Auteur/autrice : Alberto

Bitcoin’s smaller cousin, XRP, has drawn fresh bullish bets after it held above the $3 mark in July. According to trading charts and public commentary, the token first pierced $3 in January 2025 — its highest point in seven years — then pulled back before reclaiming that level in mid-July. The comeback has some analysts reading the move as a change in market structure, and price sits near $3.12 as momentum checks continue. Trendline Breakouts And Support Flip According to analyst Steph, a breakout above a long-running descending trendline on the weekly XRP chart is what matters now. Steph points…

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is preparing to approve the issuance of yen-denominated stablecoins as early as this fall, marking the first time the country will allow a domestic fiat-pegged digital currency.Tokyo-based fintech firm JPYC will register as a money transfer business within the month and will lead the rollout, Japanese news outlet The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Sunday.JPYC is designed to maintain a fixed value of 1 JPY = 1 yen, backed by highly liquid assets such as bank deposits and Japanese government bonds. After purchase applications from individuals or corporations, the tokens are issued via bank transfer…

Special thanks to Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke for countless revisions feedback, picks at their brains, and helping me read their tea leaves. Introduction In the world of cryptography-based computer science, the Ethereum technology vision has captivated the imagination of a large number of software developers and technologists who saw its obvious promise. But those same promises and their business interpretations (and implications) have not widely reached, nor been well understood by non-technical audiences. As Ethereum nears coming out of the “labs” and into the market, it is even more important that its message be widely understood by the…

In the era of artificial intelligence, enterprises face both unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges. Success hinges not just on adopting the latest tools, but on fundamentally rethinking how AI integrates with people, processes, and platforms. Here are eleven AI concepts every enterprise leader must understand to harness AI’s transformative potential, backed by the latest research and industry insights. The AI Integration Gap Most enterprises buy AI tools with high hopes, but struggle to embed them into actual workflows. Even with robust investment, adoption often stalls at the pilot stage, never graduating to full-scale production. According to recent surveys, nearly half…

Kraken announced in a security update that the centralized crypto exchange is temporarily halting monero ( XMR) deposits. The platform explained that it had discovered that a single mining pool has captured control of more than half of the network’s hashing power. Qubic’s Controversial Dominance Sparks Exchange Freeze The privacy-focused crypto network Monero has been […]

Taiwan’s first publicly traded corporate Bitcoin treasury, Top Win International, raised $10 million to kickstart its BTC accumulation efforts.The luxury watchmaker-turned-Bitcoin treasury announced Friday it raised $10 million from a group of investors led by zipper producer and software company WiseLink. The raise was accompanied by private investments from Chad Koehn, founder and CEO of United Capital Management of Kansas, alongside four other investors.WiseLink purchased three-year convertible notes issued by Top Win. The investment followed a memorandum of understanding between the two companies outlining a yet-to-be-disclosed collaboration.“TopWin intends to use the proceeds primarily to purchase BTC.”The announcement added that Top…

Key takeaways:XRP’s rally to $3 has pushed 94% of supply into profit, a level that historically marked macro tops.XRP is in the “belief–denial” zone, onchain metrics show, echoing peaks in 2017 and 2021.XRP’s (XRP) rally to over $3 has pushed nearly 94% of its circulating supply into profit, Glassnode data shows. As of Sunday, XRP’s percent supply in profit was 93.92%, underscoring strong investor gains as the cryptocurrency rallied by more than 500% in the past nine months to $3.11 from under $0.40. XRP percent supply in profit. Source: Glassnode90%> supply in profit is usually an XRP macro topSuch high…

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is preparing to approve the issuance of yen-denominated stablecoins as early as this fall, marking the first time the country will allow a domestic fiat-pegged digital currency.Tokyo-based fintech firm JPYC will register as a money transfer business within the month and will lead the rollout, Japanese news outlet The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported on Sunday.JPYC is designed to maintain a fixed value of 1 JPY = 1 yen, backed by highly liquid assets such as bank deposits and Japanese government bonds. After purchase applications from individuals or corporations, the tokens are issued via bank transfer…

They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer for his college paper. This early love for storytelling paved…

One of the interesting problems in designing effective blockchain technologies is, how can we ensure that the systems remain censorship-proof? Although lots of work has been done in cryptoeconomics in order to ensure that blockchains continue pumping out new blocks, and particularly to prevent blocks from being reverted, substantially less attention has been put on the problem of ensuring that transactions that people want to put into the blockchain will actually get in, even if « the powers that be », at least on that particular blockchain, would prefer otherwise. Censorship-resistance in decentralized cryptoeconomic systems is not just a matter of making…