The hidden layer behind your crypto trades If you’ve ever swapped tokens on a decentralized exchange and ended up with fewer coins than expected, you’re not alone. Beyond gas fees and price slippage, there’s another force quietly shaping outcomes. It’s called Maximal Extractable Value, or MEV,
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Corporate leaders are pressing ahead with artificial intelligence investments, even as many struggle to show clear, company-wide returns. Reporting from The Wall Street Journal and Reuters suggests most CEOs expect AI spending to keep rising through 2026, despite uneven results and growing pressure to prove value. The disconnect reflects where
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The UK government is preparing a major shift in how it oversees the cryptocurrency sector, with plans to regulate crypto assets under the same framework as traditional financial products by 2027. The move is designed to bring greater clarity, accountability, and consumer protection to a fast-growing industry that has often
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Aevo, the derivatives exchange that emerged from Ribbon Finance’s 2023 rebrand, is dealing with the aftermath of a $2.7 million exploit that hit its legacy DeFi Options Vaults earlier this month. The incident highlights how older smart contracts can remain exposed long after a protocol’s core focus
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Solana took a notable step forward this week with the official launch of Firedancer, a new validator client developed by Jump Crypto. The software has been in the works for nearly three years and is now running on the Solana mainnet, marking a meaningful shift in how the network handles
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Generative AI’s trial period is coming to an end. By 2026, the spotlight is shifting from models that summarise information to autonomous systems that act on it. The next year is expected to mark a clear break from today’s chatbot-driven landscape as organisations adopt AI agents capable of
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Ripple, Circle, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos have each secured conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, marking a significant step toward operating as national trust banks. The decisions, announced Friday, signal growing regulatory openness to crypto-focused financial institutions in the United States.
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Aave is facing renewed scrutiny from within its own community after a delegate raised concerns about how revenue from a recent CoW Swap integration is being handled. The issue has sparked a broader conversation about transparency, incentives, and the balance of power between Aave’s decentralized governance and Aave Labs,
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Microsoft thinks it has found a practical way to fix one of the biggest headaches in everyday AI use: prompts that miss the mark, followed by a long cycle of rewriting, retrying, and hoping for a better answer. According to the company, this trial-and-error loop has become a drag on
What RedStone Is — and Why It Matters RedStone is a blockchain oracle designed to move real-world data—prices, rates, and other market signals—into smart contracts across dozens of blockchains. If you’ve ever used a lending app, a perpetual exchange, or a yield platform, you’ve already relied on
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Pyth Network has introduced a new token buyback initiative aimed at strengthening its revenue strategy and supporting the long-term value of its PYTH token. The program, known as the PYTH Reserve, will use a portion of the network’s monthly revenue to purchase PYTH on the open market. According to
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Microsoft has taken a closer look at how people use Copilot, and the results show that AI habits often mirror the rhythms of everyday life. After reviewing 37.5 million anonymized conversations, the Microsoft AI research team found that users turn to Copilot for practical tasks during the day and