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Visa is expanding its blockchain settlement program, adding five new networks — Base, Polygon, Canton, Arc, and Tempo — to its infrastructure. The pilot has seen fifty percent quarterly growth, signaling that one of the world's largest payment companies is making a serious, deliberate bet on stablecoin rails for real financial transactions.
Shifting from payments to infrastructure, one developer recently discovered just how aggressive AI web scraping has become. While monitoring server traffic, they found themselves logging one in every two thousand public IPv four addresses — essentially a distributed denial of service event driven not by malicious hackers, but by AI companies harvesting training data at a scale that is quietly straining the open web.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of finance and technology, Wall Street is preparing to launch its first prediction market exchange-traded funds tied to United States elections. These SEC-regulated funds would use swaps linked to binary-event contracts, opening election trading to everyday retail investors through standard brokerage accounts — a development that raises genuine questions about where markets end and democracy begins.
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