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Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC selects the Canton Network blockchain as a real-world asset tokenization partner after receiving a No-Action Letter from the SEC (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/

Wall Street giant DTCC Picks privacy focused blockchain Canton Network for tokenization
Canton creator Digital Asset will help tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities.

Russia, a European friend of Russia, and an American admirer/asset of Russia to hold 'peace summit'.
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-donald-trump-meeting/

‘We are ready’: Orbán hails planned Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest
The U.S. president says he will meet Russia’s leader in Hungary.

Ukraine warns of ‘catastrophe for every single European’ if Russian frozen asset plan fails: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/ukraine-warns-of-catastrophe-for.html

U.K. proposes new asylum policy with 20-year wait and asset seizures - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/17/britain-new-asylum-policy/

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @…
Thank you crypto folks!
https://www.

Sources: Li Lin, founder of crypto exchange Huobi, and some of Asia's earliest Ethereum backers have raised ~$1B to launch a digital asset trust to buy Ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/h…

Why Your "Messy" Career Path Might Be Your Greatest Leadership Asset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewuYvGd5zOs

Ukraine eyes 250-300 jet fleet
with Rafales, Gripens and F-16s post-war
Ukraine wants France's frontline Rafale fighter
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/ukraine-post-war-fighter-fleet-rafale-gripen/

Ukraine's 250-jet post-war fleet plans with Rafales, F-16s, Gripens
Zelensky outlines Ukraine's post-war air force of up to 250 F-16s, Gripens and Rafales, with Rafales as premium asset.

Raiders’ $11M Starter Listed as a Potential Trade Asset https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/malcolm-koonce-trade-asset/?adt_ei=[email]

Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation
Yoontae Hwang, Stefan Zohren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03129 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03129

Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation
Robust asset allocation is a key challenge in quantitative finance, where deep-learning forecasters often fail due to objective mismatch and error amplification. We introduce the Signature-Informed Transformer (SIT), a novel framework that learns end-to-end allocation policies by directly optimizing a risk-aware financial objective. SIT's core innovations include path signatures for a rich geometric representation of asset dynamics and a signature-augmented attention mechanism embedding financi…

We cooked a new feature for Godot and iOS lovers. A plugin to Godot to deploy to Xogot on iOS or iPad:
Details:
https://blog.xogot.com/introducing-xogot-connect-remote-debugging-for-godot-on-iphone-and-ipad/

Introducing Xogot Connect — Remote Debugging for Godot on iPhone and iPad
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Xogot Connect, a new Godot extension available in the Godot Asset Library. Xogot Connnect bridges your desktop Godot editor to Xogot on iOS enabling you to run and debug your games on iPhone or iPad over Wi-Fi. With Xogot Connect, you

Ripple acquires GTreasury, a platform used by Fortune 500 companies for managing cash, foreign exchange, and risk, for $1B, set to close in the coming months (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/

Ripple News: Enters Corporate Treasury Business with $1B Acquisition of GTreasury
The deal, pending regulatory approvals, would give Ripple access to large enterprise clients as it is building out financial services around its digital asset business.

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation
Denis Zavadski, Damjan Kal\v{s}an, Tim K\"uchler, Haebom Lee, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11567

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation
Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such as Cityscapes, where differences in architecture, vegetation, object appearance, and camera characteristics limit downstream performance. Closing this gap with more detailed 3D modelling would require expensive asset and scene design, defeating the purpose of…

Distributed Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Temporal Aggregation for the Joint Dispatch of Cascaded Hydropower and Renewables
Luca Santosuosso, Sonja Wogrin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11998

Distributed Stochastic Model Predictive Control with Temporal Aggregation for the Joint Dispatch of Cascaded Hydropower and Renewables
This paper addresses the real-time energy dispatch of a hybrid system comprising cascaded hydropower plants, wind, and solar units, jointly participating in the day-ahead energy market under inflow, renewable generation, and price uncertainties. Traditional scenario-based stochastic model predictive control (MPC) faces severe computational bottlenecks due to the complexity arising from the temporal, asset, and scenario dimensions of this control problem. To address this, we propose a novel cont…

Sources: $TRUMP issuer, Fight Fight Fight LLC, is working to raise at least $200M to create a digital asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Trump Memecoin Issuer Zanker Plans to Create Digital Asset Treasury Company
The startup that issued Donald Trump’s memecoin several days before his second presidential inauguration is working to raise at least $200 million to create a digital-asset treasury company to accumulate the struggling token, according to people familiar with the situation.

The UK Treasury is drafting new rules
to regulate cryptocurrencies
under legislation set to come into force in 2027, The Guardian reported Sunday.
The move would place digital asset firms under the supervision of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),
subjecting them to the same standards as other traditional financial products such as stocks and shares.
Regulators are seeking to address gaps in consumer protection as the market has expanded rapidly,
especia…

UK Treasury to implement regulation for Bitcoin and crypto by 2027 - EUROPE SAYS
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ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization
Mengying Wang, Moming Duan, Yicong Huang, Chen Li, Bingsheng He, Yinghui Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23577 https://…

ML-Asset Management: Curation, Discovery, and Utilization
Machine learning (ML) assets, such as models, datasets, and metadata, are central to modern ML workflows. Despite their explosive growth in practice, these assets are often underutilized due to fragmented documentation, siloed storage, inconsistent licensing, and lack of unified discovery mechanisms, making ML-asset management an urgent challenge. This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of ML-asset management activities across its lifecycle, including curation, discovery, and utilization.…

Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset (Daniel Hannan/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/22/trump-is-behaving-like-a-russian-asset/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p81#a251122p81

Nonparametric Estimation of Self- and Cross-Impact
Natascha Hey, Eyal Neuman, Sturmius Tuschmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Nonparametric Estimation of Self- and Cross-Impact
We introduce an offline nonparametric estimator for concave multi-asset propagator models based on a dataset of correlated price trajectories and metaorders. Compared to parametric models, our framework avoids parameter explosion in the multi-asset case and yields confidence bounds for the estimator. We implement the estimator using both proprietary metaorder data from Capital Fund Management (CFM) and publicly available S&P order flow data, where we augment the former dataset using a metaorder…

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.RM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.RM/new
[1/1]:
- Physical Climate Risk in Asset Management
Michele Azzone, Matteo Ghesini, Davide Stocco, Lorenzo Viola

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
"According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filings, his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir, as CNN reports.
Burry similarly made a long-term $1 billion bet from 2005 onwards against the US mortgage market, anticipating its collapse. His fund rose a whopping 489 percent when the market did subsequently fall apart in 2008."
…

The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
Sara Strakosova, Petr Novak, Petr Kadera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02167

Product Digital Twin Supporting End-of-life Phase of Electric Vehicle Batteries Utilizing Product-Process-Resource Asset Network
In the context of the circular economy, products in their end-of-life phase should be either remanufactured or recycled. Both of these processes are crucial for sustainability and environmental conservation. However, manufacturers often do not support these processes enough by not sharing relevant data. This paper proposes use of a digital twin technology, which is capable to help optimizing the disassembly processes to reduce ecological impact and enhance sustainability. The proposed approach …

In a way it is very simple, seize the assets or let the european taxpayers pay the bill. Ukraine losing the war is much more expensive....
I understand there are good arguments against seizing russian assets but then we have to accept the "pain" of providing those funds ourselves.
http…

How Belgium became Russia’s most valuable asset
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is unmoved in his opposition to a raid on Moscow’s funds held in a Brussels bank to support a loan to Ukraine. 

Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I woild be very interested to see analysis of what the Uniform Penny Post contributed to the UK economy. Is a postal system which makes a profit an asset to an evonomy, or, on the contrary, a huge liability?

Diffusion-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Robust Portfolio Optimization under Stress Scenarios
Himanshu Choudhary, Arishi Orra, Manoj Thakur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07099

Diffusion-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Robust Portfolio Optimization under Stress Scenarios
In the ever-changing and intricate landscape of financial markets, portfolio optimisation remains a formidable challenge for investors and asset managers. Conventional methods often struggle to capture the complex dynamics of market behaviour and align with diverse investor preferences. To address this, we propose an innovative framework, termed Diffusion-Augmented Reinforcement Learning (DARL), which synergistically integrates Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) with Deep Reinforc…

VelLMes: A high-interaction AI-based deception framework
Muris Sladi\'c (Czech Technical University in Prague), Veronica Valeros (Czech Technical University in Prague), Carlos Catania (CONICET, UNCuyo), Sebastian Garcia (Czech Technical University in Prague)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06975

VelLMes: A high-interaction AI-based deception framework
There are very few SotA deception systems based on Large Language Models. The existing ones are limited only to simulating one type of service, mainly SSH shells. These systems - but also the deception technologies not based on LLMs - lack an extensive evaluation that includes human attackers. Generative AI has recently become a valuable asset for cybersecurity researchers and practitioners, and the field of cyber-deception is no exception. Researchers have demonstrated how LLMs can be leverage…

Back to the Future Museum -- Speculative Design for Virtual Citizen-Curated Museums
Richard Rhodes, Sandra Woolley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06472 https://

Back to the Future Museum -- Speculative Design for Virtual Citizen-Curated Museums
This forward-looking paper uses speculative design fiction to explore future museum scenarios where citizen curators design and share immersive virtual reality museums populated with tangible heritage artefacts, intangible virtual elements and interactive experiences. The work also explores takeaway 'asset packs' containing 3D artefact models, curation assets, and interactive experiences, and we envisage a visit to the future museum, where the physical and virtual experiences interplay. Finally…

Jay Yarow, who previously led digital strategy at CNBC and Business Insider, is named president of CoinDesk Insights, the media and events division of Bullish (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/01/cn…

CNBC Veteran Jay Yarow Joins CoinDesk to Expand Media and Events
Yarow will oversee CoinDesk Insights as its parent company looks to expand digital asset coverage across the globe.

Delivery Hero Chair Kristin Skogen Lund backs CEO Niklas Östberg as the group explores asset sales amid shareholder pressure over its falling stock price (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e256c32a-be7e-46ba-b863-0e2238b2f787

Asset Management Strategist Says It's Time To Rethink How We Measure Poverty | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/11/asset-management-strategist-says-its-time

Signed network models for portfolio optimization
Bibhas Adhikari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05377 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05377

Signed network models for portfolio optimization
In this work, we consider weighted signed network representations of financial markets derived from raw or denoised correlation matrices, and examine how negative edges can be exploited to reduce portfolio risk. We then propose a discrete optimization scheme that reduces the asset selection problem to a desired size by building a time series of signed networks based on asset returns. To benchmark our approach, we consider two standard allocation strategies: Markowitz's mean-variance optimizatio…

The Lazarus group stands accused of stealing approximately 45 billion won ($30.6 million) from Upbit, South Korea's largest cryptocurrency platform.
https://en.yenisafak.com/world/north-koreas-lazarus-hackers-steal-30-million…

North Korea's Lazarus hackers steal $30 million from South Korean exchange
North Korea's Lazarus hacking group is suspected of stealing approximately $30.6 million in cryptocurrency from South Korea's largest digital asset exchange, Upbit.

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
Jihun Lim, Sungwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07338 https://

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
To facilitate the widespread adoption of renewable energy, dispatchable, zero-emission power sources are essential for grid stability. This work performs a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of a self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system, an architecture that integrates solar charging to function as a standalone power generation asset. Using theory-based models for air-bridge InGaAs and Si diode cells, our analysis reveals that while the system is not currently competitive from a pur…

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Abderrahman Ait-Ali, Anders Peterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08254

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Accurate and timely travel information is an asset for enhancing passenger travel experience during normal traffic, and for mitigating the discomforts during disruptions. With longer and more frequent disruptions as well as increasing ridership, traffic delays can incur substantial costs for passengers and other transport stakeholders, e.g., operators and infrastructure managers. Such costs can, however, be reduced thanks to effective travel information strategies during traffic disruptions. In…

One area where I think I can do better is to have some sort of Asset browser in Xogot. I do not think that finding files by name is great - and I am lacking an icon view for the file browser.
I am unfamiliar with the space (other than Googling "Unity Asset Browser") and the Final Cut iPad browser - which seems insufficient.
Do you have a favorite tool or UI that you like that you recommend to me?

What Are We Clustering For? Establishing Performance Guarantees for Time Series Aggregation in Generation Expansion Planning
Luca Santosuosso, Bettina Klinz, Sonja Wogrin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09357

What Are We Clustering For? Establishing Performance Guarantees for Time Series Aggregation in Generation Expansion Planning
Generation expansion planning (GEP) is a prominent example of capacity expansion problems in operations research. Being generally NP-hard, GEP optimization models can become intractable when nonconvex dynamics, time-coupling constraints, and complex asset interactions are involved. Time series aggregation (TSA) tackles this by reducing temporal complexity via input data clustering. However, existing TSA methods either focus solely on preserving the statistical features of the input data, yieldi…

Attention-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
Pei Xue, Yuanchun Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Attention-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization
We develop a deep reinforcement learning framework for dynamic portfolio optimization that combines a Dirichlet policy with cross-sectional attention mechanisms. The Dirichlet formulation ensures that portfolio weights are always feasible, handles tradability constraints naturally, and provides a stable way to explore the allocation space. The model integrates per-asset temporal encoders with a global attention layer, allowing it to capture sector relationships, factor spillovers, and other cro…

Tensor time series change-point detection in cryptocurrency network data
Andreas Anastasiou, Ivor Cribben
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06211 https://arxiv.or…

Tensor time series change-point detection in cryptocurrency network data
Financial fraud has been growing exponentially in recent years. The rise of cryptocurrencies as an investment asset has simultaneously seen a parallel growth in cryptocurrency scams. To detect possible cryptocurrency fraud, and in particular market manipulation, previous research focused on the detection of changes in the network of trades; however, market manipulators are now trading across multiple cryptocurrency platforms, making their detection more difficult. Hence, it is important to cons…

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
Althea Sterrett, Austin Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06095 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06095

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
The programmable and composable nature of smart contract protocols has enabled the emergence of novel market structures and asset classes that are architecturally frictional to implement in traditional financial paradigms. This fluidity has produced an understudied class of market dynamics, particularly in coupled markets where one market serves as an oracle for the other. In such market structures, purchases or liquidations through the intermediate asset create coupled price action between the…

'The key to ending the war is in Brussels' — Ukrainians react to Belgium's Russian asset loan opposition: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/the-key-to-ending-the.html

There's a simple trick for increasing your velocity: just redefine "done" from "value was created" to checking off an arbitrary box.
Tools like bogus "design thinking" templates and LLM people-simulators get sold en masse as a solution to "improving velocity."
But when you apply a speedrunning attitude to the product development lifecycle, your biggest asset (divergent thinking and diverse perspectives from collaborators) becomes your h…

The people ARE the process
Cutting down on collaboration tricks you into thinking you're going faster, but it destroys the divergence effects that make the design process valuable.

The US CFTC withdraws its 2020 guidance on the "actual delivery" of a digital asset, aiming to support broader access to regulated crypto markets (Micah Zimmerman/Bitcoin Magazine)
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/cftc-scraps-overly-complex-crypto-rul…

CFTC Cuts ‘Outdated And Overly Complex’ Crypto Guidance
The CFTC is withdrawing outdated crypto delivery guidance, paving the way for updated rules amid expanding oversight.

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Hedging of exotic options in Hawkes jump-diffusion models by Malliavin calculus
Ayub Ahmadi, Mahdieh Tahmasebi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05689 https://arx…

Hedging of exotic options in Hawkes jump-diffusion models by Malliavin calculus
In financial mathematics, the calculation of the Greeks, especially the delta, is emphasized due to its role in risk management. In this article, we employ Malliavin calculus to determine the delta of European and Asian options, where the underlying asset evolves according to a Hawkes jump-diffusion process. A central feature is that the Hawkes jump intensity is stochastic, which substantially affects the delta representation.

Jerry Jones Drops Major Hint About George Pickens’ Future With Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-future-contract-extension/?adt_ei=[email]

In #Höxter entsteht ein neuer Mega-#Batteriespeicher mit 130 MW Leistung und 354 MWh Kapazität.
Er soll ab 2027 zur Stabilisierung des Stromnetzes beitragen und die Integration erneuerbarer Energien verbessern.
Eingesetzt wird moderne

Höxter wird Energiespeicher-Hotspot:SMA Altenso und MEAG bauen Deutschlands nächsten Mega-Batteriespeicher in Höxter
Niestetal - Die erfolgreiche Partnerschaft zwischen SMA Altenso und dem Muenchner Asset Manager MEAG geht in die nächste Runde. Nach dem gemeinsamen Projekt...

Proposed Trade Sees Raiders Add Key Asset for $33 Million Veteran https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jakobi-meyers-falcons-trade/?adt_ei=[email]

Hunyuan3D-Omni: A Unified Framework for Controllable Generation of 3D Assets
Team Hunyuan3D, :, Bowen Zhang, Chunchao Guo, Haolin Liu, Hongyu Yan, Huiwen Shi, Jingwei Huang, Junlin Yu, Kunhong Li, Linus, Penghao Wang, Qingxiang Lin, Sicong Liu, Xianghui Yang, Yixuan Tang, Yunfei Zhao, Zeqiang Lai, Zhihao Liang, Zibo Zhao
https://arxiv.or…

Hunyuan3D-Omni: A Unified Framework for Controllable Generation of 3D Assets
Recent advances in 3D-native generative models have accelerated asset creation for games, film, and design. However, most methods still rely primarily on image or text conditioning and lack fine-grained, cross-modal controls, which limits controllability and practical adoption. To address this gap, we present Hunyuan3D-Omni, a unified framework for fine-grained, controllable 3D asset generation built on Hunyuan3D 2.1. In addition to images, Hunyuan3D-Omni accepts point clouds, voxels, bounding …

El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica #IMNCR avisa que la onda tropical #40 podría convertirse en ciclón (ya sea tormenta tropical o incluso huracšn) y que viene hacia Centroamérica

Robust Pricing and Hedging of American Options in Continuous Time
Ivan Guo, Jan Ob\l\'oj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05463 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05…

Robust Pricing and Hedging of American Options in Continuous Time
We consider the robust pricing and hedging of American options in a continuous time setting. We assume asset prices are continuous semimartingales, but we allow for general model uncertainty specification via adapted closed convex constraints on the volatility. We prove the robust pricing-hedging duality. When European options with given prices are available for static trading, we show that duality holds against richer models where these options are traded dynamically. Our proofs rely on probab…

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

Btw. I know there hasn't been much new work on #ThingUmbrella over the past month. That's because I've been spending _a lot_ more time on my multi-faceted toolchain for note taking, asset management (images/videos, incl. auto-creation of different versions) and also aimed as generator for blogs/websites, feeds, visualizations (e.g. incl. those on the current

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design and Art in its many forms.

Factor-Based Conditional Diffusion Model for Portfolio Optimization
Xuefeng Gao, Mengying He, Xuedong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22088 https://arxiv.org…

Factor-Based Conditional Diffusion Model for Portfolio Optimization
We propose a novel conditional diffusion model for portfolio optimization that learns the cross-sectional distribution of next-day stock returns conditioned on asset-specific factors. The model builds on the Diffusion Transformer with token-wise conditioning, linking each asset's return to its own factor vector while capturing cross-asset dependencies. Generated return samples are used for daily mean-variance optimization under realistic constraints. Empirical results on the Chinese A-share mar…

Alden's losing bid for DallasNews is a rare win for family-controlled, publicly traded newspapers that are viewed as community trusts, not financial assets (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dallas-m

Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital
Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

Towards Scalable and Consistent 3D Editing
Ruihao Xia, Yang Tang, Pan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02994 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02994

Towards Scalable and Consistent 3D Editing
3D editing - the task of locally modifying the geometry or appearance of a 3D asset - has wide applications in immersive content creation, digital entertainment, and AR/VR. However, unlike 2D editing, it remains challenging due to the need for cross-view consistency, structural fidelity, and fine-grained controllability. Existing approaches are often slow, prone to geometric distortions, or dependent on manual and accurate 3D masks that are error-prone and impractical. To address these challeng…

Multimodal Speckle-polarization Fiber-optic Sensing for Localized and High-bandwidth Vibration Monitoring
Catarina S. Monteiro, Tom\'as Lopes, Joana Teixeira, Tiago Ferreira, Pedro A. S. Jorge, Nuno A. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22079

Multimodal Speckle-polarization Fiber-optic Sensing for Localized and High-bandwidth Vibration Monitoring
High-bandwidth and multi-point acoustic and vibration sensing is a critical asset for real-time condition monitoring, maintenance, and surveillance applications. In the case of large scales and harsh environments, optical fiber distributed sensing has emerged as a compelling alternative to electronic transducers, featuring lower installation and maintenance costs, along with compact footprints and enhanced robustness. Yet, current distributed fiber-optic sensing solutions are typically costly a…

Binary Option Market Manipulation by Influencing Belief Dynamics
Henry Waldhausen, Christopher Griffin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05785 https://arxiv.org/p…

Binary Option Market Manipulation by Influencing Belief Dynamics
Using techniques from information geometry, we construct a semi-Hamiltonian system modelling trader beliefs in a binary asset market and study the impact of inequality or asymmetry in beliefs, information, and power on price dynamics. We show that in a market with no inequality and $N$ completely symmetric traders, the resulting dynamics evolve on a $2N + 1$ dimensional manifold consisting of a $2N-2$ dimensional centre manifold, a $2$ dimensional stable manifold and a $1$ dimensional slow mani…

STRAPSim: A Portfolio Similarity Metric for ETF Alignment and Portfolio Trades
Mingshu Li, Dhruv Desai, Jerinsh Jeyapaulraj, Philip Sommer, Riya Jain, Peter Chu, Dhagash Mehta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24151

STRAPSim: A Portfolio Similarity Metric for ETF Alignment and Portfolio Trades
Accurately measuring portfolio similarity is critical for a wide range of financial applications, including Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) recommendation, portfolio trading, and risk alignment. Existing similarity measures often rely on exact asset overlap or static distance metrics, which fail to capture similarities among the constituents (e.g., securities within the portfolio) as well as nuanced relationships between partially overlapping portfolios with heterogeneous weights. We introduce STRAP…

""The Republican Party is compromised and is now a functional asset of the Russian Federation.""
'Appalling spectacle': Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being 'compromised' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-russia-compromised-stuart-stevens/

Unsupervised Representation Learning for 3D Mesh Parameterization with Semantic and Visibility Objectives
AmirHossein Zamani, Bruno Roy, Arianna Rampini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25094

Unsupervised Representation Learning for 3D Mesh Parameterization with Semantic and Visibility Objectives
Recent 3D generative models produce high-quality textures for 3D mesh objects. However, they commonly rely on the heavy assumption that input 3D meshes are accompanied by manual mesh parameterization (UV mapping), a manual task that requires both technical precision and artistic judgment. Industry surveys show that this process often accounts for a significant share of asset creation, creating a major bottleneck for 3D content creators. Moreover, existing automatic methods often ignore two perc…

Financial Stability Implications of Generative AI: Taming the Animal Spirits
Anne Lundgaard Hansen, Seung Jung Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01451 https://

Financial Stability Implications of Generative AI: Taming the Animal Spirits
This paper investigates the impact of the adoption of generative AI on financial stability. We conduct laboratory-style experiments using large language models to replicate classic studies on herd behavior in trading decisions. Our results show that AI agents make more rational decisions than humans, relying predominantly on private information over market trends. Increased reliance on AI-powered trading advice could therefore potentially lead to fewer asset price bubbles arising from animal sp…

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Exclusive: Ukraine pushes for flexibility in using Russian-frozen-asset loan to buy US weapons if needed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/exclusive-ukraine-pushes-for-flexibility.html

From Physics to Machine Learning and Back: Part II - Learning and Observational Bias in PHM
Olga Fink, Ismail Nejjar, Vinay Sharma, Keivan Faghih Niresi, Han Sun, Hao Dong, Chenghao Xu, Amaury Wei, Arthur Bizzi, Raffael Theiler, Yuan Tian, Leandro Von Krannichfeldt, Zhan Ma, Sergei Garmaev, Zepeng Zhang, Mengjie Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

From Physics to Machine Learning and Back: Part II - Learning and Observational Bias in PHM
Prognostics and Health Management ensures the reliability, safety, and efficiency of complex engineered systems by enabling fault detection, anticipating equipment failures, and optimizing maintenance activities throughout an asset lifecycle. However, real-world PHM presents persistent challenges: sensor data is often noisy or incomplete, available labels are limited, and degradation behaviors and system interdependencies can be highly complex and nonlinear. Physics-informed machine learning ha…

Copula-Based Clustering of Financial Time Series via Evidence Accumulation
Andrea Mecchina, Roberta Pappad\`a, Nicola Torelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05960 https://

Copula-Based Clustering of Financial Time Series via Evidence Accumulation
Understanding the dependence structure of asset returns is fundamental in risk assessment and is particularly relevant in a portfolio diversification strategy. We propose a clustering approach where evidence accumulated in a multiplicity of classifications is achieved using classical hierarchical procedures and multiple copula-based dissimilarity measures. Assets that are grouped in the same cluster are such that their stochastic behavior is similar during risky scenarios, and riskaverse invest…

An Advection-Difusion Model Incorporating Investor Inertia for the Dynamics of Financial Asset Prices
Diego, Gustavo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18488 https://

General CoVaR Based on Entropy Pooling
Yuhong Xu, Xinyao Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21904

General CoVaR Based on Entropy Pooling
We propose a general CoVaR framework that extends the traditional CoVaR by incorporating diverse expert views and information, such as asset moment characteristics, quantile insights, and perspectives on the relative loss distribution between two assets. To integrate these expert views effectively while minimizing deviations from the prior distribution, we employ the entropy pooling method to derive the posterior distribution, which in turn enables us to compute the general CoVaR. Assuming biva…

The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/spot-crypto-products-begin-t…

Rethinking Portfolio Risk: Forecasting Volatility Through Cointegrated Asset Dynamics
Gabriele Casto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23533 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Rethinking Portfolio Risk: Forecasting Volatility Through Cointegrated Asset Dynamics
We introduce the Historical and Dynamic Volatility Ratios (HVR/DVR) and show that equity and index volatilities are cointegrated at intraday and daily horizons. This allows us to construct a VECM to forecast portfolio volatility by exploiting volatility cointegration. On S&P 500 data, HVR is generally stationary and cointegration with the index is frequent; the VECM implementation yields substantially lower mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) than covariance-based forecasts at short- to mediu…

Path-dependent, ESG-valued, option pricing in the Bachelier-Black-Scholes-Merton model
Bhathiya Divelgama, Nancy Asare Nyarko, W. Brent Lindquist, Svetlozar T. Rachev, Blessing Omotade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18099

UniLat3D: Geometry-Appearance Unified Latents for Single-Stage 3D Generation
Guanjun Wu, Jiemin Fang, Chen Yang, Sikuang Li, Taoran Yi, Jia Lu, Zanwei Zhou, Jiazhong Cen, Lingxi Xie, Xiaopeng Zhang, Wei Wei, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang, Qi Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25079

UniLat3D: Geometry-Appearance Unified Latents for Single-Stage 3D Generation
High-fidelity 3D asset generation is crucial for various industries. While recent 3D pretrained models show strong capability in producing realistic content, most are built upon diffusion models and follow a two-stage pipeline that first generates geometry and then synthesizes appearance. Such a decoupled design tends to produce geometry-texture misalignment and non-negligible cost. In this paper, we propose UniLat3D, a unified framework that encodes geometry and appearance in a single latent s…

Community-level Contagion among Diverse Financial Assets
An Pham Ngoc Nguyen, Marija Bezbradica, Martin Crane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15232 https://arxi…

Community-level Contagion among Diverse Financial Assets
As global financial markets become increasingly interconnected, financial contagion has developed into a major influencer of asset price dynamics. Motivated by this context, our study explores financial contagion both within and between asset communities. We contribute to the literature by examining the contagion phenomenon at the community level rather than among individual assets. Our experiments rely on high-frequency data comprising cryptocurrencies, stocks and US ETFs over the 4-year perio…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.MF. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.MF/new
[1/1]:
- Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning for Asset-Liability Management
Yilie Huang

Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-startup-zafran-security-raises-60m-100152808…

Israeli startup Zafran Security raises $60m
Zafran has also launched its agentic exposure management suite, positioning it to complete the entire end-to-end lifecycle across asset inventory, vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and autonomous remediation workflows.

Enhancing OHLC Data with Timing Features: A Machine Learning Evaluation
Ruslan Tepelyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16137 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16137…

Enhancing OHLC Data with Timing Features: A Machine Learning Evaluation
OHLC bar data is a widely used format for representing financial asset prices over time due to its balance of simplicity and informativeness. Bloomberg has recently introduced a new bar data product that includes additional timing information-specifically, the timestamps of the open, high, low, and close prices within each bar. In this paper, we investigate the impact of incorporating this timing data into machine learning models for predicting volume-weighted average price (VWAP). Our experime…

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform (Crypto in America)
https://www.cryptoinamerica.com/p/vanguard-eyes-crypto-etf-access-for

Vanguard Eyes Crypto ETF Access for Brokerage Clients
The $10 trillion mutual fund giant has stayed on the sidelines of crypto — until now.

Kalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/kalshi-makes-move-t…

Kalshi makes move to court crypto traders with tokenized betting contracts
Tokenization refers to creating a digital version of a real-world financial asset such as a stock, bond or treasury note.

For naturalized #USA citizens who thought they were safe:
"I will… remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country…, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility…"
#uspol #safety #certainty #naturalization #citizenship

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.PM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PM/new
[1/1]:
- Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation
Yoontae Hwang, Stefan Zohren

IBM launches Digital Asset Haven, a digital assets platform built with crypto wallet provider Dfns for financial institutions, governments, and companies (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from its successful asset-light model, and prior booms have resulted in overinvestment (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)
https://www.sparklinecapital.com/post/surviving-the-ai-capex-boom

Surviving the AI Capex Boom
Big Tech’s AI buildout is transforming markets. Drawing on the lessons of past capex booms, we offer a playbook for investors.

Michael Saylor-led Strategy is down 50% in the past three months after crypto loses $1T in value, as the "digital asset treasury" craze at companies unravels (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53473a9f-e801-4280-a78b-8e6e00bcac78

Kraken launches a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending in the UK and EU as part of a global rollout of its Krak money app (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/380354/kraken-krak-cashback-d…

Exponential Hedging for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process in the Presence of Linear Price Impact
Yan Dolinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25472 https://arxiv.o…

Exponential Hedging for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process in the Presence of Linear Price Impact
In this work we study a continuous time exponential utility maximization problem in the presence of a linear temporary price impact. More precisely, for the case where the risky asset is given by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck diffusion process we compute the optimal portfolio strategy and the corresponding value. Our method of solution relies on duality, and it is purely probabilistic.

London-based Fnality, which lets banks transact in a digital cash asset backed with funds at the Bank of England, raised $136M led by BoA, Citigroup, and others (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

A Practitioner's Guide to AI ML in Portfolio Investing
Mehmet Caner Qingliang Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25456

A Practitioner's Guide to AI+ML in Portfolio Investing
In this review, we provide practical guidance on some of the main machine learning tools used in portfolio weight formation. This is not an exhaustive list, but a fraction of the ones used and have some statistical analysis behind it. All this research is essentially tied to precision matrix of excess asset returns. Our main point is that the techniques should be used in conjunction with outlined objective functions. In other words, there should be joint analysis of Machine Learning (ML) techni…

Brookfield Asset Management is targeting $10B for its new AI infrastructure fund and has already raised $5B from its balance sheet, Nvidia, and other investors (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/brookfield-is-

Evernorth, a digital asset treasury backed by Ripple, says it will list on the Nasdaq through a merger with a blank check company and expects to raise $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ripple-backed-everno…

Crypto.com follows Circle, BitGo, and others in applying for a US bank charter, as it seeks to further its custody-service business for products such as ETFs (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…