Crypto exchange Kraken’s revenue doubled in 2024 to $1.5 billion
According to Kraken’s 2024 figures, the exchange averages more than $2,000 in revenue per customer and holds $42.8 billion in assets.
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These 2 Mental Models Will Determine Whether Your AI Startup Will Last
Historically, whenever a new, breakthrough technology has emerged, it’s flooded the market with tons of new custom built applications using that new technology in some shape or form, but it’s often taken a while until we started seeing great products that last. It’s now the first time in a while that a new breakthrough technology … Read more
Musk It: The Next Big Meme Coin With An Unmatched Connection To The Musk Legacy
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 31st, 2025/Chainwire/–Following a recent article in Fortune Magazine, Musk It has sparked speculation as the next breakout memecoin, driven by its undeniable ties to the Musk family. While Elon Musk has yet to officially endorse a token, history suggests that when he does, the results can be explosive. Could Musk … Read more
Solana Meme Coin Dogwifhat Has No Deal With Las Vegas Sphere, Venue Says
Dogwifhat will not appear on the Las Vegas Sphere, a spokesperson told Decrypt, despite indications from the Solana meme coin’s backers.
Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo
What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you’re the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news … Read more
Weekly Recap: Ripple Makes Waves and Stablecoins Surge
It was another busy week at CoinDesk as the new Trump Administration continued to roll out a pro-crypto agenda and the industry laid the groundwork for growth in the new cycle. Ripple was at the center of the news. Ondo Finance announced it would offer tokenized treasuries on Ripple’s XRP Ledger, Kris Sandor reported. The … Read more
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Holds Less Than 10% of His Assets in Bitcoin
The Ethereum co-founder has admitted he’s mostly in on the coin he helped create.
Whale Casino Launches “Lootboxes”: The First Casino To Introduce This Reward Feature
WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao, January 31st, 2025/Chainwire/–Whale Casino has announced the launch of “Lootboxes,” its latest feature designed to incorporate elements of video game mechanics into the casino experience. With “Lootboxes,” players can purchase boxes, each guaranteed to contain a prize, ranging from in-game credits to exclusive items, all while contributing to the $WHALE token ecosystem Unpacking … Read more
Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
Microsoft says that it’s creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that will help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI the company hopes to build. Microsoft AI, which encompasses Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, and Edge products, is becoming core to Microsoft’s growth strategy … Read more
MultiVersus’ next season will be its last
MultiVersus will go offline at the end of its next season, Warner Bros. Games announced on Friday. The free-to-play brawler’s fifth and final season starts on February 4th and runs through May 30th, 2025, after which you’ll only be able to play against AI opponents or through local co-op. It will also no longer be … Read more
Funtico Unveils Full-Stack Web3 Gaming Platform, Kicking Off Tournaments with 100,000 USDT and 150,000 $TICO Prize Pools
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Ugreen’s new wallet tracker is thinner and cheaper than the rest
Ugreen’s new Finder Slim tracker is just 1.7mm thick. | Image: Ugreen Ugreen has announced another Apple AirTag alternative with its new Finder Slim wallet tracker. It’s not only much thinner than an Apple AirTag, at just 1.7mm thick, the Finder Slim is also thinner than the 2.4mm Chipolo Card Spot, the 2.8mm Pebblebee Card … Read more
Solana Saw 112% Surge in Stablecoin Supply in January With TRUMP Memecoin Frenzy: CCData
The supply of stablecoins on Solana jumped by 112% in January to a record high of $11.1 billion, CCData (a subsidiary of CoinDesk) said in a research report on Friday. The surge coincided with the launch of Donald Trump’s memecoin $TRUMP, which caused a wave of inflows to the network, according to the report. Stablecoin … Read more
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Trump’s World Liberty Financial buys another $10M worth of ETH
World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s DeFi project, has made another purchase of $10 million worth of Ether.
Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention
A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors’ attention. In addition to offering tools to easily build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds, Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. In other words, Graze has … Read more
WeDoSolar pivots to B2B, after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant
Last year Wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EU’s electricity. With that in the background, startups in the solar space have been riding a generational change in how we get our power. In 2022 we covered how a small B2C European startup planned to bring solar to homes via … Read more
Price analysis 1/31: BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, BNB, DOGE, ADA, LINK, AVAX, XLM
Bitcoin bulls are chasing after new highs but investor actions in equities markets and sellers at the top of BTC’s range are keeping a cap on price discovery.
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Stablecoin Giant Tether Reports Record Profits Ahead of Bitcoin Rollout
Alongside record profits, USDT issuer Tether also reported Friday it now holds over $143 billion in reserve assets to back the stablecoin.
Crypto in 2025: Breaking down top firms’ predictions
Cointelegraph analyzed the main crypto forecasts for 2025 from leading firms and presented the key takeaways in its latest video.
How Travelers Insurance classified emails with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering
This is a guest blog post co-written with Jordan Knight, Sara Reynolds, George Lee from Travelers. Foundation models (FMs) are used in many ways and perform well on tasks including text generation, text summarization, and question answering. Increasingly, FMs are completing tasks that were previously solved by supervised learning, which is a subset of machine … Read more