Somnia, a Layer 1 blockchain developed by UK-based metaverse technology company Improbable, has gone live with its mainnet and introduced its native token, SOMI. The rollout follows a six month testnet phase in which the network processed more than 10 billion transactions, onboarded 118 million unique wallet addresses, and attracted over 70 ecosystem partners, according … Read more
BitMine Immersion Technologies, the world’s largest corporate Ether holder, said it holds 1.87 million ETH — more than 1.5% of the total supply.
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Shares of CleanCore Solutions (ZONE) sharply plunged on Tuesday after the company announced a $175 million private placement to establish a digital asset treasury focused on popular memecoin dogecoin (DOGE). The transaction involved the sale of 175 million pre-funded warrants at $1 each. More than 80 investors participated, including big-name digital asset firms Pantera, GSR … Read more
If you’re working on any iOS app, sooner or later, you’ll face the need to “talk” to a server, at which point it’s very easy to slide into hell: manually building URLRequest, callbacks, duplicated logic, dozens of do-catch blocks, and little guarantee that you won’t forget a header or miss the endpoint. With the arrival … Read more
Bitcoin can rise toward $140,000 next and push higher over the next year if it repeats past gains seen after gold’s record highs.
If you’ve ever thought “it’d sure be nice to have just one controller to use between my phone, tablet, and TV,” then the Backbone Pro might be made for you. Backbone’s newest gamepad has the same phone-hugging design as its 2020 predecessor, but comes with a handful of distinct features — the most notable being … Read more
At scale, PHP metrics collection with Redis + Prometheus quickly breaks down—timeouts, memory spikes, and unscalable scrapes. This article shows how switching from a pull to a push model with UDP and Telegraf transformed monitoring in a high-traffic Symfony application. The approach eliminated Redis overhead, enabled linear scaling across 50+ servers, cut latency by 60×, … Read more
Gaia Labs’ AI smartphone and Solana’s latest devices highlight a renewed push to merge blockchain features in consumer tech.
Experts cite capital inflows driven by a weak U.S. dollar and Fed rate cut expectations influencing the crypto market’s short-term bounce.
Swedish buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) startup Klarna and its shareholders are reviving its initial public offering, hoping to raise as much as $1.27 billion in a listing that would value the company at up to $14 billion.
The price of BNB was little changed around $850 after a 24-hour period that saw it rising to as high as $855. Heavy selling earlier in the period had pushed the token toward the $840 area, where bids absorbed supply to set a support level, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model. From there, momentum … Read more
Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don’t live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription … Read more
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Crypto exchange Kraken and Swiss tokenization firm Backed said on Tuesday they are bringing xStocks, a suite of tokenized equities, to the Ethereum network, aiming to integrate stcoks into decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. The initiative allows eligible Kraken clients to deposit and withdraw xStocks directly on Ethereum, where they will exist as ERC-20 tokens fully … Read more
The Bitcoin network hashrate returned to record highs last month, increasing around 50 exahashes per second (EH/s) to an average of 949 EH/s, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Tuesday. The hashrate refers to the total combined computational power used to mine and process transactions on a proof-of-work blockchain, and is … Read more
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Hong Kong-listed Yunfeng Financial purchased $44 million of ETH to support its expansion into Web3, real-world assets and tokenized finance.
The clock is ticking, and exhibit space at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is moving fast. With just 4 days and 10 table left to book, now’s the time to stop circling the idea and claim your spot on the show floor.
Paxos guarantees safety but not always liveness: lost commits starve new proposers, races stall, partitions halt progress, and old messages get rejected. Raft fixes this with leader election — more in Part 3.
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Tokenizing mobility and autonomous robotaxis may be among the next emerging blockchain trends with fully onchain business models.
Whale inflows into Ethereum are getting bigger as investors take profits from Bitcoin and rotate capital into Ether, raising hopes of new all-time highs soon.
Winklevoss brothers-founded crypto exchange Gemini has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise up to $317 million as an “emerging growth company.”
Traditional compliance can’t keep up with 24/7 crypto markets — AI-native systems embedded at the core offer real-time risk detection and scalable solutions.
The Ether Machine (ETHM), a crypto investment vehicle preparing to go public through a merger with Dynamix Corporation, said on Tuesday it has secured an additional 150,000 ether (ETH), worth about $654 million, from Jeffrey Berns, the founder of Blockchains. The latest commitment brings the company’s total ETH owned or pledged to 495,362 ETH, valued … Read more
A Binance Smart Chain whale was drained of $27 million worth of tokens on Tuesday, after falling victim to a phishing scam.