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Adam Forsyth

Vitalik Buterin contrasts Bitcoin’s power costs with AI’s 76% capital share

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has compared Bitcoin mining with AI inference, sharing cost estimates that put electricity at 45.9% of mining expenses and computing capital expenditure at approximately 76% of inference costs. Summary Electricity represents 45.9% of Bitcoin mining costs in the comparison Buterin shared. Computing capital expenditure accounts for approximately 76% of the AI…

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Pump.fun adds Hyperliquid perpetuals with fees up to 0.10% per order

Pump.fun has introduced a Hyperliquid-powered perpetual futures interface, with published fees of up to 0.10% per order and access restrictions covering the United States and Ontario. Summary Pump.fun has introduced perpetual futures trading through Hyperliquid’s infrastructure. Published fees reach 0.10% per order and 0.25% per bridge transfer. Hyperliquid handles orders, margin, funding payments, liquidations, and…

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Michael Saylor’s Strategy in Trouble? MSCI’s New Rules Put Index Status at Risk

A May 2026 test identified Strategy, Metaplanet, and Yellow Cake as potential candidates for removal from MSCI’s index. Michael Saylor-led Strategy could face removal from major global stock indexes after MSCI approved new rules for companies it considers non-operating. The index provider announced this week that it would exclude these companies from its Global…

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LayerZero unveils Aerie with 0.65-second quantum-safe signature benchmark

LayerZero Labs has introduced Aerie, a research system that its developers say can aggregate 32,768 quantum-resistant Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on an Apple laptop without GPU acceleration. Summary 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures were aggregated in 0.65 seconds using 16 worker threads. Aerie’s standard aggregate includes retained signature data, with a smaller shared-salt version requiring extra…

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