Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt
Hollywood powerhouse, comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Hart makes the world laugh both onstage and on camera. But behind the scenes, he’s a serious entrepreneur building a multiplatform media empire. He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. What’s more, Hart’s … Read more
$25K or $15K BTC — CPI and US inflation data coming out on Thursday: Watch The Market Report
On this week’s episode of The Market Report, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the new CPI data and U.S. inflation rate to be announced on Thursday, Oct. 13.
OpenSea launches NFT marketplace on Avalanche
As NFT activity continues to slow, some major players in the space have joined forces to expand its reach. The latest to do so is OpenSea, which has launched natively on the layer-1 blockchain, Avalanche, both firms exclusively told TechCrunch. “The future of web3 is multi-chain; and it’s always been our goal to offer the … Read more
TikTok is planning its own US fulfillment centers, according to job listings
Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is reportedly building its own shopping fulfillment centers in the US, according to more than a dozen job postings first spotted by Axios. The LinkedIn job listings include global fulfillment center positions in Seattle and Los Angeles. TikTok has already made its e-commerce ambitions in the US clear, and … Read more
Everyrealm Eyes Communities of Scale in the Metaverse
Everyrealm, a speaker at CoinDesk’s IDEAS event, started by investing in metaverse real estate. Now that’s only a small part of its portfolio.
One of the most important women in Apple’s history never worked for Apple
Margot Comstock holding a conversation with Infocom designers Marc Blank and Joel Berez at the Softalk Publishing booth at Applefest 1983 | Image: Al Tommervik Margot Comstock took her winnings from a TV game show, bought a magazine, and turned it into a major hub for the nascent community of developers and fans of one … Read more
Bitcoin prepares for CPI showdown as BTC price dips below $19K cost basis
BTC price performance declines in line with U.S. equities ahead of classic volatility engendered by CPI data.
WisdomTree’s Spot Bitcoin ETF Rejected by The SEC
WisdomTree had refiled for a spot bitcoin ETF after previously being denied.
Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite is still on sale for $99.99
You can buy the latest Kindle Paperwhite with ads for $99.99. | Image: Chaim Gartenberg If you missed out on all the great Kindle Paperwhite deals we saw in July during the first Prime Day, you still have a chance to save. Right now, Amazon is selling the latest ad-supported Kindle Paperwhite with 8GB of … Read more
Alchemy, Ava Labs and BlockFi break down funding in a bear market at TC Sessions: Crypto
Bears hibernate during the coldest months, but there’s nowhere to hide from a bear market during a crypto winter. As the entire sector faces what looks to be a long stretch of uncertainty, young founders must find a way to keep the funds flowing. But how? This timely topic is why we’re thrilled that industry … Read more
BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit
The BNB Smart Chain will this week perform a hard fork as a fix for the exploit of Oct. 6 which drained an estimated $100 million from the platform.
Slicing the Elephant: Inside the Design of a Digital Euro
There are plenty of decisions yet to be made about the landmark CBDC, the head of the ECB’s digital euro project, Evelien Witlox, tells CoinDesk.
Wow, Booritos are on Booreal now
Private social networking app BeReal isn’t known for brand advertising, but early BeReal adopter Chipotle is looking to change that. The brand is celebrating its return of the Boorito, Chipotle’s first time doing the promo since 2019, by giving BeReal users the chance to win 52 free burritos for a year. For one day only, … Read more
How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 keynote (hint: Facebook)
Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical … Read more
A16z Leads $14M Funding Round for New E-Commerce Platform from Twitch Co-Founder
Rye plans to become fully decentralized on the Solana blockchain
The new AirPods Pro have hit an all-time low
Right now, you can save $25.76 on the second-gen AirPods Pro. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale, a.k.a. Amazon Prime Day 2.0, has arrived, and with it comes the best discount we’ve seen yet on Apple’s newest AirPods Pro. Right now, you can buy them on sale for … Read more
DeFi Protocol Temple DAO Struck by $2.3M Exploit
Temple DAO, a DeFi protocol that offers users yields on deposits, has been hit by a $2 million exploit, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.
Social commerce startup Elenas secures $20M to help more LatAm women sell online
Elenas estimates that 11 million women in Latin America sell consumer items via catalogs and door-to-door sales methods. It is digitizing that process so they can more easily sell from home. Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to … Read more
Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots
Foxglove, a startup building an infrastructure stack for robotics, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxglove’s total raised to $18.7 million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says is being put … Read more
Earthmover to bring petascale data tools to climate tech with $1.7M pre-seed
Shortly after the COVID pandemic hit, inspiration struck Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman. The pair had been watching the “mass mobilization” of the epidemiology research community, Abernathey said. “Joe and I were both thinking at the time, ‘We wanted to be part of something with that level of intensity and urgency around climate change.’” Abernathey … Read more
NextView Ventures’ new $200 million fund comes with a slice of San Francisco
Adding a partner is no joke. Well, at least if you want it to be equal. NextView Ventures announced today that it has raised a $200 million venture fund, its largest to date, split between an early-stage vehicle, at $135 million, and an opportunity vehicle, at $65 million. The fund also brings on Stephanie Palmeri, … Read more
Crypto Exchange Bittrex to Pay $30M in US Treasury Sanctions Settlement
Crypto exchange Bittrex will pay the U.S. Treasury Department’s sanctions and money laundering watchdogs $30 million to settle allegations it maintained a poor compliance program between 2014 and 2017, allowing individuals from sanctioned jurisdictions to trade on the platform.