Crypto VCs ‘excited’ about AI agents but not yet investing
Pantera Capital managing partner Paul Veradittakit said AI agents have the potential to cause crypto trading volumes to increase exponentially.
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Vitalik Buterin criticizes crypto’s moral shift toward gambling
Buterin said online critics have painted Ethereum as bad because it hasn’t welcomed casinos to the blockchain.
Ethereum’s Pectra Upgrade ‘Huge’ for Staking Ecosystem: P2P.org Exec
Fewer validators would cut costs, while automatic rewards would simplify operations, P2P.org’s Artemiy Parshakov said.
Amazon is shutting down its app store on Android
Amazon will discontinue its app store for Android on August 20 this year. The company sent a notice to developers indicating that they will no longer be able to submit new apps to the store. The company said on a support page that it will also discontinue its Coins digital currency, which could be used … Read more
Trump vows Fort Knox gold audit; prediction markets react
The odds of a Fort Knox gold audit before May surged above 70% on Polymarket as US President Donald Trump confirmed a plan to check its gold reserves.
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Base DEX SynFutures Rolls Out AI Trading Agent
Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures has introduced Synthia, an AI trading agent that allows traders to swap or transfer assets using natural language commands. SynFutures is the largest DEX on Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base with 24 hour volume hitting $220 million and liquidity at $768 million. The AI agent will be rolled out in three phases, … Read more
The iPhone is done with home buttons — here’s why I’ll miss it
The iPhone 8’s home button. For the first time since the iPhoneâs debut in 2007, Apple no longer sells a smartphone with a home button. The iPhone 16E announced yesterday removes it. The removal was long overdue, having been surpassed by all touchscreen controls many years ago. But while the home buttonâs time is over, … Read more
U.S. Stablecoin Adoption Is Being Hindered by a Lack of Regulation, S&P Says
The absence of stablecoin regulation in the U.S. is one of the main hurdles to adoption, S&P Global Ratings said in a Wednesday report. “The lack of regulation is one of the main impediments to stablecoin adoption in the U.S. and has prevented a broader institutional adoption of stablecoins,” analysts led by Mohamed Damak wrote. … Read more
Kaito AI airdrop sparks tokenomics, early selling concerns
Kaito AI allocates 20% of its token supply for airdrops and incentives, sparking excitement and concerns over insider allocation and potential sell-offs.
Pi Network’s Token Debuts at $195B Value Despite Minimal Liquidity
Pi Network, the smartphone mining project that claims to have 60 million users, released its native PI token Thursday giving traders a roller-coaster ride that saw the price rise 18% in minutes before tumbling 50% over the next two hours. PI debuted at $1.70 at 09:00 UTC, rising to as high as $2.00. It was … Read more
Oppo’s new foldable can remote control a Mac
What is this, a laptop for ants!? Today Oppo launched the Find N5, the thinnest book-style foldable phone yet, but there’s more to the phone than a slim design: it’s capable of connecting to a Mac for file transfers and even remote control. It’s not quite the first Android phone to do so, but it … Read more
Australian Regulator Warns of ‘Horror Scenarios’ From Trump Easing Crypto Oversight
ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb warned that the U.S. relaxing crypto regulations is a “concern,” increasing risks for consumers.
GitHub Actions Meets Kubernetes: How to Test PRs on GKE Without Losing Your Mind
I’m continuing my series on running the test suite for each Pull Request on Kubernetes. In the previous post, I laid the groundwork for our learning journey: I developed a basic JVM-based CRUD app, tested it locally using Testcontainers, and tested it in a GitHub workflow with a GitHub service container. This week, I will … Read more
Oppo Find N5 review: the final evolution of foldables
Oppoâs Find N5 feels like the end game for foldable phones. Not because itâs make or break for a segment of the phone market that never quite took off like manufacturers hoped it would, but because I simply donât know where we go from here. Thereâs scarcely room to make the phone thinner without ditching … Read more
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The world’s thinnest foldable phone doesn’t come cheap
The Find N5 is thinner than any other foldable when shut. Oppo has launched the Find N5, the thinnest foldable phone in the world. It’s launching in markets worldwide, including across Europe and Asia, at $2,499 SGD (about $1,867 USD). That’s more expensive than either the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 or Google Pixel 9 … Read more
Crypto Custody Firms BitGo and Copper Deliver Off-Exchange Settlement for Deribit
Qualified cryptocurrency custodian BitGo and Copper, the firm behind the ClearLoop settlement system, are providing off-exchange settlement for traders using options exchange Deribit, the firms said on Thursday. Clients of BitGo and Copper can now trade spot and derivatives on Deribit while assets are secured off-exchange in qualified custody with BitGo Trust, and automatically settled … Read more
Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Traders Deleverage on Steady Fed Rate Outlook
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Crypto traders are deleveraging after Wednesday’s FOMC minutes showed the Fed is looking to hold rates steady until inflation improves and discussed pausing or slowing the balance sheet runoff. Still, the yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped and the dollar weakened. Cryptocurrencies are higher, with the … Read more
Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site
Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to commit to the industry. For example, X-energy raised $700 million this month, and Paris-based Newcleo raised $151 million last year, and one would be … Read more
People Lie. Even When They Think They’re Telling the Truth
A meeting, an important project, a tense atmosphere. And then one of the managers, with the air of an expert, declares: “We knew from the very beginning that this approach would work!” Everyone around nods in agreement, admiring his insight. But you remember how just six months ago this same person was pushing for a … Read more
Crypto firms rally behind Ted Cruz to block DeFi broker rule
The Blockchain Association, representing 76 crypto firms, urges Congress to repeal the IRS DeFi broker rule, arguing it threatens US crypto innovation and unfairly burdens blockchain firms.
Web3 From The Eyes Of a Contributor
As someone who has been contributing to the web3 space since 2021, the amount of enquiries I have received about web3 in the past 2 weeks has been very high. If you are already in the web3 space, you would have an idea why this is happening. The answer is simple, we are in bull … Read more
Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of Highlights and Uploads
Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit. Twitch says … Read more
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