Shiba Inu’s Futures Open Interest Tops 7M SHIB as Price Recovery Meets Whale Selling

Shiba Inu (SHIB) whales have stepped up their sales as the cryptocurrency’s price recovery looks to gather steam alongside an uptick in futures market activity. The path of least resistance still appears to be on the higher side. SHIB, the world’s second-largest meme token by market value, traded above the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement of the … Read more

Tariffs Don’t Budge Bitcoin, PNUT Pops on Musk Rant: Crypto Daybook Americas

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering around $108,600, pretty much unchanged over 24 hours. The broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index added 1.8%, shrugging off the uncertainty surrounding President Trump’s recent tariff threats against various countries. President Donald Trump sent letters to 14 nations, including key partners in Asia, … Read more

‘This Isn’t Decentralized,’ Says Polymarket Power User as Zelenskyy’s Suit Controversy Unfolds

Polymarket is locked in another controversy over the interpretation of UMA, a decentralized oracle that utilizes token holder voting to resolve prediction markets. UMA – a protocol which is a separate entity from Polymarket – is no stranger to controversy, having ruled before with interpretations that even Polymarket doesn’t agree with. This time, it’s about … Read more

How Concept Frequency Affects AI Image Accuracy

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Concepts in Pretraining Data and Quantifying Frequency 3 Comparing Pretraining Frequency & “Zero-Shot” Performance and 3.1 Experimental Setup 3.2 Result: Pretraining Frequency is Predictive of “Zero-Shot” Performance 4 Stress-Testing the Concept Frequency-Performance Scaling Trend and 4.1 Controlling for Similar Samples in Pretraining and Downstream Data 4.2 Testing … Read more

Ripple Taps BNY Mellon to Custody Stablecoin Reserves as RLUSD Surpasses $500M

Ripple, the payments-focused digital asset firm, on Wednesday, named banking giant BNY Mellon as the primary custodian of reserve assets backing its U.S. dollar stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD). BNY Mellon, one of the oldest and largest custody banks in the world overseeing $53 trillion of assets, will safeguard the stablecoin’s reserves and support the token’s … Read more

Trump’s Tariff Threat Fails to Move the Needle on Fed Interest Rate Expectations

U.S. President Donald Trump has intensified his tariff rhetoric this week, but financial markets aren’t convinced, likely expecting the President to back down and eventually reach a compromise with trading partners. Earlier this week, the Trump administration sent out letters to 14 countries, warning of higher tariffs on their export of goods to the U.S. … Read more

The 198 Prime Day 2025 deals you can still get

It’s the second day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sale, and if you’ve held out on making impulse buys so you can make informed purchases, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve collected the best deals we could find on everything from noise-canceling headphones and robot vacuums to the latest tablets and TVs, the bulk … Read more

HBO Max is officially HBO Max again

After announcing in May that it was giving up and returning to HBO Max branding for its streaming service, today Warner Bros. has officially made the change. The new / old branding can now be found across the streamer’s website and apps. It was reported yesterday that the switch might happen today, and the process … Read more

What Sequent Calculus Teaches Us About Computation

Table of Links Introduction Translating To Sequent Calculus 2.1 Arithmetic Expressions 2.2 Let Bindings 2.3 Top-level Definitions 2.4 Algebraic Data and Codata Types 2.5 First-Class Functions 2.6 Control Operators Evaluation Within a Context 3.1 Evaluation Contexts for Fun 3.2 Focusing on Evaluation in Core Typing Rules 4.1 Typing Rules for Fun 4.2 Typing Rules for … Read more

Across Metrics and Prompts, Frequent Concepts Outperform in Zero-Shot Learning

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2 Concepts in Pretraining Data and Quantifying Frequency 3 Comparing Pretraining Frequency & “Zero-Shot” Performance and 3.1 Experimental Setup 3.2 Result: Pretraining Frequency is Predictive of “Zero-Shot” Performance 4 Stress-Testing the Concept Frequency-Performance Scaling Trend and 4.1 Controlling for Similar Samples in Pretraining and Downstream Data 4.2 Testing … Read more

Crypto Trading Firm Galaxy Expands Institutional Staking With Fireblocks

Cryptocurrency trading firm Galaxy Digital (GLXY) is expanding its blockchain staking platform for large institutional customers with help from crypto custody specialists Fireblocks, the companies said Wednesday. With the integration, Galaxy’s staking services are now natively accessible to the more than 2,000 of the world’s largest financial institutions that use Fireblocks to stake digital assets … Read more