Binance today announced that the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) will now be accepted as off-exchange collateral for trading on Binance. This further establishes BUIDL’s role as a foundational building block of on-chain finance by enabling the exchange’s global user base of institutional and advanced traders to unlock new efficiencies in capital deployment while maintaining exposure to tokenized Treasuries, according to...
Bitcoin fell nearly 10% over the past week to trade around $95,000 on Monday, as extreme fear gripped the market, erasing $1.1 trillion in just 41 days. The cryptocurrency was last trading at $95,180. Ethereum slipped 12% in one week to $3,183, while major altcoins such as XRP, BNB, Tron, Solana, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Hyperliquid edged down over 16%. The global crypto market...
Despite new methods emerging, enterprises continue to turn to autonomous coding agents and code generation platforms. The competition to keep developers working on their platforms, coming from tech companies, has also heated up.AWS thinks its offering, Kiro, and new capabilities to ensure behavioral adherence set up a large differentiator in the increasingly crowded coding agent space. Kiro, first launched in July on public preview,...
Just a little more than a month after reaching an all-time high, Bitcoin has erased the more than 30% gain registered since the start of the year as the exuberance over the pro-crypto stance of the Trump administration fades. The dominant cryptocurrency fell below $93,714 on Sunday, pushing the price beneath the closing level reached at the end of last year, when financial...
When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a must-have infrastructure layer for the gen AI era. Billions of venture dollars flowed, developers rushed to integrate embeddings into their pipelines and analysts breathlessly tracked funding rounds...
