Hong Kong Regulator Tightens Custody Standards for Licensed Crypto Exchanges

Hong Kong’s securities watchdog rolled out new custody requirements for licensed crypto exchanges, reinforcing its pledge to protect client assets as the city advances its bid to become Asia’s digital asset hub. In a circular issued Friday, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) set minimum standards for licensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATPs) covering senior … Read more

Six Costly Pitfalls in Log Collection: From Local Management Missteps to Looming System Failures

Background When monitoring the running status of the system and troubleshooting complex issues, logs have long served as an indispensable observability method. Scientific local log management strategies not only retain more complete historical records locally and minimize performance overhead but also facilitate log collection and subsequent analysis. However, in actual O&M, we often encounter counterexamples. … Read more

Altseason: Has It Already Arrived or Is It Gone?

Lately, the crypto chatterbox has been buzzing with two conflicting refrains: “Alt season is coming!” and, at other times, “Alt season is over.” As both a curious observer and someone who wants clear insight, I wondered, “Which one is actually true?” So I rolled up my sleeves, looked at the data, and here’s what I … Read more

Breaking Into Quant Trading: A Practical, No-Fluff Guide

Quant trading is tightly coupled with the tech industry. The talent pool is overwhelmingly STEM; the work blends data science, statistics, software engineering and systems thinking; and the field is an early, enthusiastic adopter of recent advances in machine learning and AI. If you’re comfortable in Python/C++ codebases, think in hypotheses and metrics, and enjoy … Read more

Forget Perimeters: Here’s How Context Is Redefining Cloud Security

The Lock on a Nonexistent Door Picture you locking your apartment door… while the walls, ceiling, and perhaps even the floor don’t exist. That’s cloud perimeter security. You do have a menacing-looking deadbolt, but someone can just walk around it. For years, we’ve been trained to believe in the safety of boundaries — network perimeters, … Read more

How to Deploy Vertex AI Workbench with Terraform — Without UI Pain

A detailed guide for MLOps and Data teams that want to stop burning time and money on click-ops. 1. Introduction Vertex AI Workbench is a managed Jupyter environment in Google Cloud. It ships with native integration with BigQuery and Cloud Storage, supports GPU/TPU, and leverages GCP’s unified IAM model and networking policies. Creating Jupyter instances … Read more

Graphs, Digital Twins, and the Supply Chain Apocalypse Nobody Is Talking About

The Apocalypse No One Invited Imagine this: Wednesday morning of Q3. Somewhere else in North America, a multinational beverage company’s logistics dashboard shows that everything is groovy. Their inventory is in balance, their assembly lines are running at full speed, and their digital twin is happily predicting zero disruptions for the next six months. Three … Read more

Session vs JWT Authentication — How They Work, Key Differences, and Real-World Examples

Authentication is at the core of almost every modern web application. Two popular approaches are Session-based authentication and JWT-based authentication. While both achieve the goal of verifying a user’s identity, they work in different ways, each with its own strengths and trade-offs. Session-Based Authentication Session-based authentication stores the user’s authentication data (usually a session ID) … Read more

AI’s New Way of Predicting Market Turns

In the summer of 2024, all  bankers know this moment when a LatAm central bank’s surprise rate hike sent ripples through local bond markets. Within hours, the currency lurched in the opposite direction, catching even seasoned traders off guard. Those who executed early captured spreads before liquidity dried up. Others were left holding positions they … Read more

Node.js Made Easy: Rate Limiting and Throttling for Smooth Traffic Flow

One of the most overlooked aspects when building a robust, scalable Node.js application is the request flow control. If not managed properly, it can overload the server and result in degraded service quality to users and even open doors to potential vulnerabilities that can be extremely dangerous and have serious consequences. This is where rate … Read more

Poisoned at 0.1%

They called it the Clean Ledger … a new AI‑driven system that would track every shipment, from farm to store shelf, and make food recalls a thing of the past. It was fast, incorruptible, transparent… or so they said. Nisha worked nights in the audit room, a glass box suspended over the warehouse floor. Forklifts … Read more

How to Create a Foreign Data Wrapper in PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL on AWS RDS

How to Create a Foreign Data Wrapper in PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL on AWS RDS Creating a foreign data wrapper (FDW) in PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL hosted on AWS RDS can profoundly enhance your database’s functionality. As someone deeply engrossed in database management, I find the ability to access and incorporate data from external sources … Read more

Bonuz CEO Matthias Mende On Redefining Web3 Engagement

Picture Web3 as a vast, uncharted frontier, where clunky interfaces, scattered digital identities, and lackluster loyalty programs block the path to widespread adoption, leaving brands stranded between Web2 and blockchain’s potential. Could smart wallets and dynamic NFTs light the way forward? Olayimika Oyebanji sits down with Matthias Mende, CEO of Bonuz, to uncover insights into … Read more

Altcoin Season Could Begin in September as Bitcoin’s Grip on Crypto Market Weakens: Coinbase Institutional

Altcoin season may be weeks away, according to Coinbase Institutional’s latest monthly outlook, which forecasts a shift in market leadership from bitcoin to alternative cryptocurrencies beginning in September. Altcoin season refers to a market phase when cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin — often led by Ethereum’s ETH, Solana’s SOL, and other large-cap tokens — post significantly … Read more