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DeFiance Daily – The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative is funding Freedom of the Press Foundation to expand WEBCAT, an open-source system designed to verify that website code has not been secretly altered. The grant will bring that protection directly into Ethereum wallets, targeting a security gap that can expose users even when their wallet and the blockchain remain secure.

Ethereum Backs WEBCAT to Protect Wallets From Tampered Web Apps - DeFiance Media - 8.10.26

DeFiance Daily — Solana’s July ecosystem data shows the network expanding beyond crypto trading into tokenized equities, payments and real-world assets. RWA value reached a record $3.73 billion, while new integrations brought traditional stocks, institutional funds and merchant payments onto Solana.

Solana Pushes Deeper Into Tokenized Stocks, Payments and Real-World Assets - DeFiance Media - 8.7.26

DeFiance Daily – AI’s growth is creating enormous demand for electricity and cooling. Portland-based startup Panthalassa believes part of the answer could lie in the open ocean. Backed by a $140 million Series B led by Peter Thiel, the company is preparing autonomous, wave-powered computing systems designed to run AI workloads at sea.

AI’s Next Data Center Could Float in the Middle of the Ocean - DeFiance Media - 8.6.26

DeFiance Daily —SpaceX and NVIDIA are taking AI infrastructure beyond Earth. The companies announced a partnership to build the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload, with each satellite equipped with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs to deliver datacenter-class AI computing in orbit.

AI Datacenters Are Heading to Space - DeFiance Media - 8.5.26

DeFiance Daily – Ripple is doubling down on the future of tokenized finance with strategic investments in transfer agency provider ZILO and tokenization platform Licuido. The move expands Ripple’s institutional infrastructure on the XRP Ledger, bringing regulated issuance, transfer agency, collateral mobility, and atomic settlement closer together for asset managers and financial institutions.

Ripple Expands Tokenization Push With Two Strategic Investments - DeFiance Media - 8.4.26

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DUET: A Diversity-Quality Duet of Distillation Experts for Two-Step Video Generation

arXiv:2608.09637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have enabled high-quality video generation in recent years, but the high cost of iterative sampling hinders their practical deployment. Few-step distillation alleviates this cost, yet exposes a quality--diversity trade-off between its two dominant…Read more

Published: 52 minutes ago | Source: cs.CV updates on arXiv.org
EgoBrain: Synergizing Minds and Eyes For Human Action Understanding

arXiv:2506.01353v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in particular electroencephalography (EEG), with artificial intelligence (AI) has shown tremendous promise in decoding human cognition and behavior from neural signals. In particular, the rise of multimodal AI models…Read more

Published: 52 minutes ago | Source: cs.CV updates on arXiv.org
Synthesized-Isotropic Narrowband Channel Parameter Extraction from Angle-Resolved Wideband Channel Measurements

arXiv:2602.01646v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Angle-resolved channel sounding using antenna arrays or mechanically steered high-gain antennas is widely employed at millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. To extract antenna-independent large-scale channel parameters such as path loss, delay spread, and angular spread, the…Read more

Published: 52 minutes ago | Source: eess.SP updates on arXiv.org
Towards Expressive and Faithful Audio-to-Image Generation: A Unified Multimodal Dataset and Synthesis Framework

arXiv:2608.09529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As an important subfield of cross-modal generation, synthesizing static visual content in the form of images from audio, namely audio-to-image (A2I) generation, has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. Nevertheless, despite the remarkable visual…Read more

Published: 52 minutes ago | Source: cs.CV updates on arXiv.org
Proposal: Exact validator-set accounting for the Lido second-opinion oracle

TLDR We have a working proof, verified on Ethereum mainnet, of Lido’s exact registered validator set and its consensus-layer balance at a single finalized slot: every key across all four staking modules, counted exactly once, joined to those balances under…Read more

Published: 2 hours ago | Source: Proposal: Exact validator-set accounting for the Lido second-opinion oracle
UK FCA Eyes Tokenized Gold as London Defends 70% Market Share

The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority is exploring how tokenized gold could fit into wholesale markets, including its use as collateral. The discussions come as London seeks to defend its dominance in bullion trading against growing competition from China. London Pushes…Read more

Published: 3 hours ago | Source: Bitcoin News
Blackrock Cuts IBIT Bitcoin Conversion Minimum From $25M to $1M

Blackrock has slashed the in-kind conversion minimum on its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) to $1 million, a 96% cut from the prior $25 million threshold, opening the fund’s redemption mechanism to a far wider pool of investors. Mitchnick Confirms the…Read more

Published: 4 hours ago | Source: Bitcoin News
CT3 Begins Preparing its Ecosystem for the Launch of the CT3GB Economy

London, UK, August 10th, 2026, Chainwire. CT3 has announced the start of comprehensive preparations for the future listing of the CT3GB token. The company has begun scaling its data storage infrastructure, building financial and infrastructure reserves, and preparing its own…Read more

Published: 5 hours ago | Source: Bitcoin News
Arthur Hayes: Yen Rescue Could Fuel a Bitcoin Rally

Arthur Hayes argues Washington and Tokyo are quietly coordinating to push the yen higher, a shift he says would flood markets with fresh dollar liquidity and become a powerful bullish catalyst for bitcoin. Three Ways to Strengthen the Yen Hayes,…Read more

Published: 5 hours ago | Source: Bitcoin News
Former Irish PM Bertie Ahern’s Crypto Charity Shutting Down

The AB Foundation, an Irish nonprofit crypto charity chaired by former Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, is being dissolved through a voluntary strike-off after failing to conduct operational meetings beyond its launch. Inactive Since Launch The AB Foundation, an Irish-registered…Read more

Published: 6 hours ago | Source: Bitcoin News

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