Lugano, Switzerland, March 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire On St. Patrick’s Day, as 2 million spectators flood the streets of New York City, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, is taking over Times Square. The brand activation combines synchronized digital billboards with a street-level campaign designed to introduce digital dollar payments to a mainstream …
Web3 infrastructure and professional athletics never appeared to be a match in the early days of crypto, but they’ve proven to be a match made in heaven. It began as a niche interest in digital collectibles, hosted on the sports blockchain, but has since turned into a robust infrastructure that is changing how sports franchises …
We need to reinvent and rebuild the world’s factories, warehouses, supply chain and systems where AI and automation can integrate, move and track everything. We need to do this from first principles. We will have more than just a future of robotaxi. We will have roboeverything. In a future dominated by drones, Optimus-like humanoid robots, …
Kalshi, the federally regulated prediction market platform, announced a Series D funding round over $300 million. It was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, with investments from Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, and others. It gave Kalshi a $5 billion valuation. The company, founded in 2020 by Yale graduates Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara, has …
Elon Musk has just confirmed that 𝕏 Money is working internally and will start extending to outside beta users soon. 𝕏 Money is a digital payment service providing peer-to-peer transfers, a wallet for storing funds, and Visa integration for bank/debit card connections. It may add crypto and investment features later. Currently in internal beta, expanding …
Bitcoin has increased in price from less than penny ($0.003 in 2010) to $110,000 today in 2025. Bitcoin is up 18% in 2025 and was up as much as 31% last month. Buying into Bitcoin early in 2017 would have been at prices below $1000 and there would have been over 100X returns. Late 2013 …
Tom Lee, co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors and the chairman of Bitmine (an Ethereum treasury company), provides a bullish outlook on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. They each have distinct use cases and potential for massive growth. The conversation covers the bull cases for each asset, short-term catalysts, regulatory developments, and broader …
CoreWeave is buying Core Scientific, Bitcoin miner, for $9 billion. It is an all-stock deal to speed up AI data center construction and deployment. • Core Scientific’s 1.3 GW power capacity over 11 U.S. sites • $10B in lease savings, $500M in annual cost cuts by 2027 HIVE estimates 10 MW of NVIDIA H100 GPUs …
Delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today’s quantum computers. Starling will be able to access the computational power required for these problems by running 100 million quantum operations using 200 logical …
Blockchain is all about decentralization, or so we’re told. But despite this core principle, much of the blockchain ecosystem still relies on centralized entities for exchanges, custody and governance. This centralization is a contradiction to the whole idea of decentralization. Above – Image source: Pixabay. As blockchain evolves, trustless infrastructure is becoming the key to …
2024 has been a groundbreaking year for the cryptocurrency industry and the stage is set for significant advancements in 2025. Key developments like the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs, the resurgence of decentralized finance (DeFi), the rise of asset tokenization, and the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) have drastically reshaped the competitive landscape. In …