Solana Meme Coin Billy Soars to $117 Million Market Cap
By breaking past a $100 million market cap, dog coin Billy has become Pump.fun’s second largest meme coin—just behind Michi.
Month: July 2024
Bitcoin circles $63K as liquidity sparks hopes of 40% BTC price gains
Bitcoin stands to potentially gain big from global liquidity trends, analysis concludes, as the June BTC price downtrend ends.
Biden administration proposes new heat protections for workers
A traffic warden during an eight-hour shift under the hot sun in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 12th, 2023, where temperatures reached 106 degrees Fahrenheit amid a heatwave. | Photo: Getty Images The Biden administration says it will propose new rules today to protect workers from the deadliest weather-related risk Americans face: extreme heat. The … Read more
Tether signs MoU to promote crypto freedom in Turkey
Stablecoin giant Tether is eager to learn about the possibilities of introducing new business lines into Turkey’s banking in cooperation with the local crypto firm BTguru.
Enhanced Story Data Now Available on HackerNoon Stats Pages
Hey Hackers 💚 Our Story Stats Pages just got better! Let’s meet the updates. Bigger, Better Graphical Representation Each story’s stats page features a graphical representation of the total time readers have spent on your story since its publication. With this new update, you can navigate the graph by date to see daily increases in … Read more
Computing and shielding startups join forces to put AI-capable chips in space
Sophisticated spacecraft often run on shockingly outdated computing systems: consider that the Perseverance rover runs on a PowerPC 750, the processor famous for running on iMacs in the late 1990s. San Francisco-based Aethero is aiming to bring more powerful computing systems to orbit, and their first payload launches this month on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission. … Read more
Sentient closes $85M seed round for open-source AI
The round was led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund alongside Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures and others.
‘Maxxxine is very different from both of them’: Ti West on closing out his X horror trilogy
Maxxxine. | Image: A24 For the last few years, Ti West hasn’t stopped thinking about the horror villains Pearl and Maxine. Since 2020, the writer and director has been fully immersed in the genre-spanning franchise that started with the ’70s slasher flick X and continued with the technicolor prequel Pearl, which were filmed back-to-back in … Read more
RedStone, Blockchain Oracle Project Pushing Into Restaking, Raises $15M
The fresh round of capital will go towards hiring new team members, according to a press release.
Pi Squared, Building ‘Universal ZK Circuit’, Raises $12.5M
The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing” along with other blockchain use cases including AI.
Bitcoin Could Get Ethereum-Style Restaking as Startup Lombard Raises $16M
Lombard is partnering with staking startup Babylon to let users earn interest for “restaking” with Bitcoin – using the asset to secure other crypto networks.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ADA and XRP Lead
Overnight, ADA and XRP led the CoinDesk 20 with half the assets trading higher.
Tesla delivered fewer vehicles to customers for the second quarter in a row
Photo by John Thys / AFP via Getty Images On the heels of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s massive payday, the company released its latest quarterly production and delivery report, showing drops from last year in both production and deliveries. Tesla reported producing 410,831 vehicles over the three-month period that ended in June, a 14 percent … Read more
Sentient Raises $85 Million Co-Led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund to Accelerate Open AI Development
Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and a core contributor to Sentient, said centralized AI development is dangerous.
Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is following through on its plan to phase out its cheapest ad-free tier for existing subscribers. As spotted in numerous posts on Reddit, Netflix is now asking some basic plan subscribers to choose a new plan to stay subscribed to Netflix. One Reddit user received a notification … Read more
Bitcoin $500K prediction, spot Ether ETF ‘staking issue’— Thomas Fahrer, X Hall of Flame
Thomas Fahrer says multiple “low-probability” events could push Bitcoin into a “strong bull market.”
Astar Network to Burn 350M ASTR, 5% of Total Supply
Multi-chain smart contract network Astar Network will burn 350 million ASTR tokens representing 5% of its total supply following a governance vote.
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Bitcoin’s Retreat From $70K Characterized by ‘Vol Lethargy’
Deribit’s BTC DVOL index, a measure of volatility expectations, has slipped to lowest since early February.
Pump.fun vs. Moonshot: Where to Launch Your Next Solana Meme Coin
Pump.fun has launched over a million Solana meme coins in 2024. Now, DEX Screener is attempting to take it on with Moonshot.
Paxos gains approval for Singapore stablecoin launch with DBS partnership
Paxos will partner with Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS, for the stablecoin launch.
Low Bitcoin and Ethereum fees may not necessarily be good news
Bitcoin and Ethereum users are experiencing exceptionally low fees, but why?
Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Leads $85M Seed Investment Into Open-Source AI Platform Sentient
The round was co-led by Pantera Capital and Framework Ventures.
Apple’s Vision Pro: five months later
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The Apple Vision Pro is many things. But for us, and for many other users, it’s one thing in particular: a really, really, really big screen. Since Apple started shipping its spatial computing headset five months ago today, we’ve tested the device as a TV, a computer monitor, a … Read more