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DeFi will soon pump harder than in DeFi summer: dYdX Foundation CEO
Charles d’Haussy, CEO of the dYdX Foundation, predicts the DeFi will start to boom in September and will have more entry points for new users than ever.
86% of LIBRA traders have realized a loss of more than $1K: Nansen
Over 13,000 investors in the LIBRA memecoin endorsed by Argentine president Javier Milei lost a combined $251 million, according to blockchain research firm Nansen.
DEX SecondSwap Launches Mainnet on Ethereum With Plans for Solana Expansion
Secondary token markets SecondSwap on Thursday launched its mainnet on Ethereum with the aim of providing a more efficient market for illiquid assets by eliminating intermediaries and establishing fair token value in the open market. SecondSwap uses a liquidity routing algorithm that optimizes trade execution and minimizes price slippage to ensure secure and scalable trading … Read more
CoinDesk Indices Launches CoinDesk 100, Memecoin Index in Industry Boost
HONG KONG – CoinDesk Indices launched two index products tracking the price gyrations of memecoins and the top hundred tokens by market capitalization, meeting demand from institutional and professional investors who seek upside in different crypto sectors, the firm announced at Consensus Hong Kong. The CoinDesk Memecoin Index will track the largest fifty memecoins by … Read more
Trump mulls passing on 20% of DOGE savings to Americans
US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of giving Americans a portion of the savings made from DOGE’s sweeping cost-cutting crusade.
AI-coding startup Codeium in talks to raise at an almost $3B valuation, sources say
Codeium, an AI-powered coding startup, is raising a new round of funding at a $2.85 billion valuation, including fresh capital, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. The round is being led by a returning investor Kleiner Perkins, the people said. The new round comes just six months after Silicon Valley-based Codeium announced … Read more
Have a “Signature Something” and 26 Other Lifehacks for Being Eccentrically Charming
Want instant satisfaction in your endeavor to be a fascinating individual? Read on. This article will try to focus on the ‘fake it till you make it‘ type of things you can do with a minimum investment to make you a better conversationalist and the sort of person people cannot resist. Being remarkable is a … Read more
First-Ever Spot XRP ETF Gets Green Light in Brazil
Brazil is set to be the first country to launch a spot XRP ETF after the country’s regulator gave the green light to Hashdex’s product.
‘For You’ feeds are not for creators, Patreon says
Patreon has continued on its crusade against algorithmic feeds with its latest State of Create report, a look at trends in the creator economy based on internal data, and it’s an effort creators can get behind. In its survey of 1,000 creators and 2,000 fans, the membership platform reported that 53% of creators think it … Read more
Pump.fun Activity Cools as President Milei’s Solana Meme Coin Fiasco Unfolds
Following Argentine President Milei’s meme coin promotion, the epicenter of Solana’s so-called casino, Pump.fun, is showing signs of cooling.
Grok-3 Review: How Elon Musk’s AI Compares to ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini
With Grok-3, xAI aims to outsmart the competition. We pit it against GPT-4o, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to see if Elon Musk’s latest creation lives up to the hype.
Peer to Peer AI: Is This Era Upon Us?
“Please consider the advent of DeepSeek as a historical pivot to the era of ‘Peer to Peer AI’.” This quote is from Michel Bauwens’ essay “AI and the Advent of the Age of the Brahmin Workers.“ Bauwens is the Founder of the P2P Foundation, a network investigating the impact of peer-to-peer and commons dynamics in our times of … Read more
Saronic raises $600M to mass-produce autonomous warships
Austin-based defense startup Saronic has raised a $600 million Series C to build an autonomous ship factory called “Port Alpha,” it announced. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Rabbit shows off the AI agent it should have launched with
The Humane AI Pin has collapsed, but Rabbit is still kicking. The company published a blog post and video today showing off a “generalist Android agent,” slowly controlling apps on a tablet in much the same way that Rabbit claimed its R1 device would over a year ago. (It couldn’t, and can’t.) The work builds … Read more
Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a federal election that takes place Sunday, according to new research carried out by Global Witness. The non-government organization (NGO) undertook an analysis of social media content displayed to new users via algorithmically … Read more
After raising $1 billion, fintech Varo closes another $29 million, replaces founder CEO
Fintech Varo has been hoping to raise a $55 million Series G round but has, so far, closed on $29 million to date, according to a recent SEC filing. Varo declined to comment on this new round but the fintech has raised just over $1 billion in funding since its 2015 inception, according to PitchBook. … Read more
Getting Started With Apple’s Vision Framework: A Developer’s Perspective
The Vision framework was introduced by Apple in 2017 at WWDC as part of iOS 11. Its launch marked a turning point in the evolution of machine vision and image analysis, providing developers with native tools to analyze visual content and perform subsequent processing as needed. In 2017, Vision introduced: Text recognition Face recognition Detection … Read more
Nvidia is launching ‘priority access’ to help fans buy RTX 5080 and 5090 FE GPUs
An RTX 50-series GPU. Nvidia has yet to explain why it launched its GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs with barely any inventory, some major launch driver issues, and the occasional melting power connector, but it has apparently reconsidered its stance when it comes to scalpers. The company’s just announced a way for Nvidia fans … Read more