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Top Stories of The WeekCrypto execs center stage as Trump signs stablecoin bill into lawUS President Donald Trump signed one of the first bills related to crypto and blockchain of his administration into law on Friday after delays due to debates in the House of Representatives and Senate.In a Friday signing ceremony attended by many cryptocurrency company executives and high-ranking Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, Trump signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act into law.The president acknowledged the support of several crypto figures in attendance, including Kraken co-CEO David…

United States congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the GENIUS stablecoin bill creates a “backdoor” for the government to effectively create a central bank digital currency, veiled as privately issued crypto tokens.The lawmaker said that regulated stablecoins feature “functional surveillance capabilities,” which make them indistinguishable from CBDCs. In a separate social media post, she added: « This bill regulates stablecoins and provides for the backdoor central bank digital currency. The Federal Reserve has been planning a CBDC for years, and this will open the door to move you to a cashless society and into digital currency that can be weaponized against you…

Semilore Faleti is a cryptocurrency writer specialized in the field of journalism and content creation. While he started out writing on several subjects, Semilore soon found a knack for cracking down on the complexities and intricacies in the intriguing world of blockchains and cryptocurrency. Semilore is drawn to the efficiency of digital assets in terms of storing, and transferring value. He is a staunch advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency as he believes it can improve the digitalization and transparency of the existing financial systems. In two years of active crypto writing, Semilore has covered multiple aspects of the digital…

We’re here with our last hurrah before we head into 2021 – read on for the latest news on a few grantees! Gitcoin for CLR matching Gitcoin’s CLR grants were one of the first real-world uses of quadratic funding, with the number of unique contributors to a grant carrying greater weight than the dollar total in determining the match amount. CLR grants have come a very long way since the first round in early 2018! With 16 organizations and almost as many individuals pledging matching funds as of Round 8, it has grown into a truly community-driven support system for…

Babybay at VALORANT Game Changers 2023. Image credit: Adela Sznajder/Riot Games G2 Esports has announced Andrej ‘babybay’ Francisty as a stand-in for Nathan ‘leaf’ Orf for the start of VCT Americas Stage 2. Babybay is a former Overwatch pro player who had a short competitive run on FaZe Clan’s VALORANT before fully transitioning to esports casting. Now, he will be competing with G2 Esports, achieving one of his dreams. Keep Reading Every VALORANT roster move for VCT Americas Stage 2 GIANTX releases Dandadan-inspired promo for VCT EMEA Stage 2 Paper Rex moves Mindfreak to inactive VALORANT roster G2 confirmed babybay’s…

LLMs have made impressive strides in generating code for various programming tasks. However, they mostly rely on recognizing patterns from static code examples rather than understanding how the code behaves during execution. This often leads to programs that look correct but fail when run. While recent methods introduce iterative refinement and self-debugging, they typically act in separate steps, generating, testing, and then revising. Unlike human programmers who constantly run fragments of code and adjust based on real-time output, these models cannot integrate execution feedback continuously, limiting their effectiveness in producing truly functional code. The Role of Program Synthesis and Prompting…

According to Cyvers, a hack was detected at the Indian centralized exchange CoinDCX, resulting in the theft of approximately $44.2 million in USDC and USDT from one of its operational wallets on Solana. Official Confirmation and Initial Exchange Response The blockchain security firm Cyvers said its system detected a hack into the Indian centralized exchange, […]

Financial analyst Taylor Kenney warns that current government monetary policies are accelerating a massive, hidden transfer of wealth to economic elites while creating a deceptive “illusion of prosperity” for the general public. Wealth Transfer Accelerates as Currency Devalues, Gold Advocate Warns Taylor Kenney of the full-service precious metals firm ITM Trading argues that continuous government […]

A popular XRP proponent recently projected a clear path for XRP to reach $1,000. Particularly, crypto commentator BarriC laid out a multi-stage price forecast that places the XRP price on a trajectory toward $1,000. The statement, posted on the social media platform X, follows XRP’s recent surge to a new all-time high for the first time since 2018. Expert Predicts Multi-Stage XRP Price Explosion XRP has been on an interesting price run since the beginning of the month, which kicked off when it broke out of its long-term consolidation below $2.2 on July 5. This was followed by a string…

Macroeconomic drivers, including the decline of the US dollar (USD), will dampen the effects of the Bitcoin (BTC) halving cycle, which is the source of the market booms and busts that have been a feature of BTC since 2009, according to investor and founding partner of venture capital (VC) firm Draper Associates, Tim Draper.“Between 10-20 years from now, the dollar will be extinct,” Draper told Cointelegraph in an interview. “The world is changing, and we are watching it happen. We are right in the center of an anthropological leap forward,” he added.As Bitcoin forms new all-time highs, the Dollar Currency Index…