Month: August 2025
Morning Minute: Trump Family Expands Crypto Empire With CRO
And the market has liked it, with CRO jumping 160% on the news; plus crypto majors extend rally after NVDA shares positive earnings
Chainlink to Provide U.S. Department of Commerce Data On-Chain for Smart Contract Use
The native token of the Chainlink network, LINK, surged more than 5% after the network announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce to bring official government economic data onchain, marking a first-of-its-kind effort to bridge public data infrastructure with blockchain applications. Key macroeconomic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis — such as … Read more
Investors are loving Lovable
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.
AI hires or human hustle? Inside the next frontier of startup operations at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents.
My gaming buddy
One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, … Read more
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Philippine lawmaker to propose putting government budget on blockchain
Philippine Senator Bam Aquino plans to file a bill to put the country’s national budget on a blockchain for greater transparency and accountability.
Bitcoin megaphone pattern targets $260K as BTC price screams ‘oversold’
Bitcoin’s price deviates 12% from its all-time high, but an oversold STH MVRV metric could trigger a breakout toward $260,000.
Bitcoin Undervalued Versus Gold as Volatility Collapses, JPMorgan Says
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading too cheap relative to gold as its volatility falls to historic lows, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Thursday. The bank highlighted that bitcoin’s six-month rolling volatility has dropped from nearly 60% at the start of the year to about 30% today, the lowest on record. With … Read more
You call that decentralized? Layer 2s are destroying crypto
Rollup-based layer 2s destroy crypto’s trustless nature through centralized sequencers that control inclusion, ordering and execution of transactions.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Solana (SOL) Rises 2.9%, as Index Climbs Higher
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4184.47, up 0.9% (+38.32) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Fifteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+2.9%) and DOT (+2.8%). Laggards: LINK (-1.3%) and AAVE … Read more
ETHEREUM IS SENDING! IS SOLANA NEXT?
SOL leads bounce back in crypto majors. HYPE hits $50, trading volume flips Robinhood. KindlyMD to raise $5bn equity to buy BTC. Sharplink bought $252m ETH. US economic data to be published onchain. 82% of US investors don’t yet own crypto. Trump Media, Cryptocom launches $1b CRO DAT. MetaMask introduces social login feature. BTC 2-week … Read more
Blockchain tokenization prevents 394M tons of CO₂ in $32B ESG effort
The record ESG-aligned tokenization efforts will prevent emissions that are about 105 times the yearly CO₂ emissions of Iceland.
Jump Trading Alums Raise $20M for aPriori to Bring High-Frequency Trading Tools On-Chain
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL AUG 28 9AM ET A group of former Jump Trading, Coinbase (COIN) and Citadel Securities engineers said it raised $20 million in new funding for trading infrastructure startup aPriori, bringing the total capital raised to $30 million. The round included participation from HashKey Capital, Pantera Capital, Primitive Ventures, IMC Trading, GEM, Gate … Read more
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI
Whether AI is a bubble or not, it’s helping some small businesses save real money. Here’s how one has cautiously approached adoption.
The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding to follow the musicians’ example. More recently, some users have threatened to bail after CEO Daniel Ek invested in … Read more
ChargePoint’s new megawatt EV chargers could level the playing field with China
ChargePoint is ramping up the power for its next-generation DC fast charging architecture to 600 kW for passenger vehicles, and up to 3.75 megawatts (3,750 kW) for heavy-duty trucks — enough to power an entire football stadium. Most EVs on the road aren’t able to accept more than 350 kW of power while charging, but … Read more
Animoca’s Sandbox overhauls as co-founders confirm new strategic roles
The Sandbox co-founders, Arthur Madrid and Sebastien Borget, have transitioned to new strategic roles amid an ongoing business optimization, Borget told Cointelegraph.
MagSafe PopSockets have come for your Kindle
You can now add swappable magnetic PopSocket grips to Kindle e-readers without undertaking any DIY hacks. PopSocket has launched new PopCase Kindle cases that come with a built-in MagSafe ring, optimally positioned for hand placement and weight management when a MagSafe-compatible PopGrip is attached. The $40 cases are available for 11th and 12th-generation Kindles in … Read more