Ten years ago, rooms like this didn't exist. The institutions weren't here. It was mostly talk. Xen Baynham-Herd @XenBH (Director of Growth, Base @base) took the Taostats Stage at the Louvre to show how much has changed and to announce Base MCP live at Proof of Talk 2026. Trading. Payments. Agents. All markets that didn't exist in 2020, now large enough to compete with their TradFi equivalents. $13 trillion in cumulative on-chain trading volume. $322 billion stablecoin market cap. 100 million transactions settled on X402. And under 1% of the world's money is on chain. The question isn't whether capital comes on chain. The question is where it goes. Watch the full keynote below.

Tencent Cloud was one of the key technology providers behind the recently concluded World Cup. In addition to powering live streaming for major Chinese broadcasters, it provided audio and video technology support to broadcasters, telecom operators, and OTT platforms across 17 countries and regions. During the tournament, the combined peak concurrent audience across the platforms supported by Tencent Cloud exceeded 50 million.

Tens of thousands of immigrant children who arrived in the U.S. as unaccompanied minors in recent years may be forced to face a judge alone after a federal contract providing them legal representation expires on Friday.

Tens of Thousands of Illegal Migrants From Africa Are STORMING the Spanish Border No, this is not a scene from The Walking Dead, this is a live INVASION of Spain right now. This is what America would look like if Donald Trump didn’t secure the border.