HashKey Cloud said on Sept. 7 that it had joined Stacks as a launch partner for self-custodial Bitcoin staking. Summary HashKey Cloud joined Stacks as a Genesis Bond participant and an sBTC signer operator officially. The institutional Genesis Bond is scheduled to launch around September 10, according to Stacks developers. Bonded Bitcoin remains timelocked on…
Investment in UK-based fintech companies declined to £1.8bn in the first half of the year, its lowest six-month total since 2016, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech H1 2026 report. British financial technology companies had raised £5bn in funding in H1 2025, a year in which the UK accounted for 68% of fintech investment in the…
Key Takeaways Bitcoin slipped about 1.5% to near $78,800 late yesterday after briefly trading above $80,400. Fed funds futures put roughly 57% odds on a September rate hike, up from 34.8% in late August. Spot bitcoin ETFs hold $101.25 billion in net assets, with Blackrock’s IBIT adding $3.575 billion in 30 days. The Calendar Doing…
The Ethereum Foundation assessed 62 proposed Hegotá changes, but only two received its highest “must ship” grade. Ethereum is targeting a quantum-resistant Layer 1 by December 2029, with the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol cluster laying out a multi-fork plan as Hegotá enters its scoping phase. Post-quantum security sits alongside privacy, faster finality, state management and…
Today’s NYT Strands hints involve a common shared experience. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns….
Sweden’s tax authority has ordered six crypto companies operating in Boden to pay nearly 540 million Swedish kronor (approx. $56 million) in additional taxes after finding that the firms used business structures to obtain tax benefits they were not entitled to. Summary Sweden has ordered six crypto firms operating in Boden to pay nearly SEK…
If you opt for an Android phone over an iPhone, there are certain features you get as standard as part of Android. Then there are other features specific to certain manufacturers, as each Android phone maker puts its own spin on the software. Pixel phones, for example, get the Now Playing widget on the home…
Key Takeaways Jupiter launched Gacha on its mobile app, enabling native trading card pack openings. The mobile app processed $575M in volume across 240,000 active 30-day users following the release. Jupiter plans to expand Jupiter Mobile beyond DeFi into physical asset collecting and Web3 consumer app. Scaling Mobile Adoption Jupiter, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform…
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin has already spawned counterfeit tokens ahead of its September 9 launch on Base. Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin called LAPTOP on Coinbase’s Base network on September 9, naming it after the laptop tied to a 2020 election controversy and reserving a…
Eric Wu built and ran Opendoor, one of the more ambitious real estate startups of the last decade, before stepping away in 2022 after fast-rising interest rates abruptly slowed down home sales. He spent a year resetting — he’d been running the company for eight years at that point — and could have easily jumped…
