Half of Solana Pre-Sales Are Scams, Blockaid Says
Blockchain security firm Blockaid said 50% of recent pre-sale token launches on Solana have been malicious.
Month: April 2024
The Internet Archive is now hosting Aruba’s history
A Divi Divi tree, which always points southwest because of the island’s trade winds. | Image: Hans W. Hannau / Carol Burns and Jane Suter Collection Aruba is backing up its history on the Internet Archive, a first for the digital preservation site. The Archive announced on April 8th that it was opening the portal … Read more
Deutsche Bank Says Consumers are ‘More Positive on Crypto’
A new study by Deutsche Bank shows that consumers are warming to crypto, with 40% expecting Bitcoin to thrive.
EU’s MiCA Rules Have Had Little Influence on the European Crypto Market, Regulator Says
The rules, which take effect at the end of the year, have yet to spur increased euro-based transactions in crypto markets.
‘What Are We Waiting for’? SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Discusses Moving Crypto Regulation Foward
Known for her fiery dissenting opinions, “Crypto Mom” discusses how the SEC operates, why she wants to see crypto thrive and her “Safe Harbor” proposal to allow projects to decentralize.
AT&T notifies regulators after customer data breach
The legally required disclosure came a week after AT&T confirmed a cache containing millions of customers’ data that leaked online was genuine. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Kobo announces color e-readers
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Alpen Labs Looks to Scale Bitcoin With Zero-Knowledge Proofs Using $10.6M Funding
Alpen Labs has emerged from stealth mode following the funding round, having spent the last year developing Bitcoin rollup infrastructure to bring smart contract functionality to the network.
Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up
Meta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is going toward recruiting AI researchers. But an even larger chunk is being spent developing hardware, specifically chips to run and train Meta’s AI models. Meta unveiled the newest fruit of … Read more
Radix Engine: A Better Model for “Enshrinement
In my previous article, I went over how Radix Engine avoided some of the flaws in Sui’s MoveVM. To summarize: Sui’s MoveVM is too low-level and generic, making for a cumbersome DeFi programming environment. Radix Engine is high-level and asset + business logic-oriented, allowing developers to focus on DeFi logic rather than low-level details. Sui’s … Read more
Meta’s new AI chips runs faster than before
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster. The Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) is designed to work best with Meta’s ranking and recommendation models. The chips can help make training more … Read more
Solana Move-to-Earn Game ‘Stepn’ Launches $30 Million Airdrop
Find Satoshi Lab aims to supercharge Solana-centric running and walking app Stepn with 100 million GMT in rewards for players.
eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin
As eBay continues to invest in the trading card space, the e-commerce company announced Wednesday three significant commercial transactions with Collectors, the parent company of PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator), the third-party authentication and grading provider in the collectibles industry. The transactions include a trading card commercial agreement that aims to provide trading enthusiasts a seamless … Read more
The composers of X-Men ‘97 had to evolve the show’s sound to honor its roots
Image: Disney Plus / Marvel To create the X-Men ‘97 score, Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart had to work through their nostalgia and create new sounds from the future. Continue reading…
A $60M venture fund with a twist, and more startup-on-startup acquisitions
Today on Equity, we dig into Multiverse’s acquisition of Searchlight, Guesty’s massive Series F, Monad Labs, and Cyera’s megaround. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
‘Multimodal is the most unappreciated AI breakthrough’ says DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
Joshua Browder is the Founder/CEO of DoNotPay. He founded the company in 2016 after getting too many parking tickets. In the last 8 years, the company’s evolved from a chatbot that fights parking tickets to an AI companion that’s reduced all sorts of fees, totaling over a million successful cases for their customers. Joshua also … Read more
This luxury watch is about as thin as a strand of spaghetti
Image: Bulgari The Italian luxury brand Bulgari has broken the record for the world’s thinnest mechanical watch yet again. Its new Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra COSC watch measures just 1.7mm thick — about the same thickness as your typical strand of spaghetti, as reported earlier by Dezeen. Bulgari has long held the record for the … Read more
Turkish startup ikas attracts $20M for its e-commerce platform designed for small businesses
E-commerce’s field remains vast and fertile, and further evidence of this has surfaced in the form of one of the largest fundraises by a startup in Turkey. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Ordinals Defy Bitcoin’s Design Principles but Offer Miners Huge Post-Halving Advantages
Ordinal inscriptions and BRC-20 tokens are controversial for using up valuable space on the Bitcoin network. But, with rewards set to be cut in half, they offer a lifeline for miners as they adapt to new blockchain economics.
How the Halving Will Impact the Bitcoin Market
While speculators will likely position themselves in advance of the halving on April 20, long- term investors should pay minimal attention to the halving itself, and rather focus on the demand side of the market, says Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO of K33.
Muscle tissue harvested from mice cells move ‘biohybrid’ robots
Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It can also provide the best material. Billions of years of nature selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, so you can’t really blame engineers for borrowing a bit of inspiration from the world around them. In particular, the field of soft robotics — with … Read more
Bitcoin and Ethereum Dive as U.S. Inflation Remains at 3.5%
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price has slipped to below $68,000 and the Ethereum price is threatening to go lower than $3,400.
This is the new Sonos app, coming May 7th
Illustration: The Verge Sonos will release a substantial update to its mobile app for both Android and iOS on May 7th, The Verge has learned. Based on screenshots provided by people familiar with the company’s plans, the app is receiving a fresh coat of paint. Sonos is also working to make product setup easier and … Read more