On February 18, 2026, Google unveiled Lyria 3 — a music generation model from DeepMind built into Gemini. Now any user over 18 can open the chatbot, type a text prompt, or upload a photo/video and get a finished 30-second track with vocals, lyrics, and cover art. The tool is...
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On February 13, 2026, FTX and Alameda Research co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) published a post on X (formerly Twitter) referencing the valuation of AI giant Anthropic. The entrepreneur, who is serving a 25-year sentence, said his company could have retained the Claude...
Pavel Kot
18.02.2026
Welcome to “Notes from “Ded” in Hong Kong 2026″ where I’ll try to briefly outline the key narratives and sentiments that ran the show (solid vocabulary, right?) at the legendary Consensus Hong Kong 2026 conference. We’ll also try to figure out...
Ivan Pavlovskyy
18.02.2026
Disclaimer: This satirical piece is not financial advice or a call to action. The assessments, views, or forecasts expressed in the article are the author’s personal position and may not совпадать with the opinion of Incrypted’s editorial team. The past few years,...
Oleksii Stoiko
13.02.2026
In the crypto industry, Justin Sun’s name has long evoked conflicting reactions. For some, he is the entrepreneur behind the creation of one of the largest blockchain ecosystems, TRON. For others, he is a figure whose career has been accompanied by aggressive marketing,...
Ivan Babyuk
12.02.2026
When working with AI, a prompt is the basic way to control the algorithm. It determines what data to use, what constraints to follow, and what format to deliver the output in. If the prompt is set correctly, the answer can be used right away in a text, task, or workflow, but if...
Andrew Makarov
11.02.2026
Disclaimer: The assessments, views, or forecasts expressed in this piece are the author’s personal position and may not coincide with the opinion of Incrypted’s editorial team. Did you watch “Ice Age” as a kid? I was already a bit too old for cartoons when...
Oleksii Stoiko
06.02.2026
The consensus algorithm on the Solana network, like that of many other Proof-of-Stake-based blockchains, uses a delegation-based revenue distribution model — a user delegates tokens to a validator and receives rewards proportional to their share. This approach does not account...
Oleksandr Pishenin
06.02.2026
On February 3, 2026, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post about the role of layer-2 networks in the blockchain ecosystem. The developer believes that the previous view of L2 solutions as the project’s key scaling mechanism no longer reflects the current...
Pavel Kot
05.02.2026
In January 2026, Donald Trump publicly announced that he would nominate Kevin Warsh to lead the US Federal Reserve (Fed) once current Chair Jerome Powell’s term ends. Investors took the news as a signal of a possible shift in the monetary regime, which increased volatility...
Ivan Babyuk
03.02.2026
Science shapes almost every part of everyday life — from the medicines we rely on to the energy that powers our homes, and the systems that keep us safe. The pace of scientific progress is still constrained by established research methodologies. Despite rapid technological...
Mykhailo Yatsenko
30.01.2026
The market for tokenized real-world assets (RWA) remains one of the fastest-growing sectors in the crypto industry. According to rwa.xyz, the total market capitalization of these instruments surpassed $21 billion in early 2026, rising by more than $1 billion in January...
Ivan Obrevko
29.01.2026
Remember how in 2021 gamers couldn’t buy graphics cards because of miners? In 2026, history is repeating itself, but this time the “culprits” aren’t crypto enthusiasts — they’re developers buying up Mac minis in bulk. The reason for the frenzy is Clawdbot, an...
Mykhailo Yatsenko
27.01.2026
In 2018, the creators of Uniswap introduced a decentralized exchange built on the AMM algorithm and open liquidity pools. It was a breakthrough — for the first time, users could trade cryptocurrencies without relying on intermediaries. Over time, AMMs received many...
Ivan Babyuk
27.01.2026
Modern users place higher demands on digital platforms, especially crypto ones. Their key criteria are cryptographic security, so no one can spoof access, scalability, so the platform can serve users across different devices worldwide, and usability (UX), so security does not...
Ksenia Zhytomyrska
26.01.2026
Although voice assistants are no longer a novelty, most such systems still operate with noticeable pauses, respond poorly to interruptions, and sound unnatural. To remedy this situation, Nvidia has developed PersonaPlex, an open neural network for conversational AI. The solution...
Pavel Kot
23.01.2026
In early January 2026, the industry got another argument in favor of the efficiency of prediction markets. While traditional media like Reuters or Bloomberg were still processing incoming information, on Polymarket an anonymous trader, who created a wallet just a few days before...
Mykhailo Yatsenko
22.01.2026
In early 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that robotics is approaching its “ChatGPT moment,” meaning the creation of a universal, widely used machine. And just as the launch of ChatGPT once gave momentum to projects at the intersection of AI and blockchain,...
Ivan Babyuk
21.01.2026
Artificial intelligence and blockchain are among the most dynamic technology domains. Both have delivered a range of useful products for everyday use, both are surrounded by speculation and lofty expectations, and both have the potential to transform entire industries. At...
Ivan Babyuk
21.01.2026
By January 2026, Trust Wallet’s user base had surpassed 220 million — three times that of fintech giant Revolut. Against this backdrop, the team announced a paradigm shift: the wallet is evolving from a simple asset “safe” into a full-fledged alternative to banks and...
Artem Galunov
21.01.2026
Young "crypto officers" who got a taste of their first wins in 2021 and survived the 2022 bloodbath put together their plan for the next cycle, which looked roughly like...
Ivan Pavlovskyy
20.01.2026
In mid-January 2026, the social network X revised its “anti-spam” rules, directly affecting projects at the intersection of the crypto industry, analytics, and user-generated content. The changes impacted data access mechanisms, activity payouts, and monetization methods...
Ivan Babyuk
19.01.2026
Just a few years ago, the crypto market followed a familiar and almost ritualistic pattern. Bitcoin rallied, profits were taken, capital rotated into altcoins, and nearly everything with a ticker surged. This cycle repeated often enough to become a collective belief: an altcoin...
Ignacio Aguirre Franco
15.01.2026
The DAC8 rules are another step in strengthening tax transparency in the European Union, aimed at including cryptoassets in the system of automatic exchange of tax information. DAC8 establishes an obligation for providers of services related to cryptocurrencies to: The data...
Andriy Melnyk
13.01.2026
The Zcash (ZEC) project faced a governance crisis at a time when the cryptocurrency itself is at the peak of market attention. In the early days of 2026, the team of the network’s key developer Electric Coin Company (ECC) announced their departure after a conflict with the...
Pavel Kot
08.01.2026
2025 was a year of contrasts. On one side: a speculative retail frenzy around memecoins and a fresh wave of interest in prediction markets. On the other: a quiet but steady strengthening of institutional players and the industry’s gradual “growing up.” We’ve already...
Artem Galunov
31.12.2025
The year 2025 will undoubtedly leave its mark on the history of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin updated its all-time high above $124,000, major public companies began investing in digital assets, some held IPOs, the United States established a strategic reserve in the first...
Sergey Khukharkin
30.12.2025
In 2025, the crypto market went through several waves of reset — investor sentiment, narratives and priorities changed. So what really happened to the crypto industry during this year: did it evolve or, on the contrary, did it start to degrade? We’ve prepared a visual...
Nazar Pyrih
29.12.2025