Smart cities worldwide face a basic challenge because they don’t work well when disasters strike, despite their advanced technology. A detailed Deloitte study shows that 66% of 167 cities are investing heavily in AI and 80% will do so over the next three years, yet many can’t handle disruptions. This…

LunarCrush has reported a surge in XRP conversation following news that a Ripple-backed venture intends to raise over $1 billion for an XRP treasury.Mentions climbed into the 8.53k range on October 15, total engagements reached about 12.98M, and AltRank improved from 667 on October 13 to 32 on October 17…

As the rest of the internet began to recover Monday afternoon from a seismic Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, key crypto sites and service providers continued to struggle from the setback. Apps like Coinbase and OpenSea have remained partially or entirely down for many users, particularly those on the East…

There are several ways to turn your home equity into cash. One of the most popular? That’d be a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. Despite their popularity, HELOCs aren’t like your average loan product. No lump sum of cash gets handed over, and you usually won’t owe huge…

The Department of Education agreed last week to restart processing student loan forgiveness under several federal programs as part of a joint resolution to an ongoing legal challenge. The agreement, which still must receive final approval from a federal district court judge, is intended to resolve a lawsuit brought by…

DeFi data aggregator DeFiLlama has quietly reinstated perpetual futures exchange Aster on its analytics platform, weeks after delisting it over concerns about unverifiable trading data. The relisting has reignited debate over transparency in decentralized markets and the growing influence of data platforms in shaping perceptions of legitimacy.Aster, a decentralized exchange…

The ongoing government shutdown in the United States “will probably end this week,” White House senior economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday.Speaking to CNBC, National Economic Council Director Hassett said that if the shutdown isn’t resolved by … Read the full article here

If you need access to cash and have gained a significant chunk of equity in your home, you’re in luck: You can use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to tap your equity and use the money to pay for whatever you want, from home improvements to college courses.…

Even as Bitcoin (BTC) slipped to as low as $104,000 on Friday, the same can’t be said for its fastest Layer-2 project, Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER), which raised another $300,000 over the weekend to bring its total presale funding to $24.3 million.On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve is set to hold discussions…

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and still considered the most influential name in the management, added a new one to his rarely made market predictions today. CZ said he predicts that the total market capitalization of Bitcoin will surpass the total market capitalization…