Author: Vidya Saras

Follow Frank on X. On a recent episode of the Coinage podcast, guest SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said that she is open to reconsidering in-kind redemptions for spot bitcoin ETFs.(For those who aren’t familiar with the term “in-kind redemption,” it refers to the ability to withdraw the bitcoin you’ve purchased via an ETF into your own custody. In essence, it turns a bitcoin IOU into the real thing.)BREAKING: SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce previews new pro-crypto changes coming to the SECETF in-kind redemptions and ability for ETF issuers to begin staking likely done "early on"Both ETFs now have more than $100B…

The Shiba Inu price has crashed below $0.000022, declining by more than 20% in just one week. This massive crash has left 43% of SHIB investors facing losses. Moreover, the recent drop in the Shiba Inu price comes alongside a broader meme coin market decline, with top coins like Dogecoin, Pepe, and Bonk also experiencing a price crash.  Investors In Loss As Shiba Inu Crashes Below $0.000022 The Shiba Inu price is struggling to maintain stability after experiencing devastating declines recently. The meme coin’s fall to $0.000020 has been a significant blow to its investors, marking one of the steepest…

High fees have made life difficult for travelers through these Dark Forests. The Pools of Mem once clouded, now clarified by the filter of 1559, reveal that they are not deep enough to sustain. Legends tell of a society flourishing under the abundance brought about by DankShard, of giant Roll-Ups subsisting on fields of nourishing Data Blobs, each supporting their own fractal nutrient layers. To summon DankShard, our guides point us to a Ceremony. All members of the Lands of Ether and abroad are encouraged to contribute. Each will add their unique contribution to the collective and in doing so,…

Web3 fantasy shooter Kokodi Arena has officially launched Season 1 on the HyperPlay platform and is now open to NFT holders.Kokodi Arena combines elements of battle royale and extraction shooter genres, offering a mix of strategy, teamwork, and high-stakes combat.This new season brings the Play-to-Airdrop feature, where players can earn rewards such as $KOKO tokens, NFTs, and other in-game items by accumulating Play Points (PP) through gameplay. Source: KOKODI GamesPlay-to-Airdrop Mechanics and RewardsIn Season 1, Kokodi Arena introduces Play Points as the in-game currency for earning rewards.Players can earn Play Points through Quick Match, the game’s primary mode for competitive…

2024 saw several key developments that could shape the future of crypto. Here are the year’s most important events. The SEC approved spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs over the course of 2024, allowing funds in each category to begin trading in January and July, respectively. Bitcoin ETFs alone have achieved a $119 billion market cap and $5 billion in volume, indicating widespread investor interest. The funds could pave the way for other funds in the future, including several XRP ETFs that are currently in the application stage. Nearly two years after its collapse, FTX moved toward paying former customers in…

OpenAI today announced an improved version of its most capable artificial intelligence model to date—one that takes even more time to deliberate over questions—just a day after Google announced its first model of this type.OpenAI’s new model, called o3, replaces o1, which the company introduced in September. Like o1, the new model spends time ruminating over a problem in order to deliver better answers to questions that require step-by-step logical reasoning. (OpenAI chose to skip the “o2” moniker because it’s already the name of a mobile carrier in the UK.)“We view this as the beginning of the next phase of…

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Since the release of BERT in 2018, encoder-only transformer models have been widely used in natural language processing (NLP) applications due to their efficiency in retrieval and classification tasks. However, these models face notable limitations in contemporary applications. Their sequence length, capped at 512 tokens, hampers their ability to handle long-context tasks effectively. Furthermore, their architecture, vocabulary, and computational efficiency have not kept pace with advancements in hardware and training methodologies. These shortcomings become especially apparent in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, where encoder-based models provide context for large language models (LLMs). Despite their critical role, these models often rely on…

Cybercriminals are selling hundreds of thousands of credential sets stolen with the help of a cracked version of Acunetix, a powerful commercial web app vulnerability scanner, new research finds. The cracked software is being resold as a cloud-based attack tool by at least two different services, one of which KrebsOnSecurity traced to an information technology firm based in Turkey. Araneida Scanner. Cyber threat analysts at Silent Push said they recently received reports from a partner organization that identified an aggressive scanning effort against their website using an Internet address previously associated with a campaign by FIN7, a notorious Russia-based hacking…

Bold and the Beautiful has Eric Forrester upset over the takeover, but Steffy Forrester gives him even more reason to brood over the situation today on the CBS soap. For years, Eric has been Ridge Forrester’s biggest supporter around his relationship with Brooke Logan, and that hasn’t changed. So, after what he heard from Steffy and Ridge this week regarding Brooke, Eric has cause to worry. Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers: Eric Forrester Festers Bold and the Beautiful had Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) in rare form this week as she pounced on every chance to belittle Brooke Logan (Katherine…