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AI is raising demand for builders, not erasing them
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In February, a Citadel Securities analysis using Indeed data showed software-engineer job postings rising while overall job postings stayed weaker.
That split does not mean AI is

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has drawn its clearest line yet around which parts of crypto it views as outside securities law, a move that hands the industry a new map of regulatory winners while opening a narrower lane for privacy-focused technology.
However, the SEC’s new

The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners.
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data.
Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol

Crypto governance company, Tally, processed more than $1 billion in payments, served more than a million users, helped secure over $80 billion in protocol assets, completed a 60-day US ICO registration process, and then decided to kill the token sale and shut down anyway.
The company stated t

In the latest _SlateCast_, Liam “Akiba” Wright and Nate Whitehill sat down with Maximiliano Stochyk Duarte to unpack what makes token launches succeed as the market heads into 2026. Duarte argued that the bar has risen: retail attention is harder to earn, and projects without a real business model r

AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique
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After years of claims that AI will cause chaos in the labor market, sentiment seems to be at an a

For most of its life, Solana's brand was straightforward: fast infrastructure for whatever crypto wanted to do at volume.
By year four, that mostly meant memecoins, and it stayed that way until year five.
Solana became known for being the infrastructure for high-profile, and sometimes

_Welcome to Slate Sunday, CryptoSlate’s weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto._
Jeff Booth has been warning the world about how technology and

US business activity slowed in March, and the new PMI data delivered a warning that markets are starting to price in: growth is losing momentum just as price pressures pick up again.
That creates a pretty tough backdrop for Bitcoin to trade in. When the economy cools while inflation stays

Bitcoin’s relationship with the Federal Reserve has gone through a real transformation over the past several years, and the shift now looks clear enough to treat as a market structure development rather than a passing observation.
A familiar version of the idea shows up as a quick market

Bitcoin is starting to trade like the market’s real-time geopolitical switch
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After Bitcoin moved back above $70,000, following President Trump's five-day delay of planned strikes on Iranian infrastructure, the

Circle, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, saw its stock plunge 20% this week, erasing $5 billion in market capitalization in its steepest intraday drop since going public.
The sell-off happened on the same day Tether announced it had secured a ‘Big Four' accounting firm to undertake a

Bitcoin has room to rally if diplomacy between Washington and Tehran continues to ease pressure on oil.
Since March 23, traces of significant de-escalation have emerged, with President Donald Trump ordering a 5-day pause for “constructive conversations.”
At the same time, reports have emerg