Public Blockchains Aren’t Ready for Real-World Assets—Here’s Why
When BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, saw its $2.9 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury fund accepted as collateral on major exchanges, Crypto.com and Deribit, it marked a milestone: Real-world assets had officially entered the crypto mainstream. But beneath the surface, the structure of that fund reveals the limits of public blockchain infrastructure. Despite being issued […]
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Mom Stuck on Homework—Not Ready for How Daughter ‘Exposes’ Her to Teacher
When her 7-year-old daughter asked her for help with her homework, Alyssa Dawson, 36, from Arizona, wasn’t expecting the assignment to come back to haunt her. The homework prompt had asked students to “draw a shape with 6 corners and 6 sides” and “then draw lines in your shape to show 2 squares and 4 […]
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Car Crash Kills Moose—Paramedics Weren’t Ready for What Was in the Ditch
A heartbreaking scene from a car crash in Canada left one moose dead at the scene, but what paramedics discovered in a ditch nearby turned out to be a miracle. Paramedic Jennifer Lemky and her team responded to the call during the middle of the night. She found a “demolished” car with the front smashed […]
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The U.S. Labor Force Isn’t Ready for a Manufacturing Boom | Opinion
When the Trump administration announced its tariff regime earlier this year, it claimed its goal was to make manufacturers reshore their operations from distant markets like China, India, and Brazil. In part, it appears Trump is using tariffs to make good on his campaign promises to protect and increase high-paying blue-collar jobs in the U.S. […]
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