Day: October 1, 2025

Templar, billed as the first Cypher Lending Protocol, went live on mainnet, enabling bitcoin holders to borrow U.S. dollar–pegged stablecoins against native BTC without relying on banks, exchanges, or centralized intermediaries. The protocol uses MPC (multi-party computation) and immutable, non-upgradable smart contracts to prevent freezing, seizure, or rehypothecation of collateral, and requires no wrapping, bridging, […]

Now with eight cores per CCX, since launch, AMD has been extremely coy about telling anyone publicly how those cores are connected together. When asked at launch if the cores in a Zen 3 eight-core CCX were fully connected, AMD’s general attitude was ‘Not quite, but close enough’. This would mean something between a ring […]

MEXC Ventures has expanded its investment in Ethena’s ENA token and USDe stablecoin to $66 million. This reinforces its bet on synthetic-dollar protocols as global stablecoin inflows hit record levels in Q3. Synthetic Dollar Momentum Builds as MEXC Ventures Boosts Ethena Exposure MEXC Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange MEXC, has increased its total […]

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Counterpoints: Many of us can sell our 7800X3D right now for more than we paid for it. Making a profit off of a CPU you have used is not the norm. Some will leverage that to make the 9800X3D a downright bargain for final out of pocket, as they were effectively paid to use their […]

That is the most sensible interpretation, yes. But you’re expecting people to realise that. There were rumours that MTL would use N3 before this slide, then they saw the slide and it became fact to most people, including the tech press. What I’m really wondering though, is wtf is up with the slide showing 192EUs […]

Tokyo‑listed Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) today announced the purchase of 5,268 BTC for approximately $615.67 million at about $116,870 per bitcoin. This latest move brings the Japanese bitcoin treasury company’s total holdings to 30,823 BTC, acquired for roughly $3.33 billion (average cost ~$107,912 per BTC). The company also reported a BTC yield of 497.1% year-to-date […]

The Mediatek Dimensity 9300, the succesor to the Dimensity 9200 will apparently released soon in the coming months. Till then, we have has several leaks about this chip and they paint an interesting picture. The CPU of the Dimensity will apparently have a configuration of 4 Cortex X4s + 4 Cortex A720s. There is no […]

Crypto.com announced that its affiliate Crypto.com | Derivatives North America (CDNA) has received approval for an amended designated contract market (DCM) license, completing a full suite of U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) derivatives permissions — DCM, DCO and FCM. The DCM amendment authorizes margined derivatives trading (including crypto perpetuals) on CDNA alongside its existing […]

ATX dying would probably require a drastic upheaval beyond even CAMM. Likeliest candidate for the executioner would be tied to development of glass PCBs with photonic interconnects – something I don’t expect to land anytime soon even with TSMC and other non Intel parties making moves on photonics.