The Bank of Russia is building a surveillance apparatus for digital assets at the same time the Russian state relies on those assets to circumvent Western financial restrictions. The contradiction reveals how governments actually think about crypto. Summary The Bank of Russia added 2,600 crypto wallets to a monitoring system used by banks and law…
AI benchmarks are supposed to reveal what models can do, but Google DeepMind is now putting the tests behind a cryptographic wall to make sure the models have not seen the answers first. Google DeepMind said Thursday that it has piloted what it describes as the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model,…
Key Takeaways Goldman Sachs predicts gold will hit $4,900 per troy ounce by year-end due to high central bank demand. Central banks are buying 50 tonnes monthly, up 300% from pre-2022 levels to hedge geopolitical risk. Paused Fed rate hikes and fiscal debasement fears are spurring both institutional and private buying. Goldman Sachs: Gold to…
Social chatter around ZEC hit six times its August baseline before the price peak, then vanished as the ETF launched. Zcash has been one of the best-performing assets this year. It has managed to attract significant institutional capital. This week, asset manager Grayscale Investments launched the first exchange-traded fund that tracks the spot price…
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Two U.S. fund filings dated Aug. 27 and Aug. 28 have listed three XRP-linked ETFs, adding fresh evidence of the token’s growing presence across regulated investment products. Summary ProShares’ filing lists its unlevered XRP ETF and the 2x leveraged Ultra XRP ETF. Morningstar Funds Trust’s amendment includes a live fund combining S&P 500 stocks with…
Two mirrors, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, are set to change how we understand the cosmos. The launch window for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to open. The telescope’s primary instrument is due to inform practically every area of astrophysics, but also tucked inside the telescope…
Key Takeaways ZEC has risen roughly 19-fold but remains below 1% of bitcoin’s market cap. Grayscale says privacy could help Zcash capture additional market share. Grayscale’s scenarios imply ZEC at $8,109 if it reaches 10% of bitcoin’s market cap. Grayscale Sees More Room After Zcash’s 19x Rally Zcash may have further upside despite rising approximately…
Charles Schwab announced it is expanding its recently released crypto trading business by adding three major altcoins. Just a few months after it launched its first notable cryptocurrency-focused platform, the Wall Street behemoth has expanded its offering beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. The giant recently announced that its Schwab Crypto trading service will add Solana…
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was…
