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Brazil’s largest private asset manager Itaú Asset Management has formed its first dedicated crypto division and named João Marco Braga da Cunha, a former executive at Hashdex, to run the new unit. The division, local news outlet Livecoins reports, will sit within Itaú’s multidesk investment structure, which oversees more than 117 billion reais ($21.6 billion) … Read more
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Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said stablecoins are gaining adoption because they offer businesses faster, cheaper and more reliable payments than traditional systems. His remarks came in a Hacker News thread on Sept. 5, 2025, one day after Stripe and Paradigm launched Tempo, a blockchain designed specifically for stablecoin payments. In his first comment on the … Read more
Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company’s board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion.
Here’s what we’re looking for now that Congress is back from summer recess and we enter the final four months of 2025. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. The narrative Welcome to the last four months of … Read more
The RVSolar System living its best vanlife. | Image: Bluetti It only took three years, but Bluetti is following EcoFlow’s lead with a fully integrated power system of its own to make vanlifers, off-grid cabins, and boats energy independent. The RVSolar System’s main advantage over bespoke systems is a relatively quick and easy installation, requiring just … Read more
When I was 16 years old, I wrote my first fanfiction. It was a crossover fic where the cast from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy gave the anime dog demon Inuyasha a makeover. It was stupid and poorly written, and yet, to this very day, I remember it fondly. This is exactly what it’s … Read more
Car buyers face opaque waitlists and massive markups on new models. Tokenizing reservations could create transparent, tradable queue positions worth trillions.
XRP failed to sustain momentum above $2.88–$2.89, triggering a 4% decline as institutional selling capped the advance. Heavy volume confirmed resistance at those levels, while buyers reappeared in the $2.81–$2.83 range to stabilize price action. The move keeps XRP locked in a 47-day consolidation under $3.00, with traders now eyeing the $2.77 support pivot and … Read more
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Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest purchased $16 million in BitMine and $7.5 million in Bullish stock across three of its ETFs, boosting its crypto exposure.
Dogecoin remains well off its all-time high price while other high-cap coins keep setting records. Will DOGE get its moment to shine again?
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Relevant Work 3. Methods 3.1 Models 3.2 Summarising Features 3.3 Calibration of Market Model Parameters 4. Experiments 4.1 Zero Intelligence Trader 4.2 Extended Chiarella 4.3 Historical Data 5. Discussion & Future Work 6. Significance, Acknowledgments, and References 5 DISCUSSION & FUTURE WORK We have shown that the … Read more
A screenshot from Panic’s Herdling game. | Image: Panic / Okomotive Herdling is a slow game about herding fuzzy animals through a vibrant natural world. That may not sound particularly exciting, but I found it to be a perfect game to unwind with after a stressful day. In Herdling, you play as a kid who … Read more
Pencils down. Asking the Pixel 10 to be more than what it is feels greedy. Google’s non-Pro Pixel is priced fairly at $799, which is significantly less than the $999 Pixel 10 Pro. It comes with some handy upgrades, like Qi2 charging with built-in magnets. Its AI features finally show promise. It includes a dedicated … Read more
Adam Back, an early Bitcoin developer and the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, has weighed in on the debate about what he calls “JPEG spam” on the Bitcoin blockchain. Back argues that it undermines the cryptocurrency’s core purpose as money in a thread on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. Bitcoin should be considered “owned by … Read more
If you wanted a sense of the current relationship between the tech right and the populists, you had to be sitting in Breakout Room C on the first day of NatCon 5, the annual gathering of the MAGA right’s powerhouses. At the end of the afternoon panel on the culture wars (“The Need for Heroism”), … Read more
A crypto developer says Trump-linked crypto project WLFI froze his tokens and refused to unlock them, calling it “the new age mafia.”
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko urged regulators to finalize long-delayed rules for cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, according to remarks reported by state news agency BelTA on Sept. 5. BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying his 2023 instructions to craft comprehensive regulation had yet to produce approved documents. He called for “transparent rules of the game” and new … Read more
The Gentle January series shares one practical privacy tip a day from a Markup staffer who actually uses the advice in their own life. I lose track of my phone a lot more than I’d like to admit. Yes, it normally turns up between the couch cushions, in the pile of laundry I’m folding, or … Read more
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is defending its decision to freeze hundreds of wallets, including Tron found Justin Sun’s, saying the move was meant to protect users from phishing-related compromises, not to stifle normal trading. “WLFI only intervenes to protect users, never to silence normal activity,” the project wrote on X. WLFI said earlier this week … Read more
True, a Solana-based AI decentralized trading platform, has announced the upcoming launch of its $TRUE token sale. Proceeds will fund the development of a next-generation trading platform that combines an off-chain high-speed execution engine with an on-chain settlement layer on Solana. Using ZK-rollup proofs and next-gen Verkle commitments, True compresses all trading activity into tiny, … Read more