TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 delivers a modern, AI-assisted, cross-platform IDE — and it’s currently available for $29.97 (MSRP $499.99). Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is designed for developers who work across platforms, languages, and increasingly complex codebases. As a fully featured 64-bit IDE, it handles large solutions more efficiently while delivering performance improvements…
Key Takeaways Walter Castanedo found $10,000 in a Toledo basement on Dec. 31, 2024. BLS data puts the 1981 stash at $36,276 in 2024, showing cash’s inflation hit. Castanedo split $10,000 50/50 with Andrew Aranyosi and will renovate the home. Walter Castanedo paid $1,000 for a rundown three-bedroom, one-bath house at 220 Paine Avenue in…
Figure Technology Solutions reported $4.26 billion in Consumer Loan Marketplace volume for the second quarter on Aug. 13, up 132% from a year earlier and 47% from the first quarter. Summary Consumer loan marketplace volume reached $4.3 billion, rising 132% year over year during the quarter. Net income climbed 192% to $87 million as quarterly…
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Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. For over a decade, the single biggest question hanging over the $180 billion crypto market was whether Tether actually possessed the assets backing every USDT in circulation. Traders, remittance senders, and web3 users were routinely…
Flare’s FXRP is now accepted as collateral on Derive, letting XRP holders trade options and perpetuals onchain without giving up custody. Layer-1 chain Flare has announced that FXRP now works as collateral on Derive, letting XRP holders trade on-chain options and perpetual futures from their own wallets. According to a press release shared with…
Solana narrowly avoided a network-wide finality halt on August 12 after a routing failure at infrastructure provider TeraSwitch temporarily knocked nearly 29% of the blockchain’s staked SOL offline. The incident did not stop block production or prevent transactions from being processed, but it pushed Solana dangerously close to the threshold where transactions can no longer…
Leah Feiger: I mean, from the Trump White House, which has historically been so anti-AI-regulation that its very own AI czar for the first year of the Trump presidency, David Sacks, was like, “We’re not regulating,” to now where the White House has a slightly toothless, but still there, policy of sorts, especially in response…
Key Takeaways A Bank of Montreal-controlled investment adviser managed about $3,000 worth of XRP fund shares. The filing does not identify the beneficial owner or investment strategy. One fund seeks to follow XRP, while the other targets twice its daily move. Two Line Items Inside a 14,271-Position Filing Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO) filed a…
Ether.fi has upgraded its non-custodial neobank with tokenized stocks and metals, portfolio-backed loans near 4%, payments in over 30 currencies, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks. Summary Ether.fi users can trade tokenized assets and hold them inside self-custodial vaults. An Aave market on Optimism supports loans against portfolios at rates currently near 4%. Cash card users receive…
