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XRP Holders Can Trade Options on Derive With FXRP Collateral

August 17, 2026
Derive now accepts FXRP as collateral for XRP options, perpetual futures and spot trades, expanding the token’s onchain utility. The integration gives wallet users self-custodial access to hedging, premium-generating and leveraged strategies. Key Takeaways FXRP now collateralizes XRP options, perpetuals and spot trades. Derive settles XRP options in USDC instead of delivering XRP. Portfolio…
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SpaceX rocket's moon crash highlights 'a tangible operational risk' of lunar settlement

August 17, 2026
The moon dust has settled after a 4.5-ton SpaceX rocket body slammed into terrain near Einstein Crater on Aug. 5. That impact site was imaged by South Korea’s moon-orbiting Danuri spacecraft, as well as by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Reportedly, a Chinese commercial space debris monitoring satellite tracked and recorded the 5,400-mph (8,690-kph) moon punch…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

August 17, 2026
Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such as: How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code? Claude users have been debating the move since the company revealed earlier this week that it would be doing this watermarking to comply…
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Alice Seeley Harris took her camera to the Congo on her honeymoon in 1898. Her gruesome photograph of severed hands helped to end one of history's greatest wrongs

August 17, 2026
Most photography students know the Lewis Hine story: the sociologist-turned-photographer whose images of child labor in American factories helped change the law. Fewer, however, seem to know that a British missionary from a small Somerset town had already done something similar, and arguably more consequential, several years earlier, using a camera she carried into the Congo Free State on her…
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