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As bots come to dominate trading on DEXs, a new price prediction platform allows human traders to demonstrate what they are good at, says Maksim Balashevich, the founder of Sa...

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits slipped last week, but re-employment opportunities for laid-off workers are becoming more scarce, a sign that the unemployment rate probably remained elevated in August. Though the labor market is slowing, it is doing so in an orderly fashion that is keeping the economic expansion on track. The economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter, powered by consumer spending, other data showed on Thursday.

There have been hints it will involve DeFi.

El Salvador now holds $400 million in its "public wallet alone," President Nayib Bukele said in an interview with TIME.

Amazon will use Anthropic's Claude AI to help power the next generation of Alexa—internally dubbed "Remarkable Alexa or Projet Banyan"—according to information shared with Reuters by sources familiar with the matter. The revelation comes after Amazon's proprietary large language model reportedly fell short of expectations, with prototype versions of the new Alexa struggling to process queries efficiently. Reuters reports that during internal testing, the in-house AI-powered Alexa exhibited delay...

Telegram tap-to-earn game players got exciting news this week, as the developers of viral crypto game Hamster Kombat announced that the HMSTR token launch is now set for September 26 on The Open Network (TON), following a delay from the original target of July. But that announcement was couched by plenty of less appealing news around the network. Last weekend, Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France, prompting a price plunge for TON plus uncertainty around the Telegram-lin...

BlackRock's spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has experienced more than $13 million in net outflows, marking the first time since May the investment vehicle has lost more funds than it has gained. The Ishares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT), which is the largest spot Bitcoin ETF by total assets, saw net outflows of roughly $13.5 million on Thursday, according to data from investment management firm Farside Investors. This is the second time Blackrock’s Bitcoin fund has ever recorded negative outf...

A new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) finds that likely voters who own cryptocurrencies—about one out of every seven registered voters—favor former President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election by 12 points. These results come as Trump and new ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have recently doubled down on support for crypto. “Trump has been reaching out to the crypto community, and it seems to have paid off,” wrote Dan Cassino, professor of government and politics at FDU...