Author: Vidya Saras

Twenty One Capital, a new Bitcoin treasury company led by Strike founder Jack Mallers with the support of Tether, SoftBank and Cantor Fitzgerald, is looking to supplant Michael Saylor’s Strategy to become the “superior vehicle for investors seeking capital-efficient Bitcoin exposure.”Twenty One revealed it plans to launch with 42,000 Bitcoin (BTC) (worth $3.9 billion) with roughly 23,950 BTC coming from Tether, 10,500 BTC from Softbank and 7,000 BTC from Bitfinex, which will be converted into equity at $10 per share, according to an April 23 statement.The firm is seeking a public listing via a blank-check merger with Cantor Equity Partners…

The Pectra network upgrade is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum mainnet on May 07, 2025 at epoch 364032 (10:05:11 UTC)! Mainnet client releases are listed below. Pectra Overview Pectra follows last year’s Dencun upgrade. It introduces features to augment Ethereum accounts, improve the validator experience, support L2 scaling and more! This post explores these three major improvements in detail. For a more comprehensive overview, see ethereum.org’s guide to the upgrade. From EOAs to Smart Accounts EIP-7702 represents a major step toward widespread account abstraction, enabling users to enhance their Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) with smart contract functionality. This hybrid…

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The U.S.’s friendly crypto stance and strategic reserve plans have reportedly prompted other countries to follow suit.   Binance is advising multiple countries on how they can create crypto regulations and strategic reserves, according to a report from the Financial Times. So is its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), in an apparently separate capacity. Binance’s current CEO, Richard Teng, said the firm has been “approached by quite a lot” of countries for its assistance with digital asset regulatory frameworks. Several approaches involved governments and sovereign wealth funds looking to establish their own crypto reserves, and the company is helping them,…

In the eyes of many citizens, distortions and falsehoods from the Trump media machine have transformed Harvard from a symbol of American excellence to a leftist hellhole. And crucially, they have facilitated an ends justify the means approach to policy that is allowing the government to commit legally suspect actions.

MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI models or come up with new ones.For instance, the researchers used their framework to combine elements of two different algorithms to create a new image-classification algorithm that performed 8 percent better than current state-of-the-art approaches.The periodic table stems from one key idea: All these algorithms learn a specific kind of relationship between data points. While each algorithm may accomplish that in a slightly different…

Despite an explosion in cybersecurity tools and awareness campaigns, organizations around the world are still surrendering to ransomware attackers at an alarming rate. According to new research from Rubrik Zero Labs, 86% of organizations globally admitted to paying ransom demands following a cyberattack in the past year — a figure that underscores a harsh reality: recovery, not prevention, is where most defenses still crumble. This finding comes from Rubrik’s 2025 report, “The State of Data Security: A Distributed Crisis,” which surveyed more than 1,600 IT and security leaders across ten countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, India, and…

SoftBank, one of Japan’s most powerful corporate institutions, is reportedly in talks with Tether and Cantor Fitzgerald to launch a $3 billion Bitcoin treasury vehicle slated for public listing. According to Bloomberg, the structure is expected to be capitalized in Bitcoin—not fiat—with SoftBank contributing $900 million, Tether $1.5 billion, and Bitfinex $600 million. If finalized, the entity would launch with approximately 32,000 BTC—instantly ranking among the top five Bitcoin-holding public companies globally. It would also mark a significant expansion of a corporate strategy that’s already redefining capital formation: the Bitcoin treasury model. Why Corporations Are Turning to Bitcoin The idea…

Brian Littrell and former Backstreet Boys bandmate Kevin Richardson publicly supported Brian’s son, Baylee Littrell, following his American Idol elimination. After his departure from the reality competition show during a live elimination on Monday, April 21, Baylee’s Instagram reaction, posted the following day, attracted a loving response from his dad, 50. “Bubba I am and always will be in your corner. You are so strong and so very talented, and inspire me every day. It’s never the end, only the beginning for so many to be blessed by your gifts….. you killed it last night. 🔥❤️,” Brian wrote. Three hours…

It started, as all great things do these days, with a streaming binge. Somewhere between insomnia, jet lag, nostalgia, and a desperate need for a bit of idealism in a very unideal world, I found myself rewatching The West Wing, and then The Newsroom. And then bits of A Few Good Men, The Social Network, even that short-lived, overambitious love letter to television, Studio 60, having watch a taping of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in New York.  Before I knew it, I was deep in the Sorkinverse — half-preaching the Bartlet doctrine to Bruno the Spaniel,  and half-wondering…