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Bitcoin is holding steady above seventy-eight thousand dollars, even as most of the crypto market pulls back on expectations of a more hawkish Federal Reserve. Ether, Solana, Tron, and Dogecoin all lost ground over the past twenty-four hours, while the token HYPE bucked the trend with a four percent gain. Bitcoin itself finished August up twenty-four percent, a run that's left investors watching carefully for what comes next.
From crypto markets to prediction markets — Donald Trump Junior's venture firm, seventeen eighty-nine Capital, is leading a one billion dollar fundraising round for Polymarket, the online betting platform. The firm is contributing around three hundred million dollars, building on a stake it already held, and the deal pushes Polymarket's valuation from fifteen billion to twenty-one billion dollars. That's a striking number for a platform built on crowd-sourced forecasting.
Meanwhile, the next generation of home networking is arriving sooner than many expected. TP-Link has unveiled what it's calling the world's first Wi-Fi eight routers at IFA two thousand twenty-six, including the Archer nine Ultra and the Deco eight Ultra mesh system. Preorders for the Archer model begin September thirtieth, promising dramatically faster speeds and broader coverage for homes and heavy users alike.
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