Tether, Circle to meet top South Korean Bank execs: Report
Tether and Circle are set to meet with the CEOs of South Korea’s four largest banks this week to discuss potential partnerships.
Tether and Circle are set to meet with the CEOs of South Korea’s four largest banks this week to discuss potential partnerships.
StrictlyVC is back at TechCrunch Disrupt in October, bringing together the insiders who shape the venture capital landscape, this time with a sharper focus on the market’s biggest challenge: liquidity. In an era of extended exit timelines, slowed distributions, and increasingly selective LPs, the conversations behind closed doors matter more than ever. Working with Cendana … Read more
What if startups raised less VC money and became self-sustaining? SecurityPal founder Pukar Hamal has done that and wants founders to know their options.
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem … Read more
Data provider RedStone has released a new report on Hyperliquid, the decentralized perpetuals exchange that has quickly become the category leader. In just a year, Hyperliquid has grown to capture more than 80% of the decentralized perps market, with daily trading volumes now topping $30 billion, rivaling some of the largest centralized exchanges, according to … Read more
Senior Principal Engineer Ramkinker Singh built an automated SSL certificate system securing 10,000+ VMs across multi-cloud environments. His solution enables dynamic provisioning, automated lifecycle management, and seamless tenant onboarding while improving security visibility. Recognized with rapid career growth, his innovation sets a benchmark for enterprise cybersecurity and future cloud-native architectures.
Eshita Gupta enhanced fraud prevention at a top financial institution by analyzing complex transactional data, developing real-time dashboards, and creating new fraud triggers. Her leadership prevented $10K+ in fraud losses, improved reporting, and trained teams to apply analytics daily. The initiative set new standards for financial risk management and proactive fraud defense.
As part of the expansion, Google is bringing AI Mode to 180 new countries in English.
Onchain sleuth found YZY sniper wallets tied to LIBRA, extracting $23 million in suspected insider gains across both token launches.
Senior Lead Engineer Ravi Kotapati spearheaded a massive PAM transformation, centralizing 800,000+ privileged accounts and 12,000 databases into a unified, cloud-native platform. His leadership delivered just-in-time access, zero trust authorization, passwordless authentication, and privilege escalation detection. The result: scalable, compliant, AI-ready enterprise security with measurable business impact.
Epidemiologist Pooja Shelke revolutionized Massachusetts public health by leading COVID-19 case investigations, building advanced Tableau dashboards, and conducting opioid crisis spatial analysis. She co-founded the Massachusetts Epidemiology Collaborative, strengthening cross-municipal collaboration and training peers. Her data-driven innovations set new standards for surveillance, planning, and community health outcomes.
Vikas Gupta led a three-pillar Telehealth revolution—In-Patient Video Visits, Tele Critical Care, and AI-powered Virtual Sitter—to improve patient care, safety, and ICU oversight. His agile leadership and enterprise-scale execution reduced risks, boosted outcomes, and set new standards in healthcare digital transformation, positioning Telehealth for AI-driven growth.
MetaMask will roll out its mUSD stablecoin in 2025, launching first on Ethereum and Consensys’ Linea network for use across Web3 applications.
Srikanth Aitha, Sr. Staff Physical Design Engineer, optimized flows for a premium SoC, achieving 20% fewer timing violations and 15% improved power efficiency. His cross-functional leadership accelerated tape-out, earned industry awards, and positioned him as a leader in AI-driven semiconductor innovation. His vision drives next-gen SoC design for AI workloads.
The latest Clear Crypto Podcast explores insights into US crypto policy, the GENIUS Act, Solana’s lobbying strategy and Washington’s new embrace of blockchain.
Senior Technical Manager Veeresh Nunavath built a national-scale cloud observability platform unifying distributed Kubernetes clusters across hybrid clouds. His innovation reduced incident response from hours to seconds, improved telecom reliability for millions, and set the stage for AI-driven, self-healing networks. It’s a blueprint for next-gen infrastructure.
The freeze went into effect last week, and it’s not clear how long it will last, The Journal’s sources say. Meta is still likely working through its reorg, which split its AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs, into four new groups: TBD Labs, run by former Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, and three groups focused on … Read more
Google is putting AI Mode into Search in 180 countries and territories, allowing the AI-powered search feature to expand beyond the US, UK, and India. The expansion means more people can search for topics using a chatbot-like interface, though it’s still only available in English. Along with a global expansion, Google revealed that it’s building … Read more
Current age verification drives users to VPNs and sketchy sites. Blockchain can prove you’re over 18 without exposing your identity to data breaches.
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 4005.12, down 1.4% (-55.83) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Seven of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: AAVE (+1.2%) and BCH (-0.2%). Laggards: SUI (-3.9%) and XLM (-2.5%). … Read more
US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has been scooping up stock in companies that could benefit from tariffs, as well as investing in Bitcoin funds.
Real-world asset protocols present an “evolving” threat landscape that offers a larger attack surface for hackers, according to CertiK.
The Insta360 Go Ultra is available in midnight black and arctic white color options. | Image: Insta360 Insta360 has announced the next version of its compact Go action camera, which helped the company differentiate itself from established competitors like GoPro several years ago. As Insta360 teased earlier this week, the new Go Ultra not only … Read more
Optimism is teaming up with Flashbots to revamp how transactions get processed across its OP Stack ecosystem, aiming to make some of Ethereum’s most popular layer-2 networks faster and more customizable. The partnership centers on sequencing, the behind-the-scenes process that determines how quickly a transaction confirms, which trades are prioritized, and how much users ultimately … Read more
Earlier this week, a bean moved into my phone. Their name is Billie Bean King, and when I’m working, they work too, knitting socks and scarves. Billie’s knitted wares are more than just cozy clothes – they’re currency, used to buy lo-fi decorations for their barren room. But there’s a catch: Billie can only work … Read more
GuliKit’s new TT Max controller also features glowing accent lighting around the base of each anti-drift joystick. | Image: GuliKit GuliKit was the first company to address the original Switch’s drifting issues with a Hall effect Joy-Con upgrade kit, and it released one of the first controllers that can remotely wake the Nintendo Switch 2. … Read more