Ether Holds Up Despite Correction in CoinDesk 20: CoinDesk Indices Market Update
All 20 assets in the gauge posted declines over the past week, led by Solana, Cardano, and Aptos.
Month: April 2024
Productive solar technologies draw investors as global off-grid solar sector funding slumps
Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) technologies, especially those in the solar irrigation and cold chain segment, saw increased investor interest last year, despite a 43% funding slump recorded in the global off-grid solar sector. The global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, GOGLA, says PURE technologies raised $65 million in 2023, double the … Read more
Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry
Shinkei raised $6 million to help it go from pilot to production, with a goal of 10 machines in actual use by the end of the year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
‘It’s Modding, But on Steroids’: Mark Long on the Future of Web3 Gaming
Shrapnel, a blockchain-infused first-person shooter game, is expected to be released in 2025. Its creator gives a preview to Jeff Wilser ahead of his appearance at Consensus 2024.
CARV Announces Decentralized Node Sale to Revolutionize Data Ownership in Gaming and AI
CARV, the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, today announces its highly anticipated debut node sale.
How to Bridge the Gap Between Marketing and Product Teams
The Marketing team serves as the company’s storyteller, shaping and sharing its narrative with the world. Meanwhile, the product team crafts solutions that address specific needs and desires in the market. When Marketing and Product teams operate in silos, it can lead to disjointed campaigns, miscommunication, and missed opportunities. On the other hand, when these … Read more
Paradigm Special Counsel Has Left the Crypto-Focused VC Firm
Rodrigo Seira has rejoined Cooley LLP, the law firm where he worked previously, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Web3 gaming won’t exist in 5 years, $656K for best crypto game pitch: Web3 Gamer
Crypto VCs reveal why last cycle’s games sucked, Mega Cricket League review, plus $656K up for grabs in crypto game Shark Tank: Web3 Gamer.
Binance founder’s sentencing hearing
Zhao “violated US law on an unprecedented scale,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Continue reading…
Sam’s Club’s AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores
Sam’s Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
What Is the Bitcoin Genesis Block? How It All Started
The genesis block is the start of the immutable database that is the Bitcoin blockchain. Here’s how it was created—and why it matters.
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Optimal Strategies for Integrating Visual Regression Testing into Agile Teams
In these intensely competitive times, every application needs to be aesthetically appealing in addition to providing seamless functionality to satisfy the users. If an app does not function properly because of a visual interface error or if the site is unreadable, users may uninstall or leave the app. This can ultimately lead to a loss … Read more
Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business user
As data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data wrangling skills has grown in importance. The founders of Seam, an early stage startup, experienced the need to make data more accessible first hand when they were at Okta, and decided to launch a company … Read more
US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consent
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for “illegally” sharing and selling customers’ real-time location data without their consent. AT&T’s fine is more than $57 million, Verizon’s is almost $47 million, T-Mobile’s is more than $80 million, and Sprint’s … Read more
We Do A Little With Mike Demarais
Mike dropped knowledge bombs from years of building in the trenches alongside some deep cuts on the early Williamsburg crypto mafia.
Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive
Image: Getty Images Walmart isn’t making enough money off its new health centers, so it decided to close up shop. The retail giant announced today that it’ll shutter all 51 health centers it opened up across five states since 2019. Walmart is also getting rid of its virtual care program after acquiring telehealth provider MeMD … Read more
How I Got Llama 3 to Revere God!
“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting … Read more
Scaling Bitcoin On-Chain with Omnity
After five years of restless building in the cross-chain interoperability space, Octopus Network, the development team behind Omnity, has created a perfect, invisible omnichain hub that can connect any L1/L2/L3 and even ZK technology once it advances enough. Omnity’s 100% end-to-end on-chain tech stack offers fast finality, fungible token persistence, and negligible user fees (even … Read more
Benchmarking the Computational Performance of Poseidon2 in Plonky3
Abstract This document provides a simple introduction to the current state of development of polynomial commitments and the application of hash functions in zero-knowledge proofs (zk). We conduct a detailed study and comparison of the two generations of Poseidon hash functions used in Plonky2 and Plonky3, and present benchmark results to verify the computational performance … Read more
BlackRock’s BUIDL Becomes Largest Tokenized Treasury Fund Hitting $375M, Toppling Franklin Templeton’s
BlackRock’s first tokenized offering, created with Securitize, has captured almost 30% of the $1.3 billion tokenized Treasury market in just six weeks.
Bitcoin sub-$60K levels in focus after daily crypto liquidations near $300M
Bitcoin bears are out in force with BTC price trajectory quickly headed back to $60,000.
Notable Capital’s Hans Tung on why founders need to play the long game
Hans Tung, a managing partner at Notable Capital, formerly GGV Capital, has a lot of thoughts on the state of venture capital today. With $4.2 billion in assets under management, Notable evolved from 24-year-old cross-border VC firm GGV Capital, and Tung has been around while GGV invested in the likes of Affirm, Airbnb, StockX, Square and … Read more
Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
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Bumble’s app redesign lets women automate conversation starters
Image: Bumble Bumble’s redesigned dating app has a new “Opening Move” feature that’s supposed to take the legwork out of starting conversations. Women on the app can now choose from a list of prewritten prompts — or come up with their own — that the app will send to all their matches. Unlike dating apps … Read more
Is mysterious ΑΙ ‘gpt2-chatbot’ OpenAI's next upgrade in disguise?
A powerful new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” appears on LMSYS Chat and has sparked speculation whether it could be OpenAI’s unreleased GPT-5 or a supercharged GPT-2.