Month: June 2025
State of Crypto: How Crypto Legislation Is Advancing
The House Financial Services Committee might mark up market structure legislation next week, while the Senate seems close to passing its stablecoin bill. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Legislative moves The narrative Here’s what’s clear: There … Read more
What was Radiant AI, anyway?
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There are only two commissioners left at the FCC
Chairman Brendan Carr and Democratic commissioner Anna Gomez are the last remaining members of the panel. After the departure of one Republican and one Democratic commissioner on Friday, the Federal Communications Commission is down to two members, falling below the quorum threshold for what’s typically a five-person panel. Commissioners Nathan Simington and Geoffrey Starks stepped … Read more
Bitcoin DeFi platform Alex Protocol loses $8.3M to exploit
Alex Lab Foundation said it will fully reimburse users affected by the $8.3 million exploit, with compensation issued in USDC following a structured claims process.
eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families: Here’s How
Since the Israel–Hamas war began in early October, Farid Sami Alzaro, 27, has had little control over how and when he can communicate with his family. Alzaro lives in Cairo, and his extended family lives in Gaza. The ability to make phone calls or connect to the Internet has been severely interrupted in Gaza since … Read more
Uber Just Reinvented the Bus Again
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Why We’re Moving on from Nix
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Musician made $3M selling NFTs and lost it all to taxes and a crypto crash
After earning $3 million from NFT sales, Jonathan Mann watched it vanish in a crash, and now he’s turned the ordeal into a painfully honest crypto tax tune.
Singapore’s ousted crypto firms may not find shelter elsewhere
Singapore’s ousting of unlicensed firms was not a sudden move and it’s among several regions tightening licensing duties.
TMNT: Tactical Takedown is a radical twist on turn-based strategy
I usually struggle with strategy games. They’re typically too hard for me, and I often get overwhelmed at managing multiple characters or squads. But I couldn’t put down Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, which blends ideas from strategy games and classic TMNT arcade games to keep things snappy, easy to play, and full of … Read more
Trump touts memecoin as sentiment gauge as $520M unlock nears
Trump seems to recognize his official memecoin, down 85% from its all-time high, as a tool to measure public sentiment.
Low-Level Optimization with Zig
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Spot Ether ETFs 15-day inflow streak accumulates $837.5M inflows
The current streak of three consecutive trading weeks of inflows has accounted for approximately 25% of the total net inflows since the spot Ether ETFs launched in July 2024.
The TechBeat: Trump’s “Big Bill” and AI “License to Kill” (6/7/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## You Are Not Your Startup, Your Startup is Not You By @drewchapin [ 3 Min read ] About the psychological trap … Read more
‘Full porting Bitcoin’ could be Musk's Trump card in feud: Bitcoiners
JAN3 founder Samson Mow says Elon Musk should go all in on Bitcoin before “they freeze his fiat assets.”