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Image Credit: FrameworkBack in April, I thought Framework had settled a five-year argument. The Laptop 13 Pro turned up promising a machine you own outright, with more than 20 hours of streaming battery life, a 2.8K touch screen, and a mainboard you can swap in 2030 without binning the chassis around it.Apple’s MacBook Neo had appeared a month earlier with the opposite pitch, a $599 aluminum laptop running an iPhone chip that asks nothing of you beyond accepting the hardware exactly as it comes, with no upgrades and no tinkering.Then 22 July arrived, Framework doubled the price of its LPCAMM2…

Tokyo-listed Quantum Solutions (2338) sold 1,000 ETH for $1.9 million and more than doubled its disposal ceiling to fund an AI data center business.The move came as another crypto treasury firm, Hyperscale Data (GPUS), monetized about 100 BTC and opened a bitcoin-backed credit line for a Michigan AI data center..Quantum sold the ETH on July 30 at $1,903 per token, generating $1.903 million after fees, according to a company filing. It expects to recognize a $100,970 loss against the position’s May 31 carrying value of $2,003.97 per ETH, the filing adds.The sale price was 47% below the $3,595.02 average acquisition…

People have more choices than ever when deciding where to shop, eat, or hire a service. That means earning a customer’s trust takes more than competitive prices or catchy advertising. Local businesses often have one advantage that large corporations struggle to match: genuine relationships. They know their communities, understand local needs, and create experiences that feel personal rather than transactional. When customers feel appreciated instead of treated like another number, they are much more likely to return and recommend the business to others.Strong customer loyalty doesn’t happen overnight. However, by consistently delivering value and building authentic relationships, local businesses can…

Free NewsletterGet the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your InboxTrust Bank is set to take on more of Standard Chartered’s everyday lending business in Singapore from September, The Business Times reported.Selected credit card and personal loan customers will move to the digital bank under the arrangement.The transfer will not affect their Standard Chartered deposit accounts, wealth products or insurance policies.The number of customers included in the move was not disclosed.The report also did not provide details on the next steps or how customers could determine whether they were affected.The move expands Trust Bank’s role in everyday banking…

We’re thrilled to announce that xU3O8 is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading xU3O8 trading is live as of July 30, 2026. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit ‘Deposit’.  Make sure to deposit your tokens into networks supported by Kraken. Deposits made using other networks will be lost. Here’s some more information about this asset: xU3O8 (xU3O8) xU3O8 (xU3O8) enables investors to gain beneficial ownership of a unique real-world asset: uranium ore concentrate, commonly known as yellowcake (U₃O₈). Using decentralized ledger infrastructure and Tezos smart contract…

Six months ago, your team signed annual contracts for Copilot, Cursor, and perhaps another AI coding tool. Renewal is now approaching, but you may not know which tools are delivering value and which are simply adding to software spend.

It might be complicated to get the desired set of new-gen GPUs that would be profitable to use for mining, but it’s even harder to find a motherboard that would support them. Some MoBos require bios tweaking in order to run properly, while others lower the hashrate or have stability issues when under full load. Of course, this applies if you have six GPUs in the rig, which seems to be the most common rig setup nowadays. To receive the latest updates follow me on social media! 🙂 Biostar TB250-BTC Review – 6x GPU Mining Motherboard AsRock was the brand…

We are pleased to share that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the Ethereum Foundation Board. pc is a long time contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, a co-founder and lead of SEAL 911, and has been a member of the EF’s Silviculture Society, which provides informal counsel to EF aimed at sustaining the core values of censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security. pcaversaccio authored The Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto, a 2024 adaptation of Eric Hughes’ A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto applied to Ethereum, Ethereum Privacy: The Road to Self-Sovereignty (2025) and has helped advance security practices across the ecosystem through technical contributions and community…

Stablecoins have liquidity but lack distribution. Connecting digital dollars to instant payment rails is fintech’s real execution challenge.   By Murray Spark, Head of Commerce at MiniPay.     The intelligence layer for fintech professionals who think for themselves. Primary source intelligence. Original analysis. Contributed pieces from the people defining the industry. Trusted by professionals at JP Morgan, Coinbase, BlackRock, Klarna and more. Join the FinTech Weekly Clarity Circle →     Instant payment systems are quietly becoming the operating system for modern money. The next phase isn’t faster cards or better wallets, it’s connecting digital dollars directly to the…

Zebra 6.2.3: Peer Connectivity HardeningThis is an optional release with a set of peer connectivity improvements. It is targeted at operators who see issues with their node’s peer set.ImprovementsOutbound Slots No Longer Fill With Non-Serving Peers During SyncOutbound peer slots could previously fill up with peers that advertise no services, which could stall a fresh sync at genesis when most reachable listeners are non-serving. While syncing, Zebra now requires the NODE_NETWORK service from outbound peers; at or near the network tip it continues to accept non-serving peers, such as pruned nodes, as before. (#11071)Proactive Replacement of Dropped Outbound ConnectionsThe peer crawler…