This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the week, with a comment on each story. Bitcoin traded flat this week while everything else…
Binance has extended its rewards push around Ripple USD with another four-week campaign offering one million XRP to eligible RLUSD holders. Summary Binance extended its RLUSD rewards campaign through September 11 with one million XRP available overall. Eligible users need at least 0.01 RLUSD and $500 in average daily derivatives trading volume. One million XRP…
OpenAI and Anthropic are emphasizing lower-cost AI options as open-weight models attract more enterprise workloads. Cost is becoming a bigger factor in AI model selection, particularly for high-volume and less demanding workloads. Several Chinese vendors now offer models that compete with leading US models on certain benchmarks while charging less per token. OpenAI said it…
[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, Florida, USA, August 16th, 2026] BiggerZ is strengthening its position as a fairness-first betting platform, bringing casino gaming, sports betting and prediction markets together under one account while making transparency, verifiability and clearly defined rules central to the player experience. As online betting platforms expand across crypto, casino gaming, sports and…
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Key Takeaways Grayscale projects ETH inflation could fall to 0.4% and SOL to 1.1% annually by 2031 under two pending proposals. Ethereum’s EIP-8361 and Solana’s SIMD-0550/0553 target validator rewards and fee burns starting in 2026. Grayscale’s Zach Pandl says Solana’s plan has broader community support and better odds than Ethereum’s counterpart. Two Networks, One Scarcity…
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, reported $508 million in adjusted revenue for the second quarter of 2026, up 17% year over year, while adjusted EBITDA dropped sharply to $23 million. Summary Payward reported $508 million in Q2 adjusted revenue, rising 17% from the prior year period. Adjusted EBITDA fell to $23 million from $80…
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in Nature, scientists have chronicled a “black hole star” that’s the size of our solar system and glows bright red in the depth of space. The findings are based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, which…
After the major inflows during the first week of August, all eyes turned to the second. However, reality settled in. The spot exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of the largest cryptocurrency by market cap turned red once again in the past five trading days, with just one day recording more net inflows than outflows….
Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata. Josh Woodward, the company’s VP for Gemini, said in a post on X that this toggle…
