US Prosecutors Charge Canadian Hacker in $65M Crypto Heist

U.S. authorities have charged 22-year-old Canadian Andean Medjedovic for allegedly stealing approximately $65 million from two decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Indexed Finance and KyberSwap. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on February 3 that a federal court had unsealed a five-count indictment against him. The Charges Against Medjedovic...
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US Stocks Rise Despite China’s Trade Fears, Palantir Defies Gravity, Gold Rallies Further: What’s Driving Markets Tuesday?

U.S. stocks advanced midday Tuesday, demonstrating resilience despite escalating geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainties between the world’s two largest economies. China responded to President Donald Trump‘s 10% import tariff with targeted countermeasures, including restrictions on key mineral exports to the U.S. and tariffs on American energy products. Beijing is...
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ZIG jumps 11% as ZIGChain launches testnet

ZIGChain, the layer-1 blockchain developed by social investment platform Zignaly, has announced that its testnet is now live. The testnet will allow developers to explore, build and test decentralized finance and real-world asset tokenization solutions aimed at democratizing wealth generation…...
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The DeepSeek-R1 Effect and Web3-AI

The artificial intelligence (AI) world was taken by storm a few days ago with the release of DeepSeek-R1, an open-source reasoning model that matches the performance of top foundation models while claiming to have been built using a remarkably low training budget and novel post-training techniques. The release of...
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