February 9, 2026Ethereum scaling has historically focused on throughput and fees. MegaETH shifts the conversation toward latency ⚡ Instead of optimizing only for how many transactions fit inside a block, MegaETH is engineered to minimize the delay between user action and execution, targeting sub-millisecond responsiveness alongside theoretical throughput exceeding 100,000 transactions per
February 9, 2026UC-Berkeley and Yale researchers found that AI tools don’t reduce work; they intensify it by creating workload creep and widespread burnout.
February 9, 2026Global trading firm Jump will score stakes in prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket for its market-making services, per a report.
February 9, 2026Cango is the latest publicly traded Bitcoin miner to embrace AI, and it’s fueling that push by selling a bunch of Bitcoin.
February 9, 2026MrBeast’s Beast Industries just acquired fintech startup Step, a banking platform for teens, following a crypto trademark application.
February 9, 2026With temporary bans of prediction markets poised to take effect in Massachusetts and Nevada, Polymarket is asking a federal court to intervene.
February 9, 2026OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT on Monday, hours after Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials mocked the idea. The $8 billion loss explains why.
February 9, 2026Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort. DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions
February 9, 2026CoinShares noted that the market may have reached an ‘inflection point’ as outflows from Bitcoin investment products slowed.
February 9, 2026Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technology added to its ETH holdings last week, even as its paper losses grew.
