QUASA Connect: News and Analysis on Business, Finance, Tech, Web3, and Crypto

The cryptocurrency market, once propped up as the savior of finance, is rotting from the inside out in 2026. With a bloated market cap scraping $2.4–3.3 trillion, this scam-infested dumpster fire is choking on its own stagnation, grotesque overvaluation, and utter lack of real-world purpose.

In a significant development for the QUASA ecosystem, leading cryptocurrency data aggregators CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko have updated their listings to reflect the recent adjustments in the circulating supply of QUA tokens.

In most cases, the pattern was reversed: the majority of eventual adult champions and top performers were not standout prodigies in childhood or youth. Their developmental trajectories were slower, more uneven, and marked by more frequent setbacks, lower relative rankings early on, and less immediate success.

Until then, the official threshold continues to hide in plain sight the precarious reality of millions: families who are formally "above poverty" but live one illness, job loss, or rent increase away from crisis. The problem is not that people are miscounting poverty — it's that the metric itself systematically erases it.

James Kynge, Senior Research Fellow for China and the World at Chatham House, argues in a recent analysis that the West has been slow to recognize a fundamental shift: China has become the world's leading technological power.

In the heart of Silicon Valley, an extraordinary educational experiment is unfolding at The Harker School, a prestigious private K-12 institution in San Jose, California.

The NEET indicator — standing for Not in Education, Employment, or Training — was introduced in the UK in the 1990s to capture young people at risk of long-term disadvantage early in their adult lives.

In a major boost for iOS and macOS app developers, Apple has released the Release Candidate of Xcode 26.3, introducing full support for agentic coding — a leap beyond traditional AI autocompletion into truly autonomous, goal-oriented programming assistance.

Elon Musk has long argued that humanoid robots represent a market far larger than the entire automotive industry.

In late 2025 and early 2026, the AI image generation space has seen intense competition, with models pushing boundaries in speed, creativity, and commercial reliability.

The cryptocurrency market has long been defined by the mantra of "HODL"—a rallying cry for investors to hold onto their assets through volatility, born from a misspelled forum post in 2013 during Bitcoin's early days.

n a bold move that echoes the financial exuberance of past eras, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, executed one of the largest corporate bond offerings in history on February 9, 2026, raising $20 billion in U.S. dollars—upsized from an initial target of $15 billion due to overwhelming investor demand.

In a move that blends viral entertainment with financial innovation, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has expanded his empire through Beast Industries by acquiring Step, a fintech app tailored for teenagers and young adults.

Major studios passed on the project, doubting its commercial appeal. Undeterred, Markiplier took full control—he wrote the screenplay, directed, edited, starred in the lead role, and financed the entire production out of his own pocket.