Month: November 2024
Starship’s Sixth Flight Test
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Mystery Prediction Market Whale Made $47 Million Betting on Trump
Some prediction market bettors made millions on Trump’s projected win, while others lost it all picking Harris for the White House.
Nintendo’s next generation is off to a great start
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo’s next console is going to have a kickass library of games to start. Last night, when there was absolutely nothing else of note happening in the world, Nintendo announced that its still-unannounced Switch successor would be backward-compatible with existing Switch games. The announcement is an early … Read more
How to Build an Asset Class in Three Easy Steps
Kelly Ye, portfolio manager at Decentral Park Capital and Andy Baehr, head of product at CoinDesk Indices, trade views, active manager vs indexer, on what steps are most important to shape the capital markets and investment landscape for digital assets in a post U.S. election world.
How Trump Could Change Crypto
Analysts expect a broad market rally and changes in SEC leadership. Trump’s crypto policies include a bitcoin strategic reserve, banning a central bank digital currency and freeing Ross Ulbricht.
All the Big Tech leaders congratulating Donald Trump
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Big Tech leaders from across the industry are lining up to congratulate Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election. Trump has butted heads with many of the executives now cozying up to the soon-to-be president, who recently threatened to throw Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in prison … Read more
This Week in AI: It’s shockingly easy to make a Kamala Harris deepfake
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It was shockingly easy to create a convincing Kamala Harris audio deepfake on Election Day. It cost me $5 and took less than two minutes, illustrating how cheap, ubiquitous generative AI has opened the floodgates to … Read more
Life is Strange: Double Exposure ends with a disappointing finale
Image: Square Enix The game’s final episode also teases a larger Life is Strange universe to come. Continue reading…
Pinstripe wants to redefine the way online sellers sell secondhand clothing
Pinstripe aims to reimagine the secondhand market by offering sellers the opportunity to have both a digital storefront and a physical retail presence. Launched in June, the platform offers an alternative approach compared with other marketplaces like Archive, Depop, Facebook Marketplace, and Poshmark. With Pinstripe, sellers take their clothes to local consignment stores, vintage shops, … Read more
Blackrock Bitcoin ETF sees $1B volume in first minutes of post-election trading
Some analysts expect Bitcoin’s price to surge following Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 election win.
The Manosphere Won
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Bitcoin price rally to $110K ‘incoming’ after positive Coinbase premium, Trump victory — Analyst
A boost in Bitcoin’s spot volumes and a classic chart pattern hint that $110,000 could be the next stop for BTC price.
What Trump’s victory could mean for AI regulation
A grueling election cycle has come to a close. Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the U.S., and, with Republicans in control of the Senate — and possibly the House — his allies are poised to bring sea change to the highest levels of government. The effects will be acutely felt in the … Read more
Uniswap’s UNI Token Soars 28% as Altcoins Outperform Following U.S. Presidential Election
The broad market gauge CoinDesk 20 Index was higher by 8.2% versus bitcoin’s 6% advance following Donald Trump’s victory.
Bitcoin All-Time High Arrived Right on Time—Here’s Why
Bitcoin surged to a new peak above $75,000 following Donald Trump’s election victory—but BTC is doing what it normally does after the halving.
BNB Chain reveals no-code real-world asset tokenization service
According to financial services firm Standard Chartered, real-world asset tokenization could reach a $30 trillion market cap by 2030.
Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock
The rise of large language models (LLMs) and foundation models (FMs) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI). These powerful models, trained on vast amounts of data, can generate human-like text, answer questions, and even engage in creative writing tasks. However, training and deploying such models from scratch is … Read more
US Election: House races still uncertain after Trump win
Though Republicans won the US Presidency and a majority in the Senate, it’s still unclear if Democrats will win enough seats to flip the House of Representatives.
JPMorgan Renames Blockchain Platform to Kynexis, to Add On-Chain FX Settlement for USD, EUR
The banking giant was one of the early leaders in applying blockchain tech to traditional financial activities, executing over $1.5 trillion of transactions since its inception.
Price analysis 11/6: BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, DOGE, TON, ADA, SHIB, AVAX
Crypto markets cheered Donald Trump’s win by pushing Bitcoin to a new all-time high above $75,000, signaling the start of the next leg of the uptrend.