Month: April 2025

Why Dymension’s ‘Beyond’ Upgrade Could Change Rollup Settlement Forever

by

Can a Single Settlement Layer Power Rollups Across Ethereum, Solana, and Any L1? The blockchain ecosystem has long grappled with fragmentation, each layer-1 chain building its own scaling solutions, often with incompatible technologies. But what if rollups could settle on any base chain without modifying it? Dymension, a modular blockchain project, is positioning itself as … Read more

Prediction Markets Traders Bet Big on Easy Liberal Win as Canadians Head to the Polls

by

Political bettors on Polymarket and other platforms are paying attention to Canada as the nation heads to the polls. As the country’s 45th election comes to a close, a contract asking bettors to predict who will be Canada’s next Prime Minister gives the Liberal Party’s Mark Carney a 78% chance, and the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre … Read more

Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips

by

Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with the promise of solving complex problems beyond classical computers’ reach. The problems in question are wide-ranging, from medicine and cybersecurity to materials science and chemistry. But first, there are very practical … Read more

IBM pledges to spend $150B in the US over the next few years

by

Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a “more than” $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and “accelerate [IBM’s] role as the global leader in computing,” the company said in a press release Monday. … Read more

Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine

by

In less than 100 days the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been converted from a media and telecom watchdog into a bizarre, rights-trampling grievance machine built for one purpose: to coddle and protect the ego of President Donald J. Trump. Gone is the agency that used to occasionally care about whether broadband maps were accurate … Read more

Bitcoin could hit $210K in 2025, says Presto research head

by

Peter Chung, head of research at quantitative trading firm Presto, has repeated his prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will reach $210,000 by the end of 2025. In an April 28 interview with CNBC, Chung cited institutional adoption and global liquidity expansion as the primary drivers behind his long-term bullish outlook. The analyst acknowledged that market conditions … Read more

Meet The Open Hardware Startup Backed by $50 Million from Vitalik Buterin

by

I first came across OpenWater’s technology around 2018, through a TED talk by the company’s founder, Mary Lou Jepsen. At the time, I was deeply interested in how a direct connection could be established between the human brain and computers. When it comes to brain-computer interfaces, most people probably think first of Elon Musk’s Neuralink. … Read more

How I Met My Cofounder (Spoiler: It Took 4 Attempts)

by

By most estimates, around 65% of startups that could’ve been great end up crashing because the founders fall out. Which leads us to a logical conclusion: picking “whoever says yes” as your co-founder ain’t really a winning strategy. At least statistically. An obvious alternative is to build solo. Which can be either brilliant or disastrous … Read more

Why do crypto bros like freedom cities?

by

When Donald Trump was running for president, he pledged to build 10 new US cities, dubbed “freedom cities,” from scratch, designed to improve the quality of life for Americans.  These new high-tech communities were to be created on public land, and they were going to be free of the “nightmare of red tape,” including lengthy … Read more

Elon Musk’s DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

by

Elon Musk’s expansive portfolio of companies could avoid more than $2.37 billion in potential legal liability due to his unprecedented influence over the US government, a new Senate report finds. The figure comes from a report assembled by Democratic staff for the Senate Homeland Security permanent subcommittee on investigations (PSI) probing the impact of Musk’s … Read more

Skin Deep makes immersive sims messy and manic

by

Squidge, splodge, splat: Skin Deep doesn’t sound like most immersive sims. It doesn’t sound like most video games. Close your eyes and what it aurally resembles is a slapstick cartoon with a healthy dollop of toilet humor. These sounds, though, bookend chains of effects that are pure video game magic. Take the splodge, produced when … Read more

Ethereum Could Supercharge Transaction Speed to 2,000 TPS Thanks to Bold New Proposal

by

Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist on Sunday filed the Ethereum Improvement Proposal 9698, a plan to let the blockchain’s gas limit grow on autopilot over the next four years. Feist is best known in crypto circles for his efforts in scaling the Ethereum network. The “danksharding” element of the network’s Dencun update was named after … Read more

Strategy added 15,355 Bitcoin for $1.42B as price surged above $90K

by

Michael Saylor’s Strategy added to its massive Bitcoin stash last week as the cryptocurrency surged above $90,000. In an April 28 announcement, Strategy reported acquiring 15,355 Bitcoin (BTC) between April 21 and 27. The latest purchases cost Strategy $1.42 billion at an average price of $92,737 per BTC, increasing the company’s aggregate BTC holdings by … Read more