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This is a sponsored article brought to you by ADIPEC.Returning to Abu Dhabi between 3 and 6 November, ADIPEC 2025 – the world’s largest energy event – aims to show how AI is turning ideas into real-world impact across the energy value chain and redrawing the global opportunity map. At the same time, it addresses how the world can deliver more energy – by adding secure supply, mobilizing investment, deploying intelligent solutions, and building resilient systems.AI as energy’s double-edged swordAcross heavy industry and utilities, AI is cutting operating costs, lifting productivity, and improving energy efficiency, while turning data into real-time…

Luxembourg’s sovereign wealth fund has become the first in the Eurozone to invest in Bitcoin, allocating 1% of its $730 million portfolio to Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Finance Minister Gilles Roth announced the decision on Thursday, marking a turning point in how state capital interacts with digital assets.The move highlights the cryptocurrency’s growing legitimacy among institutional allocators. Once treated as a speculative outlier, Bitcoin is now being evaluated alongside traditional stores of value and inflation-hedging instruments.Luxembourg’s Bold Step: Investing in Bitcoin ETFsThe Intergenerational Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSIL) made the investment under a revised mandate that allows up to 15% of…

The new initiative will unite Ethereum’s top cryptographers and engineers under a single privacy framework. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced the formation of a new group of 47 researchers, engineers, and cryptographers who will work together to make Ethereum’s Layer 1 infrastructure safer and more private. According to analysts, this change in structure is a show of the institution’s seriousness about adding privacy features directly to the Ethereum ecosystem, moving it from a side project to a main development priority. Expanding Ethereum’s Privacy Framework In an October 8 blog post, EF noted that the “Privacy Cluster” integrates multiple…

Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, targeting a fundamental shift in how companies deploy and maintain critical business systems.The San Francisco-based company has developed AI agents specifically trained to handle end-to-end ServiceNow implementations — complex enterprise software deployments that traditionally require months of work by offshore consulting teams and cost companies millions of dollars annually."The biggest barrier to digital transformation isn't technology — it's the time it takes to implement it," said Rahul Kayala, Echelon's founder and CEO, who previously…

Roger Ver — once dubbed “Bitcoin Jesus” for his early evangelism of bitcoin — has reached a tentative deal with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve criminal tax fraud charges, according to The New York Times reporting. The agreement, still awaiting court approval, would require Ver to pay roughly $48 million in back taxes. In return, prosecutors would drop the case if he meets the terms of a deferred-prosecution deal. The case against Ver, filed in 2024, accused him of evading taxes tied to his massive bitcoin holdings before renouncing his U.S. citizenship in 2014. He was arrested in Spain…

Today in crypto, Roger Ver has reportedly reached a deal with the US Justice Department to avoid prison over tax charges. Luxembourg’s sovereign wealth fund made its first Bitcoin ETF investment, and trader Peter Brandt says BTC could be nearing a top or a “dramatic” surge.Roger Ver reaches tentative agreement with US DOJ over tax charges: ReportBitcoin advocate Roger Ver, known to many in the crypto industry as “Bitcoin Jesus,” has reportedly reached a deal with the US Department of Justice that could allow him to avoid prison time.According to a Thursday New York Times report, Ver’s lawyers reached a…

Jack Dorsey, founder of payments company Square, has urged the introduction of a de minimis tax exemption on small Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to help make the cryptocurrency more suitable for everyday payments.“We want Bitcoin to be everyday money ASAP,” Dorsey said on Wednesday, following Square’s integration of Bitcoin payment services for merchants using the company’s checkout and point-of-sale systems.His comments drew attention from Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, who introduced a de minimis tax provision as part of a standalone crypto tax bill in July, exempting BTC transactions $300 or under from capital gains tax with an annual exemption cap of…

Binance open interest fell from $15.07B to $13.88B in three days, suggesting reduced leverage and caution after BTC’s rally to a new ATH. Today, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell back to about $120,000 after trying and failing to stay above $124,000. At the same time as this movement, open interest on Binance fell by 7.9%, with analysts describing it as an important metric showing traders are closing their positions and being more careful after the asset’s recent rise to a new all-time high (ATH). Open Interest Declines as Bulls Step Back Open interest in derivatives trading is the…

Hayes says traders misread past Bitcoin cycles by not taking into consideration macro drivers like USD and yuan credit shifts. Arthur Hayes, one of the founders of BitMEX, says that Bitcoin’s usual four-year price cycle is no longer useful. According to him, the current bull market could last much longer because of loose monetary policy. His opinion goes against long-held beliefs in crypto markets and changes the story from mechanical timing to macro-driven momentum. Hayes Fires the Four-Year Cycle Myth: Liquid Money Is King In a new essay titled “Long Live the King!” published recently on his Substack, Hayes…

The same connectivity that made Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) the fastest-adopted AI integration standard in 2025 has created enterprise cybersecurity's most dangerous blind spot. Recent research from Pynt quantifies the growing threat in clear, unambiguous terms. Their analysis exposes the startling network effect of vulnerabilities that escalate the more MCP plugins are used. Deploying just ten MCP plugins creates a 92% probability of exploitation. At three interconnected servers, risk exceeds 50%. Even a single MCP plugin presents a 9% exploit probability, and the threat compounds exponentially with each addition.MCPs' security paradox is driving one of the enterprises' most significant…