Venture capital firms rarely announce a $10 billion bet in a single breath, but that’s exactly what Sequoia Capital just did. The Sequoia Capital AI investment, unveiled around August 6, 2026, marks the firm’s largest commitment ever, pairing traditional artificial intelligence bets with a parallel push into what Sequoia calls “reindustrialization” — a mix of
During the current summer lull, as Bitcoin’s endless chop within the $60,000–$66,000 range cuts down sellers and buyers in both directions, increasingly unconventional methods and assessments are being used to analyze the current situation. One such approach, based on Bollinger Bands on the quarterly chart by TradingView, has revealed that Bitcoin may have already established
Bitcoin price fell below $64,000 on Aug. 11 as rising oil prices and uncertainty before the U.S. inflation report weakened risk appetite, leaving traders focused on whether the $63,900 support level can prevent a deeper correction. Bitcoin price drops below $64,000 According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price traded as low as $63,852 on
Nvidia (NVDA) is reportedly seeking to attract more than $500 billion in outside funding to build out AI computing infrastructure, a move that could significantly widen the gap between centralized, high-performance data centers and blockchain-based decentralized computing networks such as Render and Akash. The initiative, involving major Wall Street financial firms, underscores the growing demand
Trading platform eToro plans to acquire US online brokerage TradeZero as part of its US expansion plans, the company announced Tuesday. In its second-quarter report, eToro reported $1.59 billion in revenue, down from $2 billion in the comparable 2025 period. Of that, $1.34 billion was revenue from crypto assets, down about 30% from $1.9 billion
Bitcoin traders are watching a razor-thin line right now: the point where short-term holders stop losing money and start breaking even. With the price hovering near $65,200, the question of whether Bitcoin holders breakeven can actually hold this time — rather than fade like it has twice already this year — is shaping how the
You can prove you are over 18 without revealing your birthday. You can prove you have enough money for a transaction without revealing your balance. You can prove a computation was performed correctly without revealing the inputs. Zero-knowledge proofs make all of this possible, and they are quietly becoming the most important cryptographic primitive in
Ethereum can process roughly 15 transactions per second. That is less than a single Starbucks checkout line. Rollups are the technology that lets Ethereum handle thousands of transactions per second without sacrificing the security that makes it valuable in the first place. They work by executing transactions off chain and posting compressed proofs back to
Smart contracts are powerful, but they are also blind. They cannot see prices, read weather data, or verify that a payment arrived in a bank account. Oracles are the infrastructure that connects blockchains to the outside world, and the security of more than $200 billion in DeFi depends on them working correctly. Most explanations of