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Tether, best known as the company behind the world's most widely used stablecoin, has led a one point four billion dollar investment into Neura, a German robotics firm. It's a striking move for a crypto giant, signaling that Tether sees its future well beyond digital currency and into the physical world of intelligent machines.
Staying in the world of blockchain but shifting to Wall Street, Citibank is now using tokenization to open up private market investments. Through digital depositary receipts built on blockchain infrastructure, the bank is connecting everyday investors with private company equity — the kind of deal that was once reserved for institutional players with deep pockets and the right connections.
And finally, astronomers are raising a serious alarm. Space telescopes are now so overwhelmed by satellite trails cutting through their images that meaningful observation is becoming genuinely difficult. As low-Earth orbit fills with commercial constellations from companies like SpaceX and others, the scientific community is asking hard questions about who gets to decide what the night sky is for.
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