The latest weekly recap includes a flurry of major developments, from Vitalik Buterin’s critique of Worldcoin’s digital identity ambitions to the final curtain in the Ripple-SEC legal drama. Robinhood made waves by introducing micro crypto futures, while state governments and treasury firms continued doubling down on Bitcoin. With regulatory shifts, tech upgrades, and institutional plays…
This past winter, Plantaform’s new smart indoor garden arrived at my Brooklyn home. I was excited at the prospect of growing heads of leafy green lettuce, channeling my inner Mark Watney, the left-on-Mars botanist in The Martian. Like many apartment dwellers, I don’t have access to a backyard garden, and even if I did, it…
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Key Takeaways Elon Musk’s xAI team will launch Grok 4 shortly after July 4 with enhanced coding features. Grok 4 aims to improve AI model training by revising human knowledge data and boosting reasoning accuracy. Share this article Elon Musk announced today that xAI will release Grok 4 shortly after July 4, following an intensive…
With Meta successfully poaching a number of its senior researchers, an OpenAI executive reportedly reassured team members Saturday that company leadership has not “been standing idly by.” “I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something,” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote in a Slack memo…
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System has officially launched a currency marketplace aimed at reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar for intra-African trade. No Hard Currency Involved The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) has launched the African Currency Marketplace, a major step toward reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar for intra-African trade settlements. This…
Aptos is a very interesting crypto coin to chart. Its price history is nothing like many other coins because it has been range-bound for 2.5 years and seemingly hasn’t had a proper run yet. However, it has a relatively high market cap of $3.2 billion and an FDV of $5.8 billion—big numbers! $APT is ready…
As we wait for more Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive games, it’s worth taking some time to test out how a handful of older Switch 1 games run on the new console. Now that the Switch 2 has had a couple of weeks of time with consumers under its belt, plenty of people have had time to…
Charlie Hu, Co-founder of Bitlayer, recently sat down at Bitcoin 2025 to discuss his vision for the future of Bitcoin and decentralized finance. Bitlayer, a leading Bitcoin Layer 2 solution, aims to unlock the potential of Bitcoin within DeFi through innovative scaling solutions and bridges. Discovering Bitcoin and Early Interests Hu’s journey into Bitcoin began…
Bitcoin may be struggling to rally past its all-time high of $112,000, but miners are going through a tougher time. They have recently recorded some of their worst paydays in history. On-chain data, including the Miner Profit/Loss Sustainability metric, analyzed by the market intelligence platform CryptoQuant, revealed that miner revenues have declined significantly. However, this…
