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The HeadlinesEXTRAORDINARY LOAN. The Mauritshuis in The Hague revealed on Thursday that it will send its most famous painting, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (circa 1665), to Japan this summer, the Japan Times wrote. The work will be loaned to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka while the Dutch museum temporarily closes from August 24 to September 20 for building alterations. The decision is surprising because the painting, one of just 37 works attributed to Vermeer, was effectively grounded in 2014 due to its status as the Mauritshuis’s star attraction. “Girl with a Pearl Earring is one…

Coinbase has updated its official asset listing roadmap to include four digital assets that the exchange has decided may be listed in the future. According to an update on its blog, the assets newly added to the Coinbase roadmap include the Solana network Raydium (RAY) and Energy Dollar (ENERGY). Two additional assets from the Base network are also featured on the roadmap: Elsa (ELSA) and Sport.fun (FUN). Coinbase says asset transfers and trading for the listed assets are not supported until an official trading announcement is made. The exchange also warns that depositing these assets into a Coinbase account before…

South Africa selected a Gabrielle Goliath work about Gaza for its Venice Biennale pavilion, then rescinded the decision amid concerns that the work was “polarizing,” according to a report by the Daily Maverick, a South African publication. The decision to pull the pavilion was reportedly made by the culture ministry on January 2, just eight days before nations must finalize their Venice Biennale pavilions. In an unusual move, the South African Pavilion’s selection committee then issued a statement of its own, saying that it disagreed with the cultural ministry decision. Related Articles Goliath, a South African artist who figured in…

Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen said the Solana-based memecoin launchpad is overhauling its creator fee system after concluding that the existing model may have skewed incentives.“Creator fees need change,” Cohen wrote in a Friday post on X, acknowledging that the Dynamic Fees V1 system, introduced several months ago, succeeded in driving activity but failed to produce sustainable market behavior. According to Cohen, the mechanism encouraged low-risk token creation at the expense of high-risk trading, which he described as “dangerous” because traders are the core source of liquidity and volume on the platform.Cohen said the initial rollout showed early promise. Within weeks,…

While the world was dealing with horrific news about an ICE agent fatally shooting an American civilian in the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s administration was withdrawing the US from 66 international groups, conventions, and treaties, including 31 United Nations-affiliated organizations. Several of them are devoted to arts, culture, historic preservation, and freedom of expression. The withdrawal was announced in a presidential memorandum that stated that these organizations were “contrary to the interests of the United States.” The president had asked the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to conduct a review in a February 2025 executive order.…

Developers of privacy-focused Zcash have announced they’re already working on a new wallet for the cryptocurrency, less than a day after their high-profile exit from Electric Coin Company.“The team from the Electric Coin Company that launched Zcash, and created the Zashi wallet, is now launching a new wallet for Zcash, using the same Zashi codebase we built,” said former ECC CEO Josh Swihart late on Thursday.The code name for the wallet is cashZ and will be launched in a “few weeks,” he added. Users of the existing Zcash (ZEC) wallet, Zashi, will be able to migrate to the new one…

A series of ads reportedly aired on Fox News, calling on the public to contact their senators to remove DeFi provisions from the CLARITY Act bill.An anti-decentralized finance group is reportedly running advertisements on Fox News encouraging the public to pressure their Senators into passing crypto market structure legislation that excludes DeFi provisions perceived to be threatening to the banking industry.According to two screenshots shared Friday on X by Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett, the Investors For Transparency members wrote: “Tell Your Senator: Pass Crypto Legislation Without DeFi Provisions,” sharing a hotline number to contact their local Senators.“Don’t Let…

Belgian art dealer Klaas Muller has identified a new study of a bearded man’s head by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, according to a lengthy report in the Dutch daily newspaper De Standaard. Muller bought the work, an oil on paper laid on panel that is now titled Bearded old man, looking down to his left (ca. 1609), at an auction three years ago from “lesser-known auction house in northern Europe,” declining to name it for fear of increased competition, he told the Guardian. Related Articles The auction house had listed it as an unknown artist from the “Flemish school”…

Pump.fun has announced a major overhaul of its creator fee system, marking a shift in how the Solana-based memecoin launchpad wants activity on the platform to function. The update comes as the team moves to curb what it described as “dangerous” incentives that encouraged low-risk coin creation over high-risk trading, a balance the platform says had begun to tilt too far in the wrong direction.Pump.fun Adds Fee-Sharing Tools for Token CreatorsIn a statement posted on X, Pump.fun said creator fees “needed a change” and introduced a new fee-sharing model that allows creators to distribute fees across up to 10 wallets.…

In June 2013, the lens through which US citizens looked at their government was dramatically changed; it was now a PRISM. PRISM was the program that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA), with some help from the FBI, to obtain unthinkable quantities of data from tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft, among others.Despite previous statements that the NSA did not collect data “directly” from tech companies, American whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that they did, and that it was just one portion of a larger picture showing that the US was in the mass surveillance game.With the veil lifted, change…