YouTube built one of the creator economy‘s biggest payment systems, but now it is raising the bar for who gets to share in it. Beginning Feb. 1, 2027, new creators will need 8,000 qualified watch hours over the previous year or 20 million qualified Shorts views within 90 days to earn advertising and YouTube Premium…
Crypto projects lost roughly $110 million to hacks in July as Immunefi recorded more confirmed bug bounty reports and found that audit competitions uncovered more serious vulnerabilities than private audits. Summary Crypto hacks caused approximately $110 million in losses during July. Immunefi paid researchers $2.32 million for confirmed vulnerabilities during the month. Audit competitions found…
One element of the 80s F1 rubber straps that has not carried over to the new collection, though, is the V-shaped grooves on the bottom portion of the original straps. TAG made the 80s rubber straps extra long so surfers and divers could wear the F1s over wetsuits. The V-shaped grooves meant these could easily…
The marketing industry has a vocabulary problem. Ask any CMO about their distribution strategy and they will describe their content calendar. Ask about their channel mix and they will explain their paid media budget. Ask how they ensure their brand shows up inside the AI-generated answers their customers are already reading and most will go…
In Bitcoin news today, US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $853.5M in net inflows across five consecutive trading sessions from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7, reversing the prior week’s withdrawals, according to CoinGlass data. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for an estimated $693M of that total, or roughly 81% of category-wide inflows. Bitcoin remained below $65,000 during…
Institutional investors just sold an overall total of $414 million in Bitcoin and crypto assets in one week, according to a new update from CoinShares. It marks the first selloff in five weeks amid concerns over the prolonged Iran conflict and higher inflation. The US led the outflows with $445 million. Switzerland recorded minor outflows…
Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production of its silicon-carbon battery material. The loan, which was announced Friday, arrives as U.S. battery buyers, from automotive companies to defense contractors, struggle to procure battery materials that are made outside of China. Most of…
Key Takeaways Btcparser.com tracked 2,209 BTC in 85 dormant spends through Aug. 10. Bitcoin’s August dormant pace hit 220.91 BTC daily, more than 5 times July. The data set leaves 1,215 BTC moving after 2 major clusters are removed. The movements, identified through the blockchain parser tool Btcparser.com, represent bitcoin held in addresses dating from…
[PRESS RELEASE – Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 10th, 2026] Deposits Are Open for hBTC, the Vault Token for Hilbert Group’s BTC Basis+ Strategy Syntetika, a tokenization hub for regulated investment strategies, opened deposits today for its first strategy: BTC Basis+, managed by the publicly traded Hilbert Group. Syntetika makes investment strategies that run…
The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has added two little-known crypto assets to its listing roadmap. The exchange says it’s considering adding Diem (DIEM) and Opengradient (OPG) to its platform for spot trading. “The launch of trading for these assets is contingent on market-making support, and sufficient technical infrastructure. We will announce the launch of trading…
