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Arbitrum has launched an eight-week Mentorship Program for early-stage builders, offering guidance, investor access, and $100,000 in awards to support application development on its Layer 2 network. Applications are open until April 7th, 2026.

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The HSC Asset Management fireside chat in Hong Kong examined the challenges and opportunities for institutional adoption of digital assets, focusing on regulatory clarity, privacy, liquidity, public versus private blockchains, DeFi integration, and strategies for deploying on-chain

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Acurast has launched a 225,000-node smartphone-powered compute network on Base, enabling secure, decentralized AI workloads and autonomous on-chain operations through user-owned devices.
Acurast, a decentralized cloud protocol that transforms smartphones into secure compute nodes, has

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Tharwa Finance has launched thUSD, a Shariah-compliant, actively managed stablecoin designed to improve capital efficiency, generate institutional-grade yield, and support broader adoption of digital assets in global finance.
Tharwa Finance has unveiled its latest approach to stablecoi

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Dash is preparing to add Zcash’s Orchard protocol to its Evolution chain, introducing upgraded shielded transactions at launch and extending the same zero‑knowledge privacy to tokenized assets in a later update.
Dash announced it will integrate the Orchard shielded pool, the privacy pr

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Vitalik Buterin argues that overlapping, multi‑layered intent checks—ranging from simulations to formal verification—are essential to reducing security risks and aligning user actions with on‑chain outcomes.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined a framework for improving

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The current downturn reflects a full‑scale crypto winter in which falling prices, weakened liquidity, and declining investor confidence signal a prolonged, structurally driven bear market rather than a temporary correction.
The Cryptocurrency markets

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Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven system that identifies complex software vulnerabilities and recommends human‑reviewed fixes to strengthen defensive cybersecurity.
AI safety and research company Anthropic announced that it has released Claude Code Security, a

Reddit is testing an AI-driven shopping feature that turns community product recommendations into interactive carousels, enhancing user experience by providing buyable options directly from search results.

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The ‘Capital Is Selective Again’ panel concluded that institutional investors are becoming far more selective in the current crypto cycle, prioritizing real revenue, product‑market fit, and compliant tokenized‑asset infrastructure as the market shifts from hype‑driven speculation to