Month: February 2025
UNDER EXPOSED EP11- Sovereign Wealth Funds Eyeing Bitcoin Opportunities
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
I’m Done with Ubuntu
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Jurassic World Rebirth’s new trailer makes it sound like a video game
The larger Jurassic Park franchise feels like it should be telling stories about dinosaurs having taken over the entire planet at this point, but the new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth makes it seem like the movie is going to retread old territory with a bit of a video game-inspired twist. Set five years after … Read more
This Startup Founder Spent $600k on a Domain—And the Risk Paid Off Big
The story About a year after landing our first enterprise customers, I decided to change our name to Macro and I committed to paying $600k for the domain “macro.com,” spread over three years. It was a seller-financed deal, meaning we paid ~$200k up front and the rest monthly. We’ve now raised over $20M to build … Read more
Nintendo shares more info on its Switch 2 direct
As we settle in for the long, excruciating wait for more tangible news on the Switch 2, Nintendo has thrown us a little extra nugget of information. While we knew the company was planning to share more about the Switch 2 on April 2nd, now we have a time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM … Read more
Kagi search engine won’t bill you next month if you forget to use it
Kagi, a paid alternative to Google Search, now says it will credit your account if you subscribe and forget to use it. The company introduced what it calls “Fair Pricing” in a blog post yesterday, writing that any time you don’t use any of your searches during a full billing cycle, it will apply a … Read more
It’s Time to End the Bureaucrat’s Secret Weapon: Debanking
“Debanking” has become a buzzword in Washington lately. The term refers to a controversial practice where crypto companies and other businesses have been cut off from banking services, allegedly due to pressure from federal regulators. Many in our industry have dubbed this “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” comparing it to a previous Obama-era initiative that discouraged banks … Read more
XRP price analysts bullish on $5 next, long-term target of $18
XRP’s latest pullback could be part of a classic Elliott Wave structure, according to one market analyst, with a target above $18 if the bulls regain their footing.
How Flare is Unlocking Offchain AI: Flare and Google Cloud at UC Berkeley for Web3 & AI Hackathon
How Can AI and Blockchain Change the Way We Compute? Have you ever asked how data processing might shift from a single system to a coordinated network of specialized units? A group of developers is set to explore this possibility. Flare, in collaboration with Google Cloud, is hosting a hackathon at UC Berkeley to test … Read more
🏆 Startups of The Year: 2 Months Left to Cast Your Vote!
Hi Hackers, With only 2 months left in the race for Startups of The Year, it’s not too late to support your favorites. If you haven’t checked the current rankings yet, here’s your chance to dive into a global celebration of innovation. Let’s highlight the top-performing cities and industries, as well as those that need … Read more
Blocksquare Launches EU-Compliant Real Estate Tokenization Framework in Luxembourg
Blocksquare announced on February 5 that it has incorporated Blocksquare SARL in Luxembourg to serve as the operational hub for its notarized real estate tokenization framework. The new platform is the first to integrate land registries directly through notarized agreements under European Union regulations. The framework enables property owners to tokenize economic rights tied to … Read more
MegaETH defies airdrop farming craze, dives headfirst into NFTs
MegaETH has unveiled soulbound NFTs to potentially raise $28 million as airdrop farming models receive heat.
Rainforest Foundation US NGO plans strategic Bitcoin reserve
The Rainforest Foundation US “Treasury for the Trees” initiative aims to raise 100 BTC for a strategic Bitcoin reserve. RFUS executive director Suzanne Pelletier explains why.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AAVE Gains 6.9% as Index Trades Higher From Tuesday
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3310.92, up 0.2% (+5.24) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Fourteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AAVE (+6.9%) and LTC (+3.7%). Laggards: XRP (-1.2%) and SUI (-1.2%). … Read more
USPS backtracks, will accept parcels from China after all
The US Postal Service has reversed yesterday’s surprise decision to stop accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong. It will continue to accept international shipments from the two countries, though it warns of “disruption” to deliveries. USPS previously announced that it was temporarily halting all packages shipped from China and Hong Kong. The decision … Read more
Embrace the Grind (2021)
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Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?
It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise billion-dollar+ funds these days. Perhaps further evidence of this view persists in the news that Berlin-based Cherry Ventures has closed its latest fund at $500 million, to be split between early-stage rounds and follow-on rounds … Read more
Generative AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Unlocking Potential While Mitigating Risks
It took less than a year for AI to dramatically change the security landscape. Generative AI started to become mainstream during February 2024. The first few months were spent in awe. What it could do and the efficiencies that it could bring were unheard of. According to a 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, approximately 75% … Read more
Bitcoin Now Has a Trustless Bridge to Ethereum Through Arbitrum L2
Bitcoin holders are finally gaining access to the decentralized apps and ecosystem “they’ve spent 15 years starving for,” said the CEO of BTC OS.
Layer-1 vs Layer-2 Solutions: How Blockchain Networks Scale Without Sacrificing Security
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Contributions Related Work Background Inscriptions and ordinals 4.1 Operation Types 4.2 Comparison with NFTs and ERC-20s Data Collection Empirical Analysis and 6.1 Overall Transactions 6.2 Inscriptions Characterization 6.3 Inscription Trading 6.4 Impact on Gas Fees Discussion Conclusion and References 3 Background Scalability challenges and … Read more
CodeSignal wants you to practice soft skills with its AI-powered guide
Startups and big tech companies have aggressively used AI to help developers write code or learn programming better. People have used chatbots to prepare for different scenarios in life, like interviews. Tech assessment platform CodeSignal, which introduced a learning platform for technical subjects with AI assistants last year, launched soft skill courses on its platform today … Read more
Reservoir, NFT infrastructure provider for Coinbase and MetaMask, raises $14M
NFTs were a defining theme of the cryptocurrency market between 2020 and 2022, but sales have slumped in recent years.
0G Foundation launches $88M fund for AI-powered DeFi agents
Emerging DeFAI agents will enable “fully autonomous, verifiable and decentralized AI-driven financial systems” and reach other industries, including insurance.