Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Standard Chartered has partnered up with Animoca Brands and HKT to apply for a license under Hong Kong’s new stablecoin regime. Standard Chartered’s JV First To Apply For Hong Kong Stablecoin License According to a press release from Animoca Brands, the company has come together with Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong branch and Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) to form a joint venture (JV): Anchorpoint Financial. The aim of the JV is to “build a business model focused on the issuance and advancement of licensed stablecoins,” as per the…
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As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to Houston, regular cargo deliveries of medicines, and a quick ride home after six months. All of that may soon change as NASA and its commercial partners, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, look to conduct longer-duration missions that would take humans to the moon and Mars. That looming reality is pushing NASA to gradually make on-orbit medical care more “Earth-independent.” One early experiment is a proof-of-concept AI medical assistant the agency is building with…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has pledged to donate up to $500,000 to Tornado Cash’s co-founder, Roman Storm, to support his ongoing legal defense. This follows the recent trial verdict that found Storm guilty of one of three charges. Ethereum Foundation Supports Tornado Cash’s Co-Founder On Thursday, the Free Pertsev and Storm fundraiser revealed that the Ethereum Foundation will match donations up to $500,000 to support the Tornado Cash co-founder’s legal defense following this week’s verdict. In an X post, the fundraiser’s team explained that they “will need…
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” One of the new features that GPT-5 rolled out is a real-time router that decides which model to use for a particular prompt, either responding quickly or taking additional time to “think” through answers. But multiple people in the AMA on the r/ChatGPT Reddit complained…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A bold prediction for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP prices by March 2032 has surfaced on social media, which places into perspective the future of the cryptocurrency market. The forecast, which was shared by crypto commentator Fapital on the social media platform X, reveals a vision of where these leading assets could stand seven years from now. Notably, the figures he posted put Bitcoin trading at $889,969.42, Ethereum at $28,050.73, and XRP at $23.22 within the next seven years. Comparing The 2032 Predictions To Current Price Price predictions…
Share this article Geneva, Switzerland – August 8, 2025 – CoinDesk Data, the institutional research and analytics arm of CoinDesk, a leading media outlet in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, has published a comprehensive protocol report on TRON. The report offers a detailed analysis of TRON’s performance in the first half of 2025, highlighting its continued leadership in stablecoin settlements, rapid user growth, and increasing influence on global financial inclusion.The Protocol Research Report: TRON Network examines how TRON’s innovative bandwidth and energy model enables near feeless transactions, while its Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus, secured by 27 Super Representatives,…
New discussions in the Crypto space have been revealed whether production costs will have a major impact XRP Price Bitcoin (BTC) value. Market expert Credibull Crypto outlines how these costs affect the value of XRP compared to Bitcoin, and concludes that both cryptocurrencies follow the same pricing formula. XRP price formula reflects the price of Bitcoin Recent discourses on X social media have rekindled debate over whether production costs will play a critical role in determining the price of cryptocurrency. Credibull crypto weighed, explanation Both Bitcoin and XRP follow the same basic pricing model, with the production cost combined with…
Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot of fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app: a mobile document scanner that turned paper documents, business cards, receipts, and anything else into easily readable digital files. Now that app is being discontinued, Microsoft says, as it directs its users to its Copilot AI chat app instead. According to a new support document, Lens will be retired from iOS and Android devices starting on September 15, 2025, then removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on November 15, 2025. Existing users…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum Foundation (EF) Co-Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak took to X today to reiterate the critical importance of the Ethereum (ETH) network’s Fusaka upgrade, which is scheduled to go live in Q4 2025. Stańczak urged the community to focus on avoiding any delays to this key upgrade. Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Scheduled For Q4 2025 In a post on X published today, Stańczak shared his views on the smart contract platform’s Fusaka upgrade, emphasizing the need for Ethereum developers to prioritize this upgrade over the upcoming Glamsterdam hard…
AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in 2022. It touts around 3 million monthly active users. The company recently launched a new “one-click story” feature in open beta, which allows users to input a single sentence, a script, or even a song and turn it into a one-minute video with a…