Former FTX US President Brett Harrison Launches AX, A Regulated Exchange for Perpetual Contracts on Traditional Assets

Former FTX US President Brett Harrison is back with a new venture, Architect Financial Technologies, and its flagship platform, AX, a regulated exchange built for perpetual futures on traditional assets. AX introduces a way to trade stocks, forex, ETFs, indexes, and commodities with the same flexibility and efficiency as crypto perpetual contracts. In short, it … Read more

Circle Unveils Arc, A Payments-Focused Blockchain Backed by Global Giants

Circle, the company behind the USD Coin (USDC), has launched the public testnet of its new blockchain, Arc, marking a major step in its plan to bring traditional finance onchain. The testnet, which went live with over 100 global partners, includes heavyweights such as BlackRock, Visa, HSBC, AWS, Anthropic, and Goldman Sachs. Arc is designed … Read more

Truth Social and Crypto.com Team Up to Launch “Truth Predict”, Where Social Meets Speculation

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company behind Truth Social, is stepping into decentralized finance with a new move that could reshape how social media interacts with money. The company announced plans to launch Truth Predict, a blockchain-based prediction market integrated directly into Truth Social, and powered by Crypto.com. This marks the world’s … Read more

Kalshi, Polymarket, and CME Agree: The Fed’s About to Cut

On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s big day, prediction markets and futures are practically winking at traders—betting on a quarter-point rate cut. Analysts and crypto watchers alike are bracing for what could be a double shot of caffeine for both bitcoin and U.S. equities if Jerome Powell’s crew keeps trimming rates through 2025. Markets … Read more

Trump on Fed Chair Powell: ‘He’ll Be out of There in a Few Months, and We’ll Get Somebody New’

U.S. President Donald Trump reignited his feud with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling him “incompetent” and hinting that Powell’s tenure could end “in a few months” following a dinner with business leaders in Japan on Oct. 28, 2025. Trump Takes Aim at Powell — Again Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after the … Read more

Bitcoin Miner Terawulf Secures 25-Year AI Compute Contract Worth $9.5B

Terawulf has inked a 25-year joint venture with Fluidstack to build a 168-megawatt (MW) high-performance computing (HPC) facility in Abernathy, Texas — a deal valued at roughly $9.5 billion and backed by Google’s $1.3 billion credit support. Terawulf and Fluidstack Launch $9.5B AI Compute Venture Backed by Google The agreement reportedly deepens Terawulf’s relationship with … Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grokipedia — A Real-Time, Truth-Seeking Rival to Wikipedia

Elon Musk’s xAI just lobbed another moonshot into the information galaxy with Grokipedia — an artificial intelligence (AI)-fueled encyclopedia gunning to give Wikipedia a serious run for its hyperlinks. The platform doesn’t just store facts; Grok claims it hunts them down, checks their pulse, and edits them on the fly. Inside Grokipedia: Elon Musk’s ‘Maximum … Read more

x402: The Internet-Native Payment Standard Powering the AI Agent Economy

Traditional online payment systems are outdated. They’re slow, expensive, and depend heavily on humans. x402 changes that. It introduces a new way for developers and AI agents to pay for APIs, software, and services directly with stablecoins, all over standard HTTP connections. In simple terms, it makes autonomous, instant payments possible between machines, without needing … Read more

US Energy Department, AMD Partner on $1B AI Supercomputing Project

Reuters first reported the partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), marking a $1 billion public-private initiative to advance artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing for scientific research. DOE Taps AMD to Lead $1B Supercomputing Push for AI and Science Announced Monday in an exclusive report published by Reuters, … Read more