Banks have stopped asking if stablecoins belong in finance, now they’re considering how
Financial institutions are racing to become the secure gateways for stablecoins as digital asset volume is projected to explode by 2030.
kamal
The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking
The Sourdough Sidekick was codeveloped with King Arthur Baking Company. Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick – backed and branded by King Arthur … Read more
How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee
Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly measure. Just altogether gross. After Keurig? You could make your own coffee, a cup at a time, exactly when you needed it. The single-cup brewer was an elegant solution to an extremely … Read more
Phosh 0.56.0
Comments
Collateral, not yield, will decide which stablecoins win
As yield-bearing stablecoins race toward a $50 billion market capitalization, the industry is optimizing for the wrong metric, argues Artem Tolkachev, chief RWA officer at Falcon Finance.
Kalshi and prediction market sector embroiled in mixed bag of legal fights across U.S.
Some of the many battles with state gaming regulators aren’t going well for the industry at the moment, but it isn’t without its would-be government protectors.
Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market
Vizio OS works well, but you don’t even need to use it. When I first started testing Vizio’s 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 – the cheapest on the market. Vizio’s been pretty quiet since it … Read more
Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
Comments
Xbox is a disaster
Gears of War: E-Day. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the bleak state of the video game industry, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started … Read more
South Africa proposes crypto tax rules under existing tax framework
South Africa’s tax authority proposed draft guidance clarifying how crypto assets are taxed under existing income and capital gains tax rules, seeking public input until Aug. 31.
Pi square is nearly 10
Comments
AIR Kit Deep Dive: Is AIR Kit the Best ZK Identity SDK in Web3? A Developer’s Hands-On Review
Web3 onboarding infrastructure just lived through its consolidation wave. Privy went to Stripe in June 2025. Web3Auth was folded into Consensys/MetaMask. Dynamic landed inside Fireblocks. Sequence went to Polygon Labs. Every wallet-as-a-service darling of 2023 is now a feature inside someone else’s strategy, payments rails, institutional custody, a wallet ecosystem. AIR Kit is the odd … Read more
Europe’s new climate in seven charts
Comments
Vantage Introduces 24/7 Gold CFD Trading With XAUUSD247
Port Vila, Vanuatu, July 4th, 2026/Chainwire/–PORT VILA, Vanuatu, 4 July 2026 – Vantage Markets (“Vantage”), a multi-asset CFD broker, today announced the launch of XAUUSD247. CME Group recently announced plans to expand trading of certain gold futures products to 24/7, subject to regulatory review. XAUUSD247 is a separate OTC CFD product offered by Vantage. “XAUUSD247 … Read more
Binance outflows triple to $1.2B as ETH withdrawals hit 3-year high
Binance recorded $1.23 billion in weekly net outflows, up 207% from the previous week, as Ethereum withdrawals surged to a three-year high.
Barstool’s Portnoy plans to hold bitcoin down to zero after timing it wrong every time
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he will hold bitcoin all the way down to zero after buying near $100,000.
Megawatts by Microwave
Comments
Vitalik Buterin shares top priorities for new ‘Lean Ethereum’ strawmap
Part of the Ethereum Foundation’s plan to make Ethereum more private and scalable is to introduce a new virtual machine, with leanISA and RISC-V among the top candidates.
If you’re a button, you have one job
Comments
98 Blog Posts To Learn About Agile Development
Let’s learn about Agile Development via these 98 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Agile development is an iterative and incremental approach to software development that focuses on flexibility, collaboration, and rapid delivery of … Read more
Nvidia China Chip Curbs Accelerate Domestic AI Substitution
China is accelerating AI chip substitution while the U.S. intensifies control over frontier AI model access.
Moonbeam to pivot from Polkadot to Base, unveils AI agent framework
Moonbeam didn’t provide a timeline for when it would launch the AI agent platform but told GLMR holders to bridge their tokens from the Polkadot parachain to Base before July 31.