Auteur/autrice : Alberto

HEROIC has benched Belarusian AWPer Gleb “gr1ks” Gazin in a move that has shocked the CS2 community. Additionally, FUT has signed the majority of the ex-NAVI Juniors squad. The highly-rated youngster was a part of the team for less than two months, having joined following the transfer of Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia to G2 Esports. gr1ks at IEM Cologne 2025 Image Credit: ESL gr1k’s time on HEROIC cut short in surprise benching In his short time with the team, the 19-year-old played in two events, FISSURE Playground 1 and IEM Cologne 2025. gr1k failed to hit the ground running in either…

Bitcoin has reclaimed the crucial $115,000 level after briefly dipping to $112,000 earlier this week, signaling renewed strength from the bulls. The sharp recovery highlights buyers’ resilience following recent volatility, with price action now showing signs of bullish dominance. This rebound comes as traders and investors brace for the potential next leg up, eyeing higher resistance levels. Related Reading Key market data adds weight to the bullish case. The Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Net Position — a closely watched indicator that tracks the balance between long and short positions — has shifted in favor of the bulls, showing a clear…

Opinion by: Samuele Marro, PhD student in machine learning at the University of OxfordThe Web3 AI space has fallen into a trap. Somewhere along the way, “decentralized AI” became synonymous with “blockchain AI.” This false equivalency actively harms innovation. Excellent decentralized AI projects contort themselves into blockchain frameworks, not because it makes technical sense, but because that’s the only way to access Web3 funding, expertise and communities. The blockchain-first mentality isn’t just limiting what decentralized AI could become; it’s cannibalizing it.Web3 is not blockchainWeb3 ideals emerged from cypherpunk: trustlessness, permissionlessness, censorship resistance and user ownership. The industry has forgotten a critical…

Bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a combined $503 million in inflows on Thursday, marking one of the strongest days for institutional sentiment in recent weeks. Bitcoin notched its second consecutive green day, while ether funds posted their largest inflow since mid-July. Crypto ETFs Roar Back: BTC Pulls in $281 Million, ETH Adds $222 […]

The Spot Ethereum ETFs have recorded significant outflows recently, sparking a bearish sentiment for the ETH price. These outflows also come at a time when the altcoin has dropped from a six-month high of $3,900 and looks to retest the psychological $3,000 level.  Ethereum ETFs See Record Outflows Putting The ETH Price At Risk SoSo Value data shows that the Ethereum ETFs recorded a net outflow of $465.06 million on August 4, their largest outflow since they launched last year. These funds also recorded a net outflow of $152.26 million on August 1, which was the first net outflow after…

Gentle Mates have been relegated from VCT following their 1-2 defeat to GIANTX in VCT 2025 EMEA: Stage 2. The French organisation are cast down to challengers as they had to make playoffs of Stage 2 to qualify for the Ascension tournament, which could have saved their place. In Valorant, Ascension-qualified VCT teams must either qualify for Champions to retain their VCT spot or make playoffs of an EMEA stage in order to qualify for Ascension and have a shot at defending their spot. As Gentle Mates currently sit 0-4 in their group in EMEA: Stage 2, they can now…

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become important for modern vision and multimodal models, enabling applications such as zero-shot image classification and serving as vision encoders in MLLMs. However, most CLIP variants, including Meta CLIP, are limited to English-only data curation, ignoring a significant amount of non-English content from the worldwide web. Scaling CLIP to include multilingual data has two challenges: (a) the lack of an efficient method to curate non-English data at scale and (b) the decline of English performance when adding multilingual data, also known as the curse of multilinguality. These issues hinder the development of unified models optimized…

The crypto venture capital landscape has made a decisive pivot back to Bitcoin, driven largely by its growing success as an institutional asset. As Cointelegraph reported, the emerging Bitcoin (BTC) DeFi sector attracted $175 million across 32 VC deals in the first half of the year. At the same time, Bitcoin treasury companies are injecting billions into the market by acquiring BTC for long-term strategic reserves.The Bitcoin DeFi industry is growing as demand for BTC-focused financial services continues to surge. Source: MaestroBeyond Bitcoin, several recurring VC themes remained prominent in July. Investors continued to back startups in tokenization, stablecoin infrastructure and…

Today in crypto, US President Donald Trump’s executive order opening the door for 401(k) retirement plans to invest in crypto has been met with cautious optimism in the crypto community, Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have officially wound up their years-long court battle, and President Trump said he will nominate Stephen Miran to temporarily fill a vacant Federal Reserve seat.Bitcoin likely to lead gains from Trump’s 401(k) crypto orderUS President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday opening the door for Americans to include crypto and other alternative assets in their 401(k) retirement accounts and…

Hey everyone, I spent some time with our Canadian friends in Toronto after presenting « Ethereum: The World Computer » at Blockchain Training Conference last month and I wanted to provide a quick update on some of the exciting happenings in the Ethereum dev ecosystem. Lots of things are brewing behinds the scenes, so let’s jump in! Projects Mist Ethereum wallet has been refined significantly over the last several months expanding support to arbitrary contract interaction via the « custom contracts » tab. This is a massive improvement over sending transactions on the command line, as was often required in Frontier. With several new…