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By Sally Rufus, updated July 21, 2025 In the world of crypto, speed and security are everything—especially when it comes to DeFi (decentralized finance). Two blockchains are now emerging as top contenders for the fastest and most secure DeFi platforms: TON (The Open Network) and Solana. The TON vs Solana DeFi race is heating up, with both built for scalability but taking very different paths. So which one comes out on top? Let’s break it down in simple terms. What is TON? TON started as a project by Telegram but has evolved into a decentralized ecosystem run by the community.…

England captain Ben Stokes speaks to the media during a press conference at Old Trafford (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) England captain Ben Stokes has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to revisit how over-rates are monitored and penalised, especially across different playing conditions and continents. Following England’s 22-run win over India in the third Test at Lord’s, the hosts were docked two World Test Championship (WTC) points and fined 10% of their match fee for maintaining a slow over-rate. Stokes, however, believes the current rules don’t account for ground realities. “Over rate isn’t something that I worry about, but…

(AP Photo/Thomas Padilla) America’s relationship with global education just took another step backward. The United States has announced its decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, for the third time in history, setting a December 2026 departure that underscores a renewed turn toward isolation under Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy.This move strikes at the heart of international collaboration in education, culture, and science. For decades, UNESCO has been a hub for setting global learning goals, protecting cultural heritage, and fostering inclusive classrooms in regions affected by war, poverty, and inequality. Withdrawing now sends a…

On 19 July 2025, major Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX suffered a security breach resulting in the theft of approximately $44.2 million in USDC and USDT. Despite the hack, CEO Sumit Gupta took to X on 22 July 2025 to say that “CoinDCX remains financially strong, fully operational, and firmly committed to building for the long term. For us, it’s business as usual.” “We have processed 100%, I repeat, one hundred percent of INR withdrawal requests on the platform,” Gupta insisted.  Now, it has come to light that the hack could possibly be attributed to the North Korean Lazarus Group –…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Eric Trump, the son of US President Donald Trump, pointed out that his February support for Ethereum ETH $3,658.10 has since paid off, as the cryptocurrency rose above $3,800 during a rally. Eric’s comments on X came in reply to Ted Pillows, a partner at crypto exchange OKX $5.84B , who had teased him back in April after Ethereum fell in price. He wrote, “How am I doing now, Ted Pillows?”In another reply to a different user, he said, “Up 35% in 5 months, Pal. Embrace volatility”. Eric added, “If you were…

US CPI Data Expected to Show 0.3% Month-on-Month Increase; Canadian Inflation Data Expected to Slow Dramatically; Bitcoin Back Below $118,000 After Trading at Record High Above $123,000; Silver Pulls Back Sharply; US Stock Market Futures Trading at Record Highs Off-HoursSummary: US CPI (inflation) data will be closely watched today for clues as to the effects of President Trump’s new tariffs, with the annualized rate expected to show an increase to 2.6%.Markets are starting to focus on the release later today of high-impact US CPI (inflation) data, which is expected to show an increase in both its annualized and month-on-month rates.…

It’s tempt­ing, in telling the sto­ry of the Edith Farnsworth House, to break out clichés like “Peo­ple who live in glass hous­es should­n’t throw stones.” For the res­i­dence in ques­tion is made pre­dom­i­nant­ly of glass, or rather glass and steel, and its first own­er turned out to have more than a few stones for its archi­tect: Lud­wig Mies van der Rohe, the last direc­tor of the Bauhaus, who’d immi­grat­ed from Nazi Ger­many to the Unit­ed States in the late nine­teen-thir­ties. It was at a din­ner par­ty in 1945 that he hap­pened to meet the for­ward-think­ing Chica­go doc­tor Edith Farnsworth, who…

Ioan Gruffudd and Bianca Gruffudd have made their first public appearance since announcing they’re expecting their first child.The Hollywood star and his Australian wife announced their impending arrival in a social media post last month, showing a silhouette of Ioan kissing Bianca’s growing bump.Today, the happy couple happily posed for photographers on the blue carpet at the world premiere of The Fantastic Four: First Steps in LA, with the actor placing his hand tenderly on the actress’ belly.READ MORE: Inside Adam Sandler and wife Jackie’s family lifeIoan Gruffudd and Bianca Gruffudd have made their first public appearance since announcing they’re…

The FOMO is going to be very real and very hard for anyone who doesn’t happen to be headed to the Lido this year to sample the delectable delights of the annual Venice Film Festival. One upshot of the Cannes beef with Netflix is that all the streamer’s heavy-hitters tend to come later in the year, right at the door to the vaunted and ever-extending awards season corridor. And this year, it seems as if they’ve got a number of major titles competing against one another in the big race for the Golden Lion (won last year by Pedro Almodovar for The…

[T]he most significant and enduring material legacy of the Great Awokenings has been the proliferation of what I have taken to calling ‘social justice sinecures’ — well-remunerated symbolic capitalist jobs explicitly oriented around helping organizations conspicuously conform with the latest fads in social justice signaling (thereby reducing their vulnerability to subsequent attacks by frustrated elites and elite aspirants). That is from Musa al-Gharbi’s stinging post-mortem of our most recent national craze of social justice warriors fashioning themselves as the Woke. If you are old enough to recall when the Soviet Union collapsed, you will recall people coming out of the…