The day before several major tech leaders appeared before Congress, begging for ways to get more energy for the nascent American artificial intelligence industry, Donald Trump signed an executive order offering a solution: increased coal production. As part of a series of executive orders released Tuesday designed to promote the rapid growth of the coal … Read more
When my startup CEO friend Michelle (who wished to remain anonymous) launched her SaaS platform in 2023, she immediately sought venture capital. It seemed like the obvious path: raise funds, grow fast, raise more. Two years later, she’s building her second startup with a completely different approach: bootstrapping. “I’m not alone,” she tells me. “A … Read more
Ukraine’s top financial regulator is floating the idea of taxing cryptocurrency as personal income, with possible carveouts for certain foreign asset-backed stablecoins, under a newly proposed taxation matrix published on Tuesday. In a translated letter introducing the potential new approach, Ruslan Magomedov, head of Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock Market Commission, said that effective tax … Read more
XRP (XRP) price is up 13% on the day, trading above the $2 level after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on all reciprocal tariffs, except for China, which saw an additional 125% hike in response to their counter-tariffs against the US. XRP’s rally comes on the heels of additional positive news and the … Read more
Thanks to Framework, one of the most transparent computer companies out there, we now have a sterling example of just how ridiculous President Donald Trump’s tariffs can make life in the year 2025. Today, the company made all of its computers more expensive. Then, it almost immediately reversed that to bring its computers back to … Read more
Legendary professional wrestler Ric Flair launched a tokenized sticker collection on Telegram on April 9, becoming the latest celebrity to launch a tokenized social project. Spokespeople for the project told Cointelegraph they are considering rewarding early sticker holders with future perks, though no specifics were shared. Flair told Cointelegraph that the project was launched to … Read more
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Under far heavier pressure than the rather modest decline in bitcoin (BTC) over the past few days would suggest, crypto stocks are posting outsized gains as markets surge higher on the Trump tariff pause. Among the movers are Strategy (MSTR), which rose 25%, while Coinbase (COIN) climbed 21%. Marathon Digital (MARA) and Riot Platforms (RIOT) … Read more
More Gemini in more places. Were you clamoring for two AI-generated podcast hosts to talk through the key points of your document before you send it to your boss? No? Well, you’re getting it anyway. Google has announced new Gemini features coming to Workspace apps, including NotebookLM-style AI podcasts integrated right into Google Docs. There’s … Read more
The Trump administration’s friendliness toward the crypto sector is going to deeply change the bitcoin (BTC) lending market over the next four years. That’s according to Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, co-founder of Ledn, a firm that specializes in providing digital asset loans. “You’re going to see a Cambrian explosion of bitcoin-backed loans, because the rates are … Read more
OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is using Google Cloud’s TPU chips to power its AI research, part of a new partnership the companies announced on Wednesday in a press release. Google Cloud says SSI is using TPUs to “accelerate its research and development efforts toward building … Read more
Altcoins like DOGE and XRP are ripping higher after President Trump put a 90-day pause on most of his “reciprocal” tariffs.
The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the judge overseeing the case. After evaluating a number of limited objections to the sale, Judge Brendan Shannon said in a hearing Wednesday he believes the process was fair, and that no one else but Canoo CEO Anthony Aquila made … Read more
President Trump’s administration wants a weaker dollar and that’s bullish for bitcoin (BTC), asset manager Bitwise said in a report Tuesday. “When it comes to the tariff push, the thing i’m most certain of is this: the Trump administration wants a significantly weaker dollar,” wrote Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise. After a week … Read more
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President Donald Trumpâs latest round of tariffs â including a now 125 percent levy on Chinese imports â will hit the smart home industry hard. Many smart home device makers are already struggling, thanks, in part, to Trumpâs first round of tariffs. Increased competition from budget smart home companies largely based in China has also … Read more
The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. We’re Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler, reporters on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: EigenLayer Finally Ready To Launch Critical Missing Feature RootstockLabs Prepares To Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX Inside North Korea’s Favorite Crypto Laundering … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures market reflects a possible price cooldown after the cryptocurrency’s multiple weeks of correction. Data from CryptoQuant indicated that the BTC-USDT futures leverage ratio with respect to open interest (OI) has halved since peaking in early 2025. Bitcoin estimated futures leveraged ratio. Source: CryptoQuant This significant de-leveraging has occurred because of massive liquidations … Read more
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New York’s A-list venture capital seed fund, Lerer Hippeau, announced on Wednesday that it closed a ninth $200 million fund. That’s a step up from its eighth fund, which closed at $140 million, it said. With the new fund, Lerer Hippeau has $1.4 billion of assets under management. Since its inception in 2010, Lerer Hippeau … Read more
TP-Link’s Tapo D225 Video Doorbell Camera comes with perks like free local recording. One of our favorite doorbells, TP-Link’s Tapo D225 Video Doorbell Camera, is on sale for just $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon. That’s a buck shy of its best price. A lot of video doorbells come with extra hidden subscription fees if you want … Read more
Major NFT marketplace Magic Eden is acquiring mobile trading app Slingshot Finance in an embrace of fungible token trading.
Cryptocurrencies jumped on Wednesday on news that Donald Trump stepped back some tariff burdens on countries — except for China. According to Trump’s post on Truth Social, he issued a 90-day delay on tariffs and a substantially lowered 10% rate of reciprocal tariff for this period against all countries except China. Meanwhile, he said he … Read more