Month: August 2025

The Protocol: OKX Slashes Native Token Supply In Half

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Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: OKX Slashes OKB Token Supply by 50% With $7.6B Burn, Price Surges ETH Transaction Volume Climbs on Price Rally, Cheaper DeFi Costs Weaponized Trading Bots Drain $1M From … Read more

How Amazon scaled Rufus by building multi-node inference using AWS Trainium chips and vLLM

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At Amazon, our team builds Rufus, a generative AI-powered shopping assistant that serves millions of customers at immense scale. However, deploying Rufus at scale introduces significant challenges that must be carefully navigated. Rufus is powered by a custom-built large language model (LLM). As the model’s complexity increased, we prioritized developing scalable multi-node inference capabilities that … Read more

NEAR Rallies on Institutional Inflows, Surges Past Resistance Before Volatile Pullback

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NEAR Protocol experienced strong upward momentum between 12 August 16:00 and 13 August 15:00, climbing from $2.75 to $2.91 for a 5.82% gain on trading volumes exceeding $7.6 million. Institutional inflows played a key role, with the cryptocurrency breaking multiple resistance levels and establishing firm support at $2.76. Volume spikes during breakout phases surpassed twice … Read more

Build an intelligent financial analysis agent with LangGraph and Strands Agents

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Agentic AI is revolutionizing the financial services industry through its ability to make autonomous decisions and adapt in real time, moving well beyond traditional automation. Imagine an AI assistant that can analyze quarterly earnings reports, compare them against industry expectations, and generate insights about future performance. This seemingly straightforward task involves multiple complex steps: document … Read more

Tokenized Equities Need an ADR Structure to Protect Investors

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Tokenization has significant potential to transform capital markets, promising real-time settlement, broader investor access and greater programmability across financial infrastructure. But while the rails are evolving, current models for tokenized equities remain fragmented, opaque and misaligned with the safeguards that define the traditional securities markets. Today, two dominant approaches exist: The wrapper model involves tokenized … Read more

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory: Building context-aware agents

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AI assistants that forget what you told them 5 minutes ago aren’t very helpful. While large language models (LLMs) excel at generating human-like responses, they are fundamentally stateless—they don’t retain information between interactions. This forces developers to build custom memory systems to track conversation history, remember user preferences, and maintain context across sessions, often solving … Read more

Build a conversational natural language interface for Amazon Athena queries using Amazon Nova

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Data analysis often presents significant challenges for business users who aren’t proficient in SQL. Traditional methods require technical expertise to query databases, leading to delayed insights and dependence on data teams. Many organizations struggle with making their data accessible to business users while maintaining the analytical capabilities of Amazon Athena. Modern AI agents are transforming … Read more

401k(rypto)

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On August 7, the White House released an executive order directing the Labor Department, which regulates retirement investing, to accelerate access to alternative investments in employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, such as 401k’s. Alternative investments were defined to include private market investments, real estate, commodities, infrastructure projects, lifetime income strategies — and notably, “holdings … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: Who Should Handle Your Digital ID? (8/13/2025)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) was founded in 1993, NVIDIA announced ray tracing in 2018, East Germany sealed the border in 1961, and we present … Read more

A Look At The Data: Blogs, Forums, And The Rise Of LLM Tools

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more

How Blob Gas Priority Fees Influence Ethereum’s Transaction Costs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background 2.1 Rollup 2.2 EIP-4844 2.3 VAR(Vector Autoregression) Data 3.1 Consensus security data 3.2 Ethereum usage data 3.3 Rollup Transactions Data 3.4 Blob gas fee data Empirical Results 4.1 Consensus security 4.2 Ethereum usage 4.3 Rollup transactions 4.4 Blob gas fee market Conclusion and References A. Consensus Security … Read more

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

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Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will allow the AI chatbot to “remember” your past conversations without prompting. With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your “key details and preferences” and use them to personalize its output. This expands upon an update that Google introduced last year, which lets you … Read more

The Great Transformation: How LLMs Remake Every Programming Activity

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Prior conceptualisations of intelligent assistance for programmers 3. A brief overview of large language models for code generation 4. Commercial programming tools that use large language models 5. Reliability, safety, and security implications of code-generating AI models 6. Usability and design studies of AI-assisted programming 7. Experience … Read more

BTCC Exchange Announces First Sports Sponsorship With NBA’s Jaren Jackson Jr.

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Vilnius, Lithuania, August 13th, 2025/Chainwire/–BTCC, one of the world’s longest-serving crypto exchanges, welcomed 2023 Defensive Player of the Year and 2x NBA All-Star Jaren Jackson Jr. as its global brand ambassador. As a phenomenal shot blocker and leader on the court for the Memphis Grizzlies, Jaren Jackson Jr. is set to partner with BTCC and … Read more

Institutional Frenzy Pushes Ethereum DEX Volumes Above Solana

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Decentralized exchange (DEX) volumes on Ethereum have leapfrogged Solana for the first time since April after a swift shift in sentiment away from Solana-based memecoins and towards ether ETH amid a wave of institutional activity. Over the past 48 hours Ethereum-based DEXs have facilitated $24.5 billion in trading volume compared to Solana’s tally of $10 … Read more