US Securities and Exchange Commission staff have given guidance on how federal securities laws could apply to crypto, saying companies issuing or dealing with tokens that could be securities should give better details about their business. The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance said in a staff statement on April 10 that it was giving its … Read more
I have presented my OpenTelemetry demo many times, and I still do. Each time, the audience is different. To make no two presentations the same, I always ask attendees what stack they are more interested in. I also regularly add new features for the same reason. I was a victim of the IT crisis last … Read more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is under fire from Senate Democrats following his recent decision to narrow the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) crypto enforcement priorities and disband its crypto enforcement squad. In a Thursday letter to Blanche, six Senate Democrats — Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I), … Read more
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Microsoft is starting to gradually roll out a preview of Recall, its feature that captures screenshots of what you do on a Copilot Plus PC to find again later, to Windows Insiders, according to a blog post published Thursday. This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft is finally getting close to launching Recall more widely. … Read more
At this time, it would be unusual for an industry not to have a place in the world of decentralized ledgers and cryptocurrencies. Everyone can offer something here. Memecoins, for instance, offer basically nothing besides fun, but we also have the other side of the coin with Real-World Assets (RWA) tokens and platforms. Just as … Read more
A growing number of Tesla owners are putting their used vehicles up for sale, as consumers react to Elon Musk’s political activities and the global protests they have fueled. In March, the number of used Tesla vehicles listed for sale on Autotrader.com skyrocketed, Sherwood News reported, citing data from Autotrader parent company Cox Automotive. The … Read more
US President Donald Trump on April 10 signed a joint Congressional resolution overturning a Biden-era rule that requires decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to report to the country’s tax authority, the Internal Revenue Service. The rule would have required DeFi platforms, such as decentralized exchanges, to file their gross proceeds from crypto sales and include information on those … Read more
Go 1.24 enhances its WebAssembly (Wasm) capabilities with the addition of the go:wasmexport directive and the ability to build a reactor for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). These features enable Go developers to export Go functions to Wasm, facilitating better integration with Wasm hosts and expanding the possibilities for Go-based Wasm applications. WebAssembly and the WebAssembly … Read more
The fallen founder of the FTX exchange has been incarcerated at the brutal Victorville medium security facility in Victorville, California.
With a signature from President Donald Trump, the decentralized financial (DeFi) corner of the crypto sector is now freed from U.S. Internal Revenue Service demands that such platforms be treated as brokers and required to track and report user activity. That narrowly focused IRS rule, approved in the final days of former President Joe Biden’s … Read more
The Biden-era rule would have obligated DeFi platforms to comply with tax reporting requirements designed for brokers.
Hi readers, I hope you’re well! I’m investigative reporter Malena Carollo, and I’m back to talk with you about an unexpected space where technology is central: the multi-level marketing world. For the uninitiated, multi-level marketing companies are businesses that sell goods or services to customers through salespeople who also recruit new members to join. You … Read more
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Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management team meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said the company has a customer join for the first 30 minutes of the meeting, which is … Read more
In this edition of Behind the Startup, Ishan Pandey sits down with Sam Green, co-founder of Cambrian Network, to explore how verifiable blockchain data is becoming the lifeblood of agentic DeFi. From his early work at Sandia National Labs to building Odos and Semiotic Labs, Sam brings a rare blend of cryptographic research, protocol-level thinking, … Read more
📰 How Did Bybit Recover So Quickly After a Major Hack? When a major cryptocurrency exchange faces a hack, the aftermath can often last for months, if not years. So how did Bybit—the world’s second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume—manage to regain market confidence and recover trading volume within weeks? A new report by digital … Read more
Bluesky is updating its app to version 1.100, and the update includes a more comprehensive search page and new chat reactions. The search page is now known as âExplore,â where you can find trending topics, suggested accounts, and starter packs to jump-start stuff for you to follow on the app. This new Explore page still … Read more
Nova Labs, the parent company behind the Helium blockchain, has agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $200,000 to settle civil securities fraud charges the regulator filed against the firm in January, a court filing said Thursday. Without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, Nova Labs agreed to pay the fine to settle … Read more
A CryptoPunks NFT just sold for $6 million—but the very same Ethereum asset traded hands for $16 million one year ago.