Month: June 2025
Global Ledger detects $15M of Garantex assets flowing despite Tether’s freeze
The situation involving Garantex “undermines the illusion of control that many still cling to,” according to Global Ledger co-founder and CEO Lex Fisun.
PTSD-Afflicted Crypto Investors Hit the Sell Button After Circle’s Euphoric IPO
Is it 2021 all over again? Circle (CRCL) debuted to wild upside action on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, its shares more than tripling from the IPO price of $31. The event was the culmination of a long journey for the USDC stablecoin issuer, which had been pursuing an IPO for several years. … Read more
Trump Media Gets Closer to Truth Social Bitcoin ETF Debut With SEC Filing
Yorkville America Digital, the same company through which the Trump Media & Technology Group and Crypto.com plan to debut a suite of “America first” funds, will manage the Bitcoin ETF.
Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control
Bonfire’s mission is to build social software where people get to make the decisions, not big tech platform makers like Meta or Google.
Snapchat is now on the Apple Watch
Snapchat’s Apple Watch app offers basic messaging functionality. | Image: Snapchat What’s Snapchat without the ability to snap and send photos to your friends? It’s the social platform’s new Apple Watch app that instead provides a quick way to preview messages and reply right from your wrist. Joining mobile and web-based versions of Snapchat, the … Read more
Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use
Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude Gov, its product designed specifically for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. The AI models have looser guardrails for government use and are trained to better analyze classified information. The company said the models it’s announcing “are already deployed by agencies at the highest level of U.S. national security,” and that … Read more
X tests highlighting posts that are liked by users with opposing views
X says that this feedback will help develop an open source algorithm that can identify posts liked by people with different perspectives.
UNI Slumps Below $6.21 as Rejection at $6.44 Triggers Fresh Sell-Off
Uniswap’s UNI token has come under renewed pressure as early gains unraveled, sending prices below the critical $6.22 support zone. The day began with a sharp rally that pushed UNI to an intraday high of $6.44, but strong selling emerged shortly after, erasing the advance. The shift in market structure comes amid broader uncertainty tied … Read more
Lummis: Fed confirmation signals ’brighter future for digital assets’
Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis was one of the few voices in Congress tying Michelle Bowman’s confirmation to a win for cryptocurrency policies.
PSA: Target will open online orders for the Switch 2 on June 6th
Depending on where you are in the US, it hasn’t been easy to grab a Nintendo Switch 2 (though, our own David Pierce would disagree). In-store and online stock has sold out at most participating retailers, but Target is offering another opportunity, specifically for online shoppers, starting in the “early morning” hours of June 6th. … Read more
ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]
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This OR That: Crypto Edition
Decrypt’s Ryan S. Gladwin went to Token2049 in Dubai to ask the Crypto world to choose either “this” or “that” for some of the industries most popular coins, tokens and assets
Romania's postal service installs first Bitcoin ATM
Installing Bitcoin ATMs inside post office locations is part of a broader push to modernize Romania’s postal service with digital tech.
Google says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at coding
Google says the update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model is better at certain programming tasks and builds on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro the company announced around a month ago.
X’s new policy prevents companies from using posts to ‘fine-tune or train’ AI models
X has updated its developer agreement to add a new restriction on using posts on the platform to train AI. The updated policy, spotted earlier by TechCrunch, says developers can’t use content from X or its API to “fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model.” The policy change could set up X to make … Read more
LLM Security: A Practical Overview of the Protective Measures Needed
About Me I’m an AI security engineer at a company developing AI Agents. With 3 years of specialized experience in AI security and 5 years in the broader cybersecurity field, I’ve built secure and confidential AI inference and training infrastructures, developed AI BOM software, and implemented various security solutions. In this post, I’ll share a … Read more
Apple says 82% of compatible iPhones are running iOS 18
Apple said on Thursday that more than 82% of compatible iPhones are running the latest version of its smartphone operating system, iOS 18.
Inside Ethereum’s big pivot: Can the 'digital oil' sustain the rally?
Ethereum OG Ryan Berckmans explains Ethereum’s new strategy and what it could mean for ETH’s future price action.
Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Of all the many ways Microsoft could mark its 50th anniversary, I wasn’t expecting the software maker to launch a magazine. “It’s our answer to a timely question: How do we earn trust and hold attention in an age of scroll and skim? How do we create Signal in a world of noise?” asks Frank … Read more
USDC Issuer Circle Halted on NYSE Debut as CRCL Triples IPO Price
Trading of CRCL shares was almost immediately halted on NYSE as the stock tripled the company’s IPO price.