Tether leads $8 million investment in Speed to push USDT further into everyday payments
Using the Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and Tether’s USDT, Speed handles $1.5 billion in annual payments and serves 1.2 million users.
Month: December 2025
Visa Begins US Stablecoin Settlement via USDC on Solana
Visa is expanding its stablecoin settlements to the U.S. using USDC for settlement on the Solana blockchain with its first two partners.
Canadian peer-to-peer clothing rental company Rax is expanding to the U.S.
Rax is a peer-to-peer clothing rental company that won top consumer pitch at Disrupt this year.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Forget Authenticity – It’s The Age Of The Founder Story (12/16/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 16, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Ims Associates Shipped Imsai 8080 Kits in 1975, China Successfully Landed Yutu in 2013, IBM Discontinued Sales of Os/2 Operating System in 2005, Microsoft Purchased GIANT Company Software … Read more
Choose Your Niche, Own Your Content – and Hear It Straight From Our Past Fellows
A Jack of all trades is a master of none As a writer, one thing is imminent: those who try to cover everything often end up remembered for nothing. Of course, one can argue that what if they were trying new things, or it’s boring just exclusively and repeatedly to write about one thing again … Read more
Instagram brings Reels to the big screen, starting with Amazon Fire TV
By bringing Reels to TVs, Instagram can better compete with YouTube, which largely dominates the TV space.
My Favorite Murder and The Breakfast Club podcasts are ditching YouTube for Netflix
Netflix is plowing ahead with plans to build out a library of video podcasts as it aims to keep viewers locked into the service even when they may not be watching what’s on their screens. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that it’s teaming up with radio giant iHeartMedia to add more than 15 video podcasts to … Read more
Instagram is putting Reels on your TV
Meta is starting to test a new Instagram app for TVs that lets you watch Reels on a big screen. The app will be available first as a pilot for Amazon Fire TV devices in the US starting Tuesday. The homescreen of the Reels-focused app will show personalized, horizontal collections of videos to browse through. … Read more
Why Mantle’s Developer Focus Could Position It for Institutional Adoption
What Makes Institutions Finally Move On-Chain? The gap between institutional interest and institutional participation in crypto has persisted for years. Banks, asset managers, and traditional finance firms have explored blockchain technology through pilot programs, partnerships, and research divisions, but meaningful capital deployment remains limited. The barrier isn’t skepticism about the technology anymore, it’s the absence … Read more
Apple TV adds support for Google Cast even as Netflix ditches the feature
The tech giant’s adoption of Google Cast signals its interest in making Apple TV a more competitive streaming service at a time when the market is seeing increased consolidation.
Hacking group says it’s extorting Pornhub after stealing users’ viewing data
The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking collective stole Pornhub premium users’ data, including email addresses and viewing history.
Bitcoin liquidity ‘battle’ rages as bull case sees clear run to $95K
Bitcoin liquidity grabs continued at the Wall Street open, with traders hoping that a breakthrough of resistance would propel the BTC price toward the $100,000 zone.
CoreWeave collapse sparks fears of cracks in AI infrastructure boom
Bitcoin miners who pivoted business plans to high-performance computing benefitted greatly this year, but have seen sharp declines of late.
Bitcoin and Ethereum Wobble as US Reports Highest Unemployment Rate Since 2021
Bitcoin and Ethereum wavered after U.S. jobs data, but prediction markets still favor a return to $100K amid expected Fed rate cuts.
Why can’t Ethereum hold $3K? ETH recovery in doubt as data tilts bearish
Ethereum price wobbled as weak onchain activity, low futures demand and aggressive selling by holders favored a potential ETH price drop to $2,300.
Brazil to test blockchain in state real estate auction to reduce fraud, disputes
The São Paulo auction will record every document involved in the process on blockchain, making it a public, traceable, tamper-evident record.
Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly – The Four Phases of AI Agent Maturity
:::info This is the second article in a five-part series on agentic AI in the enterprise. In Part 1, we explored what agentic AI is and how it differs from generative AI, highlighting the shift from hype to pragmatic reality. Here in Part 2, we focus on how organisations progress towards autonomy through distinct maturity … Read more
Meet ScyllaDB: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Welcome one, welcome all to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that’s making waves in the global tech ecosystem and positively impacting the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the Startup scene. Ever used Discord, ordered Starbucks … Read more
Real-Time Write Heavy Database Workloads: Considerations & Tips
Real-time, write-heavy database workloads present a unique set of performance challenges that differ significantly from read-heavy systems. These workloads are characterized by extremely high ingestion rates (often exceeding 50,000 operations per second), a greater volume of writes than reads, and strict latency requirements—frequently demanding single-digit millisecond P99 performance. Such conditions are common in modern systems … Read more