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Wall Street is making its most aggressive push yet into blockchain-based currency. Goldman Sachs and Citi have jointly committed two hundred seventy million dollars to something called Project Faro, and they're not alone — Mastercard, Visa, SoFi, and Anchorage are all positioning to own a piece of the onchain dollar market once controlled almost entirely by Tether and Circle. Traditional finance wants that ground back.
On a lighter note, wrestling and video game history collided at AEW Full Gear this weekend. Xavier Woods, better known to gaming fans as Austin Creed, pulled out an actual Nintendo Power Glove as a foreign object mid-match, landing what commentators are calling an iconic Shoryuken. It was absurd, it was theatrical, and honestly, it was perfect.
And from the world of computing history, the Plan Twenty-Eight project has shared new details about the physical framework of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. The reconstruction effort continues to bring the nineteenth century mechanical computer closer to reality, reminding us that the ideas underpinning modern computing are far older than the silicon they eventually ran on.
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