Wall Street Firms Complete First 24/7 U.S. Treasury Financing Via Tokenization on Canton Network

Digital Asset and a group of major financial firms have executed the first real-time, fully on-chain financing of U.S. Treasuries against USDC on the Canton Network. The repo trade, carried out on Tradeweb, settled atomically on a Saturday, sidestepping the weekday-only limitations of traditional settlement systems, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk on … Read more

Circle Unveils Layer-1 Blockchain Arc, Reports $428 Million Q2 Loss

Circle (CRCL) reported a second-quarter net loss even as circulation of the second-largest stablecoin, USDC, almost doubled from the year-earlier period and on-chain transaction volume more than quintupled to $5.9 trillion. The company also said it is developing a layer-1 blockchain “designed to provide an enterprise-grade foundation for stablecoin payments, FX, and capital markets applications.” … Read more

Internet from Space for the Price of a Coffee? Meet Spacecoin

Picture this: two dollars a month for internet from space. Not the familiar copper cables snaking through your walls, not fiber optic lines buried beneath city streets—actual satellites orbiting 340 miles above your head, beaming 5G signals directly to your phone. I would have called this science fiction eighteen months ago. Today, it’s operational reality. … Read more

Taylor Swift’s 12th announced at 12:12 on the 12th

Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl.  TS12 was introduced in a teaser — already viewed over 65 million times — for the next episode of the New Heights podcast airing Wednesday, hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his big brother … Read more

GTA V now has DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support

Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II that’s available today. The DLSS 4 … Read more

Ford is doubling down on EVs — the timing is awful

On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn’t have been worse. EV tax credits were set to expire at the end of September. President Trump’s trade war was tilting the balance in favor of … Read more

FLOKI’s Valhalla MMORPG Storms U.S. Television With 60-Day National Commercial Blitz

Miami, Florida, August 11th, 2025/Chainwire/–FLOKI’s flagship play-to-earn MMORPG, Valhalla, has officially entered the U.S. mainstream with the debut of its first-ever national television commercial.  The 30-second spot aired on Saturday, August 9, at 6:30 p.m. EST during Valhalla’s interview segment on New To The Street. For the next 60 days, viewers across the United States … Read more

When Experts Disagree, Let UNIPELT Decide

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 5 Related Work Parameter-Efficient Tuning of PLMs. As it is increasingly infeasible to train and store full copies of … Read more

Why KuCoin Is Letting Institutions Trade Crypto with UBS Tokenized Money Market Funds

Can a Traditional Money Market Fund Become Collateral for Crypto Trading? KuCoin has announced that it will now support UBS uMINT, the first tokenized money market investment fund launched by UBS Asset Management and distributed via DigiFT. This marks the first time a global cryptocurrency exchange has enabled institutional tokenholders to use UBS uMINT as … Read more

Experimental Evaluation of UNIPELT: Robust Gains Over Fine-Tuning and Individual PELT Methods

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 4 Experiments We conduct extensive experiments with 8 tasks × 4 data sizes × 7 methods × 5 runs … Read more

Markets Today: Bitcoin, Ether Hold Gains as Ethena Hits $11.9B TVL, Pudgy Penguins Race to F1

The global crypto market cap rose 2% in the past 24 hours to $4.03 trillion as major cryptocurrencies posted gains. Bitcoin (BTC) added 2.3% to $118,527, ether rose 0.7% to $4,293. Solana and XRP each advanced 4.4% while Dogecoin gained 4.7%. The rallies came alongside heavy short liquidations, with risk sentiment improving after a relatively … Read more

The Tuning Trifecta: UNIPELT’s Gated Symphony of BitFit, Adapter, and Prefix-Tuning

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Unifying PELT Methods Experiments 4.1 Experiment Setup 4.2 Analysis of Individual PELT Methods 4.3 Analysis of UNIPELT 4.4 Efficiency of PELT Methods Related Work Conclusion, Acknowledgements, and References 2 Preliminaries 2.1 PELT Methods without Additional Parameters PLMs can be used as feature extractors where only the top … Read more

Combining PELT Methods with Gating: How UNIPELT Delivers Robust LM Tuning Across Tasks

:::info Authors: (1) Yuning Mao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the work was done during internship at Meta AI (yuningm2@illinois.edu); (2) Lambert Mathias, Meta AI (mathiasl@fb.com); (3) Rui Hou, Meta AI (rayhou@fb.com); (4) Amjad Almahairi, Meta AI (aalmah@fb.com); (5) Hao Ma, Meta AI (haom@fb.com); (6) Jiawei Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (hanj@illinois.edu); (7) Wen-tau Yih, … Read more

Control Processing Concurrency for Large Scale RAG Pipelines in Production

CocoIndex is designed to be production-ready from day one—built to process data in parallel, maximizing throughput while keeping your systems safe. Today, we’ll look at how to optimize performance without overloading your environment. With CocoIndex, it’s just one configuration away. :star2: Star CocoIndex if you like it – https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex CocoIndex’s parallelism model boosts speed by … Read more

How Aditxt and Crypto.com are Bridging Biotech and Crypto Finance

Why did Aditxt turn to Crypto.com to secure its biotech treasury? Aditxt, a social innovation platform advancing health technologies, signed an agreement with Crypto.com to establish a custodial crypto account. The move supports its plan to back biotech innovation with a digital asset reserve including Bitcoin. Under the agreement Crypto.com will serve as custodian for … Read more