🤖 OpenAI announces its AI models have made new major scientific discoveries

OpenAI has announced three AI-generated discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics, with independent experts set to review the findings.

🔘In mathematics, AI has reportedly proved the local smoothing conjecture, resolving two longstanding problems known as the Kakeya and Stein restriction conjectures.

🔘In computer science, a new proof challenges the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Both results have been released publicly alongside formal verifications in Lean.

🔘The physics breakthrough concerns existence proofs for four-dimensional quantum field theories, including QCD and Yang–Mills. Nobel laureate David Gross will help oversee the review.

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🤑 The first blockchain-native Nasdaq-100 fund is built on Stellar

🔥 Centrifuge CEO Bhaji Illuminati on why this matters:

We are very excited to announce that we launched the NASDAQ 100 with Stellar. So this is the first time that there's an on-chain DeFi strategy for the NASDAQ 100.

What that means is that anyone within the Stellar ecosystem can access one of the best and most well known tech indices.

We are unique in that we're building this strategy fully natively on-chain. So we're not just wrapping an ETF or buying the ETF, we're actually creating a new fund structure.

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🤑 Ripple Expands Strategic Digital Assets Collaboration with BNY Across Custody and Tokenized Trade Finance

Ripple and BNY, a global financial services company, announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to broaden institutional digital asset custody capabilities and explore new institutional use cases for blockchain technology, including tokenized trade finance.

🤝 The collaboration brings together Ripple’s digital asset solutions and the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a public blockchain, with BNY’s scale, servicing model and digital capabilities.

➡️ Building on BNY’s role as primary reserve custodian for Ripple’s stablecoin, RLUSD, and its custody relationship with Ripple Prime, BNY now supports XRP, the native digital asset of the XRP Ledger, and RLUSD on its Digital Asset Custody platform.

➡️ BNY’s platform is designed to provide institutional clients with secure digital asset custody within the governance, controls and resiliency of its broader servicing model, giving eligible clients a seamless way to safekeep, hold and transfer digital assets.

“We’re moving past the initial issuance of assets onchain – now, it’s all about making these tokenized assets usable for payments and collateral across financial markets,” — said Monica Long, President of Ripple.

“With BNY, we’re connecting the necessary components of financial infrastructure on the XRP Ledger so institutions can move from holding digital assets to using them within capital markets and trade finance seamlessly.” 🚀

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🍎 Apple rolls out iOS 27.2 with new Siri AI languages and security fixes

Apple has rolled out its latest iOS 27.2 update for iPhones and iPads, featuring expanded language support and improved memory functions for Siri AI, suggestions in messages, and Apple Pencil support for the foldable iPhone Duo.

With the new software update, Siri AI can now be used in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, in beta. Apple says the AI assistant can now remember details from past conversations and answer accordingly. The ability for AI assistants to remember a person’s preferences have been a key area of focus for AI model makers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, whose assistants now do a better job at recalling facts and choices related to users.

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🤑 Stellar is now live on Minisend

You can now deposit assets from Stellar into your minisend wallet and cash out directly to mobile money or bank accounts. From Stellar to local currencies, without the usual hassle of moving funds across different platforms.

One more network connected to the local payment rails people use every day. 🚀

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🤑 C2FO and Ripple Partner to Modernize Trade Finance Using the XRP Ledger

C2FO, the world’s largest platform for working capital, and Ripple announced an initiative to bring the financing and settlement activity supporting the new C2FO Instant Pay solution™onto the XRP Ledger (XRPL).

⏳ Across global supply chains, businesses can wait 30, 60 or even 90 days after delivering goods and services to be paid, tying up cash they could otherwise use for payroll, inventory and new orders.

Today, C2FO Early Pay™ programs, including C2FO Dynamic Discounting™ and C2FO Dynamic Supply Chain Finance™, have already helped businesses access more than 520 billion in working capital through the accelerated payment of approved invoices. But even when an invoice is paid early, they can still wait several days for funds to move through legacy bank settlement infrastructure.

⚡️C2FO Instant Pay™ addresses that challenge by enabling businesses to receive payments instantly, using XRPL and RLUSD for settlement.

✅ Businesses will continue to access early payment through C2FO as they do today. Instant payment is funded by participating capital providers and settled on the XRP Ledger, letting suppliers receive funds in seconds rather than days, against invoices whose terms and due dates stay exactly as agreed.

Purpose-built for institutional use, RLUSD has grown to more than $2.5 billion in market capitalization, with more than $1 billion issued on XRPL. XRPL settles transactions in 3–5 seconds at a fraction of a cent, operating 24/7.

“We’ve spent years building a platform that gives businesses more information and control over their working capital. The next opportunity is to make the financial infrastructure behind our marketplace as efficient and connected as the experience we’ve created for customers,” — said Ragui Selwanes, President & COO Americas at C2FO.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump Says Meeting With Zelenskyy and Putin Will Be Set Up Soon

President Donald Trump said a meeting would soon be arranged involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to end the war between their countries, now in its fifth year.

“I think with Russia, we’re making a lot of progress with Russia-Ukraine,” — Trump said.

“There’ll be a meeting set up here soon,” — he added, “with President Putin and President Zelenskyy.”

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⚡️🤑 Securitize to Integrate with Stellar Network

Securitize, Inc., the leading platform for tokenized assets, today announced plans to integrate with the Stellar network, expanding the blockchain infrastructure available to institutional asset managers seeking to bring traditional financial products onchain.

👉 The integration will enable Securitize to support the issuance and management of tokenized financial assets on the Stellar network. The announcement was made in conjunction with Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation’s annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

👉 The planned integration reflects Securitize's continued commitment to providing institutional asset managers with flexible blockchain infrastructure while maintaining the regulatory and operational standards required for traditional financial products.

"Securitize has helped establish tokenization as a practical solution for major financial institutions,” — said Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the SDF.

“We're excited to work together to expand the infrastructure available to asset managers and support the next generation of tokenized financial products on Stellar." 🚀

Additional details about assets supported through the integration will be announced as they become available.

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🇺🇸 Treasury's Bessent sees crypto as America's next tool for keeping the U.S. dollar on top

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said digital assets could help strengthen the U.S. dollar's global dominance as technology becomes an increasingly important source of American economic influence.🏆

Speaking Tuesday at Ripple's Swell conference with CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Bessent argued that the power behind the world's reserve currencies during history derived from military strength, but it’s increasingly shifting toward technological leadership.

"We will keep our military umbrella, but I think more and more it's becoming a technology umbrella," — Bessent said.

⚔️ He pointed to the growing divide between U.S. and Chinese technology ecosystems, where countries and companies face choices over whose AI systems and semiconductor technology to adopt. Bessent said he sees digital assets as part of that competition, with the financial infrastructure countries may choose influencing the U.S. dollar’s reach.

"I think that digital assets are going to be no different, and we are going to win in the digital asset stack, and that's gonna continue to fortify the [U.S.] dollar," — he said.

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⚡️Anthropic Said to Pick JPMorgan to Lead IPO’s US Retail Offering

Anthropic PBC has tapped JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lead US sales of shares to individual investors in its potentially record-setting initial public offering.

The company behind Claude has weighed a retail offering of about 15% to 20% of the shares available in the IPO overall. JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon is expected to take part in the Wall Street bank’s campaign.

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⚡️🤑 Tokenization Gave Private Assets Rails. Pontoro is Building the Liquidity Layer

Pontoro Inc. today announced the launch of the first Pontoro Automated Liquidity Pool (ALP), a single investment pool that pairs liquid money market assets with private market funds and uses rules-based pricing to manage liquidity between them, on the Stellar network.

❗️The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the non-profit foundation that supports the Stellar network, is collaborating with Pontoro on the ALP, along with Archax, and the tokens will be issued on the Stellar network.

➡️ Tokenized finance has been assembled one layer at a time. Blockchains supplied the rails. Tokenization supplied a digital form for assets. Stablecoins, which are digital currencies backed by dollars, and tokenized money market funds supplied on-chain cash. One layer remained open: liquidity for private assets.

➡️ Tokenization gives a private asset a faster, cleaner way to move. Liquidity is a different thing. It is capital standing ready to buy, a price that adjusts as conditions change, and incentives that draw in new capital as liquidity becomes scarce.

The ALP is designed to supply that missing liquidity layer, and to connect the pieces already in place into functioning market infrastructure. 🧩

"Private markets have engineered nearly every layer of their infrastructure except one: liquidity," — said Antonio Vitti, CEO and Co-Founder of Pontoro.

"Tokenization has given private assets better rails. A market also needs capital, a price, and a mechanism for managing that capital as conditions change. That is the missing layer the ALP is designed to provide. 🚀

With a group of institutions contributing across the investment and operating stack, we can now move that idea from architecture to a live pilot."

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🛰 Ukraine's Starlink woes spur Europe to look for non-Musk alternatives

European satellite companies are stepping up efforts to challenge Elon Musk’s dominance in military communications after Starlink restrictions disrupted Ukraine’s drone operations.

Finnish firms ICEYE and Nokia have partnered with Ukraine to develop independent satellite communications, with initial launches expected in 2028. France’s Eutelsat, which already operates in Ukraine, is also positioning itself as an alternative.

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⚡️🇷🇺 Putin: “Elon Musk Is a Genius, a Truly Brilliant Man”

Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk.

It is important to maintain discipline and order in orbit. Both we and our American partners value this, and despite political issues, we work closely together in this field.

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⚡️💸 Columbia Opens Claims for $16 Million Data Breach Settlement

Angeion Group, the law firm administering the $16.1 million class action settlement over the June 2025 cyberattack against Columbia, emailed University students on Tuesday with instructions on how to claim their share of the settlement. Claims are due Jan. 21, 2027.

In June 2025, a hacker stole the contact information, Social Security numbers, health data, and financial aid data of around 870,000 individuals, including Columbia applicants, affiliates, and nonaffiliated prospective students. The University created the $16.1 million fund to pay claimants as part of a deal to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individuals whose data was stolen.

Affected individuals can claim benefits of up to $8,500 in value by submitting a claim form on Angeion’s dedicated case website. 

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🤑 Archax announces €GOVY on the Stellar network, bringing its perpetual tokenised government bill product to the eurozone

Archax, the UK/EU/US regulated digital asset platform, today announced €GOVY, a euro-denominated version of its perpetual tokenised government bill product, on the Stellar network.

€GOVY is designed to give treasurers, asset managers and other eligible institutions 24/7 on-chain exposure to short-dated euro-area government debt through a single token. Because the maturing bills roll automatically, holders do not need to redeem or reinvest at each maturity date. It joins $GOVY, launched in June 2026 on Ethereum, Hedera and the Stellar network.

Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Archax, comments:

“Institutions don’t run on one currency, and their collateral shouldn’t either. With the launch of €GOVY, a treasurer will be able to hold tokenised government exposure in dollars, sterling and euros – earning yield and ready to deploy at any hour of any day.

Launching on the Stellar network, at Meridian, also reflects how important the network has been to GOVY from day one.” 🚀

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