🤑 Yardstick (Protocol 26) is now live on Testnet!

❗️Make sure to upgrade to the latest version of Stellar SDKs before the Mainnet vote on May 6th 🗳

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❤️ Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings Meeting platform.

Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. Deepfake video-call fraud represents a serious risk for businesses, especially those that regularly conduct high-value transactions over video.

World ID Deep Face tech takes a three-pronged approach to verifying that a participant is a real person. It cross-references a signed image taken at the time of the user’s registration through World’s Orb device, a real-time face scan from the user’s device, and a live video frame visible to other meeting participants. It only verifies someone when all three things match, at which point a “Verified Human” badge appears on that participant’s title.

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🇺🇸🤝 Anthropic and Trump: Is a truce near? White House and Anthropic CEO discuss working together

The Trump administration and Anthropic's CEO discussed working together for the ‌first time since a dispute earlier this year. The meeting was productive and constructive. They discussed how "can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, ​America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety."

"We discussed opportunities for collaboration, ​as well as shared approaches and protocols to address the challenges associated with scaling this technology," — the White House said.

The Trump administration, central bankers across the globe and industries are racing to get up to speed on Anthropic's new model Mythos ​and its ability to make complex cyberattacks both easier and quicker to execute. The two sides also talked about balancing innovation and safety.

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🤑🤑 XRP ETFs: The Institutional Era Has Begun ⚡️

For years, institutional interest in XRP was expressed through OTC desks, private placements, and the kind of quiet conviction that rarely makes headlines. That chapter is over. 📖🔚

📈 In the space of a few months at the end of 2025, XRP became one of the most actively adopted digital assets in the regulated Spot ETF market, attracting capital from some of the most influential names in traditional finance and cementing its place in the institutional allocation conversation.

📚 This is the story of how that happened, what the numbers say, and why it matters for the future of XRP and the broader onchain economy.

What Comes Next? 🧐

➡️ The XRP ETF market is still young. Seven U.S. spot ETFs with $1.53 billion in AUM and 773 million XRP tokens in custody represents meaningful progress, but the category has plenty of room to grow. 🤩

➡️ The product landscape will also continue to evolve. ARK Invest has allocated nearly 20% of its CoinDesk 20 ETF to XRP, making it the third-largest holding. International markets are moving too, Hong Kong, Canada, and European exchanges are broadening the global footprint of regulated XRP products. 🌎💫

💎 And as the XRP Ledger's technical roadmap advances through 2026, confidential multi-purpose tokens for institutional collateral management, native lending protocols, and formal protocol verification, the asset's utility proposition for institutions grows more compelling.

📖✍️ The story is still being written. What's clear is that XRP is no longer knocking on the door of institutional finance. It's arrived. ✅

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇺 A diplomatic breakthrough: The US and Cuba held secret talks in Havana for the first time in 10 years.

Representatives of the US State Department visited Havana on April 10. They met with Cuban officials, including Raul Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of Raul Castro.

The U.S. officials impressed on the Castro regime that "the Cuban economy is in free fall and that the island's ruling elites have a small window to make key U.S. backed reforms before circumstances irreversibly worsen." The U.S. delegation also offered to help restore internet services by setting up Starlink satellite services.

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🚀🇺🇸 Trump: "We will return American astronauts to the moon, and we will plant our flag some day soon on Mars."

In addition, Trump mentioned that the UFO review uncovered 'interesting' documents, adding that an ‌initial tranche of records is expected to be released soon.

"We found many very interesting documents, I must say, and the first releases will ​begin very, very soon so you can go out ​and see if that phenomena is correct," — Trump said.

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🇯🇵 Sony to get up to $380 million image sensor factory Japan subsidy

The Japanese government will provide ​subsidies of up to ‌60 billion yen ($380 million) to Sony for an ​image sensor plant ​in the western Japanese prefecture ⁠of Kumamoto. Sony is a ​leading manufacturer ​of ⁠image sensors used in smartphones.

"Image sensors will be indispensable for autonomous driving and physical ​AI and we hope ​a stable supply of image ‌sensors... ⁠will be secured," — industry ​minister Ryosei Akazawa said.

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✈️🇺🇸 The US FAA has brought in Palantir Technologies Inc., Thales SA and Air Space Intelligence Inc. to compete on a new AI tool for air traffic management.

The move is part of a broader push to modernize the nation’s aging air traffic control system, an effort will make the skies safer and reduce technology outages.

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🛡 Sam Altman’s World project launches major upgrade to fight deepfakes and bots

World unveiled a major upgrade to its World ID system, pitching it as “full-stack proof of human” infrastructure to verify real people across consumer apps, enterprises and AI agents without exposing personal data. The rollout includes new features, partnerships with Tinder, Zoom and Docusign.

World’s system relies on its custom-built “Orb” devices to establish what it calls proof-of-humanity. To obtain a World ID, users must visit an Orb in person, where the device scans their face and iris to generate a unique cryptographic code representing that individual.

The images are deleted after processing, according to the company, and only anonymized fragments of the code are sent across a distributed network to confirm the person has not previously registered. The result is a credential that can prove someone is a unique human online without revealing their identity or personal data.

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🇪🇪🔰 Tesla is officially launching in Estonia. The company is holding an opening event on April 24th at Ülemiste Center and will also showcase the Cybertruck for the first time.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments

U.S. sanctions will not apply for 30 days on deliveries of Russian oil that has been loaded on tankers.

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🔥 CBDCs: Money on a Whole New Level (And It’s Already Live)

What if the financial system isn’t evolving step by step… but being rebuilt all at once — quietly, behind the scenes? 🤔

CBDCs — Central Bank Digital Currencies — are often presented as just another step toward digital payments. Faster transfers, lower fees, more efficiency. ⚡️

In this video, we take a closer look at how CBDCs fit into a much larger transformation — from tokenized assets and digital identity systems to automated contracts and intelligent financial infrastructure.

A system where money doesn’t just move — it interacts, executes, and responds within a structured environment. 🤪

📱 Watch the video on YouTube, Rumble

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🇺🇸🇬🇪 The Trump Organization plans to build a 70-story Trump Tower in Tbilisi, Georgia, in partnership with local developers

The mixed-use skyscraper — featuring luxury residences, retail, and hotel-style amenities — would be the tallest building in the city.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says time has come for conversation with US about how ⁠Washington sees future ​economic ties with Russia.

Lavrov also ​said that NATO ​is "not in the best state", but ‌that ⁠Russia would not meddle in the alliance's internal affairs.

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🚀 Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever

Blue Origin has successfully reused one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time ever, marking a major milestone for the heavy-launch system as Jeff Bezos’ space company looks to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The company accomplished the feat Sunday on just the third-ever launch of New Glenn.

The company wants to use the rocket for NASA moon missions, and to help both it and Amazon build space-based satellite networks. Blue Origin is currently finishing getting its first robotic moon lander ready for an attempted launch later this year.

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🇺🇸🇵🇭 The U.S. and The Philippines Launch Plans for 4,000-Acre Economic Security Zone to Shore Up Supply Chains: First AI-Native Industrial Acceleration Hub Under Pax Silica

The Philippines joined the Pax Silica initiative, launched by the U.S. and 13 other nations. Under the framework of Pax Silica, the U.S. and the Philippines also announced their plans to establish a 4,000-acre industrial hub in the Luzon Economic Corridor of the Republic of the Philippines.

The site – the first of its kind – is being offered by the Philippines as an Economic Security Zone, to surge production for inputs vital to U.S. supply chains. It is intended to serve as a staging point for a purpose-built platform for allied manufacturing, an investment acceleration hub where specific industrial activities can be shaped by market demand, host-country comparative advantages, and the evolving needs of the Pax Silica network.

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💫 NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment

NASA researchers announced the Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2) mission, which will for the first time test how fires work on planetary bodies other than Earth. In late 2026, the mission will launch four solid fuel samples and record flame characteristics under lunar gravity for an extended period of time.

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🇮🇷 Iran Eases Some Internet Restrictions, as Wider Blackout Passes 50th Day

Iran’s government would restore wider internet access to most online sites for the country’s university professors and researchers, even as the rest of the population heads into its 51st day of a near-total internet blackout.

Access to Google searches and Google Maps has been restored. But users still cannot actually open the sites that, for example, a Google search pulls up, and almost all other internet access remains blocked.

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🇨🇳 Humanoid robot sprints to victory in Beijing, beating human half-marathon record

The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. But the race wasn’t without hiccups — one robot fell flat at the start line, another bumped into a barrier. 😁

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🤖 Bio-based foam replaces petroleum-based materials—without changing production processes

The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE under the PBS Extrusion Foam (xPBS) project has successfully developed a bio-based foam made from polybutylene succinate. Thanks to its unique properties, it can replace conventional polyethylene (PE) foams in key applications — such as packaging, protective and transport solutions, and construction applications.

This approach simultaneously addresses CO₂ reduction, compliance with regulatory requirements, and economic efficiency. PBS is bio-based, biodegradable, and can be recycled due to its thermoplastic nature. The xPBS project demonstrates that sustainable plastic solutions are already economically and industrially viable today — and opens up concrete opportunities for companies to actively shape the transformation.

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🇨🇷 Starlink Mobile will soon be available in Costa Rica with Liberty Latin America

From mountains to national parks and the ocean, customers will stay connected with data apps and messaging. 🏔🛰

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