XRP Price Dips to ‘Battlefield’ Zone, but Analysts See Major Reversal Opportunity
XRP has dropped below $1.05 for the second time in the past several days. Perhaps due to the quickly re-escalating tension in the Middle East, the cryptocurrency market has posted fresh losses over the past few hours, with BTC dropping to $62,000 after failing to reclaim the $63,000 support during the day. XRP was…
YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. The controversy started when, in the middle of a video posted on the educational channel Complexly, Green incongruously used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback,” leading viewers to speculate that he’d written…
What is a mainnet? Production blockchain explained
A mainnet is the production version of a blockchain network where transactions carry real economic value and are permanently recorded. When a cryptocurrency project launches its mainnet, it moves from concept to reality, and every line of code becomes a financial commitment. Summary A mainnet is a fully operational blockchain network where tokens have real…
Meta’s Personal AI Agents Face EU Data and Profiling Rules
Meta AI can now connect to calendars and email, build plans, and complete multistep tasks — an early move toward the personal agents CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed during the company’s July 29 earnings call. Meta’s network of social and messaging services could make those agents more useful by supplying personal context. In Europe, the same…
Japan, US Plot Yen Rescue as Speculators Face Reckoning
Key Takeaways Japan and the U.S. may unveil a joint yen policy next week, Kyodo News and CNBC reports. Japan sold up to $58.97 billion on July 30 in its largest one day yen move since 2022. Bessent’s notepad showed plans to buy $5-10 billion in yen, Reuters photographed. Japan Strikes First, Buying Nearly $59…
Analyst Blasts Strategy After CEO Signals New Priority Beyond Bitcoin
Strategy’s CEO warned on Friday that the company might sell up to $5 billion in BTC. It was precisely six years ago when a rather unknown company in the cryptocurrency industry at the time made a revolutionary change to its asset reserve strategy and adopted Bitcoin. The entity in question, called MicroStrategy back then,…
Sam Altman suggests parents generate AI podcasts about their kids
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is trending on X for suggesting that parents use ChatGPT to generate podcasts about their children’s lives in lieu of… listening to them. “cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night,” he shared on X in all lowercase. “connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests.”…
ARK Invest buys $6.8M in Circle shares after NY win
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought 109,129 Circle shares after the stablecoin issuer secured a limited-purpose trust charter in New York. Summary ARK acquired about $6.83 million in Circle shares across three exchange-traded funds. Circle received a limited-purpose trust charter from the New York Department of Financial Services. CRCL closed 2.54% lower at $62.61 on July…
Best Organic Mattresses (2026): Certified Nontoxic, Natural Sleep
The cotton and wool layers are GOTS-certified organic, while the Dunlop latex carries the GOLS certification. The finished product does not have any certifications beyond Greenguard Gold, but the material is undyed, which is great for anyone bothered by industrial dyes. As with most of these organic options, the Coyuchi is made without chemicals, foam,…
Blackrock, Fidelity Lead $265M Bitcoin ETF Outflows as Ether Gains
Key Takeaways U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $265.4 million in net outflows on July 31, led by Blackrock’s IBIT. Spot ether ETFs bucked the trend with about $9 million in inflows on the same day. The reversal came a day after bitcoin ETFs pulled in $233.1 million on July 30. A Sharp One-Day…
