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What Happened? Seven of Ethereum’s leading decentralized protocols — Aave Labs, Aragon, Curve, Lido Labs Foundation, Spark Foundation, The Graph Foundation, and the Uniswap Foundation — have joined forces to form the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance (EPAA).What is the objective of the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance? The alliance aims to coordinate global advocacy for the decentralized infrastructure that secures more than $100 billion in onchain assets.The alliance represents a collective effort to ensure policymakers understand how Ethereum’s open infrastructure operates — and why it must remain neutral, permissionless, and secure.As regulators worldwide grapple with defining frameworks for decentralized systems, the…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Microsoft, working with Arizona State University, has built a virtual testing platform to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) agents behave in different scenarios. This controlled environment, called the “Magentic Marketplace”, helps researchers observe how these systems make decisions and interact with each other.The platform simulates a digital market. In one typical setup, a virtual customer tries to place a food order by following user instructions. At the same time, several AI agents act as restaurant representatives competing for that order. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe…

Gold (XAU/USD) attracts buyers for the second straight day and jumps back above the $4,000 psychological mark during the early European session on Thursday. Concerns about the economic fallout from a prolonged US government shutdown prompt some US Dollar (USD) selling and drag it away from the highest level since late May, touched on Wednesday. This, along with persistent geopolitical uncertainties, turns out to be a key factor driving some safe-haven flows towards the bullion.Meanwhile, the latest optimism over easing US-China trade tensions remains supportive of a positive risk tone and might hold back the XAU/USD bulls from placing aggressive…

Why You Need To Modernize Your eLearning Content If your organization has been around for some time, you likely have old eLearning courses from years ago. While those courses were useful back then, technology and learner expectations have changed significantly. Today’s employees want engaging, mobile-friendly, and accessible learning content that fits easily into their work. Unfortunately, those older courses can’t meet modern expectations. They may not work well on modern browsers or devices, lack interactivity, or fail to meet current learning standards. This is where the need to modernize legacy eLearning content arises. Modern authoring tools are perfect for the…

As British superband Oasis prepare to take the stage for two long-awaited concerts in Sydney this week, attention turns to the two former warring band members, brothers Liam and Noel GallagherThe duo had a famous fractious relationship, marked by arguments and physical fights, including a period of more than 15 years when they didn’t speak to each other before reconciling last year.The brothers also enjoyed many high-profile relationships – none more so than that of Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton of girl band All Saints.Oasis’ Liam Gallagher was once married to All Saints singer Nicole Appleton. (Getty)The two started dating…

On 16 April 2025, a day after Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi’s intimate documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” was announced as a selection of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the ACID parallel section, the film’s subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, along with nine members of her family, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in the Gaza Strip. Suddenly, what had started as a film about life during wartime became an elegy for a woman whose spirit and smile will endure forever.  As I seek to contextualize the impact of this stunning work of…

American capital markets — stock exchanges, bond markets, over-the-counter markets for securities and derivatives of all types — are often praised as paragons of free-market dynamism. But beneath that reputation lies a market structure shaped less by entrepreneurial forces than by layers of regulatory design. While market structure may seem like an abstract or technical topic, it directly affects the prices we all pay and receive — for gas at the pump, groceries at the store, or the stocks and bonds in our 401(k)s — because it determines how trades in capital goods are executed and how prices are discovered.…

Wishing readers on the occasion of Gurpurab Some stuff I am reading today morning: Bitcoin falls below $100,000 (Yahoo) The logic of loss making IPOs (Nithin Kamath) ChrysCap closes record $2.2 Billion Fund Raise (MC) Indigo flies into red (DH) India’s Electric Bus Market accelerates (BW) Mehli Mistry exits Tata Trusts (HT) Interview with Zepto’s Aadit Palicha (Forbes) The Age of Artificial Exuberance (ML) The collapse of Log9 (Inc 42) 5 Ways to avoid Bias Towards Action (Big Picture) Discover more from Alpha Ideas Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

India will be up against Australia in the fourth of the five-match T20I series. This article provides details about India’s Playing 11 vs Australia for the fourth match of the series. India Playing XI vs Australia- 4th T20I, India Tour of Australia 2025: Openers: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill The Men in Blue would look to earn back-to-back wins against Australia in the ongoing T20I series when the two teams go head-to-head against each other in the fourth game. The visitors came back strongly in the third match after a disappointing performance in the second game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground…

Having sealed their place in the Champions League on the final day of last season, Manchester City will aim to improve upon their knockout stage play-off defeat to Real Madrid last season. City finished third in the Premier League during a season of struggle by their stratospheric standards and have landed another date with Madrid in the league phase this time in Europe, as well as a meeting with Erling Haaland’s former club, Borussia Dortmund. The Cityzens were knocked out of the 2023/24 quarter-finals on penalties by Madrid but won the competition the previous season, beating Inter 1-0 in the…