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Kimi K2: China’s Open-Source AI Agent That Redefines Coding The AI landscape just shifted. Again. On July 11, 2025, Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2 — a 1-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts mod
Uniswap price is up more than 10% today, trading around $4.85, with trading volume jumping 65% as UNI becomes the top gainer across the crypto market. The move comes as Uniswap’s role in toke
Until 3 September 2026, 01:00 UTC, the Sushi DAO is voting on how much of the protocol's fee income still reaches xSUSHI holders. The proposal caps buybacks at 1 percent of protocol fees plus
Security remains a top priority across crypto, yet losses keep climbing, with over $3.63 billion stolen since 2025. CEXes are most exposed through private key compromise, while DEXes face sma
Nigeria-based and Africa’s fastest-growing fintech, Moniepoint Inc., has risen to stardom over the past few years. Founded in 2015 by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike (following their departur
TLDR: Switchboard halted Move-based oracle operations on Aptos, Sui, IOTA and Movement after a potential compromise. An IOTA oracle incident allegedly pushed a price feed to $10M, enabling ab
If you have funds sitting in the DeFi lending protocol Ajna v2, withdraw them now. The development team itself called for exactly that on August 29, 2026 at 04:58 UTC: withdraw all quote toke
Switchboard has halted operations across Aptos, Sui, IOTA and Movement after flagging a potential compromise, taking the oracle network offline on all four chains at once while the incident i
Key Takeaways Six Cosmos EVM networks were exploited. Attackers converted about $5.72 million in assets. Cosmos Labs underestimated the reported vulnerability. Operators must upgrade or halt
Polkadot price trades near $0.84 after falling below its 50-day EMA. DOT now has a hard supply cap of 2.1 billion tokens. More than 900 million DOT has moved into staking. The Polkadot price
Chainlink (LINK) is displaying renewed bullish momentum after rebounding from major support levels, with technical analysts highlighting the presence of optimistic chart patterns and elevated
One week after the European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona returns to the technology scene. The AI Summit Barcelona takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026 at the World Trade Center, on th
