The HackerNoon Newsletter: Why You Cant Afford Off Days (1/20/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 20, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States in 2017, ThinkPad laptop computer was announced in 1992, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his … Read more

HackerNoon Decoded 2024: Celebrating Our AI Community!

Welcome to HackerNoon Decoded: AI Edition—the ultimate recap of the stories, writers, and trends that defined your 2024! Turns Out, AI Spoke Your Language—No Translation Needed “AI is coming for our jobs!” But you’re ahead of the curve ⤴️ If this was your top tech category, you’re in the top 11.09% of readers who can’t … Read more

Trump-Linked Crypto Platform Throws Over $70M on WBTC, ETH, Other Tokens Ahead of Inauguration

World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance platform linked to Donald Trump and his family, purchased millions of dollars of cryptocurrencies in a buying frenzy on Monday hours before Trump’s inauguration ceremony. The protocol’s wallet address bought over $23.5 million of wrapped bitcoin (BTC), $29 million of Ethereum’s ETH, $4.4 million of AAVE and $4.5 … Read more

Don’t Be Fooled by Trump-Family Memecoins, the Sell-Off Has Begun

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration started early this weekend with the release of the TRUMP and MELANIA memecoins, and resulting demand that drove their combined market cap to a high of more than $17 billion dollars, surpassing the value of both shiba inu (SHIB) and the Avalance blockchain’s AVAX. One might ask how investors had … Read more

Canon’s new app lets you live stream from multiple cameras, just not Canon’s

Canon’s Live Switcher Mobile app is free for iOS and iPadOS devices. | Screenshot: YouTube Canon has announced a new live streaming app that can wirelessly connect to, and switch between, video feeds from three mobile devices. It’s currently limited to iPhones and iPads running at least iOS and iPad0S 16. Android isn’t supported, but … Read more

Binance’s Tigran Gambaryan: ‘It Would Be an Honor to Serve My Country Again’

Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive who was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned in Nigeria for eight months, said it would be an honor to serve his country again, if asked to do so, fighting crypto crime under the new Trump administration. Gambaryan, who has been the head of financial crime compliance at Binance for the past … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: SOL Surges 16% as Index Inches Higher From Friday

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 4022.91, up 0.3% (+12.57) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Four of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+16.0%) and LINK (+4.3%). Laggards: DOT (-13.3%) and RENDER (-12.9%). … Read more

Google Searches for ‘How to Buy Crypto’ Skyrocket as Trump Flips the ‘Overton Window’

The crypto craze is sweeping the general public as observers said President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to debut a memecoin has flipped the Overton window, bringing digital assets to the mainstream. Google Trends, a widely used tool to gauge general or retail interest in trending topics, is currently returning a value of 100 for the worldwide … Read more