BIS project finds tokenization could make cross-border payments faster, safer
Project Agorá, backed by major central banks, will now move toward “real-value” testing to settle tokenized central bank money and bank deposits on blockchain rails.
Project Agorá, backed by major central banks, will now move toward “real-value” testing to settle tokenized central bank money and bank deposits on blockchain rails.
Kraken customers can make use of their Bitcoin holdings and generate BTC yield without ever leaving the exchange.
NY-12 congressional candidate Alex Bores speaks during a campaign event. | Bloomberg via Getty Images By the time that the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who … Read more
One pipeline → organized notes, a worked tutorial, and a calibrated practice test — from lectures, books, photos of class notes, and study-group chat. Built on NVIDIA Nemotron Omni in a weekend. The Problem with AI Study Tools Most AI tools for students do one thing well and nothing else. ChatGPT can summarize a chapter … Read more
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The Wall Street investment bank expects a wave of crypto and blockchain public listings over the next two years as institutional investors shift their focus from speculative trading to real-world financial infrastructure.
Imagine asking your AI assistant: “When does my driving license expire?” Simple question. But to answer it, the AI needs to find a photo of your license in your gallery, or locate a renewal confirmation buried in your email, or pull the date from a government app on your phone. It needs to reach across … Read more
After a flood of complaints about the Google Health app that just replaced Fitbit, Google has responded with a list of changes that will roll out starting this week. @verge We tried Fitbit Air’s AI coach, and it turned out to be far more instructive than expected. The Verge’s Victoria Song joins us on The … Read more
Claw-Anything simulates a real digital existence and asks AI assistants to handle it. GPT-5.5, the best model available, scored 34.5%.
Starship is grounded until SpaceX finds out why the first V3 booster failed during its first test flight.
This article reexamines the famous “All men are mortal, Socrates is a man” syllogism through the lens of modern pedagogy and philosophy. While acknowledging the formal correctness of deductive logic itself, the author argues that the example has become outdated, philosophically loaded, and pedagogically confusing for modern students because its premises involve unresolved questions about … Read more
PeckShield said the attacker bridged 43.7 ETH to Ethereum after minting trillions of vsdCRV, while EmberCN said most of the remaining tokens had insufficient liquidity to sell.
Engineering organisations measure almost everything today. Deployments. Story points. Velocity. Pull requests. Jira tickets. Lines of code. CPU utilisation. Incident counts. Yet many leadership teams still cannot answer the questions that actually matter. Are teams getting faster? Are engineers overloaded? Is platform investment reducing friction? Is reliability improving sustainably? Are we shipping value or just … Read more
Mastercard has secured a highly coveted BitLicense in New York, anchoring its compliance-first strategy for stablecoins on Wall Street.
UK sanctions Huobi Global S.A., operator of HTX, over alleged role in Russia’s “A7” shadow network, as new analysis claims the exchange handled billions in high‑risk flows.
Sony has a tradition of marking down its PlayStation 5 hardware a couple of times a year, and one of those opportunities to save is here through June 10th. Its latest Days of Play sale is happening at multiple retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart, and at Sony’s site as well. It loops in … Read more
The bank plans to launch digital asset custody, transfer and receipt services in 2026 for selected customer categories.
Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The company pitches the feature as a way for traders … Read more
An individual familiar with the matter told CoinDesk the stablecoin feature was rolled out to 25% of users already and by the end of the week, all users will have access.
Bitcoin’s price stayed firm despite a massive $1.3 billion block sale executed by a mysterious BlackRock ETF holder, which analysts called a sign of large-scale institutional de-risking.
The Clarity Act’s recent markup proved that the momentum for regulation is there. It is imperative that Congress move the bill forward to establish rules this generation needs and a framework the next will inherit, urges Kim.
Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.
Bitcoin is on track to end May in the red, a historically bearish signal that could point to deeper losses ahead if the post-May track record is any guide.
ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track
Robinhood is bringing hedge fund-style automation to everyday investors by letting AI agents build portfolios, execute stock trades, and even go shopping using virtual credit cards.
Aeternum, organisers of the Unchained Summit series, will host the second edition of Unchained Summit Vietnam this week on May 28 and 29 at the Furama Resort in Da Nang.
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SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.