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The Spacecoin Writing Contest is an opportunity for writers, space geeks, and champions of decentralization to plug into Spacecoin’s mission. Submissions for Round 1 close on April 7, 2025. The winner will receive a 15,000 USDT prize pool.

Tap Protocol partners with ICP and Dfinity to develop decentralized finance (DeFi) applications directly on Bitcoin’s Layer-1.

DeFaaS utilizes GossipSub for decentralized event distribution in multi-cloud environments, supporting Web3 applications and ensuring efficient, scalable, and attack-resistant message propagation. Integration with OpenFaaS enables flexible event triggers and API invocations.

DeFaaS implements decentralized scheduling and randomized load balancing for API calls, using public blockchain-based randomization for verification and providing trust management for gateway nodes. The system incentivizes gateway providers while ensuring load distribution across multiple cloud providers.

Blockchain used to be a new technology believed to change finances, but now other technologies are changing blockchain.

Enso is a provider of blockchain shortcuts, is supporting Boyco, a platform designed to incentivize liquidity on Berachain. Boyco allows decentralized applications (dApps) and liquidity providers (LPs) to coordinate liquidity before a blockchain launches.

The U.S. Department of Justice seized $6.5 billion in cryptocurrency from the Silk Road. The DOJ has held onto the funds rather than immediately liquidate them. This has raised questions about whether the funds were liquidated too hastily. Some of the seized funds have been auctioned off by the government.

Quantum entanglement echoes esoteric ideas about universal interconnectedness. The self-help industry has latched onto quantum physics like a remora on a shark. Quantum physics isn't a hack for success or a shortcut to enlightenment. But it does point to something profound about the nature of reality and consciousness.

ClickHouse has a special setting called `date_time_ input_format` This setting determines how the server interprets incoming string data. To simplify integration, ClickHouse introduced a "strict" mode (`base`), which expects a single format. A "flexible" mode, 'best_effort' mode, attempts to recognize the input date in several popular formats.

DeFaaS offers a decentralized architecture for Web3 and dApps in multi-cloud environments, using containerized FaaS, blockchain management, cross-chain bridges, and secure billing. It enables scalable, cloud-agnostic services without central control.

It is highly rewarding to see how AI "thinks" aloud step by step, trying alternatives, and self-validate and iterate, by running DeepSeek R1 locally on your computer instead of using their web/phone app. Here are a few examples, as well as instructions on how to run R1 on your computer in the appendix.

Lutsia Gorelova has been in HR for over 12 years and has worked with companies in gamedev, dating, music-tech, and social.

Turbulence near steep underwater slopes in the near-equatorial ocean behave similarly to turbulence in mid-latitude regions, despite weaker Coriolis effects.

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A recent Semrush study sought to determine whether it was safe to use AI content. It found that AI-written articles can rank well on Google, similar to human-written ones. The study also gave some ideas on how to use AI in a way that ranks, emphasizing that AI without human input will not rank.

Beluga offers free crypto guides, token insights, and real-time trading strategies. Partnered with Gemini, Aptos, and Litecoin—50K+ subscribers.

Sergey Bunas is the founder of Suggesty and Replai. His startups leverage AI to transform marketing outreach. Suggesty uses advanced algorithms to help businesses refine their strategies. Within its first year, Replai achieved $12,000 in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)

How Flo automated design token exports with Style Dictionary, streamlining workflows, ensuring consistency, and scaling cross-platform UI design effectively

AI-assisted design and development tools are democratizing the product development process. Platforms like OpenAI's Playground, n8n, Cursor AI, and various other AI- assisted tools are transforming the role of product managers.

Two days before the inauguration, $TRUMP memecoin was introduced into the crypto market. The token’s market capitalization was reported to be over $70 billion within the first 48 hours. The surge not only attracted the old-time investors but also the general population as shown by the increase in search engine queries.

Processing resource-intensive tasks, like file uploads or report generation, can bog down a NestJS application, leading to sluggish response times and poor user experiences. By implementing queue processing with Bull and Redis, you can offload these tasks to the background, keeping your app fast and responsive. This guide walks you through the essentials—from configuring Redis to handling advanced features like retries and scaling—so you...