Key Takeaways Travala launched a protocol on June 5, enabling AI agents to autonomously book over 2.2 million hotels. Morgan Stanley predicts agentic retail spending will hit 20% by 2030 as autonomous trades scale. Travala plans to expand its Base blockchain-powered automated protocol to support flight bookings next. Incentives and the Rise of Agentic Commerce…
And the answer from the new and improved version gave us some hope. Bear market comments and speculations have returned to the cryptocurrency space as bitcoin erased over $400 billion from its market cap in weeks, going down from over $82,000 to a Friday bottom of $59,000 on Friday – its lowest position in…
Then there’s the missing removable storage. Yes, I’d prefer a card; it’s just easier to swap out a card in the field. But the BF does have 256 gigabytes of built-in storage. I can’t think of the last time I shot enough images to fill that much space before getting back to my laptop to…
Zcash is facing fresh pressure after a critical Orchard pool bug raised questions about private balances, supply checks, and user safety. Summary David Schwartz says unmoved Zcash coins would stay accessible if no exploit occurred before migration. Shielded Labs plans Ironwood to isolate Orchard and verify funds leaving the old pool. ZEC fell sharply after…
For years, our social media experiences have been dominated by Big Tech players like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google (YouTube), Snapchat, TikTok, and X. But a growing number of startups are taking aim at these giants by building new, often smaller and more personal social networking experiences to connect people with friends, interests, and tighter-knit…
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 capitulated below its 200-week moving average with…
The ETFs were somehow in the green during one of the worst weeks in terms of price moves in recent crypto history. It was a painful week, no matter how you look at it or which cryptocurrency asset you support. Ripple’s XRP, arguably one of the alts with the biggest and loudest community, was…
Fake jobs, real intelligence gathering. Intelligence agencies across the Five Eyes alliance, including the FBI, MI5, and counterparts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, have issued a coordinated warning about what they describe as an “aggressive” online recruitment campaign linked to Chinese intelligence services. According to the advisory, operatives are using professional networking platforms such…
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, says XRP Ledger utility is moving beyond its early role in payments as enterprises test wider blockchain-based finance. Summary David Schwartz says XRP Ledger use is expanding from payments into tokenized real-world financial assets. RLUSD’s multichain rollout gives XRPL developers more liquidity for tokenization, payments, and DeFi products. XRPL activity…
Bitcoin fell below the $60,000 mark on Friday, June 5, 2026, recording its lowest level since the beginning of 2026 as a selloff wave spread across the crypto market. Downward pressure came from a record streak of outflows from US spot Bitcoin ETFs, a repricing of Fed interest rate expectations following a stronger-than-expected jobs report,…
