Month: January 2026
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ACM Is Now Open Access
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The top 6 media/entertainment startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Here is the full list of the media/entertainment Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
Meet the new tech laws of 2026
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these laws, alongside rules passed in past years, take effect in 2026 – either right now or in the coming months. … Read more
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Darwin the Man of His Times
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2025 Letter
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The XRP Army got everything except $5 price: Will 2026 deliver?
XRP scored every major win in 2025 with the SEC case resolved and spot ETFs launched, yet the price crashed 50%, with the $5 target remaining elusive.
Base’s creator coin experiment meets resistance after Nick Shirley launch
Base’s push into creator coins is facing mounting criticism from traders and builders after Nick Shirley’s token on Zora spiked to about a $9 million valuation and then promptly slumped.
All of Trump’s Pardons of Prominent Crypto Figures—So Far
The pardons cemented crypto as both an economic force and a partisan issue in Washington.
Crypto privacy in 2026: Compliance-friendly tools take center stage
Crypto privacy is approaching an inflection point as relevant lawsuits near their conclusions and developers pivot toward designs that ensure privacy while appeasing regulators.
SOL accumulation tops crypto trends on New Year’s Day: Santiment
Whale accumulation across Solana tokens is headlining crypto-related social buzz as 2026 begins, according to data from Santiment.
Bithumb flags $200M in dormant crypto assets across 2.6M inactive accounts
Millions of long-inactive users still hold crypto at Bithumb, highlighting how early retail capital can remain untouched for years.
Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a highlight reel. Capturing the attention of a demographic typically glued … Read more
Can Solana shed its memecoin image in 2026?
Solana’s bid to move beyond memecoins will depend on whether its upgrades can deliver predictable execution for serious onchain finance.
Strategy shares register first six-month losing streak since adoption of bitcoin strategy in 2020
Crypto analyst Chris Millas has highlighted an unusually persistent slump in Strategy shares, breaking with past drawdown patterns even as the firm continued accumulating bitcoin.
How crypto’s promised year-end fireworks turned into a bloodbath
Digital asset treasuries, altcoin ETFs and bitcoin’s famed year‑end seasonality were meant to supercharge prices. What came instead was the worst drawdown since 2022’s crypto winter.