Month: September 2025

Etherealize Raises $40M to Bring Ethereum to Wall Street

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Etherealize, a startup developing infrastructure to help Wall Street institutions adopt Ethereum, has raised $40 million in Series A funding, co‑led by Electric Capital and Paradigm. The new capital builds on an earlier grant from Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation and will help fund Etherealize’s push to develop zero‑knowledge privacy systems, settlement engines, and … Read more

Bullish Gets Cautious Outlook from Compass Point

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Wall Street banking and research firm Compass Point has initiated coverage of crypto platform Bullish (BLSH), the parent company of CoinDesk, with a neutral rating and a $45 price target. Despite a belief that Bullish’s lower fee structure could help it chip away at Coinbase’s (COIN) U.S. market share in the future, the analyst Ed … Read more

These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI

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Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent scare involving a family member and an electric scooter. Within minutes, though, the 20-year-old Stanford dropout snaps into focus, walking me through how he and his co-founders sold one startup … Read more

Staking Ethereum Is Part Science, Part Game, and Part Tax Puzzle

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Bitcoin and the Blockchain 2.1 The Origins 2.2 Bitcoin in a nutshell 2.3 Basic Concepts Crypto Exchanges Source of Value of crypto assets and Bootstrapping Initial Coin Offerings Airdrops Ethereum 7.1 Proof-of-Stake based consensus in Ethereum 7.2 Smart Contracts 7.3 Tokens 7.4 Non-Fungible Tokens Decentralized Finance and 8.1 … Read more

The Agentic Era Needs a Network

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AI is stepping onto the trading floor. Not as software, but as an actor. Agents don’t just analyze markets, they strike deals, set terms and move capital across decentralized rails where settlement is final. For institutional crypto desks, that means faster trades, better products and entirely new exposures. Now imagine two agents negotiating a derivatives … Read more

Crypto’s Real Economy Moment

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Bitcoin has stormed back in 2025, hitting a new all-time high of over $124,000 in August after a turbulent start to the year. The rally is more than a speculative rebound. It is the manifestation of crypto’s long-promised integration into the global financial system. But unlike earlier cycles, this rally is not lifting the entire … Read more

AlphaTon Capital Shares Surge on TON Treasury Announcement

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AlphaTON Capital, a Nasdaq-listed company newly rebranded from Portage Biotch (PRTG), said it will purchase about $100 million worth of toncoin (TON) to build a digital asset treasury firm offering exposure to the token. The firm will operate under the ticker “ATON” starting Sept. 4. It plans on managing TON network infrastructure and incubating applications … Read more

Trump-Linked American Bitcoin Soars 60%, Targets $2.1B Share Sale After Nasdaq Debut

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American Bitcoin (ABTC), a newly public bitcoin mining and treasury firm backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, opened for trade Wednesday morning after completing its merger with Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP). Wasting little time, the company filed for an at-the-market equity raise of up to $2.1 billion with which to continue building its … Read more

Why I love my Kenmore canister vacuum

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Emma Roth is a news writer here at The Verge, “and for me,” she explains, “that means every day is different. During the four years I’ve been here, I’ve covered breaking news and written about basically everything in the realm of tech, whether it’s streaming price hikes, the latest in AI chatbots, privacy issues surrounding … Read more

Garmin’s Fenix 8 Pro series finally lets you leave your phone at home — sort of

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There are a few caveats to the cellular and satellite connectivity, however. Garmin just announced its Fenix 8 Pro series of smartwatches, which adds both cellular and satellite connectivity via the company’s InReach tech. The Fenix 8 Pro series also adds a MicroLED display version that gets a maximum brightness of 4,500 nits. The catch … Read more