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Crypto

Privacy coins outpace bitcoin, up 213 percent in a year

Privacy coins posted the highest returns in the cryptocurrency market over the past year, with the sector up about 213 percent, blockchain outlet CoinPost reported, citing Glassnode analysis. Bitcoin remained 36 percent below its October 2025 peak, while the median of the top 200 coins was 58 percent lower. Privacy coins rose 90 percent over the past 30 days. Zcash surged 2,496 percent in a year and accounted for 62 percent of the sector's market value.

Telecommunications & Media

DBS, Citi cut Singapore-New York transfers from 2 days to minutes

DBS and Citigroup processed their first live weekend transaction sending U.S. dollars from Singapore to New York, using tokenised deposits via the Swift digital ledger, reports said. The banks said the approach reduced cross-border settlement time from up to 2 business days to minutes by avoiding delays from weekends and time zones. No separate cryptocurrency was used. The banks are pitching the capability to corporates including e-commerce and digital services firms.

AI & Enterprise

Opaque recurrence emerges as AI buzzword after OpenAI GPT-6 Astra

Opaque recurrence has emerged as a new talking point in the AI industry following OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra. The approach, also called recurrent depth, processes prompts by repeatedly passing through internal layers rather than stepping through answers in natural language. It can lift performance with fewer computing resources but may leave fewer human-readable reasoning traces, intensifying safety debates. OpenAI says Astra’s use is limited and monitoring using chain-of-thought is maintained.