TON blockchain claims sub-second finality with Catchain 2.0 upgrade

The Open Network (TON) layer-1 blockchain protocol's latest consensus upgrade is now live, slashing block times from about 10 seconds to 400 milliseconds.
CoinDesk

RWA network Pharos lands a $1 billion valuation in $44M funding round ahead of mainnet debut

The company is building an "asset-native" network designed to handle regulated financial activity at scale, targeting a ...
CoinDesk

Crypto's AWS Alchemy unveils tool to make AI payment systems talk to each other

Alchemy’s AgentPay addresses the problem that the agentic payment systems currently coming online don’t talk to one another.

British cryptographer Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Back, a longtime researcher and pioneer in cryptography, denies the allegation that he is the secretive creator of Bitcoin.
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PyTorch Foundation adds Helion and Safetensors - and the open AI stack gets a little harder to ignore

Mark Collier briefed me on two updates under embargo at KubeCon Europe 2026 last month: Helion, which opens up GPU kernel ...
Georgia Tech News Center

CREATE-X Startup Brings Digital Access to the Unbanked

Espinosa learned about CREATE-X during his first semester at Georgia Tech. In 2024, CREATE-X widened its Startup Launch ...
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Your Comprehensive Guide to Building a REST API in Python

All in all, your first RESTful API in Python is about piecing together clear endpoints, matching them with the right HTTP ...