NYSE parent invests $2B in Polymarket at $9B valuation
NYSE parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, has invested $2 billion in the crypto prediction market Polymarket at a $9 billion valuation.
Month: October 2025
Opera and Decrypt Team Up to ‘Bring the Next Billion Users’ to Web3
The partnership will bring Decrypt’s news coverage to Opera’s hundreds of millions of users through its Opera News platform.
Bitcoin Treasury KindlyMD to Issue $250M in Convertible Debt With Nasdaq-Listed Antalpha
The company, the result of a merger earlier this year with David Bailey’s Nakamoto Holdings, holds about $726 million in its Bitcoin treasury.
Blockchain Cities and Liners: Where Did They Go?
Many promises were made. Idealists and degenerates made several attempts to create special corners for like-minded people around the world. But out of dozens of projects, only a few made it to the start of construction. And only one made it to the final implementation. Most did not survive regulatory restrictions, unrealistic expectations, and other … Read more
Predicting Hard Drive Failures Using Mondrian Conformal Prediction
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Motivation and design goals Related Work Conformal prediction 4.1. Mondrian conformal prediction (MCP) 4.2. Evaluation metrics Mondrian conformal prediction for Disk Scrubbing: our approach 5.1. System and Storage statistics 5.2. Which disk to scrub: Drive health predictor 5.3. When to scrub: Workload predictor Experimental setting and 6.1. Open-source … Read more
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
To: Bari Weiss RE: Good luck, babe! I honestly cannot believe you’ve willingly decided to go into the worst kind of job that exists: management at a dying company. This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs Managing sucks! It sucks even when you like the people you’re managing and it’s a low-stress … Read more
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is a good watch but a small upgrade
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is a great smartwatch, but this is a largely iterative update. Who is the $799 Apple Watch Ultra 3 for? The Garmin crowd? I can already hear Garmin fans cackling from whatever distant mountain they’re hiking on. The gadget nerd who simply must have the best-of-the-best smartwatch? I’m 99.9 percent … Read more
North Korean Hackers Have Stolen Over $2 Billion This Year: Elliptic
North Korea-linked hacking groups have stolen more than $2 billion worth of crypto assets so far this year, according to a new analysis from blockchain forensics firm Elliptic, the largest annual total ever recorded, and with three months of 2025 still to go. The new data underscores Pyongyang’s growing dependence on cyber-enabled theft to fund … Read more
India slams ‘unbacked crypto’ amid RBI’s new digital currency plans
India doesn’t “encourage or discourage” crypto, it “only taxes it,” Minister Piyush Goyal said, while unveiling a new RBI-backed digital currency project.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Is Already Its Most Profitable, Surpassing Older ETFs
Bitcoin ETFs will be a “clear leader” over traditional funds as IBIT nears the $100B milestone, analysts told Decrypt.
Tether Plans to Propose Candidates for Soccer Club Juventus Board Seat: Reuters
Tether, issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, plans to propose its own candidates for a board seat at Juventus FC, the Italian soccer club in which it owns a stake of 10.7%, Reuters reported on Monday. The stablecoin giant will submit its list at the club’s annual shareholder meeting in November, according to the report, … Read more
Bitcoin Rally is Fun, but Don’t Overlook RWAs: Crypto Daybook Americas
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin (BTC) remains in an uptrend, despite the overnight pullback. The world’s largest cryptocurrency is on fire, having rallied nearly 10% in one week. While the buzz around BTC is natural, other sub-sectors, such as real-world assets (RWAs), are lighting up big time and deserve attention. … Read more
How Predictive Algorithms Are Making Data Center Disk Scrubbing Smarter
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Motivation and design goals Related Work Conformal prediction 4.1. Mondrian conformal prediction (MCP) 4.2. Evaluation metrics Mondrian conformal prediction for Disk Scrubbing: our approach 5.1. System and Storage statistics 5.2. Which disk to scrub: Drive health predictor 5.3. When to scrub: Workload predictor Experimental setting and 6.1. Open-source … Read more
The best October Prime Day deals at Walmart
The latest Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker is one of the best deals you can get during Walmart’s event. Amazon is the retailer to beat when it comes to offering deals to compete with Amazon’s October Prime Day event. Walmart has proven to be a contender this year, matching the prices on several discounts and marking … Read more
Streamex shares soar 20% on gold-backed stablecoin pre-sale launch
Streamex shares surged over 20% as the firm announced a pre-sale for GLDY, a gold-backed stablecoin offering 4% yield and targeting institutional investors.
New York Stock Exchange Owner Nears $2B Stake in Polymarket: WSJ
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, is close to investing $2 billion in crypto-powered prediction market Polymarket, the WSJ reports. The deal, which could be announced as early as Tuesday, would value the platform at as much as $10 billion. ICE’s investment could lend regulatory credibility to Polymarket’s efforts to … Read more
Crunch Lab’s decentralized AI network gains traction in research
The decentralized AI network has already been used to achieve breakthroughs in cancer gene research and therapy by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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BNB Hits Record High Above $1,280 as Blockchain Activity Surges
BNB, the native token of the BNB Chain and widely used for transaction fee discounts on Binance, jumped more than 5% over the last 24-hour period, crossing the $1,280 mark to hit a new all-time high. The rally comes as traders digested signs of increased demand from institutions and surging activity on the underlying blockchain, … Read more
Ken Griffin Sounds Alarm as Gold Futures Tops $4,000 and Dollar Weakens
Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, expressed deep concern this week over gold’s soaring price and its implications for the U.S. dollar’s role as a global safe haven, according to Bloomberg. Gold futures just breached $4,000 an ounce, marking a gain of more than 50% so far in 2025. The U.S. dollar, measured by the U.S. … Read more
Dubai regulator cracks down on 19 unlicensed crypto operators
Dubai’s crypto regulator sanctioned 19 companies for unlicensed operations and marketing violations, imposing fines of up to $163,000.
The 180 best October Prime Day deals
Amazon’s October Prime Day sale (aka Prime Big Deal Days) is finally here, and we’ve collected the best deals we could find on everything from noise-canceling headphones and robot vacuums to 4K OLED TVs. The majority of our recommendations have been thoroughly tested by Verge writers and editors, and we are just as confident in our recommendations … Read more
Windows 11’s dark mode is getting more consistent in File Explorer
Microsoft first quietly started testing improvements in Windows 11’s dark mode in August preview builds of the operating system. Now it’s making the changes official, with improvements to the dark mode consistency throughout File Explorer actions like copying, moving, or deleting files and folders. If you try to copy a large file in Windows 11 … Read more
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Solana’s $2.85B Revenue Rivals Palantir, Robinhood Amid Waning Memecoin Craze
Solana’s network continues to show unexpected resilience, according to new research from Matt Mena, a crypto research strategist at 21Shares. In a blog post published Monday, Mena said Solana generated roughly $2.85 billion in annual revenue from October 2024 through September 2025, cementing its position as one of crypto’s fastest-growing blockchain economies. He described the … Read more