Cryptocurrencies need privacy to scale payments: Binance co-founder CZ

According to Changpeng Chao, co-founder of crypto exchange Binance, the lack of privacy in on-chain transactions is one of the biggest obstacles to mass adoption of cryptocurrencies as a payment and exchange medium. The executive, commonly known as “CZ”, said that companies and institutions cannot pay their expenses in cryptocurrencies due to the lack of…

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WLFI may have signaled a virtual currency crash hours before Bitcoin: Study

World Liberty Financial Token (WLFI), a DeFi governance token affiliated with the Trump family, may have signaled a major market collapse hours before Bitcoin moved, according to a new analysis by data provider Amberdata. The report examines trading activity on October 10, 2025, when approximately $6.93 billion in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated within an…

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ARK Invest buys recently sold Coinbase stock for $15 million

ARK Invest went back to buying Coinbase Global shares after cutting positions, adding about $15 million worth of shares to several of the company’s actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Friday. The Cathie Wood-led asset management firm purchased 66,545 shares of Coinbase through the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), 16,832 shares through the Next Generation Internet…

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J-PAL’s new research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) has funded eight new research studies to understand how innovations in artificial intelligence can be used to fight poverty through its new Project AI Evidence. The era of AI has brought widespread optimism and skepticism about its impact on society. To realize the full potential of AI,…

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Federal Reserve document proposes new risk-weighting model for cryptocurrencies

A new analysis released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposes classifying virtual currencies as a separate asset class for initial margin requirements used in “uncleared” derivatives markets, which include over-the-counter trading and other trades that do not go through a central clearinghouse. The working paper states that this is because cryptocurrencies are more volatile…

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Accelerating science with AI and simulation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez Bombarelli has been using artificial intelligence to create new materials for more than a decade. As technology expanded, so did his ambitions. Now, a newly tenured professor of materials science and engineering believes AI is poised to transform science in ways never before possible. His work at MIT and beyond…

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