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Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…

SBI Group backs payments firm dtcpay in $25 million funding round
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A funding round with a strategic investment from Japan’s SBI Group.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

The Knight Foundation commits $10M over three years to the Public Media Bridge Fund to help local stations, following the 2025 federal funding rescission (Knight Foundation)
https://knightfoundation.org/articles/new…

Knight Foundation commits $10 million to the Public Media Bridge Fund’s next phase - Knight Foundation
The three-year investment will strengthen public media organizations for the long-term by helping them improve operations, diversify revenue and build regional partnerships.

@aiappsapi@mastodon.social I agree that per-query values have limited meaning given all the variability in the context of how they're used.
That said, although I don't know an empirical study of this, I think there are many contexts in which a cheaper model has a much lower footprint. In fact, a recent study out of Stanford et al. found re-reading context was one of the reasons agentic tasks blew up compute

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18

BTC news: Iran's Strait of Hormuz toll booth has been settling in bitcoin since June
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned BitBank, a Tehran exchange it says moved hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled payments collected from ships buying passage through the world’s most important oil chokepoint.

The UK FCA, alongside tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/17

FCA steps up crypto enforcement with raids on illegal London P2P trading sites
Legal experts highlight that because zero P2P crypto firms currently hold FCA authorization, all commercial peer-to-peer venues in the U.K. are operating illegally.

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/

Mastercard (MA), Visa (V), Stripe connect crypto to cash as stablecoin payments grow
Analytics firm Allium said stablecoin payments hit $482 billion this year so far, up 45%, as card spending surges and global payment firms add crypto rails.

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more (Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/exclusiv…

Exclusive: NVIDIA’s Vera Team Says Chiplet Designs Sacrificed Single-Threaded Performance For Core Counts, And Agentic AI Is Now Forcing A Reversal
NVIDIA's Vera team argues chiplet layouts leave little room for focusing on per-core speed, a trade-off that Vera's design is meant to break.