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View More NewsAll within a matter of weeks, Anthropic unveiled new agents for finance, Circle launched nanopayments, MoonPay launched a debit card for agents and Gemini launched agentic trading, signaling the agentic finance fight is here. Whilst the products are new, the underlying business model remains the same. Every exchange and brokerage earns more when customers trade more, and the data on what that does for customer portfolios is unambiguous. Ultimately, agentic rails have arrived faster than incentives have changed.The perverse incentives exchanges hope you missThe conflict is structural to the industry. Brokerages and exchanges don’t need customers to win, they need…
In brief Sui’s layer-1 blockchain is currently suffering another major network outage. The network’s engineers have identified the issue and are rolling out a fix. Sui last suffered a “network stall” in January, going down for about six hours. Built to compete with other speedy layer-1 blockchains, the Sui network has once more suffered from the same ills that rival Solana once faced: downtime.The “network stall,” first identified and investigated on Thursday morning, has led to more than five hours of a major outage for the network as the Sui team works on a solution.“Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a…
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint. ~Hesiod, 8th century BC Let’s get one thing straight, right from the start. As long as there has been writing, cultural commentators have been asking, “Why are the young women suddenly promiscuous, and the young men suddenly violent (and so unlike us when we were young)?”The basic…
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Trezor has integrated native stablecoin yield functionality into Trezor Suite, the hardware wallet provider’s desktop and mobile application, in a move that could make…
In brief Anthropic said it expects to bring its Claude Mythos AI model to customers “in the coming weeks” after completing additional tests. Claude…
from the at-least-someone-is-doing-something dept Thirty-five (thirty-five!) former federal judges are asking a current federal judge to reopen the case where Donald Trump sued his…
Hyperliquid’s SPACEX-USDH perpetual contract suffered a violent flash crash on Thursday afternoon, plunging from an open of $2,277 to a low of $1,254, a…
In brief Prediction market Myriad has launched a $100,000 trading competition for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The prize pool awards $20,000, $10,000, and…
Ethereum treasury firm Bit Digital (BTBT) made its first ether (ETH) purchase since the October crypto market peak, but it’s already underwater on its…
Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS and Samsung Card will acquire a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, in…
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from the cheap-crap,-very-on-brand dept The Trump Organization still hasn’t shipped their promised Trump phone to most customers who laid down a $100 deposit a…
Attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are representing three news outlets in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols built for crypto assets are increasingly retooling themselves for Wall Street, and VanEck’s tokenized Treasury fund arriving on lending platform…
Bitcoin (BTC) sold off into the early Asian trading session on Thursday as the drop to $72,600 produced significant liquidation of leveraged positions across…