Markets
Global cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw a sharp reversal last week, with investors pulling out roughly $1.17 billion from digital asset funds, according to the latest report from CoinShares. The downturn highlights persistent volatility in the crypto market following last month’s liquidity shock and renewed uncertainty over U.
Politics
Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is considering tighter regulations for companies that hold or manage digital assets, aiming to close security gaps in the country’s cryptocurrency sector. According to a recent Nikkei report, a working group under the Financial System Council — an advisory body to the Prime Minister
AI
As the race to deploy generative and agentic AI accelerates, a growing question is echoing through boardrooms and tech circles alike: Are we in an AI bubble—and if so, is it about to burst? For many organizations, this new era of artificial intelligence remains largely experimental. Companies are investing
Markets
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged over the weekend as optimism returned to global markets following reports that the U.S. Senate has advanced a bill to end the prolonged government shutdown. As of late Sunday night, Bitcoin jumped 4.4% to $106,119, while Ethereum rose 7.8% to $3,632,
Markets
Anticipation is rising across the crypto market after the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) listed five spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on its official website — a move that could signal their upcoming launch. According to DTCC’s “active and pre-launch” category, the listed funds include offerings from Bitwise (XRP)
Markets
A new study from Columbia University has found that a significant portion of trading activity on Polymarket—one of the largest blockchain-based prediction platforms—may be artificially boosted by wash trading. What’s remarkable is that you can literally _see_ the wash trading in the graph representation of each market’
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Quantum Leap Energy LLC, a uranium enrichment subsidiary of ASP Isotopes Inc., has attracted major investors—including Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.—in a fresh funding round that underscores renewed interest in nuclear technology. The private sale of convertible notes has so far raised about $64.3 million, with
The Ethereum blockchain is public, transparent, and completely open for anyone to inspect. But since all that data is written in complex code, how are you actually supposed to read it? The answer is Etherscan. Etherscan is the leading block explorer for the Ethereum network. Think of it as the
If you’re serious about holding cryptocurrency long-term, you need to think of your private keys—the secret codes that control your funds—as gold bars. You wouldn't keep gold bars under your pillow, so why would you leave your keys constantly connected to the internet? Cold storage
A New Way to Power Artificial Intelligence Training artificial intelligence (AI) models takes vast amounts of accurate, diverse data — and producing that data is one of the industry’s biggest bottlenecks. Sapien (SAPIEN), a decentralized data labeling and verification protocol, aims to solve that problem by crowdsourcing high-quality data from
AI
Microsoft is taking its artificial intelligence ambitions to a new level with the creation of a dedicated research group focused on developing what it calls a “humanist superintelligence.” The initiative, announced by Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI chief and co-founder of DeepMind, marks one of the company’s most significant
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Nasdaq-listed Strategy Inc. (MSTR) has successfully closed its latest capital raise, pricing its 10% Series A Perpetual Stream Preferred Stock (STRE) at €80 per share and securing approximately €620 million ($715 million) in gross proceeds — more than double the company’s original target. Each STRE share carries a €100 stated