Polymarket Doubles Down on Growth With DC Bar Launch and Brahma DeFi Deal

Polymarket is doubling down on its real-time prediction identity with a Washington, D.C., bar launch and a fresh DeFi acquisition, even as scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers intensifies. Polymarket’s D.C. Bar Debut and Brahma Deal Signal Aggressive Growth Polymarket has unveiled “The Situation Room,” a Washington, D.C.-based bar designed around live monitoring of global events, while…

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Tempo debuts mainnet and machine payments layer for autonomous agents

Tempo has launched its mainnet, positioning itself as infrastructure for real-world payments at internet scale, as stablecoins move deeper into global commerce. The network, developed by payments giant Stripe and crypto investment firm Paradigm, is designed to deliver instant settlement, predictable low fees, high throughput, and continuous availability, addressing limitations in existing blockchains that struggle…

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Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they’re only rarely seen in the wild. Now a recent spate of espionage and cybercriminal campaigns has instead deployed those same phone-takeover tools, embedded in…

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Tempo Launches Mainnet With Machine Payments Protocol, Targeting AI-Driven Commerce

Tempo, a Stripe- and Paradigm-backed layer-1 blockchain, has launched its mainnet alongside a new Machine Payments Protocol designed to let AI agents transact autonomously across the internet. Machine Payments Protocol Goes Live as Tempo Targets AI Economy The debut positions Tempo as infrastructure built specifically for payments, not general-purpose blockchain activity, with a focus on…

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