Solana DeFi platform step finance hit by $27 million treasury hack as token price craters
The platform’s governance token (STEP) plummeted over 80% following the announcement amid a wider crypto market drawdown.
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How decentralized AI training will create a new asset class for digital intelligence
Tokenized AI will democratize access to the world’s most valuable resource, argues Brukhman.
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Bitcoin falls out of global top 10 assets by market capitalization after price dumps below $80,000
Ether also declined significantly, dropping to 56th place with a market cap just above $300 billion and losing 14.5% of its value.
CoreWeave shows how crypto-era infrastructure quietly became AI’s backbone
From crypto mining to AI compute, former cryptocurrency miners are reshaping data center economics as Big Tech’s grip on infrastructure begins to loosen.
The Android OS System Architecture: Part 6 – Process Lifecycle and Importance Hierarchy
If you’re working in a pure Linux environment, processes are generally left alone once they’re launched. A running process will rarely be killed unless there’s a serious reason, such as a crash, a security violation, or explicit user intervention. This is largely because traditional Linux systems often run on machines with abundant resources: constant power … Read more
Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”
Bitcoin breaks key support level as Glassnode warns of further price breakdown
Long-term bitcoin holders are selling at the fastest pace since August, while some industry observers suggest the market may be approaching a bear-market bottom.
Rust CVE-2024-24576 Explained: What Was This Security Advisory?
The Rust Security Response WG was notified that the Rust standard library did not properly escape arguments when invoking batch files (with the bat and cmd extensions) on Windows using the Command API. An attacker able to control the arguments passed to the spawned process could execute arbitrary shell commands by bypassing the escaping. The … Read more
From Streets to Screens: How to Run High-Impact Fieldwork in Emerging Markets
Metrics show patterns but fieldwork reveals reality. By meeting users where they live and work designers uncover real constraints informal workflows and decision logic. This article shares a practical framework for running UX fieldwork in emerging markets and turning insights into product strategy
Beware the Real-Time Trap: Your Fresh Data Could Be Slowing Down Your Dashboards
“Speed” in data engineering is a trade-off, not a single metric. To build effective systems, you must distinguish between two competing concepts: – Data Latency (Freshness): How long it takes for an event to reach your report. – Query Latency (Responsiveness): How long a user waits for a dashboard to load. The Conflict: Optimizing for … Read more
The market for tokenized equities has exploded by almost 3,000% in a single year
Tokenized stocks grew nearly 3,000% in 2025 as new SEC rules and a DTCC pilot pushed the asset class toward the $1 billion milestone, led by Ondo and Securitize.
India Faces Pressure to Rethink Crypto Taxes Ahead of Union Budget as Trading Shifts Offshore
Industry leaders are pushing for tax reform as traders flee offshore, draining domestic exchanges and undermining regulatory oversight.
HomeBoost’s app will show you where to save on your utility bills
The startup is partnering with utilities to help homeowners determine the best upgrades to cut their energy use.
Off to the Rendezvous
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science March, 1932, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. The Affair of the Brains – Chapter I: Off to the Rendezvous Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1932: The Affair of the Brains – Chapter I Off to … Read more
VC Roundup: Crypto funding rebounds as institutions test onchain finance
From venture rounds to onchain credit, capital is moving cautiously back into crypto as institutions focus on infrastructure and real-world use cases.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Crypto Sellout (1/31/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 31, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, World War I saw its first major naval battle between Germany and Britain in 1915, NASA launched the first rocket in its Saturn I program in 1961, Communications … Read more
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March, 1932 – Table of Links
:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March, 1932, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March, 1932 Author: Astounding Stories Release Date: Jul 4, 2009 [EBook #29310] Language: English ::: TABLE OF LINKS Off to the Rendezvous The Coming of Ku Sui The Wave of a Handkerchief Soil … Read more
The AirPods 4 and Google’s 4K streamer are just two of this week’s best deals
Happy Saturday, folks! After a few weeks of middling deals, we’re starting see things pick up. Some of our favorite deals of the holiday season have returned in some fashion, making now a great time to pick up deal stalwarts like the AirPods 4 with ANC or Google’s TV Streamer (4K). We also stumbled upon … Read more
XRP slides 7% as rapid selling breaks major $1.79 support
Traders are watching $1.74 as near-term support, with $1.79–$1.82 now the key resistance zone.
ETH, SOL and DOGE slide 7% as $850 million bullish bets end up liquidated
Ether, solana and XRP led losses across crypto as a wave of long liquidations swept futures markets, showing stress spreading beyond bitcoin during weekend trading.
Bitcoin ‘fear’ sentiment hits a 2026 high as price downtrends toward $80,000
Social chatter around bitcoin has turned sharply negative after the token slid to its lowest level since Nov. 21, a setup Santiment says often appears near capitulation, even if near term trading stays messy.