to Iran, the decision came over the continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Iran's Khatam-al Anbiya HQ announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to all maritime traffic. The military headquarters cites US breaches of the war-ending deal and ongoing Israeli ceasefire violations, along with the non-withdrawal in Lebanon. They warned this is only the "first step." The Revolutionary Guard put out a similar statement yesterday.There is an under-discussed risk that Iran wants to keep fighting. They have this tremendous leverage right now with Trump openly admitting that the oil situation would get very bad in four weeks. They may also sense that the US will never stay in the current deal as Trump is taking criticism from even his strongest supporters, so better to fight now than later. It's also looking like an opportunity to crack the US-Israel relationship, which would be a huge win for them.On the other hand, it's tough to imagine Iran ever getting a better deal then the one they are getting now, so the politicians within Iran -- who also likely fear for their lives -- are trying to get them to take the deal.Ultimately, though, there is a supposed ceasefire in Lebanon that is being endlessly broken by all sides and it's tough to imagine this deal will ever work because of that. Israel says it won't withdraw from Southern Lebanon and Iran's military command is insisting that's a pre-condition.On the US side, Trump looks desperate to find a way out and Witkoff and Kushner are in Switzerland. VP Vance said he expects to go to Switzerland "in the next couple days" and says he's confident they can maintain a ceasefire.For now, the question is whether Iran will try to enforce this latest 'closure' of the Strait of Hormuz via military means. WTI finished higher by nearly $1 on Friday despite the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire announcement.Update: The Iran negotiating team is still going to Switzerland and a spokesman for them said: "Our focus is to demand accountability regarding other side's commitments & clarify exactly how they plan to fulfill them. If any part of their commitments is left unfulfilled, entire MoU will face problem." This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.

Tech giants are depleting cash reserves and raising debt in their ambitious data center buildouts, a dynamic that's forcing investors to watch interest rates.

A new annex to FinTelegram’s Zentoria / NALMI report adds preserved HTML, configuration-level markers, API dependencies, and direct catalogue-asset links around the Spinsopotamia anchor. FinTelegram has publishing a new Technical Annex as a companion annex to its recently released “Zentoria / Spinsopotamia and the NALMI Casino Network” Compliance Intelligence Report. The new dossier does not replace the main report; it deepens the public-source technical case around the Spinsopotamia.com anchor with preserved HTML, exact telemetry and configuration markers, cross-domain API dependencies, and direct catalogue-level asset links that were not fully developed in the broader June report. The central conclusion remains unchanged. The evidence supports a strong technical and operational relationship between the Zentoria-facing Spinsopotamia anchor and a wider casino infrastructure concentrated inside the Marshall Islands-based NALMI / AS213846 – 185.207.196.0/22 environment, while stopping short of claiming that Zentoria Limited legally owns every correlated domain or that a single ultimate beneficial owner controls the entire ecosystem. Key findings 83-domain strict configuration cluster: Across 166 preserved result pages, 83 public domains co-exposed the same exact CSPER reporting account, the same exact SEON DNS token, the same non-financial seasonal-promotion response hash, and the same NALMI /22 network envelope. Preserved anchor evidence: Two preserved URLScan result pages show Spinsopotamia with exact public identifiers, including a CSP reporting endpoint, SEON token, GTM container, GA4 measurement ID, Hotjar site identifier, CookieScript resource, and repeated platform-host family markers. API dependency graph: The dossier records 67 additional API hostnames and 98 direct cross-domain dependency pairs, supporting a rotating facade / canonical-host model rather than isolated standalone domains. Direct catalogue linkage: Six byte-identical public asset groups connect Spinsopotamia with comparison families including Kingmaker, BillyBets, 100Neon, BigClash, DuoSpin, LunuBet, and MyEmpire. Broader NALMI continuity: 495 of 496 investigated domains remain inside the same 185.207.196.0/22 routed envelope attributed to AS213846 / NALMI LIMITED. Legal-safe boundary preserved: The dossier strengthens technical correlation, but it still does not establish common legal ownership, customer-account identity, or UBO attribution without provider-side records. What the Technical Annex Adds! The strongest new contribution is the strict 83-domain shared-configuration cluster. Across 166 preserved result pages, the same exact CSPER reporting account, the same exact SEON DNS token, the same non-financial seasonal-promotion response hash, and the same compact NALMI network environment recur together across 83 public domains. This is materially stronger than generic provider overlap because these are account- or project-style markers, not merely ordinary use of common cloud or CDN infrastructure. Download the Zentoria / NALMI Technical Annex here The dossier also documents preserved Spinsopotamia HTML evidence from two distinct URLScan result pages, one from October 2025 and one from March 2026, showing endpoint continuity from 185.207.197.250 to 185.207.197.216, both inside the same 185.207.196.0/22 routed envelope. At the same time, the public HTML captures exact telemetry and configuration identifiers, including the CSPER reporting endpoint, the SEON DNS token, a Google Tag Manager container, a Google Analytics measurement ID, a Hotjar site identifier, and repeated platform hosts such as pg-nmga.com, pgf-euy2bt.com, and pgwhois.com. Facade and canonical hosts The new dossier goes beyond static asset comparison by modelling a visible cross-domain API structure. Across the strict cluster, the preserved evidence records 67 additional API hosts, 150 unique technical nodes, and 98 direct cross-domain dependency pairs, showing that many public-facing casino domains rely on alternate or canonical backend hosts rather than serving as isolated sites. This matters because it supports a rotating facade / canonical-host architecture. In practical terms, public brand domains can change while the deeper API and operational structure remains stable, which is precisely the kind of pattern that regulators, PSPs, banks, and acquirers should treat as a high-priority disclosure target. Direct cross-brand asset links A further step forward is the dossier’s exact cross-brand catalogue evidence. It identifies six byte-identical public asset groups that directly connect Spinsopotamia with brands and families including Kingmaker, BillyBets, 100Neon, BigClash, DuoSpin, LunuBet, and MyEmpire. These are not visual similarities or naming overlaps. They are exact SHA-256-level matches in publicly delivered language and game-related assets, which materially strengthens the case that Spinsopotamia is embedded in a shared operational and content-delivery environment rather than standing alone as a separate casino endpoint. What remains unchanged The broader model from the main report still stands. The NALMI environment contains 495 of 496 investigated domains inside the same 185.207.196.0/22 routed allocation, while a separate application-build supercluster links 98 domains through 120 meaningful byte-identical first-party asset groups across 16 technical components. Just as importantly, the new dossier explicitly corrects several overbroad interpretations. It confirms that the verified target population is 496 domains, not 994; that generic regional support hosts do not prove a common tenant; that no raw technical identifier in the evidence directly proves NovaForge, Quadcode, Payabl, or Zentoria as technical owner; and that the evidence should not be stretched into a claim that all 495 NALMI-hosted domains are controlled by Zentoria. That narrowing is not a weakness; it improves the evidentiary quality of the case. Download both reports To help regulators, payment institutions, banks, legal counsel, and investigative journalists assess the full record, FinTelegram is making both documents available together: Main report: Zentoria / Spinsopotamia and the NALMI Casino Network – Compliance Intelligence Report. Technical annex: Zentoria / Spinsopotamia External Technical Evidence Dossier.Download the main report here:[Insert main report download link]Download the technical evidence dossier here:[Insert annex download link] Read together, the two reports provide a layered public-source record: the main report maps the broader NALMI casino-domain environment, while the new dossier deepens the anchor case around Spinsopotamia itself. Call for whistleblowers Public-source OSINT can establish technical correlation, but provider-side records remain decisive for legal attribution. FinTelegram therefore calls on whistleblowers, former employees, PSP insiders, acquirer staff, wallet operators, and affected players to share information about Zentoria Limited, Spinsopotamia.com, NALMI, and the related casino brands through Whistle42. Particularly relevant are: Merchant IDs, gateway IDs, route IDs, or settlement-beneficiary details. Internal onboarding, compliance, or risk-review records involving Spinsopotamia, Zentoria, or NALMI-hosted brands. Platform, support, telemetry, or hosting account records identifying the actual contracting entity behind the observed technical markers. Card statements, bank records, deposit screens, cashier screenshots, or internal communications showing descriptor or payee relationships.Submit information securely via Whistle42:https://whistle42.com Whistle42 is FinTelegram’s evidence-first whistleblower platform for financial crime and compliance failures, allowing sources to share documents, screenshots, emails, contracts, wallet or transaction IDs, and other unique identifiers securely and discreetly. Share Information via Whistle42

Reeve Collins helped build USDT, which is the most widely used stablecoin in the world. Now he says the infrastructure he created has structural flaws, and is building the fix. Collins co-founded Tether in 2013, which started as a simple proposition: a dollar-denominated token that moves on a blockchain. Which is weird compared to other crypto, because it’s not an “investment”, compared to other coins. His bet worked, and he’s grown it into a $180 billion reserve operation and the 11th largest holder of U.S. Treasuries globally. Today, Tether processes trillions of dollars in transactions annually. Collins isn’t personally involved in Tether’s operations anymore, but the industry he helped create is the one he is still building in. Speaking on the On the Margin podcast, Collins outlined his view of where stablecoins go from here: higher-yielding reserves, yield that actually reaches users, and an infrastructure layer that lets any institution, banks, brands, and sports franchises issue its own currency on top of it. The Structural Flaw in Stablecoin 1.0 Collins describes the core problem plainly: Tether holds user dollars, invests them in U.S. Treasuries currently yielding 3 to 4 percent, and retains all of that yield. Users receive utility, global, instant dollar access, but no return on the value they have parked in the system. "The elegance of Tether's business model is in its simplicity," he says. "Give me a dollar. I issue you a token." That simplicity made Tether dominant and built in an extraction mechanism that Collins believes stablecoin 2.0 should eliminate. His new protocol, STBL addresses this through a dual-token structure. The stablecoin splits into a spending token and a yield token, allowing holders to transact while simultaneously accruing yield. It’s something that crypto’s current architecture cannot support without requiring users to lock up funds (preventing them from using their coins) STBL is also moving beyond treasury-only backing, and Collins has structured a deal with Hamilton Lane's SCOPE fund, which targets 7 to 8 percent returns, blended with treasury exposure for a net yield in the 5 percent range. The goal is a stablecoin backed by institutional-grade assets with meaningful yield passed directly to users and issuers. This isn’t XRP. When I pressed on whether STBL risks the same fate as XRP, where years of institutional adoption promises with little follow-through Collins drew a structural distinction: "XRP is just another centralized company saying use my token," he says. "STBL is a decentralized protocol. We're not saying use our token, we're saying here's the technology, create your own." The pitch to institutions is infrastructure access rather than token adoption. Banks, large platforms, and ecosystems would issue their own stablecoins using STBL's underlying protocol, choosing their own backing assets and setting their own yield distribution parameters. Collins believes this model reflects where financial infrastructure is heading. "Banking services will become a utility," he says. "You don't care what power company gives you power. You are not going to care which bank sends your money." The layer above that utility is loyalty. It’s AI agents routing transactions toward whichever currency ecosystem offers the best rewards for a given user, so it could be sports teams, gaming platforms, and consumer brands becoming issuers. The transactional value flows toward any community that users actually care about. The Regulation Problem The conversation touches on what is now a live regulatory debate: Iran had approximately $400 million frozen in USDC. The episode illustrates a tension Collins does not shy away from: dollar-backed stablecoins are, functionally, extensions of U.S. dollar jurisdiction. The U.S. government can reach into them. "It absolutely is becoming more centralized," Collins says. "And there's going to be an equilibrium." He distinguished between two regulatory paths, the first one being the U.S. model: private-sector stablecoin issuance with federal oversight, which is now taking shape through the GENIUS Act framework and preserves some distance between government and monetary control. The second is the CBDC model, where governments issue programmable currencies directly. Collins is explicit about the risks of the latter - which is a fully programmable government currency that allows automatic tax collection, real-time transaction freezing, and complete financial surveillance. Authoritarian governments he noted are pursuing this capability with urgency. "You won't have any financial sovereignty … It becomes a surveillance state." He continues to hold Bitcoin as a structural counterweight to this trajectory not as a speculative position, but as a permanent alternative outside any government's monetary architecture. How Reeve Collins Did It: Collins graduated in 1997, took a job at one of the first online advertising agencies in the United States, and watched it go public for $6.6 billion within two years. The pattern he observed was that new infrastructure is the best way to start a business. Early movers capture structural advantages. When he encountered Bitcoin, he saw that same exact structure. Not the currency argument, which everyone was debating, but the blockchain as infrastructure for global, instant, low-cost money movement. "The internet gave the world the global, instant, free movement of information," he said to me, "Blockchain gives it the same thing for money." Tether's first-mover advantage was decisive, and by the time competitors entered, Tether had already become the default trading pair across every major exchange - which compounded. "It was three or four years before anyone else even tried," Whether STBL can replicate that structural capture, this time in a far more competitive, regulated, and institutionally aware market is the open question his current work is designed to answer. Though with his work ethic and connections, I see it as a big player. When I asked him for advice, Collins didn’t give me platitude. He told me to distinguish investing from speculation, get inside the AI infrastructure now rather than trying to build on top of it from the outside, and hold Bitcoin as a long-term position. And now the man who built the floor the stablecoin market stands on is now building what he believes should replace it.

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