Small Models Could Crack the Private AI Problem
A new study reveals small models with curated "Skills" can outperform frontier models, potentially unlocking fully homomorphic encryption for practical use and finally delivering mathematically guaranteed privacy.
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The Ethereum L2 Squeeze
Much will come in the wake of Vitalik's declaration that "the original vision of L2s... no longer makes sense."
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With the L1 scaling and blockspace now an abundant commodity, L2s and Alt-EVM chains must differentiate or get squeezed out 👇
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Ethereum Is Getting a Censorship Shield with EIP-7805
Ethereum's upcoming Hegotá upgrade will include FOCIL, a new mechanism that mitigates transaction censorship.
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Here's how the EIP works👇
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When the Base first launched, I hoped there would be to a boon of fun apps, and I was right.
I'm feeling the same way about MegaETH. The team is top notch, the tech is next-gen, and the chain's app ecosystem has tons of potential.
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Here are the early MegaETH games to play and potentially ea...
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OpenClaw, an open-source agent framework, went viral in late Jan. as ERC-8004 launched on mainnet.
The timing matters: agents finally have the identity, reputation, and payment infrastructure they need to operate autonomously.
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Today, we're breaking down what OpenClaw is, why it fits crypt...
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Stablecoins have cemented themselves as a global killer use case for crypto.
Initially a crypto experiment, stablecoins have become a major financial innovation, now attracting banks due to regulatory clarity and the GENIUS Act.
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Stablecoins are the plumbing of DeFi—yet most of today's supply is tethered to TradFi approaches.
When a stablecoin is custodial, you inherit the issuer's worldview, legal pressures, and blacklisting risks. If it's backed by real-world assets like U.S. Treasury bills, holders don't get direct, onchain redemption righ...
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In a grim bit of irony, the very day Binance published its postmortem on the record-setting 10/10 liquidations, crypto investors were subjected to another brutal flash crash.
Last Friday, BTC dropped down deep into the 70s, ETH close to $2K, while more than $2.5B in leveraged positions were wiped out.
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The privacy trade has been a rare bright spot amid crypto market stagnation.
ZEC's September run reached a nine-year high in November, 28x above its 1y low, before tanking when the Zcash core dev team announced they were leaving over a governance dispute. XMR has since taken command of the privacy trade.
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The New York Stock Exchange, the largest equity node in the world with over $44T in market cap, just announced it's building an onchain tokenization platform.
The announcement lays the groundwork for blockchain's watershed moment: mass adoption of tokenized finance.
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Last Monday, Google announced UCP — an open standard that gives agents a shared language for commerce.
Agents like Gemini can now discover and purchase products across everyday marketplaces, with UCP making the entire shopping cycle machine-readable — letting it mix with our dear x402.
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Crypto may finally get the market structure it's craved: the bipartisan Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (DAMCA), a 278-page bill from months of Senate negotiations with industry input.
It divides oversight between SEC and CFTC, with concessions drawing mixed reactions. Paradigm's Justin Slaughter called it "a big win...
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Prediction markets are popping up everywhere, and we're starting to see more remixes of the model.
One project I've started tracking this week is Cue, an upstart referral-only onchain opinion markets platform on Solana.
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Here's how to get started 👇
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Last month’s x402 V2 rollout brought us closer to the machine economy future. But agent legitimacy verification is still the big gap — ERC-8004 fixes that.
Zyfai (a leading yield agent integrating the standard) says ERC-8004 launches this Friday, bringing onchain identity + reputation for trusted agent marketplaces.
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Prediction markets got their big break in 2025, validated by the 2024 U.S. election, they exploded with regulatory clarity opening up novel markets.
Today we're turning to top prediction market events for 2026 to see what the hive mind of bettors believe will go down in the new year.
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