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VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…

Andreessen Horowitz Crypto Unit to Expand Into Asia With South Korea Office
The crypto VC says it's opening its first Asia-based office in Seoul.

Please apply pressure to electeds, urging them to aggressively pursue state charges against ICE officers, in defiance of the FBI if necessary.
Many of them already want this. State AG is already taking steps to do this. Apply the pressure anyway; the pressure helps.
If you live in Minnesota:
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP

It's kinda weird how the Linux Foundation has accepted to become the dumping ground for tech/infrastructure that fall out of some tech hype. First they picked up a lot of Blockchain stuff, now they do AI infra.

Does having contacts without photos bother you? It just looks all weird in my contacts list across my devices 🤔
Doesn’t bother me
It bothers me
You have contacts?!

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/10/terraform-s-do-kwon-s…

Terra Creator Do Kwon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The Terraform Labs co-founder pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in August.

Sei partners with Xiaomi to pre-install its crypto wallet and discovery app on all new Xiaomi phones sold outside mainland China and the US, starting in 2026 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/0…

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones
The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

eToro reports Q3 net contribution up 28% YoY to $215M, vs. $208M est., adjusted EBITDA up 43% to $78M, and announces a $150M share buyback; ETOR closed up 8% (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/11/10/eto…

EToro (ETOR) Third-Quarter Results Top Estimates on Crypto Trading Strength, KBW Says
The trading platform’s adjusted Ebitda beat expectations as higher crypto trading and net interest income offset weaker equities and commodities results.

A look at Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project made by Anthropic employees to an industry standard shared through the Linux Foundation (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, to be governed under the Agentic AI Foundation, with other members including OpenAI, Google, and Block.

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.