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The New York Stock Exchange is taking a significant step toward modernizing U.S. equity markets. On Monday, the NYSE announced plans to develop a platform for trading and settling tokenized securities on-chain, a move that could eventually allow round-the-clock trading of U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds, pending
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A nonprofit foundation backed by Italian billionaire Andrea Pignataro is joining forces with Milan’s leading university tech incubators to strengthen support for early-stage startups in Italy. The Tech Europe Foundation (TEF), led by Luca De Angelis, is merging with Politecnico di Milano’s tech incubator, Bocconi University’s venture
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In a discreet Mexico City clinic above a Japanese restaurant, a groundbreaking piece of technology is quietly making history. The AURA—a 17-foot-long, AI-powered robotic fertility lab—has become the first system in the world capable of automating nearly every step in creating a human embryo outside the body. Developed
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X has moved to rein in a growing wave of AI-generated reply spam by shutting the door on a controversial corner of crypto-powered social media. A recent update to the platform’s developer API now bans apps from rewarding users with tokens, points, or cash for posting or engaging, effectively
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Grayscale Investments has broadened its scope in the digital asset market, adding a new mix of artificial intelligence, decentralized finance, consumer, and infrastructure tokens to its internal asset consideration list. The update reflects the firm’s ongoing effort to track emerging trends and assess opportunities for future investment products. In
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AlphaTON Capital Corp. is deepening its push into decentralized artificial intelligence with a $46 million infrastructure deal that significantly expands its access to high-performance NVIDIA chips. The Nasdaq-listed firm, which manages a Toncoin-focused treasury, said the move supports its efforts to scale Cocoon AI, a privacy-focused compute network built for
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Bitcoin mining firm Canaan is experimenting with an unusual pairing of high-tech computing and agriculture. The hardware manufacturer has launched a proof-of-concept project that uses waste heat from Bitcoin mining equipment to help heat a commercial tomato greenhouse in Manitoba, Canada. Announced Tuesday, the initiative aims to show that energy-intensive
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YouTube is giving U.S. creators a new way to receive their earnings: PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin. The update, first reported by Fortune, adds a crypto-based payout option to the platform’s long-standing payment partnership with PayPal. YouTube launches option for U.S. creators to receive stablecoin payouts through PayPal
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Circle has begun testing a new privacy-enhanced version of USDC on Aleo, a Layer 1 network built around zero-knowledge cryptography. The pilot introduces USDCx, a wrapped stablecoin designed to offer stronger transactional privacy without sacrificing regulatory compliance. USDCx on Aleo Testnet via Circle xReserveAleo launches USDCx on Aleo Testnet via
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Horizen, one of the crypto sector’s long-running privacy projects, has officially relaunched as a Layer 3 network on Base. The move marks the latest step in a years-long shift away from its original proof-of-work roots and toward a more modern, developer-focused ecosystem. The ZEN mainnet went live on Base
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Revolut is deepening its push into digital assets, choosing Polygon as its preferred blockchain for stablecoin transfers, payments, and trading. The European fintech firm, which serves more than 65 million users across 38 countries, announced the move as part of a broader plan to bring faster and cheaper cross-border transactions
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Filecoin Foundation and FilOz have introduced Filecoin Onchain Cloud, a decentralized cloud platform built to help developers create more resilient and customizable onchain applications. The launch, announced during Devconnect in Argentina, arrived at a timely moment, as a major Cloudflare outage disrupted key crypto sites and highlighted how much the