Month: February 2025
Crypto Biz: Weeks like this will rattle your conviction
A $1.4 billion Bybit hack, efforts to “Kill Tether” and a Bitcoin price crash headline a rough week for the crypto markets.
Bitcoin’s ‘Trump trade’ is over — Traders shift hope to Fed rate cuts, expanding global liquidity
The pre-and-post-election Trump trade sent Bitcoin to new highs, but the jig is up. Traders now shift their hope to the resumption of QE and expanding global liquidity.
World competitor Billions Network launches non-biometric digital ID
The company’s Circom technology has been tested by Deutsche Bank and HSBC, among others.
Trump company files trademarks for branded metaverse, NFT marketplace
DTTM Operations, a Trump-owned company, has filed trademark applications for the word “TRUMP” in connection with a metaverse and NFT marketplace.
Bitcoin Rallies 8% From Overnight Low as Crypto Market Plunge Cools
Bitcoin and other risk-on assets wobbled after U.S. President Donald Trump clashed with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, though BTC is up since bottoming out overnight.
Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone
Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The … Read more
Tesla Superchargers coming to dozens of Steak ‘n Shake locations
Tesla is planning to install dozens of Supercharger sites at Steak ‘n Shake locations across the country, according to an exchange between the companies on X. The companies have signed an agreement for over six sites, with over 20 more to come. And if Steak ‘n Shake gets its way, possibly 100 restaurants will see … Read more
Memeagent Is Gaining Attention – Meeting Chad, The AI Agent That’s Changing The Game
MONROVIA, Liberia, February 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–Chad Leads the Way: AI-Powered Memecoins Are Evolving. Memeagent has introduced Chad, an autonomous AI agent designed to bring intelligence and automation to the memecoin ecosystem. While many meme projects rely on fleeting trends, Memeagent is built differently – a fully AI agent-driven ecosystem designed to change the game for good. … Read more
Solana rallies 16% after SOL RSI drops to 2023 low: Was that the bottom?
Solana price may have bottomed at $125, but large SOL token locks starting on March 1 will be the deciding factor.
Cold Wallet’s director wanted to make a revenge thriller for the crypto era
Cold Wallet, Well Go USAâs new darkly comedic home invasion thriller from director Cutter Hodierne, becomes increasingly more absurd as it unfolds. At every turn, the movieâs heroes â a group of excitable retail investors â make unhinged choices that make them feel more like cartoons than people who have complex lives outside of Reddit. … Read more
The Verge hires Tina Nguyen as senior reporter to cover the Trump administration
Tina Nguyen is joining The Verge as a senior reporter, covering the Trump administration, Elon Muskâs takeover of the federal government, and the tech industryâs embrace of the MAGA movement. Nguyen joins The Verge from Puck, where she was a founding partner and national correspondent covering the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem. Before that, … Read more
Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals
Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now can also generate advanced visualizations, like heatmaps, that they … Read more
Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly
Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours. The app offers a classic Instagram-like experience, allowing users to upload up to four photos and videos of up to a minute in length. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes … Read more
#Memhash Now Available On Exchanges After Successful Mining Phase
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, February 28th, 2025/Chainwire/–Recognised as a top-5 trending app in Telegram, #Memhash reveals to build one of the largest DePIN projects with currently almost 1.2 million monthly active users. #Memhash, a Telegram-based application, announces a significant milestone in its ongoing development setting up an AI agent launchpad and transforming #Memhash … Read more
Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Is Adding Support for Solana Alongside Bitcoin
MetaMask’s expansion from Ethereum will include not just Bitcoin, as Decrypt previously reported, but also Solana. Here’s when.
DOGE wants to lay off the ‘vast majority’ of CFPB workers, employees say
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to fire the “vast majority” of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), agency employees — some using pseudonyms for fear of retaliation — told a federal court in sworn declarations. Seven current and five former CFPB employees submitted the declarations as part of the National … Read more
Steam’s Next Fest is full of weird-ass, cool-ass games
Steam Next Fest is going on until March 3rd, and Iâve spent a considerable amount of time wading through a seemingly endless carousel of games, filling up my Steam Deckâs internal and external memory looking for the Good Shitâ¢. Iâve landed on four standout game demos that are worth your time now and whenever their … Read more
AI Literacy Is Now the Law—Ignore It at Your Own Risk
The clock for AI Literacy is ticking. Why should you act now, what are the six pillars of AI Literacy, and how can you build on those? :::info 📜 AI literacy is a legal requirement as of February 2025 🎯 Six core competencies define AI literacy: Recognition, Understanding, Application, Evaluation, Ethics, and Creation 🛠️ Hands-on … Read more
Competitors want to ‘kill Tether,’ most altcoins ‘won’t make it’ in 2025: Finance Redefined
Only the altcoins with potential ETF approvals and solid revenue-generation models will outperform the crypto market in 2025.
Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data
Mozilla introduced its first Terms of Use for Firefox this week, but the company has already had to post an update to address criticisms of language that appeared to give Mozilla overly broad ownership over user data. Specifically, some users took issue with this line in the terms, as reported by TechCrunch: “When you upload … Read more
SEC Commissioner dissents on agency’s memecoin stance
Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw said that the agency’s working definition of memecoins was vague and could be easily misconstrued.
EVgo says no to fast-charging extension cables and breakaway adapters
Electric vehicle charging network EVgo changed its terms of service Thursday to include new language explicitly prohibiting the use of high-speed DC extension cables and breakaway adapters at the company’s stations. The terms, which go into effect March 8th, are another bump in the road for enterprising companies looking to cash in on EV charging … Read more
Donald Trump-Linked Firm May be Looking to Start NFT and Metaverse Platform
DTTM Operations, a company that manages U.S. President Donald Trump’s IP rights, filed a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which might hint at potential non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and metaverse platform. The document lists various products related to blockchain-based goods and services, including accessing NFTs, managing cryptocurrency transactions, virtual reality software and … Read more
SEC again delays Ether ETF options on Cboe
The agency has postponed a final ruling on the exchange’s proposal until May 2025.