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In a significant move to blur the line between traditional finance and crypto, OKX and the New York Stock Exchange have announced a joint venture led by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The partnership aims to give OKX's one hundred twenty million global users access to ICE futures and tokenized equities through the NYSE — a bet that institutional credibility can finally bring crypto into the mainstream.
On a somber note, Alan Greenspan has passed away. The former Federal Reserve chairman shaped decades of American monetary policy and remains one of the most influential — and debated — figures in modern economic history. His long tenure at the Fed spanned everything from the dot-com bubble to the lead-up to the two thousand eight financial crisis.
And a timely warning from the CEO of Windscribe VPN: those personality quizzes flooding your social media feed are not as innocent as they look. Cybersecurity experts say they are carefully engineered phishing traps, designed to harvest the exact answers your bank uses for security questions. If it asks for your mother's maiden name, close the tab.
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