In April 2021, Washington State approved a bill to ban the sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2030, making it the third state after California and Massachusetts to ban ICE vehicles. The state said the ban will drastically reduce the demand for […]
There’s always a correlation between the stock market and cryptocurrency. For instance, as of May this year, the S&P 500 is down this year by 16%, and the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite is off by a bear-market 25%. During the same period, […]
Earlier this week, we wrote about Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he said he had a “super bad feeling” about the economy and wants to cut about 10% of jobs at his company. Musk’s instinct was right. He foresaw what […]
As blockchain technology moves into the mainstream and serves as the underpinning technology for cryptocurrencies, one company that continues to push the boundary is Syscoin. They’ve been innovating their blockchain architecture to offer the most capable platform with Bitcoin’s security, Ethereum’s flexibility, […]
Some have called it a fashion crime. The amount of waste in the fashion industry is unfathomable until you start peeling the surface. The $2.4 trillion fashion industry — with its short trend cycles and massive production rates — was named […]
In early May, TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin collapsed and lost 99% of its value, wiping out the life savings of crypto investors as traders offload the cryptocurrency. Terra was ranked among the top 10 most valuable cryptocurrencies before the collapse. The sudden […]
The United States is currently at near-record-low unemployment and a strong labor market. While millions of Americans quit their job due to the Great Resignation, we’re surprised to learn that bob scams are still on the rise. The business and […]
Unconscious hiring bias affects job seekers more than most people think. A recent Yale University study found that employers still preferred to hire men over women. Another study conducted by the University of Chicago and MIT found that applicants with white-sounding […]
It was just a few days ago that Singapore-based Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform Cake DeFi celebrated its 3rd Anniversary with over $317 million in payout to its customers. Despite the recent downturn in the crypto market, the fintech startup also posted a record […]
xtingles, the premier launchpad for ASMR NFT collectibles, has announced it is expanding its effort to bring ASMR into Web3 by forming Deep Life Labs (DLL), a parent organization that will help create even richer, more meaningful ASMR experiences and […]
While tech companies are still reeling from a wave of layoffs and hiring freeze, music streaming giant Spotify said on Wednesday that it expects to reach $100 billion in annual revenue, nearly 10-fold from its 2021 revenue of $11.4 billion. Since its inception about […]
Fresh from its recent announcement of its beta version implementation for Avalanche, SubQuery has delivered its latest iteration of multi-chain connectivity with the addition of support for the Cosmos ecosystem, starting with Juno. From today, Juno and other CosmWasm developers […]
Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, announced Thursday that it will launch $USDT on the Tezos network, thus expanding the number of blockchain networks supporting the stablecoin to 12. The addition of USDt to Tezos demonstrates its growing momentum […]
Just two days after Elon Musk’s lawyers sent a letter to Twitter threatening to terminate the $44 billion deal over the inflated user data, Twitter has reportedly agreed to comply with Elon Musk’s bot data demands, according to a report […]
It’s been a while since we last wrote about Immuta, a Boston, MA-based tech startup created based on a mission within the U.S. Intelligence Community to build a platform that accelerates self-service access and control of sensitive data. Back then, Immuta raised […]
The exponential growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has led to increased demand for liquid staking as billions in liquidity flow to projects into the DeFi space. Investors and users alike love liquid staking because of the potential to generate passive […]
In December of 2020, we wrote about Baidu after the China search giant announced it was looking into developing its own electric vehicles (EVs). At the time, Baidu was reportedly in talks with Chinese carmakers about making its own EVs. Then in […]
As you may recall back in March, Apple quietly acquired London-based fintech startup Credit Kudos for $150 million as part of its push to dominate the payments space. Now, the trillion-dollar tech giant is pushing further into finance and getting into the BNPL game with the launch […]
Once written off as a fad by many including us, the NFT market has now surpassed $20 billion. In 2021 alone, NFT collectors and traders spent $22 billion on NFTs, up from $100 million in 2020, according to the Guardian. But the […]
Trading giant Citadel Securities is building a “cryptocurrency trading ecosystem” in collaboration with high-frequency trading and market-making firm Virtu Financial. The new crypto trading marketplace will enable retail brokerages to offer crypto-executions to their customers, CoinDesk reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of […]
