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Who Really Determines the Price of the Future? Prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi display probabilities through contract prices, reflecting participants' aggregated willingness to pay. How prediction market…

Peter Brandt likens Monero to silver rally Trader Peter Brandt compared Monero’s monthly price chart to the structure silver showed before its rally to $125 . Santiment data indicate rising open interest and a price upti…

User Reports Nearly $70,000 Crypto Theft from iPhone Ukrainian user Artur Romanchuk reported that 68 327 USDT was withdrawn from his Trust Wallet, allegedly after an iPhone compromise. Incident details Romanchuk stated t…

Bitcoin Moves While Altcoins Lag and Fall Analysts at Wintermute say altcoins lost an average of 5.69% last week amid a rotation of capital into BTC and ETH . Market dynamics Wintermute attributes the recent weakness in …

Mastercard enables AI agents to make autonomous payments Mastercard demonstrated a system allowing AI agents to pay for digital services within a preapproved budget without human confirmation for each transaction. Test s…

AI agent discovers hidden Monero miner on Mac A developer asked Claude Code to check a Mac that overheated and experienced noticeable slowdowns during ordinary use. During the diagnostics the AI agent detected a conceale…

Hark Pro review: private AI assistant from Figure AI founder Brett Adcock announced Hark Pro , a personal AI assistant designed to retain user context and execute tasks via a cloud browser interface. Capabilities and use…

Open-source models closing gap with closed leaders faster A recent chart shows the time required for open-source models to reach parity with leading closed models has been shortening across releases. Acceleration in conv…

Eight Ukrainians and a Belarusian detained in $87 million crypto laundering probe Polish law enforcement detained eight Ukrainian citizens and one Belarusian on suspicion of laundering proceeds from an investment fraud s…

Visa and Mesh to Enable Crypto Payments via Phone Visa and Mesh announced a partnership to let users pay with cryptocurrency directly from mobile wallets at standard merchant terminals. How the service will operate Under…

BNB Chain burns 1.65 million BNB worth $1.2 billion BNB Foundation announced completion of the 37th quarterly burn, removing 1 646 196.44 BNB from circulation. Burn specifics The one-time action destroyed 1 646 196.44 BN…

Altcoins Lose $134 Billion in Market Cap Over 15 Days Altcoin capitalization declined sharply, shedding $134 billion in the preceding 15 days , according to market estimates. Nearly half of tokens on a major exchange now…

OpenCode adds GLM 5.3 Flash and Beam models for free access OpenCode introduced free access to GLM 5.3 Flash, offering a 200 k context window for researchers and developers worldwide. They also released Beam from Reflect…

Dendi’s 2017 Defeat and OpenAI’s Early Publicity Impact In 2017 , an OpenAI bot beat Danil "Dendi" Ishutin with a 2:0 score on The International main stage, drawing public attention to the lab. Match and immediate contex…

Hacker Drains 1,404 Crypto Wallets in Under Two Hours An attacker emptied 1,404 crypto wallets in under two hours, withdrawing about $1.3 million in tokens from affected accounts. Incident details The theft occurred afte…

Clarification requested after terse public message circulated online A short, context-free message was provided to the outlet containing a single brief question and no supporting details. Original content and format The …

Ledger compromise, $1 billion liquidations and AI token misuse Security incidents and rapid market moves affected custody users, leveraged positions and experimental wallets across multiple protocols this week. Ledger de…

Polymarket Digest: Community Updates and Public Launch Egor returned from vacation and compiled key developments on Polymarket that unfolded during his absence. Digest highlights Among the topics covered are a community-…

Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz Joins NEAR Foundation Board Mert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius , has joined the board of the NEAR Foundation to advise on ecosystem strategy. Role and responsibilities As chief executive of …

Telegram Prepares Its Own Recommendations Feed Telegram is testing a dedicated «News» tab in the macOS beta that aggregates posts from multiple channels into a single view. Feed structure The new tab separates content in…
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