Key Takeaways Driven by a $4B Treasury buyback news, ETH surged past $2,000 on Aug. 19 to an intraday peak of $2,112. The market rally pushed altcoins past $1T cap, with ZEC jumping 9% to $557 alongside gains in XRP and SOL. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe eyes targets up to $2,900, noting higher highs…
Bitcoin’s long-term appeal remains intact, according to BlackRock, despite forced liquidations, weaker ETP flows and competition from AI-themed investments. BlackRock said Bitcoin’s more than 50% decline from its all-time highs in October 2025 to its mid-2026 lows has not changed its long-term investment case. In its latest report, the asset manager attributed the sell-off…
AI accounting startup Rillet announced a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation on Tuesday, led by Iconiq. Returning investors included Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. Rillet, which emerged from stealth in 2024, is quickly becoming one of the hottest AI startups in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry. The company’s software deploys AI…
Geo founder Yaniv Tal has identified four weaknesses in online information that he says make AI answers unreliable: lost provenance, flattened authority, hidden disagreement, and repeated model-generated errors. Summary Geo separates claims, sources, and supporting evidence inside community-governed knowledge Spaces. Tal says human judgment can help rank credible reasoning without removing competing views. A Nature…
Growing up, most millennials got a little experience using Microsoft Office. Older generations got the same training from their employers. While we’ve all come to recognize Microsoft Office as essential in the modern workplace, you don’t really think about how expensive it is until it comes time to get it for your personal computer. Whether…
Key Takeaways Kalshi filed Aug. 18 for US500 and COPPERPERP perpetual futures. Kalshi’s contracts could broaden U.S. access to continuous leveraged market exposure. The CFTC must approve, modify or reject Kalshi’s two filings before trading begins. The two Aug. 18 filings seek permission to list the US500 and COPPERPERP contracts. KalshiEX LLC is a CFTC-registered…
The SEC proposed a new framework that would let qualifying crypto projects raise up to $75 million in a single 12-month period without completing a full securities registration. Called Regulation Crypto Assets, the proposal marks the agency’s first attempt at building a purpose-built fundraising lane for token issuers. Here is the tension worth tracking: this…
Wattpad readers, cancel the emergency evacuation. Your mafia bosses, K-pop idols, vampires, and emotionally unavailable fictional boyfriends are safe for now. Despite the panic spreading across TikTok, X, and Reddit, Wattpad says it has not banned smut. The storytelling platform updated the language in its Content Guidelines on Aug. 10, prompting users to fear that…
The project would reward miners for supplying useful computing work to AI agents rather than conventional mining activity. Arthur Hayes has said that he is coming out of retirement to lead Flop Labs, a new project centered on a token called $FLOP that aims to work as a kind of currency for AI agents….
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his override. His code to remove watermarks from Claude-generated text has since gone viral on GitHub, has been bookmarked more than 20,000 times on X, and has drawn more than 100…
