The biggest argument in AI right now is not just who has the best model. It’s who gets to build intelligence in the first place. That’s what makes the latest spotlight from the OpenTensor Foundation so important. In a recent community feature tied to Bittensor Subnet 3 (SN3), OpenTensor highlighted the work around Covenant-72B, a…
The AI agent hype cycle has reached an awkward truth: today’s “autonomous” software is often only autonomous until it needs to pay for something. It can reason, search, plan, call tools, and generate outputs — but the moment it hits a paywall, premium API, dataset, or paid service, the whole illusion tends to collapse into…
IOTA is increasingly being positioned as infrastructure for real-world trade, and the latest signal comes from the healthcare and medical device sector. This week, the TWIN Foundation said its team joined Imperial College London for a roundtable focused on UK medical device exports, where one issue stood out clearly: proving regulatory compliance across different international…
Charles Hoskinson has quietly done something very on-brand: while most of crypto argues in tweets, he apparently wrote a 337-page book on zero-knowledge proofs and cryptography. The release, shared through GitHub under a Creative Commons license, is intended to help close what Hoskinson reportedly sees as a “shockingly low level of understanding” around zero-knowledge technology…
The travel industry may be one of the biggest global markets still running on outdated financial plumbing. Behind the glossy interfaces of hotel bookings, flights, tours, and vacation packages lies a deeply fragmented system of intermediaries, delayed settlements, opaque commission structures, reconciliation headaches, and legacy back-office processes. And that is exactly the problem Xeni Travel…
World Foundation has disclosed that it recently completed $65 million in over-the-counter (OTC) sales of WLD tokens, marking one of the more notable treasury-related crypto funding developments of the week. According to the project’s public update, the transactions were completed with four counterparties over the past week, with the first settlement occurring on March 20,…
Chainlink and Aave have taken another major step in reshaping how decentralized finance captures value, with Aave officially approving the expansion of Chainlink SVR to Arbitrum and Base in a near-unanimous governance vote. The move is designed to increase revenue flowing back to the Aave DAO by recapturing a category of liquidation-related MEV that would…
Ethereum’s builder economy remains one of the strongest forces in crypto, and fresh data from Santiment suggests that some of the ecosystem’s most important projects are still shipping at a steady pace. In a new update, Santiment ranked the top Ethereum-based crypto projects by development activity, offering a snapshot of which teams are pushing the…
Ripple has spent years building real-world partnerships with banks, payment companies, governments, and financial institutions. The goal is simple—but ambitious: to fix the global payments system using blockchain technology and XRP. Today, Ripple (XRP) partnerships form one of the largest institutional networks in crypto. And while it may not always dominate headlines, its influence is…
Few projects have managed to bridge the gap between traditional finance and decentralized systems as effectively as Chainlink. While many crypto platforms compete on speed, scalability, or token speculation, Chainlink has quietly built something far more consequential: a vast network of partnerships with some of the world’s most powerful institutions. From global banks and asset…
