Author: GT

Binance added fiat-to-crypto onramp capabilities for the top two global leading mobile wallets, Apple Pay and Google Pay, via an integration with Worldpay, as part of its ambition to bring the next billion users into Web3. But despite its efforts to partner with some of the most established names in payments in order to boost awareness and trust among the masses, Binance’s continued challenges may counter that. The integration enables the easy purchase (i.e., conversion) of cryptos from fiat currency in the Binance app from the Apple Pay and Google Pay wallets, which together account for over a quarter of…

AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report. Over the past year, the tech giant says it has prevented $4 billion in fraud attempts, blocking approximately 1.6 million bot sign-up attempts every hour – showing the scale of this growing threat. The ninth edition of Microsoft’s Cyber Signals report, titled “AI-powered deception: Emerging fraud threats and countermeasures,” reveals how artificial intelligence has lowered the technical barriers for cybercriminals, enabling even low-skilled actors to generate sophisticated scams with minimal effort. What previously took scammers days or weeks to create can…

An Amazon employee works to fulfill same-day orders during Cyber Monday, one of the company’s busiest days at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty ImagesFor 10 years, Aaron Cordovez has been selling kitchen appliances on Amazon. Now he’s in a bind, because most of his products are manufactured in China.Cordovez, co-founder of Zulay Kitchen, said his company is moving “as fast as we can” to move production to India, Mexico and other markets, where tariffs are increasing under President Donald Trump, but are mild compared with the levies imposed on…

It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky’s status page, the company was aware of the outage, which it attributed to “Major PDS Networking Problems.” (PDS means personal data servers.) The first status message was posted at 6:55 PM ET, and a second one indicating that a fix was being applied was shared soon after at 7:38 PM ET. The question…

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) may be the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, weighing in at $1.85 trillion on April 24, but that doesn’t mean it’s the leader across every metric. In fact, it’s one of the absolute laggards for one data point in particular — and it happens to be the heartbeat of many of its peers in cryptocurrency, like Ethereum, Solana, and Cardano. Much to the surprise of many investors, that’s not a reason to avoid buying or to consider selling it. From one perspective, it’s actually another argument for why the largest coin is worth buying and holding forever,…

Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company’s co-CEO, three years after he was sidelined following an internal probe into allegations of fraud — a probe that led to a investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission that remains ongoing. Jia will serve alongside current CEO Matthias Aydt and will oversee Faraday’s finance, legal, and supply chain teams, the company announced in a press conference Thursday. Aydt is a longtime Faraday Future employee who was once placed on probation after he offered to pay a Faraday Future board member up to…

Tariffs have had a colossal negative impact on the crypto market. Nearly every major cryptocurrency is now down for the year, and some are down as much as 50%. However, if you only focus on the past 30 days, a different picture emerges. Of the top 20 cryptocurrencies ranked by market cap, a handful of them are actually posting slightly positive returns. And, if you’re willing to peek outside the top 20, it’s possible to find some coins that are up 30% or more over the past 30 days. Here are my top three picks. Where to invest $1,000 right…

A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted. It can also transform from a two-seater pickup to a five-seater SUV. The three-year-old startup revealed its vehicle during an event Thursday night in Long Beach, California, and promised the first trucks would be available to customers for under $20,000 with the federal EV tax credit by the end of 2026. The event comes…

We’re thrilled to announce that Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who might not be familiar with his background, Mitsotakis brings a fascinating blend of experiences to the table. Before entering politics, he worked at both McKinsey and Chase Investment Bank, giving him firsthand experience in the business world that many operators throughout the startup ecosystem can appreciate. The youngest of four children, he also has some Silicon Valley-esque academic credentials –…

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) live large in investors’ imaginations thanks to their earlier parabolic run-ups that made some holders into millionaires. Of course, both meme coins probably lost other investors vast sums of money as well. But that doesn’t deter the hopeful from wondering whether another coin, or perhaps even one of these two, might reach stratospheric heights once again under the right set of conditions. With that in mind, let’s explore what those conditions actually are and evaluate whether another coin might one day fly to match or even surpass them — even if it…