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Coinbase has secured regulatory authorization in the United Kingdom, allowing it to offer traditional investments alongside its existing crypto services. Institutional traders gain access to perpetual futures, while retail customers in the UK can now trade equities through the platform — a notable expansion for an exchange built on digital assets.
Meanwhile, the prediction market Polymarket is facing a lawsuit from traders who say the platform changed the rules mid-game. The dispute centers on a bet about Strategy's Bitcoin holdings — plaintiffs claim their winning yes position was retroactively flipped to a loss after Polymarket applied a rule that didn't exist when the bet was placed. It's a reminder that decentralized finance still runs on very human decisions.
On the hardware side, Kioxia and Sandisk have begun sampling what they're calling the world's densest three-dimensional NAND memory chip, featuring three hundred thirty-two active layers. Despite having fewer layers than Samsung's competing design, the companies claim their chip delivers superior storage density and performance — a good example of how raw layer counts can be a misleading headline.
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