On Thursday morning, Nintendo kicked off the post-hump day portion of the week with a juicy little Nintendo Direct livestream focused on Mario Kart World. It was nice to get some fun new details about the flagship launch title for Switch 2, but the Direct didn’t really answer the biggest question on many gamers’ minds:…
$FAT crypto, Fat Nigga Season (yes, that’s the ticker) is trending thanks to being up over 90% in the last 3 days. The meme coin is trading at 10.60 million in market cap, +34% in the last 24 hours. $FAT was launched in late February 2025 and peaked at $19.26 million. Then it dropped to…
The world’s largest crypto exchange platform by trading volume is adding a new layer-1 Ethereum (ETH) rival to its launchpool. In a new announcement, Binance says it’s adding Initia (INIT), a blockchain designed to offer rollups and infrastructure for appchain development, to its launchpool. “Binance is excited to announce the 68th project on Binance Launchpool –…
More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday amid a broader Trump administration shakeup at the independent government agency, sources tell WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB. The mass reduction in force, or RIF, comes nearly a month after a federal judge…
Web3 experts emphasize that the ongoing trade war, while presenting challenges, can also act as a catalyst for innovation within the blockchain space. However, they argue that fostering a mindset of global unity can help mitigate the divisive effects of trade wars. Decentralized Governance Can Mitigate Disputes Caused by Protectionist Policies As the U.S.-China trade…
Gary Gensler has once again voiced concern over the crypto industry, stating that most digital assets are driven almost entirely by market sentiment rather than solid fundamentals. In a recent appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, the former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair warned that this makes many altcoins vulnerable to sudden collapse. BTC’s Long-Term…
Expense management startup Ramp is being considered for a charge card pilot program by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The government’s internal expense card program, dubbed SmartPay, is a $700 billion program. It is estimated that the charge card pilot program contract for which Ramp is being…
U.S. stocks ended mixed on Thursday as steep losses in UnitedHealth pulled the Dow lower. Investors digested ongoing trade tensions and signals from the Federal Reserve that interest rate cuts may not be imminent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2%, or roughly 500 points, largely due to a 23% plunge in UnitedHealth shares after…
Cryptocurrency trader and analyst Ali Martinez is leaning bearish on Solana (SOL) while updating his outlook on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). Starting with Solana, Martinez tells his 135,500 followers on the social media platform X that the sixth-largest crypto asset by market cap could fall by up to 48% from the current level if…
Image: Andrii/Adobe Stock A new court ruling could change the dominant role Google has held in the digital advertising market since the release of AdWords in late 2000. On April 17, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized two markets: one for publisher ad servers and one for online ad exchanges. Antitrust…
