Month: June 2025
Myriad Moves: Will Musk Kick Trump Off X? Plus Ethereum and French Open Predictions
Myriad Markets users are putting their money where their mouths are on the Musk/Trump schism, Ethereum’s price, the French Open, and beyond.
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A GameStop damaged Switch 2 screens with staples, but they’re getting replaced
Some people reported an unwelcome surprise after picking up their Nintendo Switch 2 preorders at GameStop: staples used to attach receipts to Switch 2 boxes ended up damaging the screens on the console, as reported by IGN. However, GameStop says this was an issue that was “isolated” to a single store and that it has … Read more
‘So Sad’: The Trump and Musk Break-Up, Tweet by Tweet
What happens when two of the most powerful people in the world have a messy split—and it all happens in public? Sweet, sweet calamity.
Cursor’s Anysphere nabs $9.9B valuation, soars past $500M ARR
Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by a returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and DST Global. The massive round is Anysphere’s third fundraise in less than a year. The three-year-old startup secured its … Read more
Maple Finance expands to Solana, deploys yield-bearing stablecoin
Maple’s expansion to Solana is powered by Chainlink’s CCIP, which allows data transfer between EVM and SVM ecosystems.
Trump Crypto Wallet Goes Dark Following Cease and Desist
The wallet, launched by Trump’s meme coin business partners, has faced pushback from his sons, who plan to launch a similar product.
Circle IPO soars giving hope to more startups waiting to go public
Circle, one of the world’s largest issuers of USDC, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar, ended its first trading day as a public company at $83.23 per share, 168% above its IPO price of $31 set the previous day. The IPO pop demonstrates public market investors’ interest in cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in particular amid … Read more
Institutional Bitcoin ETF holdings see first quarterly decline — Report
According to CoinShares, price depreciation, not selling pressure, was the main factor behind the drop in institutional BTC ETF exposure.
At Build 2025, GitHub Showcased Its Copilot Coding Agent
What Happened: GitHub’s Cloud-Based Agent Drafts PRs Autonomously GitHub announced a major new capability for Copilot: GitHub has unveiled a significant upgrade to Copilot during Microsoft Build 2025: a cloud-based coding agent capable of drafting and iterating on pull requests directly within GitHub. While previous Copilot experiences focused on in-editor assistance via VSCode, this new … Read more
Here are three new apps building out the open social web
For the past couple of years, the virtual FediForum conference has offered a glimpse at what’s new in the open social web, with last year’s big news being Threads’ foray into the fediverse. This year’s presentation was no different, with several developers showing off new apps that will help to expand the ecosystem of decentralized … Read more
After the Switch 2, there’s no going back to the old eShop
Ahead of the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch, Nintendo said that the eShop would be improved and run more smoothly on the new console. Based on our initial testing at The Verge, it’s immediately apparent that the Switch 2’s eShop is much better. On the original Switch, the eShop can be extremely sluggish. Even just moving … Read more
Why are Elon Musk and Donald Trump fighting?
Elon Musk donated $288 million to Trump’s 2024 election campaign, but now, the tech mogul is calling for Trump’s impeachment.
Senate Stablecoin Bill Likely to Win Massive Bipartisan Support, Dem Lawmaker Says
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As many as 16 Democrats may vote in favor of the Senate’s stablecoin bill when it gets to its final set of votes in the legislative body, Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego said Thursday. The “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025” (GENIUS) Act faced headwinds last month after Gallego … Read more
Bitcoin, Solana and Dogecoin Plunge as Circle Stock Surges After IPO
Bitcoin is back near $100K as major alts like Ethereum, Solana, and Dogecoin dive amid Trump and Musk drama—but Circle had a great day.
Circle stock price jumps 167% on first day of trading after IPO
Circle had boosted its IPO to a range of $1.05 billion on June 4 as investor demand grew significantly.
Europe will have to be more Tenacious to land its first rover on the Moon
Tenacious was set to become the first European-made rover to land on the Moon, but communications were lost with the lander that carried it.
‘They Make No Money’: Here’s What Tether’s CEO Had to Say About Circle Before Its Massive IPO
During an April interview, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino unloaded on competitor Circle and its big Wall Street plans—which culminated today, to massive success.
US, China Engaged in Nuclear Fusion Space Race
A high-stakes competition between the United States and China is taking place as we speak – but not on Earth. As part of the quest for nuclear fusion – the “holy grail” of clean energy – both countries seek to reach the Moon, where vast quantities of helium-3 sit just under the extraterrestrial surface. This … Read more
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Bitcoin Threatens $100K, Crypto Losses Grow as Musk/Trump Feud Goes Nuclear
The crypto market is getting redder by the minute as the spat between U.S. President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk intensifies. Late in the U.S. day, bitcoin BTC was down more than 4% to $100,500, threatening to dip back into five digits for the first time in a month. The CoinDesk 20 — … Read more