Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you like buying fresh fruits and vegetables. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting…
XRP prices surged to $3.04 the previous day, but subsequently retreated to $2.94, encountering short-term resistance. The recent surge was primarily driven by rising expectations for an ETF and active institutional investors in the derivatives market. XRP futures contracts listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have reached 386 million XRP, a 74% increase from…
Ripple has voted to support two XRP Ledger amendments designed to introduce single-asset vaults and fixed-term institutional lending directly at the network’s protocol level. Summary Ripple’s validator voted “yes” on XLS-65 and XLS-66, supporting native vaults and lending. XLS-65 has reached 40% validator support, while XLS-66 has secured more than 37%. Both amendments require over…
Robinhood has launched cryptocurrency trading in the UK, allowing eligible customers to buy, sell and hold more than 50 digital assets directly through its investing app. The launch expands Robinhood’s UK product lineup beyond stocks, options and futures and marks another step in the company’s push to become a global, multi-asset financial platform. Crypto services…
I was recently digging through my Instagram settings, trying to disable Meta’s now-defunct feature that allowed anyone to create AI deepfakes of me without consent. Anger bubbled up inside as I tapped through the Kafkaesque opt-out process. Rather than throwing my phone across the room, I blurted to my partner that we should leave San…
Key Takeaways CEO Phong Le said the company’s USD reserve and duration reached all-time highs after growing more than 5X in 2.5 months. The reserve climbed to $4.65 billion from $871 million in late May, extending liquidity available for preferred dividends and debt interest. The company sold 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million and used the…
Despite the positive signal, SHIB’s wider outlook still leans bearish. Shibarium – Shiba Inu’s layer-2 scaling solution – has finally shown signs of revival, perhaps sparking hopes among the SHIB Army that the price could respond to the momentum. Nonetheless, many other factors suggest that the self-proclaimed Dogecoin killer is not out of the…
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion worth of shares from employees at the privately held frontier AI lab as part of an effort to provide liquidity to its workforce. The deal, reported by Bloomberg, valued OpenAI at $852 billion, the same as its most recent fundraising round in March, which added $122 billion to the…
A federal judge has paused the CFTC’s civil case against a US Army soldier accused of using classified information to earn more than $400,000 from Polymarket contracts tied to Nicolás Maduro’s removal. Summary Judge Andrew Carter stayed the CFTC’s civil enforcement case until the related criminal proceeding concludes. Prosecutors allege Gannon Van Dyke earned about…
Jupiter has launched Lend v2 on Solana, allowing both supplied and borrowed assets to earn DEX trading fees while being used in lending positions. Jupiter launched Lend v2 on Solana on August 10, introducing two opt-in features that let supplied and borrowed assets work as decentralized exchange liquidity while they sit in a lending…
