Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world’s largest youth robotics competitions. The goal? To win—and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. wired.com/story/meet-the…
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In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them. wired.com/story/elon-mus…
Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure. wired.com/story/what-tha…
📊 INSIGHT: Stablecoins rival the world’s largest payment networks.
Over the past 12 months, stablecoins processed $46T in total volume, surpassing Visa ($16T) and nearing ACH ($87T).
(h/t @a16zcrypto)
📊 REPORT: Blockchains have officially surpassed Nasdaq in transaction speed, now processing 3,400+ transactions per second compared to Nasdaq’s ~2,400.
(h/t @a16zcrypto)
🔑 “Payments should just work — seamless, trusted, and global.”
On #GenC, May Zabaneh, Head of Crypto @PayPal, talks about how PayPal is using stablecoins and blockchain to connect the world and solve real customer needs.
🇺🇸 NEW: @Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong noted he met with "25 Senators in the last 2 days" in a bi-partisan effort to make market structure clarity a reality.
🇺🇸 Is crypto too America-centric?
Eric Trump says so.
“That's a very dangerous thing to do.”
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