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After a blow-out end to 2024 and a roaring start to 2025, the meme coin corner of the crypto world has slowed down. But it’s still a market you can’t ignore – it’s just harder to pin down. The sector’s aggregate value sits around $68B, and while performance has been mixed this year, trading interest remains strong wherever investors think the best meme coin deals lurk. Institutional data firms say the phenomenon isn’t only cultural, it’s mechanical. Kaiko notes meme tokens have repeatedly dominated trading volumes in bursts this year, even as regulators question whether they belong in investable indexes.…

Opinion by: Alex Svanevik, CEO of NansenSince tokenization first gained mainstream attention during the 2017 initial coin offering boom and early blockchain projects aimed at digitizing assets such as equities and commodities, it has been crypto’s go-to pitch for modernizing finance. For many, however, the conversation stops at tokenizing public equities, putting existing stocks onchain for fractional ownership and 24/7 trading. While these steps are nice to have, they’re a far cry from a revolution. The truth is that equities are already very efficient markets, meaning the marginal gains from deploying blockchain technology are notably small.This means the fundamental transformation lies…

This content is provided by a sponsor. As crypto investors seek sources of stable yield, two rising products are capturing attention: BGUSD, Bitget’s yield-bearing stable asset certificate, and RWUSD, Binance’s principal-protected yield product. While both serve users looking to earn passive income on stable assets, a closer look reveals meaningful differences in structure, flexibility, and […]

BTCS will become the first public company to issue dividends in cryptocurrency. Summary BTSC to become the first company to issue dividends in ETH The company will also issue loyalty payments to long-term holders The company hopes to discourage short selling and boost its share price Crypto and institutional finance are increasingly converging. On Monday, August 18, BTSC announced the issuance of $0.05 per share in Ethereum (ETH). This move would make it the first public company to offer dividends in crypto. In addition to the dividend, the company is offering a one-time loyalty payment of $0.35 per share. This…

Riot Games is continuing to reach into the mobile gaming market, this time with the launch of Valorant Mobile on August 19th. The mobile 5v5 first-person tactical shooter is currently only planned for release in China.  China’s Valorant Mobile launch video was revealed in the early hours of August 18th (in UK time), backed by the music of Canadian rapper and musician, ‘bbno$’.  Valorant Mobile launches in China, with no release confirmed for Global distribution as of yet Valorant Mobile is officially launching in China on August 19th for iOS and Android. Rewards are available for pre-registered players in the…

People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by authors like Isaac Asimov or thought experiments like the Turing test. But an equally important, if surprising and less appreciated, forerunner is American psychologist B.F. Skinner’s research with pigeons in the middle of the 20th century.Skinner believed that association—learning, through trial and error, to link an action with a punishment or reward—was the building block of every behavior, not just in pigeons but in all living organisms, including human beings.His “behaviorist” theories fell out of favor with psychologists and animal researchers in the 1960s but were taken…

Ethereum traded between $4,298 and $4,335 over the past hour as the broader market contends with signs of exhaustion near key resistance levels. With a market capitalization of $519 billion and a 24-hour global trade volume of $41.92 billion, ethereum continues to dominate intraday liquidity, fluctuating between $4,239 and $4,563 in the last 24 hours. […]

A solo miner successfully mined a Bitcoin block on Sunday, collecting a 3.137 BTC payout, worth about $371,000 at the time.The miner operated through the Solo CK pool, a service for solo miners. They mined block 910,440 and collected the standard 3.125 BTC and about 0.012 BTC in transaction fees. The block included 4,913 transactions, and the fees totalled $1,455. With Bitcoin’s hashrate being dominated by massive industrial-scale mining operations, the chances of a solo miner hitting a block are slim. Yet, with efficient hardware, even smaller players can claim the same block rewards in rare instances. This year, several solo miners…

Image credit: Quick Esports via X Blizzard Entertainment has announced online that The Ultimates will be replaced by Quick Esports ahead of the Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS) Stage 3 in the EMEA region. The change was made after The Ultimates failed to register an ‘eligible roster’ on time, giving Quick Esports a second chance to potentially qualify for the OWCS World Finals later this year. Keep Reading SpaceStation Gaming lets go of three players ahead of OWCS NA Stage 3 Will Overwatch 2’s new hero Wuyang shake up the esports scene? Overwatch Collegiate returns with NACE partnership “EMEA’s #4 seed,…

A solo miner successfully mined a Bitcoin block on Sunday, collecting a 3.137 BTC payout, worth about $371,000 at the time.The miner operated through the Solo CK pool, a service for solo miners. They mined block 910,440 and collected the standard 3.125 BTC and about 0.012 BTC in transaction fees. The block included 4,913 transactions, and the fees totalled $1,455. With Bitcoin’s hashrate being dominated by massive industrial-scale mining operations, the chances of a solo miner hitting a block are slim. Yet, with efficient hardware, even smaller players can claim the same block rewards in rare instances. This year, several solo miners…