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  • Tempo Chain Goes Live on DeBank With Uniswap as Its First Supported Protocol

    Tempo Chain Goes Live on DeBank With Uniswap as Its First Supported Protocol

    Tempo Chain is now integrated into DeBank. The portfolio tracking platform, which covers Ethereum and EVM-compatible networks, has added Tempo as a supported chain with Uniswap included in the first batch of protocols.

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    Tempo chain is now integrated in https://t.co/IEGJ3zLVHO! @tempo

    1st batch of supported protocol: @Uniswap pic.twitter.com/2FOfqtzduV

    — DeBank (@DeBankDeFi) March 23, 2026

    For a Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for payments that went live on mainnet, appearing on DeBank is a meaningful infrastructure milestone. Users with assets on Tempo Chain can now track everything in DeBank without switching tabs or tools.

    What Tempo Chain Is

    Tempo is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain for payments, developed in partnership with leading fintechs. It is not a general-purpose smart contract platform that added payment features later. The entire architecture is oriented around payments at scale, which shapes everything from its consensus design to its fee structure to the kinds of applications it prioritizes for its ecosystem.

    The fintech partnerships matter. Most payment-focused blockchains are built by crypto-native teams working toward traditional finance from the outside. Tempo was developed with fintech partners involved from the start, which changes the product priorities.

    Fintechs care about different things than DeFi developers. Reliability, throughput, user experience that doesn’t require a crypto background to navigate. Tempo was built with those requirements in mind from the start.

    The network is already live on mainnet. This is not a testnet integration or an announcement of future plans. Tempo is running, and the DeBank integration reflects its current operational status rather than a roadmap item.

    What DeBank Adds for Tempo Users

    DeBank is the portfolio tracker a lot of serious DeFi users rely on daily. One view, every chain, every position. Tempo Chain being added means anyone with assets on Tempo can now see them sitting next to their Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum holdings without opening a separate tool.

    That might sound like a convenience feature, but it has practical implications for adoption. Users who already rely on DeBank are more likely to explore and use a new chain when it shows up there. Discovery happens inside the tools people already use. A chain that isn’t visible in portfolio trackers is effectively invisible to a large segment of active DeFi users, regardless of what’s being built on it.

    DeBank also functions as a credibility signal. It doesn’t add every chain that asks. Its integration decisions reflect what it considers active and legitimate enough to put in front of its users. Getting listed is itself a signal.

    Why Uniswap as the First Protocol

    Uniswap being the first supported protocol on Tempo Chain within the DeBank integration is not a minor detail. Uniswap is the most recognized DEX in crypto along with Hyperliquid. Its presence on a new chain signals that the network has enough liquidity infrastructure to support meaningful trading activity, and it gives DeBank users a familiar entry point for interacting with Tempo Chain for the first time.

    For a payment-focused blockchain, having a major DEX operational and trackable early in its lifecycle also means users can move between payment utility and trading activity without leaving the ecosystem. Payments and swaps go together. Uniswap handles the swap side on Tempo Chain. The native payment infrastructure handles settlement. Both running on the same chain is the point.

    The Bigger Picture for Tempo Chain

    A payment blockchain needs two things. Infrastructure that actually works, and enough visibility that users and developers show up to use it. Tempo has the first in place with its mainnet launch and fintech partnerships. The DeBank integration, with Uniswap as the opening protocol, starts building the second.

    More protocols will follow in subsequent batches. Each addition to DeBank’s supported protocol list for Tempo Chain expands what users can track, which expands what they are likely to use, which expands the activity that makes the chain more attractive to the next developer considering where to build.

    What’s Ahead

    Tempo Chain landing on DeBank with Uniswap as the first supported protocol is a straightforward but important step. It puts a payment-focused Layer 1 blockchain in front of DeBank’s active DeFi user base at the point when those users are already managing their portfolios. Visibility in the tools people use daily is how new chains build their initial user base, and Tempo now has it.

  • Bitcoin Exchange Binance Delisted Numerous Altcoin Trading Pairs from Its Margin Trading Platform! Here Are the Details

    Bitcoin Exchange Binance Delisted Numerous Altcoin Trading Pairs from Its Margin Trading Platform! Here Are the Details

    Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the delisting of certain trading pairs from its margin trading platform. According to the official statement, specific cross and isolated margin trading pairs on Binance Margin will be delisted on March 27, 2026, at 09:00 AM.

    According to the announcement, the trading pairs that will be removed from cross-margin trading include XRP/BNB, Axie Infinity/$BTC, Ethereum Classic/$BTC, Cosmos/$BTC, Dash/$BTC, Bitcoin Cash/$USD1, Pundi X/$USDC, Avalanche/$USD1, and F/$USDC.

    Regarding isolated margin trading, it was stated that the following pairs will be removed: Avalanche/ETH, Axie Infinity/$BTC, Ethereum Classic/$BTC, Cosmos/$BTC, Dash/$BTC, and F/$USDC.

    Binance advised users to close their open positions and manage their assets before the specified date to avoid potential losses. Otherwise, automatic liquidation processes may be initiated by the system.

    Stock exchange officials stated that the products offered in the margin market are regularly reviewed and that such updates are made based on criteria such as liquidity, trading volume, and risk management. Experts, however, emphasize that investors should exercise caution, bearing in mind the high risk involved in margin trading.

    *This is not investment advice.

  • ‘Moana’: New Trailer Shows Dwayne Johnson as a Live-Action Version of His Character Maui

    ‘Moana’: New Trailer Shows Dwayne Johnson as a Live-Action Version of His Character Maui

    Disney on Monday released a new trailer for its upcoming live-action version of Moana.

    The film stars newcomer Catherine Lagaʻaia as the wayfinder Moana and Dwayne Johnson, who reprises his role as the trickster demigod Maui from the animated film. 

    Fans of the original movie will recognize the scenes shown in the trailer, from Moana’s interactions with Maui to the crab who’s obsessed with shiny objects to the lava and fire creature Te Kā, along with some familiar songs, including “I Am Moana (Song of the Ancestors).” Fans also noted online that Johnson has a full head of flowing locks, befitting his character.

    The cast also includes John Tui as Moana’s father, Chief Tui; Frankie Adams as Moana’s mother, Sina; and Rena Owen as Moana’s Gramma Tala.

    Catherine Laga’aia as Moana in Disney’s live-action Moana.

    courtesy of Disney

    Disney is calling the film a “reimagining” of the Oscar-nominated movie. The live-action version is directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton), with Johnson, Dany Garcia, Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia and Lin-Manuel Miranda as producers. Kail is also an executive producer along with Scott Sheldon, Charles Newirth and Auliʻi Cravalho, who voiced Moana in Moana and its sequel. 

    Moana features original songs by Miranda, Opetaia Foaʻi and Mark Mancina, and an original score composed by Mancina. 

    The movie hits theaters July 10.

    Watch the trailer below.

  • ‘Paradise’ Star Enuka Okuma Goes Inside That Heavy Reunion: “Both of Them Don’t Give Up”

    [This story contains spoilers from Paradise episode seven of season two, “The Final Countdown.”]

    Last week’s Paradise ended with the highly anticipated moment of Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) finally laying eyes on the wife he had been searching for ever since finding out she was actually alive. And this week’s episode picked up right from that cliffhanger to play out their long-awaited reunion.

    Xavier had thought his wife and mother of their two children, Terri, played by Enuka Okuma, had died in the near-apocalyptic event that kicked off the hit Hulu series created by Dan Fogelman. He found out at the end of the first season that she actually survived, and he left the safety of the bunker to go and find her in season two. Against all odds, Xavier found Terri, tracking her to the location where she had called in on the radio. This episode, however, shows how Terri’s friend Gary (Cameron Britton) had misdirected Xavier into thinking Terri was in danger as a ruse, since Gary is also in love with Terri. Xavier and Terri must contend with Gary, which they do, before setting out on their mission to return to the bunker in Colorado.

    Each of them now has an additional child in their care when they reconnect and vow to go get their children — Xavier is taking care of Annie’s (Shailene Woodle) baby in hopes of reuniting her with father Link (Thomas Doherty) and Terri comes now with a boy named Bean (Benjamin Mackey), whom she has protected since The Day the world changed. “I never stopped trying to find my way back you — you just found me first,” she tells him.

    “We learn that Terri is as tough as Xavier,” executive producer and writer John Hoberg tells The Hollywood Reporter about how Xavier and Terri have changed in the three years since The Day. “The two of them both have this irresistible force quality. When they are together, they’re almost unstoppable. Xavier is a different person, and she’s a different person. So now this is like a marriage where two people took different jobs away from each other for a few years and are coming back together and, how is that going to work?”

    For Brown, also an executive producer, the comparison between present day and the levity of their meet-cute was a fun and flirty color to put on, he says, of filming their flashbacks in season two. “Then finally, after going through so much, to be reunited… I hope there’s a sense of relief that the audience feels in getting a chance to see these two people find one another again,” he tells THR, “because that’s what it felt like: relief. Like, ‘You’re here. I didn’t know if you were going to be here. So many things kept me from getting to you. I made it to you. I love you. Let’s go.’”

    Below, THR speaks with Okuma about when she found out that Terri would be entering the present-day story in such a big way, what it was like filming Terri and Xavier’s reunion, and what she knows about the already renewed third season.

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    What did you know after season one about if this reunion between Terri and Xavier would happen in season two?

    I had no idea how or if that would ever happen. I did know that Terri was going to be a larger role and that you would get to see into her world, but I didn’t know how. Especially reading the beginning of the season and seeing that flashback episode, I figured — in [Dan] Fogelman-style — that I would be in a lot of flashbacks. So it was a nice surprise to know that we would dive into what happened to Terri outside, but then of course that wonderful episode seven was a nice surprise, too!

    Did you have a chat with creator Dan Fogelman and the writers about Terri’s arc ahead of time, or did you find out as you were receiving scripts?

    It was mostly finding out from reading. But then once we were shooting, being able to talk to our directors and to Dan about exactly that. Just how long it has been that those two have been missing each other.

    Had you been peppering Sterling K. Brown with questions leading up to this?

    Oh, he knows everything [as an executive producer also]. I would always ask him, but at the same time I didn’t want any spoilers. So he wouldn’t tell me, but would look at me and say, “It’s good. It’s gonna be good.” So I would just trust that it was going to be great.

    Sterling K. Brown with Enuka Okuma in episode seven of season two.

    Disney/Ser Baffo

    How did you react when you got to the end of episode six and read that they finally lock eyes on one another, but that Gary potentially stands in their way?

    I was pretty concerned. As an actor, we all have our worries and insecurities. I wanted to do it justice. As an audience member myself I had been hoping that those two get together, so I wanted to do it justice and was putting extra pressure on myself. But once we got to set — and it was so hot! Plus there were trains and explosions and hundreds of extras. It was just so massive. The stakes were so high, that all I had to do was surrender and lean into the what-if of it all, and it was all fine and natural in the end because it was almost like the stakes were actually happening.

    Did you film their reunion scene in one day?

    No, we didn’t. In fact, the tearful reunion — part two of the reunion — was shot in studio. We had done everything outside a week before. That informed everything going on in the tent, but it also gave a lot of time to really sit with that second level. It’s all pretty crazy when they first see each other, so I love that the writers gave us that moment to truly connect. There’s so much grief and loss for the time that has passed, the time they didn’t have with each other and how they couldn’t be there for one another. Giving those characters that moment was great.

    Up until this point, you and Sterling had only filmed flashbacks to establish their relationship. What was it like to bring their relationship up to date and portray them now?

    That was very much informed by how these two were leaders in their own way, in their own worlds. So coming together was now, in many ways, falling back into the pattern of who they are as husband and wife. But then it became two people who have a mind of their own and are on their own mission. Terri is not going to be told what to do, and has been running things in her own camp. So it becomes a dance of leadership.

    Brown with Okuma during Xavier and Terri’s reunion.

    Disney/Ser Baffo

    How would you say their time away from each other has informed how they’re able to step up for each other and for their family by the end of this season?

    I think because they have been away from each other for so long that coming back together as a unit, no matter what — no matter this butting of heads, in terms of leadership — shows that they have found each other and it is that union. They are going forth together and now it’s about getting the rest of that [family] unit back together, as the world is falling apart around them. I think you see very quickly the harmony they have and how they do work together.

    They are this unbelievable, one-in-a-million story to have found each other again. What do you hope viewers take away from their hopeful love story?

    Both of them don’t give up, and that is what makes the story so special to me — they’re steadfast in their belief and their faith that they will get back together. I read the story of their standoff with Gary in a cynical way, thinking, “Okay, they just got back together and this is how she’s going to die.” Maybe my heart is a little bit dark! But I do love for them that this was the fire that was stoking both of them. My love is out there, and I must find them. I must be with them again. I think it’s a beautiful message of hope and strength, and the fact that they do get together is an affirmation that it can happen.

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    Paradise releases its season two finale on Monday. Read THR‘s coverage.

  • ENI and GANA Insight Partner to Build Merchant-Ready PayFi Infrastructure on BNB Chain

    ENI and GANA Insight Partner to Build Merchant-Ready PayFi Infrastructure on BNB Chain

    ENI and GANA Insight have announced a partnership to advance PayFi infrastructure on $BNB Chain. GANA brings a decentralized payment and DeFi layer that is already running. Not a pilot. Not a testnet. Fully audited, wallet-integrated, and live with real payment utility.

    https://twitter.com/ENI__Official/status/2035995123893534733?s=20

    ENI brings the blockchain infrastructure underneath it: high throughput, low latency, built for enterprise use. Together, the partnership targets the gap between on-chain settlement capability and the merchant-ready experience that makes crypto payments usable in practice.

    What GANA Insight Actually Does

    GANA Insight is a decentralized PayFi infrastructure built on $BNB Chain. PayFi combines payment functionality with DeFi mechanics, allowing value to move through payment rails while also interacting with decentralized financial primitives like lending, yield, and settlement protocols.

    What separates GANA from earlier attempts at crypto payment infrastructure is that it is already running. The platform is fully audited, wallet-integrated, and live with real payment utility rather than in a testnet or pilot phase. Merchants can accept payments through it. On-chain settlement is operational. The UX is designed around merchant needs rather than crypto-native users, which matters for any payment product trying to reach real commercial adoption.

    The $BNB Chain foundation gives GANA access to a high-throughput, low-fee environment that makes small and frequent payments economically viable. Payment infrastructure that costs more in gas than the transaction is worth doesn’t work at scale. $BNB Chain’s fee structure solves that problem for the kinds of everyday payment volumes GANA is targeting.

    What ENI Brings to the Partnership

    ENI is an enterprise-grade Web3 blockchain built for real-world scale. Its design priorities are ultra-fast throughput and low latency, the two properties that matter most when payment infrastructure needs to handle volume without degrading user experience. A payment confirmation that takes seconds is still too slow for point-of-sale environments. ENI’s infrastructure is engineered around the performance requirements that enterprise and commercial payment contexts actually demand.

    The combination of ENI’s performance layer with GANA’s live payment infrastructure creates a stack that covers both ends of the PayFi problem. ENI provides the speed and scale. GANA provides the payment logic, merchant UX, and DeFi integration that turns raw blockchain performance into something a business can actually use.

    The PayFi Model and Why It Matters

    PayFi is a relatively new framing for something the crypto industry has been trying to build for years: payment infrastructure that works like real payments while connecting to the broader DeFi ecosystem. The traditional payment stack, cards, bank transfers, payment processors, is slow, expensive, and siloed from the yield and settlement opportunities that DeFi offers.

    PayFi infrastructure like GANA’s is designed to let value move through payment rails while simultaneously interacting with on-chain financial mechanisms. A merchant receiving a payment doesn’t just receive funds that sit idle. Those funds can settle, generate yield, or interact with other DeFi protocols in the same transaction flow. For businesses, that means payment infrastructure that is also a financial tool rather than just a value transfer pipe.

    The permissionless nature of the infrastructure matters here too. Traditional payment systems require approval from intermediaries at every layer: payment processors, banks, card networks.

    A permissionless PayFi infrastructure removes those gatekeepers, which has practical implications for merchants in markets where access to traditional payment rails is limited or expensive.

    What the Collaboration Produces

    TheENI and GANA partnership marks what both parties describe as another step toward a truly usable Web3 financial ecosystem. One partnership doesn’t solve the entire adoption problem for crypto payments. But it does add a layer of infrastructure that wasn’t there before.

    Specifically, the collaboration connects ENI’s enterprise performance capabilities to GANA’s already-live payment utility on $BNB Chain. Merchants using GANA’s infrastructure gain access to the performance characteristics of ENI’s network. Its ecosystem gains a payment layer with real commercial utility already demonstrated.

    The fully audited status of GANA’s infrastructure is worth noting for enterprise adoption. Businesses and institutional partners evaluating payment infrastructure need audit documentation before deploying at scale. GANA having that in place removes one of the more common blockers for enterprise integration.

    Conclusion

    ENI and GANA Insight are combining enterprise blockchain performance with live, audited PayFi infrastructure on $BNB Chain. The partnership doesn’t just describe what crypto payments could be. GANA is already running, merchants are already using it, and the on-chain settlement layer is already operational. ENI adds the performance infrastructure to support that at scale. That combination moves the Web3 payments conversation from theory to something closer to practice.

  • Polymarket Tightens Insider Trading Rules

    Polymarket on Monday announced updated market integrity rules across both its DeFi platform and its CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange, amplifying requirements governing insider trading and market manipulation. The new standards appear in the DeFi platform’s Terms of Use and the Polymarket US Rulebook.

    “Markets thrive on clarity,” said Neal Kumar, Polymarket’s chief legal officer, in a release.

    Prohibited Behavior

    The rules spell out three categories of banned insider trading conduct. First, participants may not trade on any contract if they possess confidential information about the outcome of the underlying event, where using that information would violate a preexisting duty of trust or confidence.

    Second, participants may not trade on confidential information passed to them by someone who owed a preexisting duty of trust or confidence to someone else, if they know or have reason to know that the tipper would be prohibited from trading on it themselves.

    Third, participants may not trade on any contract if they hold a position of authority or influence sufficient to affect the outcome of the underlying event.

    Beyond insider trading, both platforms prohibit all types of fraud and market manipulation — including spoofing, wash trading, and fictitious transactions — as well as self-dealing, front-running, information misuse, attempted manipulation, and disruptive practices.

    Enforcement

    On the DeFi side, Polymarket maintains a multi-layered monitoring system and partners with surveillance and technology specialists, and all trades are executed on the Polygon blockchain, providing built-in on-chain transparency. When the platform or community flags unusual activity, Polymarket said it may ban wallet addresses or refer the matter to law enforcement.

    On Polymarket US, surveillance operates at three levels: partnerships with trade surveillance specialists, a control desk conducting real-time monitoring, and a Regulatory Services Agreement with the National Futures Association to detect rule violations and investigate offenders. Sanctions on the U.S. exchange can include suspension, termination, monetary penalties, or regulatory referrals.

    The rule overhaul follows last week’s announcement that MLB named Polymarket its official and exclusive prediction market exchange. The deal centers on an integrity framework that restricts markets deemed to pose manipulation risk, including contracts on individual pitches, manager decisions, and umpire performance. MLB also signed an information-sharing agreement with the CFTC, the first such deal between the derivatives regulator and a professional sports body.

    Polymarket received CFTC approval to operate in the U.S. in November 2025, following a $2 billion strategic investment from Intercontinental Exchange. The platform has since begun rolling out its U.S. app, starting with sports markets.

    This article was written with the assistance of AI workflows. All our stories are curated, edited and fact-checked by a human.

  • Live Updates: Cooper Flagg’s Mavericks take on Kristaps Porziņģis’ Warriors on Peacock

    Live Updates: Cooper Flagg’s Mavericks take on Kristaps Porziņģis’ Warriors on Peacock

    Jared McCain (13 pts) returned to Philadelphia tonight as the Thunder defeated the 76ers.

    What we know about Monday night’s games:

    • Victor Wembanyama dominated (26 pts, 15 reb, 5 blk) as the Spurs cruised past the Heat 136-111.
    • Our national TV doubleheader continues on NBC Sports Network and Peacock with Cooper Flagg’s Mavericks taking on Draymond Green’s Warriors (9:30 ET).
    • Jared McCain (13 pts) returned to Philadelphia to help the Thunder defeat the 76ers 123-103, earning their 12th straight victory.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 10:04 ET

    Pistons snap Lakers’ winning streak

    113-110, as Jalen Duren (20 pts, 10 rebounds) led the effort that ended Los Angeles’ 12-game winning streak.

    Luka Dončić (32 pts, 6 reb, 7 ast on 29 shots) was held relatively in check by Detroit’s stalwart defense, which leads the league in steals and blocks per game.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 9:59 ET

    Pacers win a battle

    128-126 over the Magic. Paolo Banchero (39 pts) and Pascal Siakam (37 pts) went at it in a classic star duel.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 9:49 ET

    Spurs cruise past Heat

    136-111, as Victor Wembanyama (26 pts, 15 reb, 5 blk) starred on Peacock and NBC Sports Network.

    Six Spurs scored in double figures during the contest, as San Antonio dominated the glass 71-44.

    Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro (18 pts apiece) led the way for the Heat.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 9:32 ET

    A delivery from the King

    A bit of Magic Johnson from the current legendary Lakers 6’9″ playmaker.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 9:00 ET

    What, Wemby?

    How many centers in NBA history could make this play? Bill Walton? Arvydas Sabonis? Shaq?

    The dexterity and grace are off-the-charts remarkable.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 8:28 ET

    Paolo and Pascal dueling

    Paolo Banchero and Pascal Siakam’s highlights from Magic-Pacers.

    Banchero (22 pts) and Siakam (20 pts) are our top two scorers on the night so far, as the Magic lead the Pacers 66-65 early in the third quarter.

    Catch the contest on League Pass!

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 8:04 ET

    Wemby is everywhere

    The Spurs’ center (11 pts, 3 blk) is controlling affairs so far on Peacock, as San Antonio’s racked up a 26-16 advantage in points in the paint.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 7:47 ET

    McCain hot early

    Thunder are up 41-29 over the 76ers with 9:44 to go in the second quarter.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 7:30 ET

    Wemby takes flight

    Victor Wembanyama is sixth in the NBA this season with 141 dunks — Rudy Gobert’s at the top of the list with 173.

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 6:30 ET

    Jared McCain returns to Philadelphia

    Jared McCain’s top highlights with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

    The No. 16 pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, traded to Oklahoma City in exchange for a first-round pick and three second-round picks in February, is back in Philadelphia tonight.

    McCain (15.3 ppg in his rookie season with Philadelphia, 12.7 ppg with OKC so far) is a skilled shooter on the move, with stable form and strong touch. He’s also able to get to the rim with smooth footwork and his sturdy frame.

    The Duke product is a classic microwave scorer — fitting for someone with the emotional fortitude to go routinely viral on TikTok. What will he do tonight as he graces the court at Xfinity Mobile Arena again?

    MARCH 21, 2026 // 6:00 ET

    A 10-game night in the Association!

    Victor Wembanyama’s Spurs face Bam Adebayo’s Heat to open tonight’s doubleheader on NBC Sports Network and Peacock.

    Welcome to Monday night in the NBA!

    Tonight’s schedule is headlined by Victor Wembanyama’s Spurs taking on Bam Adebayo’s Heat followed by Draymond Green’s Warriors hosting Cooper Flagg’s Mavericks on Peacock and NBC Sports Network.

    Here’s tonight’s complete schedule:

  • The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Fi Router Models Made Outside US

    The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Fi Router Models Made Outside US

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  • ‘Bucks Harbor’ Review: A Wistful, Humane Portrait of Hardy Souls, Young and Old, in Coastal Maine

    ‘Bucks Harbor’ Review: A Wistful, Humane Portrait of Hardy Souls, Young and Old, in Coastal Maine

    The coast is craggy and rugged in “Bucks Harbor,” and so are many of the faces — lined and hard-lived and visibly storied, in a way that plainly speaks to the original photographer in director Pete Muller, here making a fluent and expansive transition to documentary filmmaking. His camera loves the weary, callused men of the small Maine fishing community that lends the film its title, though his heart evidently does too: As it takes in the rhythms and routines of lives buffeted by time, tide and weather, “Bucks Harbor” never treats its subjects as rural ethnographic case studies, but as full-bodied characters with complicated tales of their own to tell.

    The film’s empathetic interest in individual, often eccentric human lives gives it a warmth that overrides the underlying melancholy of the material, making for a pleasingly unsentimental crowdpleaser. Following its world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama program last month, “Bucks Harbor” was a runner-up in the section’s audience awards. A North American premiere in the True/False fest followed, sure to kick off a lengthy run of docfest appointments. Nonfiction-oriented distributors should take interest in a film that could play engagingly on streaming platforms, though theatrical exhibition would best serve its textured, wind-whipped sense of place.

    “If Bangor, Maine is the asshole of the world, we’re 200 miles up it,” says stoic lobster trawler Mike of the remote waterfront he calls home, not far from the Canadian border. His tone isn’t bitter, and indeed, a mood of jaded contentment prevails in Bucks Harbor: It may be sleepy and dilapidated, but it has its own shabby comforts.

    Fisherman and former drug addict Dave has lived his whole life there, equally stifled and saved by his surroundings. As a teen, he showed artistic talent that ultimately had nowhere to go: Today, he supplements his modest income with regular visits to a local food bank, and draws in his spare time to amuse himself. Mostly, he’s good-humored and glad to still be around, fixing what he can in his life with some support from his salty, independent-minded mother — delightfully good value whenever she’s on screen. Women need men “just for babies,” she insists; her son, equally happy to be alone, resists that purpose.

    A drawlingly funny and generous storyteller, Dave is the most outwardly charismatic of the film’s four principal subjects, though the others flesh out a more surprising overview of local working-class masculinity than what initially meets the eye. Married, middle-aged Mark works in a tackle shop, and seems a taciturn, hard-shelled type, though he has, over time, found an unexpected outlet for his more expressive impulses.

    The aforementioned Mike is a more typically rugged family man, raising two preternaturally toughened young sons who already ply the family trade — there’s something rather poignant about the stern-faced proficiency they show on their father’s boat. Finally, profusely bearded clamdigger Wayne reflects on his various failed marriages and brutal childhood abuse at the hands of his father with a shrugging lack of self-pity, though there’s silent sorrow in his tired, scarred demeanor.

    Muller and editor Noel Paul don’t impose a narrative arc on these fragmented lives, instead casually drifting between them at a pace that suggests the loping rhythm of their days. (The film’s strictly observational approach extends to a complete absence of onscreen names or contextualizing title cards: We get to know these men in their own good time.) Occasionally the focus drops to the fishermen’s crustacean quarry in the deep, also guarded and unhurried but intensely vulnerable; the man-lobster parallel isn’t stretched to the point of contrivance, but the film takes a thoughtfully holistic view of all the region’s living inhabitants.

    Likewise, “Bucks Harbor” captures the spread of male archetypes in this small community — some more patriarchally conservative, some more queerly progressive, all a little wounded — in sufficiently perceptive detail that any more direct social commentary is unnecessary. All these men are products of their raw, challenging environment, albeit no two in quite the same way. And as shot by Muller and his fellow DPs Nathan Golon and Mark Unger in seasonally shifting shades of storm and stone, the water a defining presence in proceedings whether churning, frozen or serene, Bucks Harbor comes across as a forceful, compellingly changeable place, the kind that makes its humble residents do its bidding.

  • Polymarket updates fee structure and offers up to 30% referral rewards

    Polymarket updates fee structure and offers up to 30% referral rewards

    Blockchain-based prediction market platform Polymarket has rolled out a referral program that lets users monetize their network by earning a cut of trading fees.

    Direct referrals generate 30% in rewards, while indirect referrals bring in 10%, with unlimited upside. All earnings are calculated in real time and deposited directly into the user’s account balance.

    We’re excited to announce we’re expanding the release of Polymarket’s Referral Program from private beta to all traders with >$10k in volume

    You will now be eligible for rewards proportionate to the trading volume of all new users you refer

    Get started:https://t.co/uJhBnhMJub

    — Polymarket (@Polymarket) March 23, 2026

    According to the team, users can launch multiple referral campaigns, each with a unique link, to track which sources drive the most engagement. Links can be shared across social media, websites, or private channels, and referrals are automatically tracked upon sign-up.

    Users who try to game the referral program through deceptive practices, policy violations, or abusive behavior will be permanently suspended and lose eligibility for any future referral earnings, the team has warned.

    Polymarket is also updating its fee structure, according to the project’s documentation.

    Effective March 30, taker fees will expand from just two market categories (crypto and sports) to nine, covering politics, finance, economics, technology, culture, weather, and more.

    Fees will follow a standardized formula based on trade size and price, with peak effective rates reaching up to 1.8%. As before, fees will be lowest near extreme probabilities and highest near the midpoint.

    Polymarket built its dominance on a deliberately frictionless model, charging zero fees across nearly all categories, which drew millions of users and billions of dollars in wagers.

    During the 2024 US presidential election, more than $3.3 billion in bets flowed through the platform.

    The company is said to be considering a fresh raise at a valuation nearing $20 billion, as rival Kalshi also eyes a comparable figure. At the same time, both firms are dealing with increasing regulatory scrutiny at the state level.

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