The Internet Facebook, ChatGPT, Tiktok & Google Don’t Want You To See

You’re imprisoned by big tech companies… but Web3 is your escape. For every action you make on the internet, your footprints are created. These footprints are your data. How they are used is beyond your control. This rules out the ethics of decentralization which values privacy and control. Instead, the internet operates a capitalist economy … Read more

Katana Mainnet Goes Live as Pre-Deposits Hit $180M

Self described ‘DeFi-first’ layer-2 blockchain Katana has launched its mainnet after receiving $180 million in pre-deposits. Deposits flooded in after Katana was revealed to the public less than a month ago. DefiLlama data shows that deposited jumped from $75M to $180M between June 1 Depositors will receive randomized reward NFTs called Krates, as well as … Read more

Why Are There No Big DApps on Ethereum?

On July 30, 2025, we will be celebrating a decade since Ethereum launched on mainnet. Inarguably, one of the biggest milestones in this industry’s short life. When it launched as the world’s first smart contract platform, this was obviously something entirely new and a completely new way of thinking about software. Instead of renting access … Read more

Google Calendar now has an Apple Watch app

Google’s watchOS Calendar app isn’t as robust as the Apple Watch’s native one. | Image: Apple After retreating from watchOS several years ago, Google now only offers a handful of apps for the Apple Watch. That list is expanding to four in total with the launch of a new Google Calendar app rolling out alongside … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Path to a Real Decentralized Order Book Protocol (6/30/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 30, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, London Launched the First Emergency Phone Service in 1937, Germany’s Heinkel He 176 Took Its Maiden Flight in 1939, Mike Tyson Was Born in 1966, and we present … Read more

Industry’s PAC Keeps Seeking to Add Allies as Congress Hashes Out Crypto Legislation

The crypto industry’s political-finance arm, the towering campaign-funding entity known as Fairshake, dropped another $1 million into the coffers of a special-election candidate hoping to replace a Virginia Democrat who died in office, Representative Gerald Connolly. The candidate favored by the industry’s chief political action committee, James Walkinshaw, won the Democrats’ so-called firehouse primary over … Read more

XRPL EVM Sidechain Goes Live, Unlocking Ethereum Dapps in XRP Ecosystem

Ripple officially introduced the XRP Ledger’s Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain to the mainnet in an bid to improve the ecosystem’s interoperability and allow developers to deploy their Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dapps) with the XRPL. The development adds EVM-compatible smart contracts while maintaining a connection to the XRPL, giving developers access to the ecosystem at … Read more