Month: July 2025

EToro Plans to Tokenize U.S. Stocks on Ethereum in Blockchain Push

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Digital trading platform eToro (ETOR) shared plans on Tuesday to tokenized U.S-listed equities on the Ethereum blockchain, joining rivals to move towards blockchain-based marketplaces. The ERC-20 tokens will represent the underlying shares held on eToro and can be redeemed back into traditional stock holdings, according to the press release. The company said the aim is … Read more

Hourly Data Reveals Terra’s Downfall: Anchor Risks, Trigger Events, and UST Collapse

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Data and quantitative nature of the events 2.1. Hourly data analysis 2.2. Transaction data analysis 2.3. Anchor protocol 3. Methodology 3.1. Network analysis: Triangulated Maximally Filtered Graph (TMFG) 3.2. Herding analysis 4. Results 4.1. Correlations and network analysis 4.2. Herding analysis: CSAD approach 5. Robustness analysis 6. … Read more

PAYPAL EMBRACES CRYPTO, ALTCOIN TREASURIES BEGIN, STOCKS HIT ATH AGAIN

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Allocate up to 15% of portfolio to BTC & Gold: Dalio. Paypal launches multi-crypto payments. Metamask launches stablecoin yield, SOL staking. Interactive Brokers weighs stablecoin. Strategy upsizes capital raise to $2.8b. Marathon Digital raises $950m debt to buy BTC. BitMine plans $1bn stock buyback. ETH ‘$6k by Christmas’ odds surge. Tron files $1bn mixed shelf … Read more

Anatomy of a Crypto Catastrophe: The Science Behind Terra’s $40 Billion Implosion

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:::info Authors: (1) Antonio Briola, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6EA – London, United Kingdom and UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, London, United Kingdom; (2) David Vidal-Tomas (Corresponding author), Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6EA – London, United Kingdom, Department of Economics, Universitat Jaume I, … Read more

ATOM Plunges 5% Despite Recovery Attempts Amid Bearish Pressure

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Technical Analysis Shows Mixed Signals ATOM drops 4.51% over 24 hours ending July 29 11:00, sliding from $4.88 to $4.66 as recovery bids fail. Cosmos ecosystem crosses 100 live chains on MapOfZones while XRP integration progresses via Cosmos SDK and IBC protocols. ShadeX debuts as Cosmos’ first encrypted money market, delivering institutional-grade privacy through CosmosSDK … Read more

Hong Kong Releases Guidance on Rules for Stablecoin Issuers

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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released guidelines on Tuesday for stablecoin issuers wanting to comply with its upcoming licensing regime for the sector. The final guidance covered rules on money laundering, reserve assets management and issuance. It also included transitional measures for issuers of existing stablecoins. Stablecoins are digital assets that are pegged to … Read more

Polkadot’s DOT Slips 3% as Failed Recovery Attempts Signal Weakness

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Polkadot’s DOT dropped more than 3% in the last 24-hours, sliding from $4.09 to $3.96, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. Support has formed around $3.91-$3.93 levels with notable volume spikes during overnight trading sessions, according to the model. Volume analysis points to exhausted selling near current support zones. The Tie presented a webinar … Read more

Yelp is creating its own AI videos about restaurants

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Yelp is going to use AI to stitch together user-posted content about restaurants, food, and nightlife businesses to make short videos about those businesses. The company initially started testing the AI-stitched videos last year, but they’re now available nationwide on the iOS app’s TikTok-like vertically scrolling home feed. Business operators can’t currently see the videos … Read more

How Nippon India Mutual Fund improved the accuracy of AI assistant responses using advanced RAG methods on Amazon Bedrock

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This post is co-written with Abhinav Pandey from Nippon Life India Asset Management Ltd. Accurate information retrieval through generative AI-powered assistants is a popular use case for enterprises. To reduce hallucination and improve overall accuracy, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) remains the most commonly used method to retrieve reliable and accurate responses that use enterprise data … Read more

The Protocol of Agents: Web3’s MCP Potential

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Starting as an experimental side project at Anthropic, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the de facto standard for orchestrating agentic interactions across datasets, computational resources and external artifacts. It may represent one of the most transformative protocols for the AI era and a great fit for Web3 architectures. Much like HTTP revolutionized web … Read more