Generating Emotions – The Future of Art, or Just Mimics of Expression?

TL;DR: This article explores how AI-generated art is evolving beyond aesthetics into the realm of emotional expression. Using DALL-E, a leading generative AI model, I investigate whether machines can visually portray human feelings like sadness – with surprisingly compelling results. By drawing on principles like colour theory, body language, and facial expression, DALL-E successfully mimics the emotional depth of a Picasso-style painting. This raises … Read more

Pear Protocol Announces Hyperliquid Integration And $4.1M Round Led by Castle Island Ventures

London, UK, July 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–Pear Protocol, the premier pair trading platform in crypto, has officially launched its native integration with Hyperliquid, unlocking seamless pair trading on top of the Hyperliquid perpetual orderbook. This launch coincides with the closing of a $4.1M strategic funding round led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Compound VC, Florin … Read more

The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

People across the United Kingdom have been faced with a censored and partially inaccessible online landscape since the country introduced its latest digital safety rules on Friday. The Online Safety Act mandates that web service operators must use “highly effective” age verification measures to stop kids from accessing a wide range of material, on penalty … Read more

SEC Delays Decision on Trump-Linked Truth Social Bitcoin ETF Until September

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pushed back its decision on whether to approve an exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposed by Truth Social, the social media platform affiliated with Donald Trump. The delay, announced Monday, gives the agency until September 18 to decide on whether to approve the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF. The fund … Read more

Mill City Ventures Announces $450,000,000 Private Placement To Initiate Sui Treasury Strategy

Wayzata, United States / Minnesota, July 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–Mill City Ventures III, Ltd. (“Mill City” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:MCVT), a non-bank lender and specialty finance company, today announced that it has entered into securities purchase agreements (the “Securities Purchase Agreements”) for a private investment in public equity for the purchase and sale of 83,025,830 shares of … Read more

MapleStory Universe Expands Infinite IP Playground Vision With Developer Tools & Legacy IP Expansion

Abu Dhabi, UAE, July 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–With the onboarding of APIs, builder momentum and new IP, NEXPACE continues to drive efforts in turning players into builders and IP into ecosystems.   MapleStory Universe (MSU), the blockchain-powered expansion of Nexon’s game IP, today announced a series of new developments that bring to life its Infinite IP Playground (IIPP) … Read more

SatoshiMeme ($SATOSHI) Emerges, Declaring ‘Return Of Satoshi Nakamoto’

Seoul, KOREA, July 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–The P2P Foundation and Commons Foundation have jointly announced the launch of SatoshiMeme ($SATOSHI). The project is designed to reflect on the original principles underlying Bitcoin’s creation and to explore new directions through community participation and knowledge sharing in the current blockchain environment. The memecoin sector continues to maintain visibility, with … Read more

Sony details its ‘FlexStrike’ wireless PS5 fight stick

Sony’s Project Defiant PlayStation fight stick is now called the FlexStrike. | Screenshot: YouTube Sony has shared more details about its arcade-style controller for the PlayStation that was first teased during the State of Play event in early June. Originally codenamed Project Defiant, the fight stick is now called the FlexStrike and features a rechargeable … Read more

Ethereum Turns 10 — Time to Leave the Trilemma Behind

Decentralized systems like the electric grid and the World Wide Web scaled by solving communication bottlenecks. Blockchains, a triumph of decentralized design, should follow the same pattern, but early technical constraints caused many to equate decentralization with inefficiency and sluggish performance. As Ethereum turns 10 this July, it’s evolved from a developer playground into the … Read more

Still Loving My ‘If It Went to Zero’ NFT

During the NFT boom of 2021, NFT-aficionados said “I’d love it even if it went to zero” as a tongue-in-cheek countercultural declaration that meaning and membership mattered more than profit. It became kind of like a punk rock ethos in Web3. Burning money (figuratively or literally) was a flex to signal individual belonging to an … Read more