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Many projects still treat market making as a way to create a clean picture rather than a functional market.
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Many projects still treat market making as a way to create a clean picture rather than a functional market. A pretty chart is incredibly easy to manufacture. Once trading picks up, superficial support disappears almost immediately. The spread widens, price movement becomes erratic, traders start to doubt the asset.

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Avici raises $3.5M and returns 90% of capital to its community using a futarchy governance model, signaling a new approach to crypto-fintech decision-making.
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Avici secured $3.5M in funding while returning roughly 90% of committed capital to its community through a futarchy governance model. The fintech-crypto startup aims to build unified internet banking tools—wallet, savings, spend card, credit scoring, and lending—while using market-driven governance to align incentives and build trust.

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The release tightens liquidity sourcing and route selection across Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, Base, Starknet, zkSync Era, Linea, and additional networks.
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Jumper Exchange has announced an update to its cross-rollup routing engine. The release tightens liquidity sourcing and route selection across Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, Base, Starknet, zkSync Era, Linea, and additional networks.

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Buburuza CEO Daniel Zakharov explains why emotional spending makes budgeting fail—and how AI will soon help you monitor money instead of managing it.
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Buburuza CEO Daniel Zakharov predicts that AI financial assistants will soon replace manual money management. Instead of stressing over budgets and bills, users will co-create financial strategies that AI executes and monitors—eliminating emotional spending, shame, and decision fatigue. The future of finance is collaborative, not controlling.

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Crowdfunding is back. As VC chases AI, founders are raising from their communities and discovering belief is the most powerful thing in business.
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Venture capital has gone all-in on AI, leaving DTC, marketplace, and consumer-tech founders out in the cold. That vacuum has reawakened the crowdfunding ecosystem — not as a fallback, but as a first-choice power move. Founders like Scott Hansen of Maverick Brands are showing that raising from your community doesn’t just fund your company; it builds belief, ownership, and trust in a market that desperately needs it.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/vijaya-rama-raju-gottimukkala-advancing-global-financial-security-through-federated-learning.
Vijaya Rama Raju Gottimukkala’s research uses federated learning to enhance global fraud detection while preserving privacy, compliance, and trust.
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Researcher Vijaya Rama Raju Gottimukkala introduces a federated learning model that enables banks to detect fraud collaboratively without sharing sensitive data. His framework combines privacy-by-design, asynchronous training, and regulatory alignment—advancing global financial security through ethical, scalable AI systems built on trust and transparency.

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Does building a deck ever feel like managing chaos? Too many people, too many comments, too little story. There’s a smarter way to do it.
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Does building a deck ever feel like managing chaos? Too many people, too many comments, too little story. There’s a smarter way to do it.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/understanding-the-vix-the-markets-barometer-of-fear-and-opportunity.
The VIX was created by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) in 1993 and represents an expectation of volatility in the market.
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The VIX measures the market’s expected price movements over the next 30 days. It is determined by the implied volatility of S&P 500 index options. A high VIX of over 30 or 40, for example, signifies fear and uncertainty in the market.