Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is urging developers to confront the protocol bloat driven by an endless push to add new features while rarely removing old ones. In a Sunday post on X, Buterin argued that true trustlessness and self-sovereignty depend less on raw decentralization metrics and more on simplicity. “Even if a protocol is super … Read more
The so-called Happy Slam is the first major of the year and—though there have already been a few warm-up tournaments Down Under—marks the real start of the season for most tennis-watchers. Yesterday featured, for the first time, a kind of opening ceremony for the tournament, with six-time winner Roger Federer playing doubles with Andre Agassi … Read more
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have some issues with the latest interpretation, directed by David Cromer (it veers hokey, and it is missing the feeling of the vertiginous, the fear that we might be at risk of falling … Read more
The star of “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid” discusses letting go of judgment, working without hierarchies, and committing to the role of a woman possessed by faith.
Moving value across blockchains is now largely mediated by a small group of centralized intermediaries despite crypto’s long-standing claims of decentralization. Michael Steuer, president and chief technology officer of Casper Network, framed this dynamic as a structural outcome of the industry’s approach to interoperability and user experience. With a background spanning mobile gaming, enterprise software … Read more
A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory.
On reflection, though, after he had got in by a single vote, Parr took Cartier-Bresson’s words as something of a compliment. Being completely from a different planet had always been his calling card. Since he first picked up a camera and exposed a few frames—his first photo essay, as a 16-year-old, was four snapshots of … Read more
By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open interest of roughly $65.22 billion. Open interest is the stock of outstanding contracts that have not been closed or expired, so it measures position inventory, not trading activity. So, when options inventory exceeds futures, it often shows a … Read more
European defence stocks are enjoying a blistering start to 2026, as US threats to take control of Greenland and tensions with Venezuela reignite a rally in one of last year’s hottest equity market sectors. The Stoxx Europe Aerospace and Defence index has surged nearly 15 per cent this month, equivalent to more than one-quarter of … Read more
Nearly four out of five crypto projects that suffer a major hack never fully regain their footing, according to Mitchell Amador, CEO of Web3 security platform Immunefi. Amador told Cointelegraph that most protocols enter a state of paralysis the moment an exploit is discovered. “Most protocols are fundamentally unaware of the extent to which they … Read more