This year’s Davos gathering and the 2026 outlook reveal a global economy in a state of “nervous acceleration.” The official stages are focused on the $3 trillion to $5 trillion potential of agentic commerce, and the private hallways are filled with anxiety over Trump and the shifting geopolitical power of AI. This acceleration means that companies like xAI are pushing Human Emulators, but Google’s Enterprise Surge shows a different pattern. Let’s dive in and stay curious.

• Davos has AI on Stage, Trump in the Wings
• 🧰 AI Tools — Master Agentic Commerce
• xAI’s Human Emulators Vs. Google’s Enterprise Surge
• 📚Learning Corner — AI Agents in LangChain & CrewAI
• The AI Shopping Wars, big Tech’s Race to Become Your Personal Buyer

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📰 AI News and Trends

• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei equated Washington’s decision to allow Nvidia to manufacture AI chips for China with “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.”
• Amazon Could Open Up to AI Shopping Agents (read article below)
• Gen Z women in China are all in on digital companionship, even setting up dates with real-world versions of their AI boyfriends.
• Physical AI takes robots to a new level. Combining autonomy with hardware that moves objects in the physical world using sensors to perceive their surroundings.

Other Tech News

• Amazon CEO says Trump tariffs are driving prices up
• The US is looking to Australia and Africa for minerals in an attempt to sidestep Chinese restrictions.
• The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch
• Moderna, Merck Report Positive Results From Cancer-Vaccine Study.
• The 233-year-old NYSE doesn’t want to find itself outmoded in a rapidly changing fintech landscape. It recently invested $2 billion in prediction platform Polymarket to develop future tokenization initiatives.
• Looming water supply ‘bankruptcy’ puts billions at risk (Not Tech, but very important in all aspects of life, especially if water is being overly utilized and prioritized for data centers’ purposes)

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Davos has AI on Stage, Trump in the Wings

This year’s Davos gathering and the 2026 outlook reveal a global economy in a state of “nervous acceleration.” At the World Economic Forum, the “tech capture” of the global economy is complete; the Promenade is now a wall of tech “houses” (Palantir, Cloudflare, C3.ai).

• The Bottom Line: Corporations like Saudi Aramco are reporting $3B–$5B in cost savings through AI efficiency.
• The Political Shadow: While CEOs talk about “scaling,” the real conversation is about the White House. Governor Gavin Newsom and other leaders are openly clashing over Trump’s “law of the jungle” approach to global alliances and his push for an “AI Revolution” that prioritizes American dominance at any cost.

Agentic Commerce is the 2026 North Star

We are moving past chatbots to Agents that Act:

• Visa and Mastercard are racing to build the authentication layers needed for AI agents to shop, book vacations, and manage groceries autonomously.
• The White House is branding this as a new Industrial Revolution, but polls shows 66% of Americans still fear these agents will lead to massive job losses.

The DeepSeek Moment & The Rise of China

A major trend for 2026 is the “Silicon Valley pivot” to Chinese open-source models.

• After the success of DeepSeek’s R1, U.S. startups are increasingly building on Chinese models like Alibaba’s Qwen because they are open, customizable, and often perform as well as “closed” U.S. models from OpenAI or Google.
• Trump’s December executive order aims to neuter state-level AI safety laws (like California’s). This sets up a massive legal showdown between federal “light-touch” regulation and states trying to prevent AI-related harms.

The 2026 Trend to Watch: “Scientific LLMs”

Keep an eye on AlphaEvolve and similar systems. We are entering an era where LLMs aren’t just writing emails; they are discovering new mathematical algorithms and power-saving techniques for data centers. Scientific discovery is being systematized into an iterative, algorithmic process.

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DeepLearning.AI: AI Agents in LangChain & CrewAI

• This is a free (or low-cost) short course taught by industry leaders. It moves you past “prompting” and teaches you how to give an AI a tool (like a browser or a credit card) and a goal.
• What you’ll learn: How to design “loops” where an AI checks its own work, how to handle “hallucinations” in commerce, and how to connect an LLM to the live internet.

xAI’s Human Emulators Vs. Google’s Enterprise Surge

While AI giants promise a white-collar revolution, the reality on the ground is a mix of surreal technical “hiccups” and strategic shifts. At xAI, the push to replace staff with “human emulators” has led to bizarre internal confusion: these AI agents appear on company org charts and have even “hallucinated” physical presence, inviting human coworkers to meetings at non-existent desks. Beyond these comedic glitches, xAI faces a fundamental “missing manual” problem, where developers struggle to automate tasks because human employees often forget to mention the dozens of intuitive, “invisible” steps they take to get work done. To scale this ambitious “Macrohard” project, xAI is even considering tapping into the idle compute power of charging Teslas.

Meanwhile, Google is finding its footing by capturing the “builder” market rather than the casual office worker. While corporate adoption of its enterprise chatbots remains a hurdle, usage of the Gemini API by developers doubled in just five months. This surge is a major win for Google Cloud, as the exclusivity of Gemini forces developers onto their platform, finally providing a credible threat to the cloud dominance of Microsoft and Amazon.

While xAI attempts to emulate the messy nuance of human labor, Google is successfully cementing itself as the preferred engine for the next generation of AI-powered software.

🧰 AI Tools of The Day

Agentic Commerce

• Skyvern — (Browser-Based Agents) Uses computer vision and LLMs to navigate websites exactly like a human would. It can go to a site it has never seen before, find a product, add it to a cart, and navigate through the checkout process.
• MultiOn — A browser extension and API that acts as a “remote control” for the web. You can give it a high-level command like, “Find the best deal on a 10x12 wool rug and buy it,” and it will execute the search and transaction across multiple tabs.
• CrewAI — Multi-Agent Orchestration allows you to build a team of agents (one agent to research prices, one to check reviews, and one to handle the booking). Agents can “talk” to each other to complete a complex commercial goal.
• Stripe Agent Toolkit — Tools to allow AI agents to handle money securely. Allows developers to give agents “virtual cards” with spending limits so they can make purchases without having full access to a bank account.
• Google Shopping Graph API (via Gemini) — Gemini’s API to access their Shopping Graph. Gives agents access to real-time inventory, pricing, and “deals” from billions of product listings across the web.

The AI Shopping Wars

Big Tech’s Race to Become Your Personal Buyer

A new front has opened in the AI arms race: Agentic Commerce. Industry giants are no longer content just showing you links; they want to handle the entire transaction from “search” to “buy,” effectively turning themselves into the interface for all global retail.

Major players playbook:

• Amazon’s Bold Annexation: Amazon’s new AI assistant, Rufus, has been caught scraping independent sites to fulfill orders. Through a “Buy for me” feature, Amazon-powered bots browse external sites, check inventory, and handle payments, even for merchants who never signed up for Amazon. It’s a brazen move to keep users inside the Amazon ecosystem, even when the product isn’t in their warehouse.
• Google & OpenAI’s Partnership Play: While Amazon is “annexing” stores, Google and OpenAI are “inviting” them. Google is co-developing the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard to pull products from Shopify, Etsy, and Walmart directly into its AI. Meanwhile, OpenAI is partnering with Shopify to monetize its massive user base by allowing seamless in-chat shopping.
• The Death of the “Storefront”: The endgame for all three is a world where customers never leave their chat interface.

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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” MLK.

This is what we have today.

• AI to Revolutionize the Olympics and the way we consume Sports
• 🧰 AI Tools — No-Code low-Code AI Agent Builders
• 📚Learning Corner — Vibe Coding 101
• Why AI Is About to Make Your Devices More Expensive
• The Technopoly we live in

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📰 AI News and Trends

• Instead of putting people out of work, AI is mostly helping them do their jobs, finds a new Anthropic study.
• Nvidia to invest in Harmonic, a hot startup focused on AI systems designed to solve mathematical problems.
• OpenAI’s long-rumored introduction of ads to ChatGPT just became real
• Anthropic is aiming to raise $25 billion or more at a $350 billion valuation — more than double its $170 billion valuation from just four months ago.

Other Tech News

• Tesla’s FSD, like almost everything else, is becoming a subscription
• America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster, and Goldman Sachs is adding gasoline to the fire.
• Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mine
• BBC in Talks to Produce Content for YouTube in Landmark Deal

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AI to Revolutionize the Olympics and the way we consume Sports

NBC Sports is rolling out a real-time AI player-tracking feature that lets viewers follow specific athletes live on mobile, marking a shift toward personalized sports broadcasts.

The system, called Viztrick AiDi, was developed by Nippon Television Network and uses facial recognition to identify players, track their movement, and automatically crop live horizontal feeds into vertical, mobile-first video. Viewers will be able to tap a player in the NBC Sports app and watch a real-time feed centered on that athlete, while traditional broadcasts remain available. The technology has already been used in Japan for live stat overlays and is expected to debut during NBC’s 2026 coverage, including the 2026 Winter Olympics, highlighting how AI is turning sports viewing from one-to-many broadcasts into customizable, athlete-centric experiences.

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Vibe Coding 101 with Replit

I’m taking this course, but Lovable is my current vibe coding platform of choice, followed by Cursor.

Why AI Is About to Make Your Devices More Expensive

Global AI demand has effectively sold out the memory market, creating what analysts are calling an unprecedented shock.

AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, and Google require massive amounts of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), pushing supply far beyond capacity and driving DRAM prices up 50–55% quarter-over-quarter, the sharpest jump on record. Three suppliers, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix, control nearly the entire RAM market and are prioritizing AI and data centers, where margins are higher, and buyers are less price-sensitive. Micron alone is “sold out for 2026,” its stock is up 247% year-over-year, and memory now accounts for ~20% of a laptop’s hardware cost, up from ~10–18% in early 2025.

The spillover is hitting consumers: companies like Apple and Dell Technologies warn of rising costs and potential price increases. AI has turned memory into the new bottleneck, the “memory wall,” and until new fabs come online in 2027–2030, higher hardware prices look structural, not temporary.

🧰 AI Tools of The Day

No-Code low-Code AI Agent Builders

I currently use Make and Zapier the most, but I am learning N8N and plan to move some automation there soon. Make is very easy to use, and you can get some automations going in minutes, but N8N, although a bit more complex, is more scalable and cost-effective in the long run

• Make — Most popular. Visual workflow builder with advanced data transformation and conditional logic, suited for complex multi-step automations.
• N8N — low-code/no-code workflow automation platform for creating custom integrations between apps, services, and AI, using a visual interface with connected “nodes” (blocks for actions/apps) to automate tasks.
• Activepieces — Open-source, AI-first automation platform you can self-host. Strong no-code builder with a growing integrations library.
• Gumloop — AI-centric workflow tool focused on connecting LLMs to tasks and services via visual node flows — good for agentic automation.
• Pipedream — Hybrid pro-code/no-code automation platform with extensible workflows and lots of integrations; useful for developer teams.

The Technopoly we live in

Technopoly, a term coined by media theorist Neil Postman, describes a society where technology becomes the dominant authority, replacing human judgment, ethics, culture, and democratic decision-making with data and algorithms.

A new Stanford–Yale study challenges the AI industry’s core legal defense, showing that leading models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI can reproduce copyrighted books with 76%–96% accuracy, including near-verbatim outputs of Harry Potter and 1984.

In some cases, entire books were reproduced with 95.8% accuracy, raising serious questions about whether these systems are memorizing data rather than merely “learning” from it. While this may seem like a narrow copyright issue, it points to a broader shift toward technopoly, where a small number of tech companies accumulate unprecedented control through data, scale, and pattern recognition. Firms now hold vast troves of personal and behavioral data, enabling them not only to understand the past and present but to increasingly predict and shape future behavior. Platforms like Palantir illustrate how deeply integrated data systems can be used to map identities, movements, and decisions at a population scale and use all that data against its own citizens (Ice, Ice, Baby).

As AI systems grow capable of replicating books, music, software, and even entire businesses, the central question becomes less about innovation and more about power. Who controls these systems, who sets the rules, and how democratic institutions, that’s if democracy still exists as our votes are increasingly manipulated by social media and tech companies that shape opinion and even count the votes, can realistically keep pace with companies that move faster, see more, and know more than any government ever has. Maybe the only solution to freedom from manipulation is to pull the plug, literally. We are being optimized into automated humans.

Do we live in a Technopoly?

Has power shifted from institutions to platforms?

• Tech companies control infrastructure: communication, cloud, payments, AI, identity (Data Centers will enhance this)
• Algorithms shape behavior: what we see, buy, believe, and vote for (Social Media)
• Data replaces consent: prediction and nudging matter more than public debate (Data is the new oil)
• Speed beats regulation: governments move in years, platforms move in weeks
• Private rules act like laws: content moderation, access, pricing, visibility

We are being optimized into automated humans.

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Will thinking bodies be a hot market this year? Maybe we share why. Google’s Auto Browser will change the game by actually doing the work for you, no clicks, just instructions. At the same time, DeepSeek is proving that efficiency, not brute force, is what truly scales. Let’s dive in. Stay curious.

• Google’s Gemini Auto Browser will change the Game
• 🧰 AI Tools — AI Browsers
• 🛠️ AI Jobs Corner
• From Frankenstein to AI Companions: The Rise of Thinking Bodies
• Are DeepSeek’s LLMs More Efficient Than Bigger Models?
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📰 AI News and Trends

• TSMC Can’t Make AI Chips Fast Enough
• Beijing Restricts Nvidia’s H200 Purchase, Banning the Chips From Entering China
• Apple to fine-tune Gemini independently, no Google branding on Siri, more
• Chinese AI developer Zhipu on Wednesday released a new open-source AI image model trained entirely with chips from Huawei Technologies
• Google’s Veo now turns portrait images into vertical AI videos and upgrades Veo 3.1 with Ingredients and 4K upscaling

Other Tech News

• Meta Considers Doubling Ray-Ban Glasses Production
• As SpaceX Works Toward 50K Starlink Satellites, China Eyes Deploying 200K
• Iran crippled Starlink, the service that became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.
• Meta is slashing hundreds of workers from Reality Labs VR division. The job cuts come as the social media giant doubles down on AI and grapples with a big bet on the metaverse that didn’t pan out
• Apple To Offer “Creator Studio” Subscription Bundle With Tools For Making Films, Music & More

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From Frankenstein to AI Companions The Rise of Thinking Bodies

One of the best movies of 2025 for me was Frankenstein. Guillermo del Toro took Mary Shelley’s masterpiece and gave it new life, literally. Watching it, I couldn’t help but see parallels with where AI is today and where we’re clearly heading.

In the film, Frankenstein is a fully functional being assembled from different parts, powered by a brain that learns, reasons, and improves with time and experience. The creator has his story, but Frankenstein has his own version of it, too. That part feels especially familiar.

In today’s tech landscape, LLMs are the brain. They’re evolving fast, and inference is pushing them toward reasoning capabilities that won’t mirror humans, but also won’t need to. They’re built differently. They absorb knowledge differently. And now, we’re watching robotics, the global race to attach those brains to bodies.

This isn’t a secret anymore. Soon, most human interaction with AI will be through voice, not keyboards. And when those voices live inside robots, humanoids, and digital companions with human-like forms, talking to AI will feel less like “using software” and more like, well… having a human conversation. Possibly one that never interrupts you. Or forgets what you said five minutes ago.

I recently read about how advanced the sex doll industry has become, and when you combine that with the fact that 10 million+ people use Replika daily (2023 numbers), plus millions more creatively jailbraking LLMs for companionship and sexual conversations, the direction is obvious. Human-like humanoids we can talk to, work with, rely on, and yes, have sex and form bonds with, will be a massive industry.

Frankenstein wasn’t really about monsters.
It was about creation catching up to the creator.

And this time, the monster ships with software updates.

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Apply Today — Open Positions.

• Machine Learning Researchers (PhD)
• First-Line Supervisors of Productions and Operating Workers
• Computer and Information Systems Managers
• Database Administrators
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• Software Technical Writers

Are DeepSeek’s LLMs More Efficient Than Bigger Models?

DeepSeek’s Engram shows how Chinese AI labs are advancing faster by focusing on efficiency, not just scale.

Instead of forcing large language models to repeatedly recompute common phrases and facts, Engram adds a conditional memory layer that lets models look up frequent language patterns in O(1) time, like giving the model a second brain. This delivers strong gains across knowledge, reasoning, code, and long-context tasks (including a +12.8 jump in long-context retrieval) at the same parameter count and FLOPs as traditional MoE models.

More importantly, it cuts wasted computation, shifts work from power-hungry GPUs to cheap memory, and enables massive memory tables to be offloaded to the CPU with ❤% overhead. The result is higher performance with lower data-center and electricity demand, highlighting a key advantage of Chinese AI teams: architectural innovation that treats compute, power, and infrastructure as scarce resources, not unlimited ones.

Google’s Gemini Auto Browser will change the Game

Google is testing Auto Browse for Gemini, giving the AI direct control over Google Chrome.
The feature lets Gemini autonomously open tabs, navigate pages, manage sessions, and complete multi-step browsing tasks. Early code hints suggest it may launch as a Gemini Ultra (premium) feature, likely via a Chrome sidebar or extension.

This follows agentic browsing moves from Perplexity and OpenAI, where AI agents already perform delegated web research and actions.

Will AI Browsers change the game?

1. Browsers become execution layers, not just viewers
Auto Browse turns the browser into an AI-controlled workspace, where humans describe goals and agents execute clicks, searches, and workflows. This is a fundamental shift from “search and read” to “delegate and verify.”

2. Agentic browsing becomes mainstream
Until now, autonomous browsing has been experimental or niche. Google embedding it directly into Chrome pushes agent-based web navigation to billions of users. This accelerates adoption by years, not months.

3. Search → Action → Outcome
Traditional search ends with links. Auto Browse ends with completed tasks.

• Research + summarization
• Comparing products
• Filling forms
• Managing multi-tab workflows
  This threatens classic SEO-only models and favors AI-readable, structured, task-completable websites.

4. Premium AI = productivity leverage
Positioning Auto Browse under Gemini Ultra signals a new pricing logic:

• Free AI = answers
• Paid AI = work done
  This mirrors what happened with cloud and dev tools: power users pay for automation, not information.

5. The web becomes “AI-first” with agent navigation, tool calling, structured extraction, and Deterministic actions. Human UX still matters, but machine UX becomes equally critical.

Auto Browse is not a Chrome feature; it’s a redefinition of how the internet is used.

The future browser listens, decides, acts, and reports back. Humans move from drivers to supervisors, which is the next phase of AI on the internet.

🧰 AI Tools of The Day

AI Browsers

• Perplexity Comet — Navigates the web, automates research, and can manage tasks like email or organization.
• ChatGPT Atlas — Helps you search, summarize, automate multi-step tasks, and act on websites.
• Dia Browser — Let’s you chat with your open tabs, interpret content, and handle browsing tasks using AI.
• Opera Neon — AI “Tasks” that analyze, compare, and act across multiple sources with minimal input.
• Browserbase — Enables AI agents to read, write, and perform tasks on the web autonomously (good for automation services or demos).

🤖From Frankenstein to AI Companions: The Rise of Thinking Bodies was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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How Does Binance Generate Revenue?

Binance is the world’s largest digital asset trading website in terms of trading volume. This platform was specifically designed for buying, selling, or trading all kinds of crypto assets securely. Since Binance is a centralized crypto exchange, it strongly focuses on both fiat-to-crypto trading and crypto-to-crypto trading. This platform supports more than 500+ virtual currencies for trading. And Binance offers astounding crypto trading services for several countries as per the crypto regulations.

Binance is the largest and top crypto trading platform when it comes to trading volume and security. Their reputation, brand value, revenue streams, functionalities, UI/UX, and other mind-blowing aspects attracted all traders, investors, and crypto whales to access this platform. Even startups got attracted by Binance’s revenue and their tremendous growth in the crypto industry.

So people who wish to start a crypto exchange or any other crypto business are taking Binance as their business model. In this blog, we will discuss all the imperative aspects of Binance and mainly disclose how Binance makes money.

Binance Business Model — An Overview

Binance is primarily a centralized cryptocurrency exchange with a business model based on generating revenue through trading. It attracts large numbers of retail and institutional traders worldwide, offering competitive fee structures for all types of day-to-day trading. As Binance is a centralized exchange, it can provide greater liquidity, faster execution, and a better overall trading experience to users, which encourages frequent trading and revenue generation for Binance.

In addition to its trading platform, Binance has also strategically expanded to build a comprehensive cryptocurrency ecosystem. They offer products like Staking, LaunchPad, Wallets, NFTs, and Payment Services. This allows Binance to monetize users at many different interaction points along their crypto journey. The ecosystem drives down reliance on just trading fees and increases the lifetime value of the individual user through retention. These elements help Binance create a scalable and sustainable business model. So, how exactly does Binance generate revenue? Let’s look closer!

How Does Binance Make Money?

Binance generates revenue through many different kinds of methods. For anyone who wishes to enter the crypto exchange space and launch a crypto exchange, understanding how Binance makes money is important. Its main source of income comes from user trading activities. It provides global services to customers and offers business solutions, helping to create a stable revenue stream.

1. Core Trading & User Activity–Based Revenue

Trading Fees — For every trade the user initiates, Binance will collect a certain amount of money as a commission fee. Binance charges only a 0.1% percentage for spot trading, which is the lowest trading fee percentage ever collected.

Futures and Margin Trading Revenue — By using margin trading, users can borrow funds for trading, and they can enhance their capital with ease. In return, Binance will collect interest rates from the users on an hourly basis.

Withdrawal and Network Fees — If the user deposits USD on their Binance account for trading, the admin of the platform will collect a fee from users. In case the user prefers a debit/credit card for deposit, Binance will incur a fee of 4.5%.

Staking and Binance Earn Products — Binance collects a profit margin on the amount of crypto a user earns by participating in a staking program, periodic savings, and the yield from these products. This creates a recurring revenue stream for Binance.

NFT Marketplace and Ecosystem Services — Binance earns transaction fees from users who trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and use services provided by their wallets and various ecosystem products. By providing these additional sources of revenue to its customers, Binance is creating additional value for its customers through enhanced engagement.

Token Listings and Launchpad Revenue — Binance makes money from the projects that list on its exchanges. They also earn through fees from affiliates and by helping new projects get started. This approach allows them to boost their revenue and gain more exposure for these early-stage projects.

2. Platform, Institutional & Ecosystem-Based Revenue

Market Maker & Liquidity Partner Programs — Market makers and liquidity partners generate trading volume and fees through liquidity provided by institutional partners

OTC Trading Services — OTC Trading for large volume trades for institutions/higher net worth individuals generates revenue from negotiated spreads and fees for servicing.

API Access & Institutional Services — API and institutional service access drives increased trading volume and revenue through premium API access and infrastructure to high-frequency and algorithmic traders.

API Access & Institutional Services — Cross-chain and bridge service revenue generates service fees from users transferring assets between blockchain networks that make up the Binance ecosystem.

Wallet Services — Custodial wallet revenue is generated from wallet transactions, transferring assets to internal accounts, and managing customer assets on behalf of custodial customers.

Advertising & Ecosystem Promotions — Revenue from advertising on the Binance platform and the promotion of crypto projects by offering a B2B Compliance and Enterprise Solutions layer adds another revenue source.

The above-listed methods showcase how Binance makes money with its features. Apart from these revenue streams, there are also a few strategies followed by Binance. Such as staking, transaction fees, mining pool fees, interchange fees on crypto card transactions, spreads, flexible earnings, fiat exchange partners, and the list goes on. With these money-making methods, Binance generated $11.84 million in 2025. Sounds impressive, right!!!

Now, let us see that in detail…

Key Statistics of Binance

Comparing other digital asset platforms in 2021, Binance has the maximum number of users. Binance’s size, liquidity, and worldwide presence all help it to serve as the primary source for new crypto exchanges, as shown by factors such as

Global User Base — Binance has approximately 270–280 million registered users worldwide, making Binance the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, based on user volume.

Monthly Active Users — Binance typically averages more than 100 million active monthly users during peak market seasons, which is an indication of the strong usage and engagement by the user base.

Daily Trading Volume — Binance processes tens of billions of dollars in spot and futures trading volume due to the availability of large amounts of liquidity and competitively low trading fees.

Asset & Trading Pair Coverage — Binance has a catalogue of more than 500 cryptocurrencies and more than 1,500 trading pairings, thereby providing users with a wide variety of choices when trading.

Market Share Dominance — Binance is responsible for approximately 38–41% of the global trading volume in centralized exchanges, and continues to maintain this level of dominance, despite the intense competition from other crypto exchanges.

Global Reach & App Adoption — Binance has a considerable presence in Asia, Africa, and the developing world, and the Binance mobile app itself has tens of millions of downloads with significant engagement by users.

The statistics highlight how Binance has succeeded by creating liquidity, offering a range of products, and expanding its reach worldwide. This success can serve as a guide for anyone interested in building a similar exchange. Now let us see…

How to Create a Crypto Exchange Inspired by Binance?

Binance has become a business model for startups due to its enormous user base, revenues, market repute, and community. However, few people are entering this industry to become successful entrepreneurs by launching their own crypto firms. If you are one of those who are willing to enter the crypto space, you can construct a cryptocurrency exchange website or app like Binance. There are two main ways to build a new crypto Exchange similar to Binance. You need to choose the right approach based on your budget, time frame, and hopes for growth. The two main options are:

Creating a Crypto Exchange Like Binance from Scratch

Building a crypto Exchange from scratch offers full control over design, features, and customizations. However, it requires creating your own matching engine, secure wallet infrastructure, administrative dashboards, liquidity systems, and compliance modules. While this approach ensures long-term flexibility and scalability, it demands a significant investment, a longer development time, and a dedicated technical team for future maintenance. This option is best suited for companies with sufficient capital and a need for unique features.

Creating a Crypto Exchange Using a Binance Clone Script

A Binance clone script is a pre-built solution that replicates Binance’s features, such as spot and futures trading, wallet integration, and admin controls. This approach significantly reduces development time and cost, allowing start-ups to quickly enter the market and focus on user acquisition instead of building an exchange from scratch. For founders aiming for a faster and lower-risk launch, the Binance clone script is an excellent choice.

Therefore, when determining which method will work best for creating your own exchange, you need to consider both your business objectives as well as your timeline/budget. Custom Development has been designed with complete control over the functionality of your Exchange, whereas a Binance Clone Script is designed for faster entry into the cryptocurrency marketplace through leveraging the proven architecture of Binance.

Final Thoughts

The Binance business model demonstrates how a cryptocurrency exchange can achieve profitability through high trading volume and multiple revenue streams, including trading fees, futures fees, staking, token listings, and ecosystem services. This layered approach reduces dependence on a single revenue source and enhances user lifetime value, keeping Binance resilient in a volatile market.

Startups should not attempt to replicate Binance all at once. Instead, strategically adapt the model by starting with core capabilities and gradually adding advanced products like derivatives and staking. For those entering the cryptocurrency exchange space, prioritize scalable, secure, compliant, and trustworthy platforms, as well as a clear monetization plan for long-term sustainability and competitiveness.

Achieving this requires a robust technical foundation and faster go-to-market execution without compromising quality or security. Hence, get the best script from a trustworthy cryptocurrency exchange script provider and establish your exchange website with a distinctive idea as soon as possible before your competitors hit the market.

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Hello everyone, Global computing is exploding, with only power and capital as real constraints, but not for long. Tech companies obviously are making moves to take these hurdles down, recently Meta did just this, by signing three nuclear power deals to lock in electricity for decades, ensuring its AI data centers can run nonstop at a massive scale, and ICE can track your every move and maybe your conversations and text via your cell phone by accessing commercial apps, raising serious questions about privacy, surveillance, and oversight. Let’s dive in and stay curious.

• Global AI compute is exploding
• 🧰 AI Tools — Scaling frontier AI workloads
• 🛠️ AI Jobs Corner
• ICE can track your phone and your every move
• Meta Bets on Nuclear Power as the New Bottleneck for Scaling Frontier AI
• 📘Learning Corner — distributed systems powering frontier AI

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📰 AI News and Trends

• New Study Proves AI Models Can Recreate Entire Copyrighted Books
• Anthropic has implemented strict new technical safeguards to prevent third-party applications from spoofing Claude Code to access more favorable pricing and limits, cutting access to xAI developers for the same reason.
• Google Bets on AI-Based Shopping With New AI Agents for Retailers
• DeepSeek Founder Liang’s Funds surge 57%, and DeepSeek V4 could drop within weeks, targeting elite-level coding performance; it could beat Claude and ChatGPT on long-context code tasks.
• Developers are already hyped ahead of a potential disruption.
• Sony Patents AI “Ghost Players” That Act as Real-Time In-Game Coaches, Signaling a Shift Toward On-Device, Voice-Controlled AI Gaming
• Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Other Tech News

• Japan launched the world’s first deep-sea trial for mining rare earths, as the global race to secure access to the key metals heats up.
• Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.
• Lego, Disney And Lucasfilm Team For Live Video Game Played Outside Of Sphere During CES
• Roblox’s new ads promote brands and top creators on the homepage
• YouTube’s new search filters make clearer distinctions between long-form videos and Shorts
• Amazon Pharmacy Begins Selling Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy Pill, Expanding Low-Cost Access to GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs

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Global AI compute is exploding

Global AI computing capacity has been growing ~3.3× per year since 2022, which means total available compute doubles roughly every 7 months (90% confidence range: 6–8 months).

Key numbers

• 3.3× annual growth in AI compute capacity (90% CI: 2.7×–4.1×)
• Driven by rapid sales of AI chips, measured in H100-equivalent units
• Growth enables larger models, faster training, and mass consumer deployment

Who controls the compute

• NVIDIA supplies >60% of global AI compute
• Google (TPUs) and Amazon (Trainium/Inferentia) make up most of the remaining share
• AMD and Huawei remain single-digit contributors as of 2024

Compute is scaling faster than most AI efficiency gains, but model capability is increasingly constrained by capital and power, not algorithms.
AI progress is riding a hardware curve that’s faster than Moore’s Law. At the current pace, today’s frontier compute becomes table stakes in under a year.

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🛠️ AI Jobs Corner

Apply Today — Open Positions.

• Machine Learning Researchers (PhD)
• First-Line Supervisors of Productions and Operating Workers
• Computer and Information Systems Managers
• Database Administrators
• Apply Data Scientists
• Software Technical Writers

Meta Bets on Nuclear Power as the New Bottleneck for Scaling Frontier AI

Meta is securing its AI future by locking in nuclear power at a massive scale, signing deals with TerraPower, Oklo, and Vistra to supply up to 6.6 GW of clean energy by 2035, enough to power ~5 million homes.

The electricity will fuel Prometheus, Meta’s 1-GW AI data center cluster in Ohio, coming online this year, with additional capacity from new Natrium reactors, existing nuclear plants, and a planned 1.2-GW nuclear campus. As AI data centers strain the mid-Atlantic grid and push up power costs, Meta is betting that always-on nuclear energy, not chips alone, will be the decisive constraint for scaling frontier AI.

📘Learning Corner

Learning resource for distributed systems powering frontier AI

• Stanford University — CS231n + Distributed Training at Scale (Lecture & Notes)
  A practical, systems-focused introduction to training large neural networks, covering data/model parallelism, GPU clusters, communication overhead, and scaling laws, the same foundations behind tools like Ray, DeepSpeed, and Horovod.

ICE expands phone surveillance using commercial data

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deploying two new surveillance tools, Tangles and Webloc, that can monitor entire neighborhoods, track mobile phones over time, and follow device owners from work to home. The systems rely on commercial location data sourced from hundreds of millions of phones via Penlink and, under ICE’s internal legal analysis, can be queried without a warrant.

This…

• Enables dragnet-style surveillance of city blocks, not just suspects
• Can reveal where people live, work, and socialize
• Rolled out amid mass deportation efforts, heightening civil liberties concerns

The American Civil Liberties Union warns that the tools create detailed behavioral maps of individuals, calling them dangerous in the hands of an agency with limited oversight. The episode underscores how commercial data markets are increasingly powering government surveillance, often outside traditional warrant requirements. Is this even legal?

🧰 AI Tools of The Day

Distributed systems tools built for scaling frontier AI workloads

• Ray — Scales distributed training, hyperparameter search, model serving, and data pipelines across clusters with unified APIs.
• Kubeflow — Runs scalable AI/ML pipelines and distributed model training on Kubernetes, abstracting infrastructure complexity.
• KServe — Standardized, scalable AI model serving on Kubernetes for production deployments.
• DeepSpeed — Microsoft open-source library optimizing memory and compute for distributed training of massive models.
• Horovod — Enables efficient multi-GPU and multi-node training with minimal code changes, used in major cloud environments.

📍ICE can track your phone and your every move was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Bitcoin Might Be The Real Story.

Everyone is staring at Venezuela’s oil reserves.

Sure, $17 trillion in crude is a big deal .But the real story — the one nobody is talking about — is their Bitcoin.

The Shadow Reserve

Officially, Venezuela admits to holding 240 Bitcoin. That’s about $22 million.

Unofficially? It’s likely massive.

For years, the Maduro regime has been bypassing sanctions by selling oil for Tether (USDT), then swapping that into Bitcoin. They’ve been doing this since 2018 to survive hyperinflation that hit 1.5% per hour .

Now that the US has effectively “taken over” (we know who controls the oil now), the big question is: Who has the keys to the crypto?

There are two scenarios here, and both are wildly bullish:

• It’s lost forever: If the keys are gone, that Bitcoin is permanently off the market. Supply shock.
• The US siezes it: If the US government takes custody, it likely flows straight into the new Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

• Bitcoin at $91K and Venezuela Under US Control
• This Investor Made 150% this year.

The DOJ Didn’t Get the Memo

Speaking of the Strategic Reserve, we had a weird moment yesterday.

Trump signed an executive order to keep all US-held Bitcoin. Then, the Southern District of New York immediately authorized the sale of $6 million worth of forfeited BTC.

It’s a direct violation of the order.

But let’s be real — they sold 64 Bitcoin. That is a drop in the ocean compared to what Venezuela is likely sitting on.

The $250K Target Is Back

While the government figures out its communication issues, the smart money is moving.

BlackRock just pulled in $287 million in inflows in a single day — their biggest day in three months.

Tom Lee is back on the horse, predicting $250,000 for Bitcoin in 2026 . His firm is walking the walk, too — holding over 4 million Ethereum (despite sitting on a massive unrealized loss right now)

The Setup

Gold is rallying. Historically, gold leads, and Bitcoin follows.

We have:

• US regulatory clarity.
• Institutions buying aggressively.
• A potential massive seizure of Venezuelan Bitcoin going into US reserves.

The four-year cycle might break, but the tailwinds for 2026 are undeniable

The Real Reason Crypto Went Silent

Venezuela’s Oil Is Worth $17 Trillion was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Hague Prosecutor’s Office has requested a 5 and a half year prison sentence for a counterfeiter who produced and distributed counterfeit money via DarkWeb.

According to the Dutch prosecutor’s office, a 32-year-old resident of The Hague has been producing and selling counterfeit banknotes via DarkWeb for more than 3 years and sending them by mail throughout Europe.

The investigation began in early 2020. At that time, the Dutch authorities were asked by the German and Austrian authorities to launch an investigation into counterfeiting. Based on the information provided, the customs authorities of Germany and Austria were able to intercept packages of counterfeit banknotes sent to them from the Netherlands.

During the course of this investigation, law enforcement authorities were able to intercept a dozen packages sent to customers. All packages contained counterfeit banknotes of various currencies and denominations. The intercepted banknotes, namely the fingerprints left on them, helped law enforcement agencies identify the counterfeiter.

On July 12, 2022, investigators obtained a search warrant for the accused. During the search, the 32-year-old man was found to have a full-fledged printing house for the production of counterfeit banknotes of various denominations. Also, about 60 thousand euros, approximately 100 thousand Swedish kronor and more than 10 thousand US dollars were found. Firearms and ammunition were also found on the accused’s person.

According to the information provided by the Central Bank of the Netherlands, the counterfeiter produced and partially distributed counterfeit banknotes worth about 800 thousand euros throughout Europe.

A court hearing is scheduled for 2023, at which the defendant will be sentenced.

The Weekly Stash is a recap of the week’s top business headlines in the cannabis industry for the week ending February 10, 2023.

Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX: WEED) (Nasdaq: CGC) reported slumping revenues on Thursday and signaled a new cost-savings era that includes cutbacks on cultivation and 800 layoffs. Revenue fell by 28% to $101 million in the quarter. Canopy ‘s historical cash burn has swelled its net losses 131% over the year to $266.7 million. Cash and short-term investments fell by a whopping $583 million to $789 million at the end of December from $1,372 million at the end of March 2022.

The acquisition of New York medical cannabis operator Etain by Riv Capital is entering another messy chapter. Scotts Miracle-Gro (NYSE: SMG), owner of the hydroponic company Hawthorne, has filed a lawsuit against Jason Wild and TerrAscend (OTC: TRSSF) claiming they ruined its $175 million investment. Hawthorne is complaining that Wild fought Riv Capital’s plans to buy Etain asking the board to call off the deal and threatening to attain a hemp license in the state in a move to kill the deal. Wild’s position is that Riv Capital overpaid for the property. 

SNDL Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDL) finalized its purchase of Canadian dispensary chain Superette out of bankruptcy, with plans to support the brand and its stores.SNDL will license some of Superette’s IP to Spirit Leaf Ontario for their retail locations, the company said.

In state news,

Over the first three-day weekend of legal recreational marijuana sales in Missouri, medical and adult-use retail sales combined to hit $12.6 million in sales, the state announced. Many shops reported long lines this past Friday. According to the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services’ Cannabis Division Regulation, the industry sold $8.5 million in recreational cannabis and another $4.1 million in medical marijuana for Feb.3-5, for a grand total of $12,689,965.

In a break from a national trend, a federal judge in Washington state upheld the state’s residency requirement for cannabis business ownership and ruled that the U.S. Constitution’s dormant commerce clause doesn’t apply because marijuana is still federally illegal. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle sided with the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board and tossed a lawsuit filed in 2020 by marijuana investor Todd Brinkmeyer, who had asked the court to rule that Washington’s residency requirement is unconstitutional. 

The start date for Maryland’s upcoming adult-use cannabis market could be as soon as July 1, under the terms of a new legislative bill introduced this week by state lawmakers.

New York has said it will begin cracking down on illegal operators while the state’s Office of Cannabis Management recommended that medical licenses be expanded. The OCM also suggested that medical patients no longer have to register. 

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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) is finally exiting a trio of legacy western states in search for better profits. The exodus will begin this month with the “proactive closure of the majority of its operations” including its production and cultivation facilities in California, Colorado, and Oregon. The company cited the lack of enforcement over the illicit market and price compression as to why it was tapping out of the west coast. The company is also laying off 10% of its workforce. The company said it expects to save $60 million through the moves.

New York-based Ascend Wellness Holdings (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH) announced its expansion into Maryland with its $19 million purchase of Devi Holdings, which runs four operational medical marijuana dispensaries. The move marks the seventh state in which Ascend Wellness has a footprint, according to a press release. The company already has cannabis shops in Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan,  New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, according to its website.

Long-awaited federal guidance on cannabis clinical drug trials for humans has finally arrived. The guidance document from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration follows the 2018 federal farm bill, which removed cannabis with less than 0.3% THC by dry weight from the list of controlled substances. The move could dramatically accelerate the value of the CBD industry, which has been waiting on the guidance, and it could also help the industry back up some of the health claims various companies have made, which got them warning letters from the agency.

In state news…

Mississippi began its medical cannabis sales this week. The state legalized medical marijuana just a year ago. 

New York opened its first social equity applicant dispensary and the state approved 30 more retail licenses. 

In legal news this week, Nike is suing a Texas cannabis company for using the slogan “Just Hemp it”. A Michigan developer filed a $60 million lawsuit claiming delays led to a loss of funding and tenants for its project and Helping Hands Wellness Center Inc. in Nevada had its licenses suspended after inspectors “discovered Helping Hands’ employees were diverting product to the illicit market. 

As a reminder, you can now submit applications to the 2023 GMR Women’s Leadership Awards, just head over to the website and there’s a link in our Summits tab.

Next week we expect earnings from High Tide, Scotts Miracle-Gro, and MedMen.

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