Author: Redazione

The crypto market is undergoing a silent but profound transition, where liquidity flows are shifting from speculative to more structured channels. Polymarket is the most obvious example of this: crypto trading volume has plummeted 58% to below USD 240 million per week, but average daily commissions have reached USD 1.07 million, tripling since the end of March. The introduction of taker fees at the beginning of January did not stop the initial growth, but the real scrap came with the upgrading of the taker rate from 0.37% to 2.65%, which wiped out the profitability of high-frequency strategies in bullish/short markets.…

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7 on 16 April 2026, calling it its strongest general availability model for software engineering, enterprise workflows, and long-running agent tasks. It is not the strongest model in the house, because that role remains with Mythos Preview, but it is the one the company has decided to really put in the hands of the market, with availability on Claude, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry at the same prices as Opus 4.6: $5 per million tokens in input and $25 per million in output. The move is significant because it moves the boundary…

OpenAI started the rollout of ChatGPT Images 2.0 on 21 April 2026, presenting it as a concrete evolution of its visual generation system within ChatGPT and marking an important step: the AI image is no longer treated as a side feature, but as a real creative environment. The novelty lies not only in the aesthetic quality, but above all in the model’s ability to better follow instructions, maintain consistency between characters, objects and visual style, and work on several variants simultaneously without losing the thread of the initial request. This change should be read within a broader industry trend. In…

In the midst of a crypto market that continues to look for new narrative engines beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, a seemingly sideways segment is sending a very serious signal: tokenized Pokémon cards are no longer just a curiosity for digital collectors, but an embryonic and already monetisable form of real world asset. In the week ending 6 April, the Pokémon Trading Card Game marketplaces generated some $5.38 million in sales, approaching the all-time high recorded in September 2025. The difference this time is in the quality of the growth. September’s peak had been drugged largely by a single speculative event,…

There is one detail that the market has caught before many crypto observers: not everyone wants exposure to Bitcoin by buying Bitcoin directly. A growing portion prefers to do so through hybrid instruments, with more tame returns, corporate structure and volatility. That’s exactly where STRC, one of Strategy’s preferred stocks, ended up at the centre of its busiest trading week ever as investors prepared for its mid-April ex-dividend date. The mechanism is as simple and as old as Wall Street. In the days leading up to the ex-dividend date, many traders accumulate shares to cash in on the impending payout,…

DeFi is back to doing what it does worst at critical times: promising returns from the financial future and then reminding users that the infrastructure, under pressure, is still frighteningly fragile. On 18 April, an attacker stole some 116,500 rsETH from the LayerZero-based Kelp DAO bridge, worth close to $292 million, or about 18 per cent of the token’s circulating supply. It was not only one of the biggest DeFi exploits of the year, but an event that immediately contaminated the rest of the industry, dragging with it protocols that had not been breached directly but were found to be…

For years, tether has been the great invisible infrastructure of the crypto market: the engine of payments, liquidity and global settlement, but hardly ever the end product in the hands of the user. With the launch of tether.wallet, announced on 14 April 2026, this balance changes dramatically. The USD₮ issuer has decided to move down from the backend to the frontend, offering a self-custody wallet that brings its global financial network directly to the public, with the stated ambition of serving billions of people excluded from traditional banking channels. The strongest figure is the one Tether uses to tell its…

In the same hours in which Michael Saylor said that Bitcoin would probably have already bottomed out near $60,000 and that quantum risk would be “theoretical” and distant, another fuse has been burning in the heart of the crypto narrative: the hypothesis, revived by a New York Times investigation, that Adam Back could be Satoshi Nakamoto. Taken on its own, it would seem to be yet another hunt for the most notorious ghost in digital finance. Read alongside the quantum debate, however, the story changes tone, because today the issue is not just who created Bitcoin, but who could secure…

Runway officially launched Characters on 9 March 2026, presenting it as a real-time video agent API capable of creating customised conversational avatars from a single image, without fine-tuning, with control over voice, personality, knowledge and actions. This is an important step because it moves the AI video market from simple clip generation to a more ambitious model: characters that speak, see the user’s screen, read the visual context and react live. According to the official documentation, Runway Characters can receive the webcam feed or screen share from an app, understand what appears in the session and respond in real time…

Once upon a time, there was a security-obsessed startup founded by former OpenAI employees worried about the risks of artificial intelligence. Within two years, that same company overtook the most famous AI organisation on the planet in terms of turnover. Anthropic reached an ARR of over 30 billion dollars, compared to OpenAI’s 25 billion. Thirty times its size in just 15 months. The leap from 9 billion to 30 billion took place in four months. The company story behind these numbers is even more brutal. In February 2026, at the time of the Series G funding round, Anthropic had over…