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Bitcoin’s layer-2 scaling platform, Lightning Network, could see a surge in stablecoin volume over the next couple of years, driven by increased retail and institutional adoption, according to industry experts. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Graham Krizek, founder and CEO of Lightning Network payments provider Voltage, said increased adoption of the layer-2 network will see it handle 5% of the global stablecoin volume as early as 2028. “Five percent [or more] of stablecoin volumes [will be] on Lightning Network at minimum in three years.”Current daily stablecoin volume is around $180 billion, according to CoinGecko, which means there could be as much as $9 billion…

BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust has reached $10 billion in assets under management, just one year after its launch. Summary BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum ETF has surpassed $10 billion in assets just over a year after going live. It’s the third-fastest ETF in U.S. history to reach the milestone, trailing only two Bitcoin ETFs. ETH inflows have surged in July, with ETH ETFs outperforming Bitcoin ETFs on multiple days. The milestone makes ETHA the fastest non-Bitcoin ETF to reach that threshold and the third-fastest overall in U.S. ETF history, behind only the iShares Bitcoin (BTC) Trust and Fidelity’s FBTC. The update was…

HLTV have changed the application of Prize pool in ESL events, increasing the value of wins at earlier stages of IEM Cologne, amongst others. The HLTV page for the event now displays Stage 1 as having a $28,000 prize pool, allowing for VRS points from the stage to be calculated with that as the prize money basis for VRS’s ‘Event Weight’ metric. This change has been reflected on all future ESL events on HLTV that have the same stage-based format, meaning Pro League 22, IEM Krakow, and Pro League 23 will all benefit from increased VRS weighting in their opening…

One of the shared, fundamental goals of most chemistry researchers is the need to predict a molecule’s properties, such as its boiling or melting point. Once researchers can pinpoint that prediction, they’re able to move forward with their work yielding discoveries that lead to medicines, materials, and more. Historically, however, the traditional methods of unveiling these predictions are associated with a significant cost — expending time and wear and tear on equipment, in addition to funds.Enter a branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning (ML). ML has lessened the burden of molecule property prediction to a degree, but the…

Bitcoin mining firm BitMine Immersion Technologies has bought up over $2 billion of Ether in just 16 days, retaking the lead among a flurry of newly formed Ether treasury companies. BitMine said in a statement on Thursday that in the last 16 days, it had bought up 566,776 Ether (ETH), worth over $2.03 billion.Tom Lee, the managing partner of FundStrat and the chairman of BitMine, said after the latest buying spree, the company is “well on our way to achieving our goal of acquiring and staking 5% of the overall ETH supply.”BitMine’s aggressive buying spree signals a growing interest from institutions…

Bitcoin (BTC) may be on the cusp of another rally, as leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance saw its spot volume rise from around 40% on July 15 to as high as 60% on July 18. Historical data suggests that surges in Binance’s spot market share have frequently preceded upward movements in BTC’s price. Bitcoin Rally Imminent? Binance Data Suggests So According to a CryptoQuant Quicktake post by contributor Amr Taha, Binance’s spot volume market share surging to 58% on July 23, has further strengthened the premier cryptocurrency’s $117,000 support. Related Reading This marks the second notable spike in Binance’s spot market…

Image Credit: Data Bet DATA.BET, once a specialist solely in esports odds and data, has taken a significant leap by securing a new deal with Odds Reactor to supply comprehensive sports betting content. The partnership marks a defining moment for both companies: DATA.BET gets to showcase its expanded sportsbook across 50 different sporting disciplines, while Odds Reactor leverages this depth to serve regulated markets throughout Europe and beyond. The technical integration took just three months and allows Odds Reactor’s clients access to more than 50,000 monthly events and over 1,000 separate betting markets, all backed by official data sources and…

Existing long-CoT reasoning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in mathematical reasoning by generating reasoning trajectories with iterative self-verification and refinement. However, open-source long-CoT models depend only on natural language reasoning traces, making them computationally expensive and prone to errors without verification mechanisms. Although tool-aided reasoning provides greater efficiency and reliability for large-scale numerical computations through frameworks like OpenHands that integrate code interpreters, these agentic approaches struggle with abstract or conceptually complex reasoning problems. DualDistill Framework and Agentic-R1 Model Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have proposed DualDistill, a distillation framework that combines trajectories from two complementary teachers to create a unified student…

Rapidly growing institutional interest in Ethereum could trigger a supply shock and position Ether to outperform Bitcoin in the next six months, says Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz.“There’s not a lot of supply of ETH, and so I think ETH probably has a chance to outperform Bitcoin in the next three to six months,” Novogratz told CNBC on Thursday.Ether is “destined to at least knock” on $4,000“If ETH takes out $4,000, it goes into price discovery,” he said, referring to a level that represents an approximate 8.5% jump from Ether’s (ETH) current price of $3,618, according to Nansen.Ether is trading…

The Ghanaian central bank is set to introduce a draft regulatory framework for licensing digital asset companies by September. Acknowledging Crypto’s Enduring Presence The Ghanaian central bank has reiterated its goal to license digital asset companies, stating that a draft regulatory framework to oversee them is set to be tabled in the nation’s parliament by […]