Bitcoin ‘Accumulator’ Better Fit for Corporates Than Dollar-Cost Averaging Strategy, Research Suggests

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Corporate adoption of bitcoin BTC is well-known, and most of it involves a classic buy-and-hold strategy, loosely analogous to the dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy. While investors of all kinds widely prefer DCA, new research by crypto options market maker Orbit Markets shows that since 2023, it has underperformed a structured product called an “accumulator,” popularly … Read more

SpeechVerse vs. SOTA: Multi-Task Speech Models in Real-World Benchmarks

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more

AI Coding Assistants in 2025: My Experience with Lovable, Bolt, and the Future of Programming

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AI coding assistants aren’t just helping us code faster—they’re changing who gets to code. If software is eating the world as Marc Andreessen famously said in 2011. In 2025, it seems vibe coding is gasoline poured on that fire. It’s massively increasing the rate at which software is eating the world. As Co-Founder and Co-CEO … Read more

Every Fintech Firm Will Run Its Own Blockchain `in Next Five Years:’ Optimism

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It’s only a matter of time until every cryptocurrency exchange and fintech firm is running its own blockchain, according to OP Labs, builder of Ethereum overlay protocol Optimism. The logic is straightforward and simple, says OP Labs head of product, Sam McIngvale, pointing to the runaway success of Coinbase’s layer-2 (L2) network Base since its … Read more

Session Hijacking Is Maturing. What Proactive Measures Can Secure Active Sessions?

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Attackers aren’t just phishing for credentials; they’re automating session hijacking in ways that trusted security practices such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) cannot always protect us from. In the same way that our advanced cybersecurity teams are creatively applying automation and AI to secure business environments, hackers look for methods to exploit data using these tools. … Read more

Evaluating Multimodal Speech Models Across Diverse Audio Tasks

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Approach 2.1 Architecture 2.2 Multimodal Instruction Finetuning 2.3 Curriculum Learning with Parameter Efficient Finetuning 3 Experiments 4 Results 4.1 Evaluation of SpeechVerse models 4.2 Generalization Across Instructions 4.3 Strategies for Improving Performance 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Limitations, Ethics Statement, and References A Appendix A.1 Audio Encoder … Read more

How to Inject and Modify WebSocket Messages for Testing

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For some reason, most online resources either completely omit the topic of intercepting and modifying WebSocket traffic, or cover it exclusively within the context of information security and vulnerability hunting. However, a WebSocket is a transport protocol just like HTTP. Therefore, when testing applications, it is essential to be able to work with WebSockets in … Read more

The Soft Skills Paradox: Why the Most Important Traits Are the Hardest to Measure

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Walk into any HR roundtable, and you’ll hear the same refrain: “We don’t have a technical skills gap. We have a soft skills gap.” Communication. Adaptability. Critical thinking. Emotional intelligence. These are the traits employers say they need most. They’re also the traits that don’t show up on resumes, don’t fit neatly into application forms, … Read more

Spain’s BBVA is Advising Clients to Invest Up to 7% of Portfolio in BTC, ETH: Reuters

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Spanish lender BBVA is advising its wealth clients to invest 3%-7% of their portfolios in cryptocurrencies, an executive of the Spanish bank said on Tuesday. The bank’s head of digital and blockchain solutions Philippe Meyer told the DigiAssets conference in London that it started advising clients on bitcoin BTC in September last year, according to … Read more

Automating Smart Contract Tasks: Using Keepers and Relayers to Schedule Transactions

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Ethereum smart contracts do not run on a schedule by themselves – there is no native “cron job” within the EVM. Smart contracts are not self-executing, i.e., they require an external stimulus (a transaction from an externally owned account, oracle, or other contract) to call their functions. This presents a challenge for time-dependent actions like … Read more

Blockchain Nodes Are Failing, Don’t Leave Your Project in the Dark

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It is highly important to know that Without nodes, decentralized networks would not exist. Blockchain uses a network of nodes to keep functioning. This means no nodes no blockchain networks. Nodes are foundational to maintaining the decentralized nature of blockchain, because without nodes nothing will operate on the blockchain. These nodes are mostly operated by … Read more

I Replaced ResponseEntity with Sealed Interfaces—My Tests Finally Make Sense

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Introduction A Kotlin sealed class/interface restricts its subclasses: every subtype is known at compile time and declared in the same module. This brings: | Capability | Benefit | |—-|—-| | Compiler knows every subtype | when without else → adding a new variant highlights every spot to update | | Polymorphic serialization | kotlinx.serialization or … Read more