Freedom Index
The News Roundup
View More NewsA mom of five was convicted last week of delinquency of a minor. Her offense: allowing her 5-year-old son to walk about a half-mile by himself in their gated community. Until very recently, Karyann Parkinson lived in leafy Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband, Dallin, moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when Parkinson was preparing for the bar—and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child—she and her then-youngest, Sam, went for a bike ride, as they often do. They stopped for her son’s favorite activity: collecting goose…
In brief DeFi Development Corp. is offering 2.2 million preferred shares at $9 each. CEO Joseph Onorati said most of the proceeds are expected to fund SOL purchases. The company recently bought 19,000 SOL, increasing its treasury to 2.33 million SOL and equivalents. Solana treasury firm DeFi Development Corp. has launched a preferred stock offering that could raise $19.8 million, with most of the proceeds expected to fund SOL purchases.DeFi Development Corp. is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker DFDV. It has adopted a treasury strategy centered on accumulating and staking SOL.Myriad: Where does Solana…
AI & Crypto
Read MorePolitics
Don't Miss!
Opinions & Debates
I lived in Reykjavík for a year in 2011, doing fieldwork for my PhD. The best thing about living there—better than the Northern Lights, better than the glaciers and volcanoes, better even than the fact that nobody locks their doors—was the public pools. They’re geothermally heated and open all winter, with ice coating the decks and steam rising off the water like the River Styx with lap lanes. The smell of sulphur rises with the steam. It seeps up from where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is slowly splitting the island in two.The Icelanders don’t put any chemicals in their pools. So…
Latest News
In brief Robinhood Chain generated $1.595 billion in 24-hour DEX volume. DeFi TVL reached $738.11 million. Stablecoin market capitalization rose to $796.74 million. Daily…
The company’s Texas campus has two long-term leases worth $19.6 billion, more than 260 times its latest quarterly revenue, as AI companies race to…
Ethena has launched a global money app built around its USDe synthetic dollar, expanding the crypto-native asset into everyday payments, savings and cross-border transfers.According…
In brief Dropbox notified users of unauthorized account access between August 4 and August 21 after attackers reportedly exploited a Lenovo ID authentication issue.…
In brief Zcash will roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month, targeting enhanced security against future quantum computing threats. The privacy coin plans to…
Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment during the 2012 election, part of a larger argument that successful entrepreneurs ultimately derived their wealth from…
The U.S. stock market is heating up in a way that suggests speculative mania. It matters to bitcoin as analysts have linked the cryptocurrency’s…
A campaign to require the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin is set to lapse after failing to gather enough signatures to trigger a…
In brief Andreessen Horowitz partner David George argues fears of AI-driven mass unemployment are historically unfounded. George says AI will reorganize labor markets and…
The few days have been fun. On Thursday, I attended a double investiture at the Supreme Court of Texas for the two newest members.…
Stablecoin-based cards could soon account for double-digit percentages of all cards in some Latin American markets, John Timoney, head of strategic partnerships at Rain,…
Key takeaways:A weakening US dollar and higher government debt favor scarce assets, even as spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and low retail demand spark some…