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It’s technically already Pokémon Day in Japan, and while we’re still a few hours away from this year’s big Pokémon Presents showcase, there’s a new animated short film out that right now feels like the perfect way to get pumped up for whatever surprises Nintendo has in store. Many of the Pokémon Company’s animated projects … Read more
Last week, the Cables team landed in Hong Kong for Consensus 2025, and the energy was unreal. The main event was packed—a perfect mix of DeFi-native projects, institutional crypto players, and builders pushing the space forward. From panels to private discussions, the biggest takeaway was clear: crypto is maturing, and the appetite for real financial … Read more
The recent $1.4 billion Bybit hack has put cybersecurity in the crypto industry into sharper focus as firms search for a way forward.
Solana price could bounce from $130 to $150 “golden zone” with the possibility of a mean reversion playing out over the short term.
First-generation Echo speakers won’t get Alexa Plus. Amazon is bringing the new AI-powered Alexa Plus to a wide range of its existing Echo devices — but the upgrade will skip many of the earliest models. The majority of the company’s first-generation Echos won’t get support, according to the Alexa Plus FAQ page, though Amazon says they … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs are shedding assets as crypto prices plummet amid a looming trade war and other macroeconomic uncertainty.
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A novice developer managed to create a flight simulator from scratch via AI tools like Grok, ChatGPT, and Cursor—and Elon Musk loves it.
Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize,” DEI programs deemed illegal in private sector companies that receive … Read more
Leveraged ETFs can significantly underperform in volatile markets, research shows.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a ruling on Wednesday largely agreeing with a lower court’s 2023 decision to toss out a class action suit against decentralized exchange Uniswap. A group of investors originally sued Uniswap Labs, the company behind the decentralized protocol of the same name, and some of its … Read more
Economic uncertainty, Nvidia’s upcoming earnings, and a large BTC options expiry are negatively pressuring Bitcoin price.
Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national, was extradited to the U.S. on Tuesday to face fraud charges stemming from allegations that his firm participated in a “wide-ranging conspiracy” to manipulate token prices for paying client cryptocurrency companies, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release on Wednesday. Andriunin was arrested in … Read more
Former Congressman Patrick McHenry, who advocated for crypto in the last few years of his political career, is joining VC firm a16z as a senior adviser.
Crypto prices are crashing again, with Bitcoin now trading below $84,000 and Ethereum hitting a five-month low price.
Raising money in general is difficult. Fintech is one of the most competitive spaces out there. Every year, individual investors hear hundreds of pitches, and most go nowhere—less than one percent of startups get venture capital funding. If your pitch doesn’t grab the attention of the investors in the first 60 seconds, you are out. … Read more
OpenSea co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer said the SEC dropping its investigation into the NFT marketplace is a huge win for the space.
Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short. The generative AI models receiving the most attention now can be broadly divided into two types: … Read more
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Ripple Labs’ hopes to accelerate XRP Ledgers growth by leaning into institutional DeFi, including real-world assets (RWAs).
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The U.S. House of Representatives has taken the first significant move to erase the work of the Internal Revenue Service to impose a tax regime on decentralized financial (DeFi) platforms in the final days of former President Joe Biden’s administration. The House Ways and Means Committee — the panel responsible for overseeing the Treasury Department’s … Read more
Cybersecurity experts say that North Korean attackers exploited wallet provider Safe to perform the biggest crypto hack of all time on Bybit.