A Fed move to backstop Japan bonds could boost Bitcoin: Arthur Hayes
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes says the yen is weakening while Japanese government bond yields are rising, which could lead to Japanese investors selling US Treasuries.
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UK bans Coinbase ads that ‘trivialized’ crypto risks: Report
Coinbase’s musical ad depicting a run-down UK, which was already blacklisted from TV, has reportedly seen a wider ban by the country’s ad watchdog for being “irresponsible.”
XRP climbs to $1.90 but struggles to break out of tight range
Traders are watching $1.88 as support and $1.94–$2.00 as the levels XRP needs to clear to break consolidation.
Coinbase Shares Extend Losses as It Expands Into New Metal Futures
Experts say the metals expansion builds infrastructure, not a near-term volatility hedge, as Coinbase stock falls 46% from its peak.
Top stablecoins shrink as crypto cash flees, posing risk to bitcoin’s bounce
USDC leads the decline in the market cap of top stablecoins, posing risk to crypto market valuations.
Coinbase moves closer toward rolling out ‘custom stablecoins’
Coinbase has been working with Solflare, R2, and Flipcash to bring custom stablecoins to market, with the latest testing focused on Flipcash’s USDF.
Alibaba’s ControlNet Upgrade: Z-Image-Turbo 2.0 Explained
Want diffusion that follows your layout? Learn Z-Image-Turbo-Fun ControlNet Union 2.0—multi-control inputs, faster inference, better refinement.
When Building a Dating Machine Optimized Everything Except Love
👩🏼❤️👨🏻 Dating as a timeless human topic Dating is one of the oldest human problems we continue to try to solve with technology, probably because it sits at the intersection of hope, vulnerability, ego, and timing, and rarely follows logic. Long before apps existed, people obsessed over mixed signals, situationships (before they had a name), … Read more
The Quiet Path to Mass Unemployment: “Snowballing Automation”
Artificial intelligence is making automation accelerate faster than previous waves. With AI as a propellant, the work of building automation increasingly becomes automatable itself. As it becomes cheaper and easier to mechanize tasks, automation spreads faster—and speeds up as it spreads. The result is that the current wave of AI adoption is likely to produce … Read more
Bitwise Registers Uniswap ETF Trust in Early Step Toward Potential Filing
The filing comes after regulators closed their probe into Uniswap Labs, shifting attention from enforcement toward questions over liquidity.
Silver, gold hype overtaking crypto on social media: Santiment
Silver prices have been on the rise and hit a new all-time high of just over $117 on Tuesday, though some analysts warn this could be a price top is coming soon for the precious metal.
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What you should know about the owners of US TikTok
ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. This restructuring aims to separate U.S. TikTok from its Chinese parent, addressing concerns about data privacy and foreign control. The move came after years of pressure from lawmakers, who feared the Chinese government’s potential access to Americans’ data. … Read more
Trustless AI agent standard could hit Ethereum mainnet on Thursday
ERC-8004, which a lead developer has tipped will be deployed to mainnet this week, enables AI agents to discover and trust each other across platforms without centralized gatekeepers.
Steak ‘n Shake adds $5M in Bitcoin to reserve as in-store sales grow 18%
The restaurant chain said that its adoption of Bitcoin is one of the main reasons that it is “trouncing” its fast-food competitors.
Nearly 40% of US merchants now accept crypto at checkout: PayPal
Adoption has been strongest in the hospitality, travel, digital goods, and gaming industries. Millennials and Gen Zs are proving to be the most crypto-savvy shoppers.
Rodeo becomes 2nd NFT platform to announce closure this week
NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway announced on Saturday that it was shutting down, and has now been followed by Rodeo, which only launched on iOS last March.
$10.8B in Bitcoin options expire this week: Will bulls chase $95K after expiry?
Bitcoin options data shows bearish bets holding the advantage in Friday’s $10.8 billion expiry, unless bulls manage a pre-expiration breakout above $90,000.
Crypto needs to become ‘indispensable’ if legislation fails: Bitwise
Bitwise’s Matt Hougan says crypto will have to “wrestle with prolonged regulatory grind and skepticism” if the US fails to pass a market structure bill.
Teaching AI to Debug Might Beat Teaching It to Remember
A new AI framework shows why treating skills as debuggable programs—not neural parameters—lets agents learn continuously without forgetting.
Rewarding the Rare: How Uniqueness-Aware RL Fixes Exploration Collapse
LLMs aren’t bad at reasoning—they’re bad at exploring. Here’s how uniqueness-aware RL fixes exploration collapse by rewarding rare solutions.
The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress
Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), from left, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) Sen. John Boozman (R-AK), Rep. French Hill (R-AK), and David Sacks, White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto czar, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. | Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to … Read more