Month: September 2025

Nodepay Launches Crypto’s Largest Prediction Intelligence Platform

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Central, Hong Kong, September 30th, 2025/Chainwire/–With over 2 million downloads globally, Nodepay introduces a real-time prediction signal marketplace that provides intelligence for traders and growth insights for companies. Nodepay, the AI data infrastructure company backed by investors including OKX Ventures, Animoca Brands, and Jump Crypto, today launched the world’s largest consumer-driven sentiment engine and predictive … Read more

Bid Shading Fundamentals – Machine Learning Approaches and Advanced Optimization (Part 2)

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Introduction to ML-Based Bid Shading Machine learning approaches to bid shading represent the evolutionary leap from rule-based algorithms to adaptive, data-driven optimization systems. These sophisticated techniques leverage vast amounts of historical auction data, real-time market signals, and advanced statistical modeling to automatically discover optimal bidding strategies that traditional algorithms cannot achieve. Unlike the static approaches … Read more

Methodology for Adversarial Attack Generation: Using Directives to Mislead Vision-LLMs

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work 2.1 Vision-LLMs 2.2 Transferable Adversarial Attacks Preliminaries 3.1 Revisiting Auto-Regressive Vision-LLMs 3.2 Typographic Attacks in Vision-LLMs-based AD Systems Methodology 4.1 Auto-Generation of Typographic Attack 4.2 Augmentations of Typographic Attack 4.3 Realizations of Typographic Attacks Experiments Conclusion and References 4 Methodology Figure 1 shows an overview of … Read more

Killing Linear Time

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The idea that success takes time is the biggest lie you’ve ever believed. The idea that your life has to crawl forward in a straight line, present into future, step after step, is absurd. And today, I’m going to prove it. This is Episode 2 of The Death of You, the series where you kill the version of yourself … Read more

Coinbase’s Bitcoin-Backed Loans Surpass $1B as Exchange Prepares to Lift Borrowing Cap

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Coinbase (COIN) said its bitcoin-backed loan program has surpassed $1 billion in originations since launching in January, underscoring growing demand for crypto as collateral. The exchange currently offers retail customers in the U.S. the ability to borrow cash against bitcoin (BTC) holdings through the on-chain Morpho platform. A spokesperson said the average loan size sits … Read more

DeCard and Visa Launch DeCard Luminaries, a Premium Credit Card for Web3 Visionaries

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DeCard by DCS (formerly Diners Club Singapore), today announced the launch of DeCard Luminaries, a premium Visa credit card that brings stablecoins into real-world payments at Visa-accepting merchant locations while offering members global access and exclusive lifestyle privileges. ![DeCard Luminaries launch event. (From L-R) Kerri Teo, Head of Sellers & Fintechs, Singapore and Brunei, Visa; … Read more

Republic to Tokenize Animoca Brands Equity on Solana to Broaden Investor Access

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Investment platform Republic revealed plans on Tuesday to tokenize shares of crypto venture firm Animoca Brands on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, a move aimed at opening investor access through blockchain rails. Animoca Brands, known for backing over 600 blockchain startups and projects, remains privately held with shares only traded in limited over-the-counter deals. Republic said … Read more

Imgur is blocking users in the UK

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The image-sharing site Imgur has shut off access to UK users after the country’s data watchdog warned the platform of a fine, as reported earlier by the BBC. In a post on Imgur’s help page, Imgur confirms that users in the UK can no longer log in, view content, or upload images starting September 30th, … Read more

CoinRoutes Acquires QIS Risk For $5M to Bolster Institutional Crypto Trading Tools

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CoinRoutes, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, has acquired QIS Risk, a portfolio and risk management provider for digital asset managers, the company said in a press release Tuesday. The deal value was $5 million in cash and stock, and brings together CoinRoutes’ algorithmic execution technology with QIS Risk’s suite of portfolio monitoring and risk analytics. … Read more

Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with

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Here are some examples of the “Portraits” avatars available to select Copilot users. Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, UK, and Canada, and provides 40 stylized human avatars that … Read more