Coinbase Cuts 14% of Staff, Embraces AI-Native Operating Model

Armstrong announced the decision in a memo to employees, which he also posted on X (formerly Twitter). The memo, addressed to the entire team, explained that the cuts were due to ongoing instability in the market and the fast development of AI, which is changing the nature of work.

Valve’s Steam Controller already being scalped for 3x price

It’s become very common to see highly sought-after items – like new Pokémon trading cards, popular game accessories, the latest game consoles, or new technology – sell out immediately and then reappear online for much higher prices, sometimes ten times the original cost.

XRP’s Tragic Ballet: A 75% Plunge in Payments, Yet the Show Must Go On

And what of the XRP Ledger, that grand stage upon which transactions once flourished? It has suffered a blow as cruel as a Chekhovian twist of fate. Payment volume, once a roaring river, has dwindled to a mere trickle, plummeting by 70% to 75% in the blink of an eye. Such a decline, one might say, is the financial equivalent of a once-popular actor being reduced to playing a tree in a school play. Is it a cooldown after a feverish performance, or has the audience simply lost interest? The ledger, designed for payments and settlement, now stands like a grand ballroom with no dancers, its value questioned by the very market it sought to serve.

Bitcoin at 81k? Wilde-ian Whims in a Sizzling Market

The chorus of larger-cap alts keeps to the sidelines with polite restraint; ETH and TRX offer modest, almost domesticated gains, while XRP, BNB, and DOGE drift ever so slightly toward the red. HYPE, meanwhile, astonishes the polite by hovering above $43, a number that would scandalize even a well-bred accountant.