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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news editorials. Traditional crowdfunding platforms have long helped fund creative projects, humanitarian needs, and early-stage companies, but cracks have emerged in the model that can’t be ignored. The problem is not the idea of ​​crowdfunding itself. The implementation is centralized, opaque, and easily exploitable. These platforms control who they fund, who they block, and how they collect fees, all while asking users to trust a system they cannot independently verify. summary Centralized crowdfunding is structurally weak. Opaque storage, high…

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The five-month process to find the next Federal Reserve Chairman appears to be reaching its final days, and one candidate has emerged as the betting favorite, even though other candidates are still in the running.Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s head of fixed income, is seen by prediction markets as the favorite to replace Jerome Powell at the central bank’s top job. Kalsi gives the Wall Street veteran a 48% chance of winning, well ahead of his next closest competitor, former Gov. Kevin Warsh, with 31%.But sentiment was volatile, and after less than a week it was Warsh who held a decisive advantage.What…

At least 789 people have been infected with measles in South Carolina, surpassing the 2025 measles outbreak in West Texas that sickened 762 people and killed two girls. The majority of cases remain concentrated in Spartanburg County, and most are among people who have not been vaccinated or did not know their status, the South Carolina Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. Since Friday, 89 new cases have been confirmed, showing that the spread of the virus is not under control. Health authorities announced that 557 people have been quarantined for 21 days.By January, cases directly linked to South Carolina…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news editorials. The current boom in artificial intelligence poses an unresolved problem: a complete lack of verifiable ownership and economic structure. Companies are creating powerful, specialized AI systems that are only available as temporary services. However, this service-based model is unsustainable because it prevents clear ownership, makes it difficult to know where AI output comes from, and provides no direct way to fund and evaluate specialized intelligence. Improving algorithms alone will not solve the problem. Instead, a new ownership…

The long-awaited trade deal between India and the United States is at a “very advanced stage,” Indian Oil and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC on Tuesday.”I’m going to try to look on the positive side. I’m not a fortune teller, so I don’t know when a trade deal will happen or how long it will take. But I think (everyone) needs to calm down a little bit,” he told CNBC’s Amitij Singh as India and the EU announced a landmark trade deal.”I’ve heard from the people involved[in the negotiations]that it’s at a very advanced stage, and I’m…

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Ningbo, China – January 22: Employees work on a snowboard production line in a workshop to fulfill orders on January 22, 2026 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. He Yuanhui/Zhejiang Daily News Group | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesChina’s industrial profits in 2025 increased by 0.6% year-on-year, breaking from three consecutive years of decline as manufacturing production expanded despite weak domestic demand.The pace of growth accelerated from 0.1% in the January-November period, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.Tiancheng Xu, senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said last year’s recovery was driven by policy interventions, particularly the Chinese…

Meta’s 5-gigawatt “Hyperion” data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026.metaRecent analysis suggests that the popular narrative that artificial intelligence is the engine that will keep the U.S. economy afloat is overstated. The AI ​​boom has reshaped market valuations, spurred record bond issuance to finance large-scale investments and data centers, and had a significant impact on gross domestic product (GDP), especially in early 2025. For this reason, many economists and market participants suggested that investment in AI would be a savior for the country’s stagnant economy. But a January report by Prajakta Bhide, U.S. economic strategist at…