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Month: August 2025
Market Rallies as Trump Opens 401(k) Floodgates: Crypto Daybook Americas
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Crypto markets rallied in the past 24 hours, with the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index rising 5.3% as fresh U.S. policy signals and regulatory clarity supported risk appetite across the sector. Bitcoin (BTC) gained a relatively muted 1.3% to $116,500. The rally took off after President Donald … Read more
Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D feature is great for Ikea, bad for my dog
Is that a back penis? While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI’s new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It’s a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. … Read more
Dogwifhat Knitted Hat Sells for $800,000 to Founder of Meme Coin Launchpad
Bags Wif Hat? The founder of a rising token launchpad bought a meme coin-linked knitted hat for nearly $800,000—here’s why.
XRP Leads Double Digit Altcoin Rally as Cardano, Chainlink and SUI Surge
XRP spikes 10%, XLM and LINK follow with double-digit rallies as Ripple’s multi-year battle with the SEC ends.
Sony insists Xperia phones are ‘very important’ to it
This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems. CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and … Read more
Binance taps Spain’s BBVA to offer safer crypto custody post-FTX: FT
As trust in crypto exchanges remains low, Binance’s new custody deal with BBVA marks a shift toward traditional finance safeguards.
Binance Taps Spain’s Second-Largest Bank BBVA to Hold Trader Margin in Treasuries
The world’s largest crypto exchange has turned to BBVA in a bid to rebuild trust and limit counterparty risk.
Hong Kong’s IVD Medical Adds $19M Ether to Its Treasury
Another Hong Kong company is adding crypto to its treasury, but it wants to do more than passively hold it. IVD Medical Holdings has purchased $19 million (HK$149 million) of ether (ETH), positioning the asset at the center of its real-world asset tokenization strategy. The company is building ivd.xyz, a platform for tokenizing pharmaceutical intellectual … Read more
Worldcoin Rival Humanity Protocol Debuts $1.1B Mainnet for Privacy-First Web2 to Web3 Identity
Humanity Protocol, a privacy-first blockchain identity network and high-profile rival to Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, fired up its mainnet, debuting a system that connects familiar Web2 credentials to decentralized Web3 services using zero-knowledge transport layer security (zkTLS). The introduction comes just months after the Hong Kong-based startup raised $20 million in a funding round co-led by … Read more
Bitcoin Energy Value metric says 'fair' BTC price is as much as $167K
Bitcoin is 31% undervalued vs its energy-based “fair” price, analysis calculates, as hash rate beats records.
Animoca and Standard Chartered form stablecoin venture in Hong Kong
Standard Chartered’s Hong Kong arm and Animoca Brands have launched a joint venture, Anchorpoint Financial, to develop a licensed Hong Kong dollar stablecoin.
Animoca Brands and Standard Chartered Establish Stablecoin Issuer in Hong Kong
Major Web3 investor Animoca Brands has formed a stablecoin joint venture (JV) with the Hong Kong division of multinational bank Standard Chartered (2888). The JV, known as Anchorpoint, also includes Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) and aims to build a business model for the issuance of licensed stablecoins, according to an emailed announcement on Friday. Anchorpoint … Read more
Spanish Bank BBVA Said to Offer Off-Exchange Custody to Binance Customers: FT
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume traded, enlisted Spain’s third-largest bank, BBVA, to provide custody services as it looks to improve protection for customers by isolating their assets from any disruption that might occur to the trading platform, the Financial Times reported. The custody arrangement separates trading activities from the funds backing the transactions … Read more
Jeff Atwood on Writing, Optimism, and Fixing the Internet
Face it: you’re not writing enough. So following up on writethat.blog and Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read, we’re sharing the perspectives of expert tech bloggers: why they write, how they tackle writing challenges, and their lessons learned. This time, we’re featuring Jeff Atwood. How do you introduce Jeff Atwood? 😅 If you don’t immediately recognize his name, … Read more
Pump.fun Creates Liquidity Arm to Back Memecoins Amid Revenue Slump
Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun has created the Glass Full Foundation, an initiative aimed at providing liquidity to selected projects in its ecosystem as platform revenues slide from early-year highs. The group said GFF will “inject significant liquidity into ecosystem tokens to support our most diehard cults,” without disclosing the source of funds or the selection … Read more
Setting Up Pi Zero for Pi-Fi Hacking
In the last blog, we got an overview of Wi-Fi security protocols. To summarize: With the Wi-Fi security fundamentals covered, we are ready to get our hands dirty… :::warning Disclaimer: Everything shown in this blog was performed within legal boundaries and with full authorization from the network owner. This content is strictly for educational purposes. … Read more
AI and the Prospect of a Post-Big Tech Internet
This post is the first in a series where I explore whether emerging technologies can fix the broken internet. It all started with a simple question: Why do I find myself rooting so strongly for AI to disrupt the current status quo in tech? I think it’s because Big Tech giants have become cumbersome monopolists, … Read more
Streamlining Go Concurrency Using a Worker Pool
So you’ve learned everything about Go’s goroutines and channels, and you’re excited to dive into concurrent programming. But wait! Before you start spawning thousands of goroutines, let’s take a step back and understand how to do this efficiently. In this article, we’ll explore the concept of a worker pool and how it can help you … Read more
The Highs and Lows of My First Real Startup, CoLaunchly
I never thought I’d write a post like this. But here we are. This is the story of my first real startup. It’s called CoLaunchly. A tool I built to help devs like me actually market their apps instead of letting them die in silence. Let’s rewind a bit. 🤯 Why I Built It The … Read more
MariaDB Kubernetes Operator 25.08.0 Adds AI Vector Support and Disaster Recovery Enhancements
The latest MariaDB Kubernetes Operator release, version 25.08.0, is now available. This ships with enhancements, especially in how you can approach disaster recovery in MariaDB clusters, and how the Operator is adapting to the requirements of modern data-centric applications. Disaster Recovery with Physical Backups One of the main features in 25.08.0 is the introduction of … Read more
15 Core Ideas Shaping the Future of AI—and Why They Matter Today
Popular imagination is currently framing The Future as an inexorable, relentless march towards the age of Skynet, Hal 9000 and R2-D2. The reality is both subtler and more demanding. While today’s headlines are filled with dreams of Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Super-Intelligence, little is being said on the subtle balance of continuous technological evolution needed to … Read more
A Guide to OpenTelemetry Tracing for the JVM
You may know I’m a big fan of OpenTelemetry. I recently finished developing a master class for the YOW! conference at the end of the year. During development, I noticed massive differences in configuration and results across programming languages. Even worse, differences exist across frameworks inside the same programming language. In this post, I want … Read more
Why Your Digital Product Isn’t Selling (And How to Turn That Around)
Struggling to sell your digital products? Discover why they are not moving and proven steps to turn browsers into loyal buyers.
8 Mobile App Retention Strategies
This article shares eight things that work from onboarding and progress loops to identity and timing. Simple ideas, grounded in real experience.
Tap to Morse Key, an App that Makes It Easier for People With Disabilities to Communicate
A simple communication tool built with the help of AI to solve the problems of people that can’t communicate.