Stablecoin Platform M0 Raises $40 Million in Series B Round
The firm focuses on application-specific stablecoins.
Month: August 2025
Star Wars: Starfighter is going to be star-studded
Aaron Pierre at Vanity Fair & Instagram’s The 2025 Vanities Party Production on Star Wars: Starfighter officially began today, and Lucasfilm has finally confirmed the other actors who will be bringing the film to life alongside Ryan Gosling. Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars: Starfighters has added Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, … Read more
Solana vs. Bitcoin chart points to explosive SOL price breakout to $300
Altseason signals and $3 billion in new Solana treasury demand strengthen SOL’s bullish case, with $300 emerging as the next key technical target.
Threads tests a way to share long-form text on the platform
With this new feature, users can attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.
Bitcoin lending in 2025: What’s changed since the last collapse?
In this Cointelegraph video, we explore the comeback of crypto lending in 2025 — what’s changed since the 2022 collapse, and whether the risks are still the same.
PYTH goes parabolic as Trump admin taps blockchain oracles for data verification
PYTH surges 70% after the US government tapped Pyth Network and Chainlink to help publish official economic data on multiple blockchains.
Battlefield 6 PC requirements are pretty chill — if you don’t mind 30fps
EA is promising Battlefield 6 will offer “the best PC experience in the history of the franchise,” including 4K resolution, 21:9 and 32:9 ultrawide monitors, HDR, uncapped framerates, both PS5 and Xbox gamepad support on PC, the ability to create and browse servers, streamer and incognito modes, and more — but it won’t require powerful … Read more
BONK Jumps 4% as Institutional Activity Signals Growing Solana Confidence
BONK, the Solana-based meme token, advanced 4% in the last 24 hours, reaching $0.0000218 before settling around $0.0000213. The strongest push came at 19:00 UTC on Wednesday, when BONK jumped 1.9% from $0.0000211 to $0.0000215, propelled by a 574.8 billion-token volume spike. Sellers capped momentum at $0.0000215, yet support consistently re-emerged near $0.0000212, reinforcing the … Read more
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Bitcoin, Solana Rise as Investors Weigh Nvidia Earnings, Strong GDP Data
The chipmaker has an 8.8% weighting in the S&P 500.
Fubo Sports is a $55.99 / month streaming bundle made for watching football
Fubo is launching a new Sports plan on September 2nd that costs $55.99 per month and comes with over 20 live sports and news-focused channels, including the ESPN and Fox Sports channels, as well as local stations owned by ABC, CBS, and Fox. Where available, this package includes coverage for network TV-broadcast pro and college … Read more
ICP Climbs 3% as Interest in Altcoins Gains Momentum
Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) demonstrated resilience during the last 24 hours, staging a rally that lifted the token nearly 3% to $5.13. The move capped a V-shaped recovery that began with an overnight retreat to support levels around $4.98, where a high volume of buying activity took hold, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis data … Read more
Kobo replaces Pocket with Instapaper on its e-readers in a free update
A big draw of Kobo e-readers has always been Pocket integration. But, when Mozilla announced in late May that it was shutting down the read-it-later app in July, the Kobo community was left in a bit of a lurch. To the company’s credit, in late July, it announced that it would be replacing Pocket with … Read more
Stellar Rebounds 3% on Institutional Interest as Blockchain Payments Gain Traction
Stellar’s native token, Lumens (XLM), showed sharp intraday volatility over the past 24 hours, with prices fluctuating between $0.38 and $0.39 — a 3% swing. After sliding from $0.39 to $0.38 on the evening of Aug. 27, XLM found firm support at the lower bound, where trading volumes surged above the daily average of 25.4 … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Wikipedia Rules Everything Around Me (8/28/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 28, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The End of AppleTalk in 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation Was Established in 1937, First Issue of Scientific American hit the newsstands in 1845, and we present you with … Read more
MathGPT.AI, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions
MathGPT AI, a tutor and teaching assistant that helps students learn, expands to over 50 institutions
Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts
Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out. It’s also extending its data retention policy to five years – again, for users that don’t choose to opt out. All users will have to make a decision by September 28th. For … Read more
Kirby’s new Switch 2 expansion adds just the right amount of challenge
So I heard you want to play Kirby on hard mode: tough bosses, tricky platforming, complicated puzzles, hidden collectibles, and maybe even punishments for failing. The Star-Crossed World expansion in Kirby and the Forgotten Land‘s Switch 2 edition certainly introduces new challenges. There’s pressure from time constraints and consecutive platforming sequences, multistep puzzles, and bosses … Read more
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Trump-Backed Bitcoin Miner American Bitcoin Targets September Nasdaq Debut
American Bitcoin, the bitcoin (BTC) miner 20% owned by two of President Donald Trump’s sons, plans to list on the Nasdaq in September, said Asher Genoot, the CEO of Hut 8, which owns the other 80%. The firm is finalizing a merger with Gryphon Digital Mining that will clear the way for its public debut, … Read more
US Commerce Dept. Puts GDP Data on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Blockchains
The federal government has also teamed with Chainlink and Pyth to integrate U.S. macroeconomic data with the DeFi ecosystem.