BTC Prague 2026: Europe’s leading Bitcoin conference expands its cultural reach
BTC Prague, Europe’s premier Bitcoin conference, returns to the PVA Expo Prague on June 11-13, 2026.
Crypto Long & Short: How the GENIUS Act repriced bitcoin’s monetary premium
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Ravi Tanuku on why the GENIUS Act didn’t just regulate stablecoins, it repriced Bitcoin’s monetary premium. Then, Jesper Johansen on why looped ETH staking no longer needs a lending market.
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
As Cognition reaches $492 million in annualized revenue run rate, it more than doubled its valuation in eight months, it says.
BIS project finds tokenization could make cross-border payments faster, safer
Project Agorá, backed by major central banks, will now move toward “real-value” testing to settle tokenized central bank money and bank deposits on blockchain rails.
Kraken Now Lets You Earn Yield on Bitcoin Holdings via Lending Vaults
Kraken customers can make use of their Bitcoin holdings and generate BTC yield without ever leaving the exchange.
AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him
NY-12 congressional candidate Alex Bores speaks during a campaign event. | Bloomberg via Getty Images By the time that the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who … Read more
How I Built an AI Study Buddy That Generates Notes, Tutorials, and Self-Validated Tests
One pipeline → organized notes, a worked tutorial, and a calibrated practice test — from lectures, books, photos of class notes, and study-group chat. Built on NVIDIA Nemotron Omni in a weekend. The Problem with AI Study Tools Most AI tools for students do one thing well and nothing else. ChatGPT can summarize a chapter … Read more
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Crypto IPOs could create massive $1 trillion market amid tokenization wave, Jefferies says
The Wall Street investment bank expects a wave of crypto and blockchain public listings over the next two years as institutional investors shift their focus from speculative trading to real-world financial infrastructure.
How to Build Privacy-First AI Personalization Across Multiple Data Domains
Imagine asking your AI assistant: “When does my driving license expire?” Simple question. But to answer it, the AI needs to find a photo of your license in your gallery, or locate a renewal confirmation buried in your email, or pull the date from a government app on your phone. It needs to reach across … Read more
Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app
After a flood of complaints about the Google Health app that just replaced Fitbit, Google has responded with a list of changes that will roll out starting this week. @verge We tried Fitbit Air’s AI coach, and it turned out to be far more instructive than expected. The Verge’s Victoria Song joins us on The … Read more
Huawei’s New Benchmark Gives AI Agents Months of Your Life—Then Watches Them Fail
Claw-Anything simulates a real digital existence and asks AI assistants to handle it. GPT-5.5, the best model available, scored 34.5%.
FAA orders SpaceX to investigate Starship V3 booster failure
Starship is grounded until SpaceX finds out why the first V3 booster failed during its first test flight.
Rethinking the Socrates Syllogism for Contemporary Logic Education
This article reexamines the famous “All men are mortal, Socrates is a man” syllogism through the lens of modern pedagogy and philosophy. While acknowledging the formal correctness of deductive logic itself, the author argues that the example has become outdated, philosophically loaded, and pedagogically confusing for modern students because its premises involve unresolved questions about … Read more
StakeDAO exploit creates 5.4 trillion vsdCRV but nets only $91K
PeckShield said the attacker bridged 43.7 ETH to Ethereum after minting trillions of vsdCRV, while EmberCN said most of the remaining tokens had insufficient liquidity to sell.
Engineering Metrics Are Shifting From Output Tracking to System Health
Engineering organisations measure almost everything today. Deployments. Story points. Velocity. Pull requests. Jira tickets. Lines of code. CPU utilisation. Incident counts. Yet many leadership teams still cannot answer the questions that actually matter. Are teams getting faster? Are engineers overloaded? Is platform investment reducing friction? Is reliability improving sustainably? Are we shipping value or just … Read more
Mastercard Secures New York BitLicense in Push for Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits
Mastercard has secured a highly coveted BitLicense in New York, anchoring its compliance-first strategy for stablecoins on Wall Street.
HTX denies UK sanctions allegations as new data flags $7.6B Russia-linked flows
UK sanctions Huobi Global S.A., operator of HTX, over alleged role in Russia’s “A7” shadow network, as new analysis claims the exchange handled billions in high‑risk flows.
Sony’s DualSense controllers are almost 30 percent off
Sony has a tradition of marking down its PlayStation 5 hardware a couple of times a year, and one of those opportunities to save is here through June 10th. Its latest Days of Play sale is happening at multiple retailers, including Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart, and at Sony’s site as well. It loops in … Read more
Banca Sella gets MiCA clearance for crypto services in Italy
The bank plans to launch digital asset custody, transfer and receipt services in 2026 for selected customer categories.
Robinhood will let your AI agent trade stocks and make (or lose) lots of money
Robinhood is opening its trading platform to AI agents. In an announcement on Wednesday, Robinhood says traders can now create a separate account for an AI agent and add a specific amount of money, allowing the agent to buy and sell stocks across the market. The company pitches the feature as a way for traders … Read more
Block kicks off Cash App’s phased stablecoin roll out to its nearly 60 million users
An individual familiar with the matter told CoinDesk the stablecoin feature was rolled out to 25% of users already and by the end of the week, all users will have access.
Bitcoin price shrugs off $1.3B BlackRock ETF block sale
Bitcoin’s price stayed firm despite a massive $1.3 billion block sale executed by a mysterious BlackRock ETF holder, which analysts called a sign of large-scale institutional de-risking.
A bipartisan bridge to the future: Why the Senate must finish the job on digital Assets
The Clarity Act’s recent markup proved that the momentum for regulation is there. It is imperative that Congress move the bill forward to establish rules this generation needs and a framework the next will inherit, urges Kim.
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close today: Nominate a founder or submit your startup
Today is the final day to apply or nominate a startup for Startup Battlefield 200. Once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT, the window closes on your chance to compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding, gain global visibility, connect directly with investors, and launch on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage.
Sold in May and went away? Bitcoin risks another 10% drop as month turns red
Bitcoin is on track to end May in the red, a historically bearish signal that could point to deeper losses ahead if the post-May track record is any guide.
ElevenLabs’s new music generation model can switch genres mid-track
ElevenLabs’ new model will let users regenerate a section of a song without affecting rest of the track
Robinhood is letting AI trade for you so you don’t have to keep checking the markets
Robinhood is bringing hedge fund-style automation to everyday investors by letting AI agents build portfolios, execute stock trades, and even go shopping using virtual credit cards.