When you think of Star Wars, you think of lightsabers. Right? What could be better, from a movie-making standpoint, than a futuristic sword that lets you create awesome fencing duels like in old-time Errol Flynn swashbucklers. (So much better than watching Stormtroopers fire their blasters into walls and ceilings and anything else except their targets.)
Linea faced “degraded performance” of its mainnet sequencer, while Polygon reported “delays in block finality” due to a bug in node software. Source link
Zcash (ZEC) traded at around $410 at press time, with 24-hour trading volume at $843.81 million. ZEC rose 4.89% in the past day and gained 14.43% over the past week, according to crypto.news data. Summary ZEC cleared key $398 resistance after strong weekly gains, pushing traders toward mid-$400 targets now. Zcash flipped Solana in Hyperliquid
Global cryptocurrency exchange OKX has announced a collaboration with asset management giant BlackRock and multinational bank Standard Chartered to introduce a new utility framework for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Announced on April 28, 2026, the initiative allows qualified institutional investors to deploy BlackRock’s BUIDL, a tokenized U.S. Treasury fund issued on public blockchains, as trading
## Market Snapshot The market on the fall of the Iranian regime before 2027 shows a 2.8% YES probability, down from 4% over the past 24 hours. Recent news appears to have had a moderate influence on this market. ## Key Takeaways – The news that Iran is reviewing a US peace proposal suggests a
Key Takeaways: Zcash (ZEC) surged past $400 on May 3, marking its first climb to that level since early 2026. Over $10.5 million in ZEC short positions were liquidated as the coin reached a $7 billion market cap. Barry Silbert and Raoul Pal suggest Zcash may capture 10% of bitcoin capital as privacy demand grows.
LlamaRisk claims the bug bounties of multi-billion dollar stablecoin firms Circle and Tether are “inadequate,” and fail to exceed $10K. Source link
Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate venture arm of the Japanese electronics giant, which
Bitcoin price is trading above $80,000, reaching a three-month high as Asian equity markets push toward record levels and risk appetite returns across global prediction markets. The $80,000 level marks a structural resistance zone that defined Bitcoin’s November 2025 lows and has acted as a ceiling through months of consolidation. Retail investors are flooding back
Frustrated by the confusing and scattered process of finding educational funding, a team of Filipino college students took matters into their own hands. They built iSkolar, a centralized scholarship platform powered by blockchain and artificial intelligence, which recently earned a Top 10 spot and a ₱100,000 cash prize at the Project RISE startup competition. The