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SoftBank has entered talks to acquire a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer 1X Technologies in a deal that could value the startup at about $6 billion. Summary SoftBank i
A $50 price target sounds like a number someone picked because it was round, not because they ran the math. Uniswap has real revenue now, a live fee switch, a token burn that is accelerating,
U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds posted their strongest combined week of net inflows in 2026 in the week ending August 21, drawing roughly $2.6 billion as trading activity
How Overledger Routes Your Request Every API call made through @quantnetwork's Overledger passes through a Connector, one per blockchain family. That Connector checks node health and routes t
Turning arbitrage pressure into an auction In most automated market maker designs, a price gap between the pool and external markets is a gift to arbitrage traders. They pocket the difference
How Chain Signatures Work @NEARProtocol's Chain Signatures feature allows a single NEAR account, including smart contracts, to sign and execute transactions on external blockchains without re
A different approach to sharding Most blockchains that support sharding fix the number of shards in advance. The Open Network (@ton_blockchain) takes a different path. TON dynamically splits
The Algorand Foundation has publicly launched AC2 (Agentic Communication and Control Protocol), an open-source, blockchain-agnostic standard for secure peer-to-peer communication between user
How Stellar Path Payments Work A path payment on @StellarOrg lets a sender dispatch one asset and have an entirely different asset arrive at the destination, all within a single on-chain oper
Revoult stablecoin — Source: CoinGape Revolut launches EURR, its first euro-backed stablecoin, initially rolling out in Denmark, Poland and Portugal. EURR is issued by Bridge Building S.A., a
@IOGroup has confirmed that the IO Labs engineering teams responsible for core @Cardano infrastructure, covering the ledger, indexer, formal methods, and uptime work, are transitioning to a n
StarkWare said it executed the first quantum-resistant Bitcoin(BTC) transaction on mainnet, using a method that reaches roughly 118 bits of security against quantum attack. Key Points: StarkW
