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UPDATE: BNB Chain’s final phase of short-block roadmap, Fermi upgrade, cuts BSC block times to 0.45s and pushes finality to 1 second.

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JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "we finally got a governance structure in place for getting commercially critical integrations like oracles, bridges, and stablecoins. We just announced Pyth, and there's a lot more to announce this month and next month." $ADA $NIGHT

JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "Ouroboros Leios, which is our scaling engine for Cardano, took 5 years to build, and is launching this year." $ADA

JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson on CLARITY Act, says "there are heroes like Senator Scott and Senator Lummis—they're quite competent, their hearts are in the right place. If they were given the keys to the kingdom, we'd already be done with high integrity infrastructure." $ADA $NIGHT

JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "we've been focused on things that Satoshi cared about, like inclusive accountability, decentralization, making sure the code works, things that really matter for the safety of users, and for the most part, Cardano doesn't get hacked." $ADA $NIGHT

JUST IN: Charles Hoskinson says "cryptocurrencies are international assets, so we have to care about the MiCA framework in Europe, the ADGM in Abu Dhabi, and the Singapore Monetary Authority." $ADA $NIGHT

How Binance Views Its Competitors On January 8, Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng said in an interview with CNBC that competition in the crypto industry has evolved beyond rivalry among individual exchanges into a broader convergence between Web2 and Web3. Competitors now include