Auteur/autrice : Alberto
The chief executive officer of SOL Strategies has a strong belief in the potential of Bitcoin, despite recent setbacks by the top crypto asset. Leah Wald told members of the press she expects bitcoin to make a steep move before year end. Her baseline? The vaunted $175,000 mark – a price she called a conservative read compared to some loftier forecasts. The market has already surprised a lot of people — bitcoin hit about $124,000 recently — so big swings are not impossible. Institutional Interest Drives Momentum According to Wald, part of the push comes from big money moving in.…
XRP futures are exploding on CME as institutional demand hits new heights, open interest smashes records, and speculation grows around ETF approval and corporate treasury adoption. XRP Futures Hit All-Time Highs on CME as Institutional Traders Dive in CME Group disclosed a sharp uptick in XRP futures activity in a post on social media platform […]
Tencent’s Valorant Mobile has had a very strong launch in China with around 170k downloads on its first day. In addition to that, the free-to-play game is reported to have already generated $1 million (£745k) in player revenue. The mobile version of the popular PC shooter was released on August 19th in China exclusively. A global release for the app is expected in the future, but Tencent and Riot Games haven’t confirmed any details yet. Valorant Mobile has already climbed to the top of iOS’ most-downloaded charts and is the seventh biggest earner in the store. Zeng Xiaofeng, vice president…
Speaker diarization is the process of answering “who spoke when” by separating an audio stream into segments and consistently labeling each segment by speaker identity (e.g., Speaker A, Speaker B), thereby making transcripts clearer, searchable, and useful for analytics across domains like call centers, legal, healthcare, media, and conversational AI. As of 2025, modern systems rely on deep neural networks to learn robust speaker embeddings that generalize across environments, and many no longer require prior knowledge of the number of speakers—enabling practical real-time scenarios such as debates, podcasts, and multi-speaker meetings. How Speaker Diarization Works Modern diarization pipelines comprise several…
A Bitcoiner lost $91 million in a single transaction to a social engineering attack on Tuesday, with funds then sent to a privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet, according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT.The victim was deceived by impostors posing as crypto exchange and hardware wallet support, losing 783 Bitcoin (BTC) in a single transaction, ZachXBT said in an X post on Thursday.Blockchain data shows the theft occurred on Tuesday at 11:06 am UTC, and the exploiter started laundering the stolen funds a day later through the Bitcoin privacy-focused Wasabi Wallet to conceal the trail of the stolen funds, ZachXBT said. Social engineering attacks involve…
Ethena Labs on Thursday said its Ethena protocol has generated more than $500 million in cumulative revenue. Growth in both revenue and the circulating supply of its synthetic stablecoin, Ethena USDe (USDe), has accelerated since July as synthetic stablecoins gain market share.Ethena Labs shared the news via a post on X, saying that in the past week, protocol revenue hit $13.4 million and USDe supply hit an all-time high of $11.7 billion. Source: Ethena Labs“Ethena’s revenue has been driven by strong inflows into USDe and favorable market conditions that have amplified returns from its delta-neutral hedging reserve model,” an Ethena Labs…
Key takeaways:Bitcoin bears hold strong incentives below $114,000, likely intensifying pressure ahead of the options expiry.AI-sector spending concerns add turbulence and weigh on investors’ broader risk appetite.A total of $13.8 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) options are set to expire on Aug. 29, a moment many traders believe could determine whether the recent 9.7% correction marks the end of Bitcoin’s bull run or just a temporary pause. The drop to $112,100 on Thursday pushed Bitcoin to its lowest point in six weeks, intensifying bearish momentum ahead of the monthly options expiry.Bullish Bitcoin strategies ill prepared for prices below $114,000The $7.44 billion…
Special thanks to Robert Sams for the development of Seignorage Shares and insights regarding how to correctly value volatile coins in multi-currency systems Note: we are not planning on adding price stabilization to ether; our philosophy has always been to keep ether simple to minimize black-swan risks. Results of this research will likely go into either subcurrencies or independent blockchains One of the main problems with Bitcoin for ordinary users is that, while the network may be a great way of sending payments, with lower transaction costs, much more expansive global reach, and a very high level of censorship resistance,…
Image credit: VALO2ASIA via X XLG Esports and Dragon Ranger Gaming (DRG) have secured the final two VCT China slots for VALORANT Champions in Paris this September. Both teams have qualified through VCT China’s points standings after the region’s fifth contestant for Champions, All Gamers, was eliminated by XLG today. Keep Reading Fnatic qualifies for VALORANT Champions Paris Paper Rex is the first Pacific team to qualify for VALORANT Champions Paris VALORANT Champions 2026 heads to Shanghai XLG Esports has been competing in VCT China after winning last year’s Ascension tournament. While the Chinese team had a rocky start during…
Visa is ramping up its crypto push, seeking blockchain expertise to fuel cutting-edge payment insights, sharpen network efficiency, and unlock fresh growth opportunities in digital transaction innovation. Visa Seeks Strategic Hire to Tap Blockchain Flows for Payment Innovation Edge Visa posted on its careers page that it is seeking an onchain data analyst to join […]