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Japanese public company Metaplanet announced it will issue $21.25 million in zero-coupon bonds to fund additional Bitcoin purchases. This is the Company’s third bond issuance in just one week, continuing its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy. According to a regulatory filing on Friday, the Tokyo-based Company will issue its 14th Series of Ordinary Bonds to EVO FUND, with each bond having a face value of $625,000. The bonds will mature on November 7, 2025, and carry no interest rate. “The funds raised will be allocated to the purchase of Bitcoin,” Metaplanet stated in the filing, referencing its previously disclosed Bitcoin acquisition…

General Hospital sees Lulu Spencer‘s (Alexa Havins Bruening) Spidey senses tingling. She’s on a quest for answers about Brook Lynn Quartermaine‘s (Amanda Setton) baby. And it could be Lulu and BLQ who get the truth and expose Lois Cerullo‘s (Rena Sofer) awful lies about Dante Falconeri‘s (Dominic Zamprogna) secret son. We’re going to talk about how Lulu may be the one to expose Lois’ lies and how she may bring Brook Lynn into it instead of dropping a bomb onto her. Can you imagine if these two longtime rivals, Lulu and BLQ actually started conspiring? Lulu Spencer’s Secret Struggle: Dante…

Vulnerable beneficiaries are being left without essential support as charities across the UK are forced to scale back services or halt expansion plans due to surging operational costs, according to leading audit, tax and business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. The warning comes amid growing concern that increased National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and the rising National Minimum Wage (NMW) are placing an unsustainable financial burden on third-sector organisations — many of which are already operating on tight budgets. “The effective rate of NIC that charities must pay has risen to 18% for many,” said Mark Hart, Audit, Accounting & Outsourcing Partner…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In a conversation on The Scoop, David Bailey, chief executive of Bitcoin Inc. and confidant of US President Trump, mapped out a trajectory that he believes will carry the world’s first cryptocurrency from insurgent technology to primary reserve asset “much sooner than people think.” Speaking with host Frank Chaparro, Bailey described a confluence of political opportunism, sovereign-scale mining, and balance-sheet securitisation that, in his view, is steadily eroding the old monetary order. Bailey did not mince words about the scale of the transition. “We are on a…

Community & educationAccount Abstraction Afterhours – Season 2Mirko Garozzo & Francesco AndreoliProducing educational videos with thought leaders in the account abstraction ecosystem, with Season 2 focusing on the application layer and how dapps are using account abstraction.Community & educationACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)Scientific conference on advances in theory, empirics, and applications at the interface of economics and computation.Community & educationA General Forum on Ethereum Localism (GFEL): Boulder 2025OpenCivicsEvent in Boulder, USA that explored Ethereum’s real-world use cases in the realm of social impact and public goods through talks, unconference sessions, and a quadratic funding allocation to local community…

Bridging Art, Technology, and Cardboard: NFTCulture’s Next Evolution Since our inception, NFTCulture has been dedicated to covering the ever-evolving landscape of NFTs — focusing on the intersection of art, technology, and innovation. From spotlighting groundbreaking digital artists to unpacking the latest drops on platforms like SuperRare and Nifty Gateway, we’ve built a strong community around digital ownership and creative excellence. But there’s a new frontier rising rapidly in the NFT space — blockchain-based Trading Card Games (TCGs) — and we’re excited to announce our expansion into this thrilling sector with the launch of our new platform: Introducing Cardcore.xyz — A…

The European Union continues to integrate and standardize crypto-asset market regulations through the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). MiCA introduces uniform standards and requirements for crypto-asset service providers (CASPs and VASPs), including crucial aspects such as capital adequacy, corporate governance, client asset protection, and stringent anti-money laundering (AML) measures. AdamSmith.lt actively supports numerous businesses adapting to these new European standards, closely monitoring regulatory developments and providing clients with comprehensive and efficient solutions. Our support includes developing and implementing documentation aligned with MiCA and the standards set by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Expert Commentary Mark Mengel, AdamSmith.lt, expert…

The government of Singapore released a blueprint today for global collaboration on artificial intelligence safety following a meeting of AI researchers from the US, China, and Europe. The document lays out a shared vision for working on AI safety through international cooperation rather than competition.“Singapore is one of the few countries on the planet that gets along well with both East and West,” says Max Tegmark, a scientist at MIT who helped convene the meeting of AI luminaries last month. “They know that they’re not going to build [artificial general intelligence] themselves—they will have it done to them—so it is…

The appointments—which include an attorney who helped steer a major anti-trans case—are about the failures of the Democrats as much as the ruthlessness of Republicans. Edit Ad Policy Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.(Francis Chung / Politico / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Donald Trump unleashed his first round of judicial nominees over the past week: four district court appointments and one appellate judge. Trump made 234 judicial appointments during his first term. He’ll now have the opportunity to make hundreds more, and we can be sure…

NVIDIA continues to push the boundaries of open AI development by open-sourcing its Open Code Reasoning (OCR) model suite — a trio of high-performance large language models purpose-built for code reasoning and problem-solving. The 32B, 14B, and 7B variants, all released under the Apache 2.0 license. Benchmarked to Beat the Best The Open Code Reasoning (OCR) models come with notable benchmark achievements, outperforming OpenAI’s o3-Mini and o1 (low) models on the LiveCodeBench benchmark. LiveCodeBench is a comprehensive evaluation suite for code reasoning tasks such as debugging, code generation, and logic completion in real-world developer environments. In direct comparison, NVIDIA’s 32B…