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Malta's financial regulator is pushing into new territory with decentralized finance. The MFSA is asking whether decentralization should be treated as a spectrum rather than a simple yes-or-no classification, potentially pulling parts of DeFi under the European MiCA framework. It's a signal that regulators are done waiting for crypto to sort itself out.
On the medical front, a study out of King's College London finds hospitals and universities are successfully repurposing existing drugs at roughly ninety percent lower cost than traditional development pathways. That's not a rounding error — it's a structural shift in how medicine might get made, using what we already know to solve problems we haven't solved yet.
And NASA is heading back to Mars, this time with a rocket from Relativity Space, the company backed by former Google chief Eric Schmidt. The mission is targeting two thousand twenty-eight and will put an orbiter around the red planet — another sign that the line between government space programs and private enterprise is effectively gone.
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