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The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, one of the most important plumbing fixtures in global finance, is integrating Chainlink into a blockchain-based collateral system. The platform tokenizes assets and uses smart contracts for round-the-clock automated collateral management — a significant signal that traditional financial infrastructure is quietly going on-chain.
Shifting to crypto mining, CleanSpark posted a net loss of three hundred seventy eight point three million dollars for the quarter ending March thirty first, nearly three times the loss from the same period last year. The company's bitcoin holdings took a beating, and the market responded swiftly — shares slid nine percent. It's a reminder that mining operations live and die by forces largely outside their control.
And Sega has officially shelved what it called its Super Game initiative, the ambitious multi-year plan to build a massive global franchise from scratch. Instead, the company says it will lean into classic reboots and film adaptations. It's a cautious pivot, but given how expensive and risky original IP development has become, perhaps a pragmatic one.
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