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Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'
9.5.2025
The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has unionized. That includes nearly 200 developers across disciplines ranging from art and testing to engineering and design. Basically anyone who doesn’t have someone else reporting to them. It’s the second wall-to-wall union at the storied game maker since...
Metaplanet Plans a Further $21M Bond Sale to Buy More BTC
9.5.2025
Metaplanet has the largest BTC stash among publicly-traded companies outside North America
America’s crypto renaissance is already failing; but we can fix it
5.5.2025
Opinion by: Shane Molidor, Founder, ForgdFor years, launching a crypto project in the United States has been a maze of uncertainty. Legal ambiguity and a hostile regulatory environment have driven founders offshore, turning places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands into global hubs...
Latam Insights: Strategy Rises in Brazil; El Salvador Continues to Buy Bitcoin
4.5.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, Oranje rises as Latam’s Strategy’s copycat, El Salvador will continue to buy bitcoin despite the IMF’s deal, and Brazil cracks down on a $290 million...
Marvel Fighting Game With Over 300 Characters Finally Coming To Steam
29.4.2025
Marvel Contest of Champions, a long-running fighting game from mobile developer Kablam, is getting an official PC port and Steam release in the near future. Read more
Thunderbolts Sounds Like The Best MCU Movie In Years
29.4.2025
Thunderbolts, the next big Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, lands in theaters this weekend. But after a few misfires and meh movies, like February’s Captain America: Brave New World, it started to feel like the MCU couldn’t score a home run. Thankfully, according to critics, Thunderbolts might...
Latam Insights Encore: How XRP’s Latam Takeover Might Start From Brazil
29.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how the recently approved XRP ETF might be the starting point for a larger participation of Ripple in Latin America. Latam Insights Encore: XRP...
Nexo Re-Enters US Market: ‘America Is Back,’ Says Co-Founder Antoni Trenchev
28.4.2025
Nexo, the digital wealth platform with $11 billion in assets under management, has announced its re-entry into the U.S. market, unveiling its product suite at an exclusive business event. The announcement featured keynote addresses from Donald Trump Jr., Executive Vice President of The Trump...
Latam Insights: XRP ETF Debuts in Brazil, Argentina Keeps Trumping the Dollar
28.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the first XRP ETF debuts in Brazil, Argentina keeps winning the dollar battle, and experts warn about an energy collapse in Paraguay due to bitcoin...
Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell on Building the DeFi-Bond Bridge
23.4.2025
Powell, a speaker at Consensus 2025, sat down with CoinDesk to chat about his work on the blockchain capital platform, its expansion in Asia and Latin America, focus on bitcoin yield products, and more
Trump Media inks deal with Crypto.com for ‘Made in America’ ETFs
23.4.2025
US President Donald Trump’s media conglomerate, Trump Media and Technology Group, has signed an agreement with crypto exchange Crypto.com to launch exchange-traded funds “with a Made in America focus.”Trump Media, which operates the social media site Truth Social, said on April...
Trump Media inks deal with Crypto.com for ‘Made in America’ ETFs
23.4.2025
US President Donald Trump’s media conglomerate, Trump Media and Technology Group, has signed an agreement with crypto exchange Crypto.com to launch exchange-traded funds “with a Made in America focus.”Trump Media, which operates the social media site Truth Social, said on April...
Latam Insights Encore: Argentina’s Libertarian Lion’s Future Depends on His Greenback Gambit
22.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how the Argentine government and President Javier Milei are fully committing to the system designed to control the rise of the dollar following...
Latam Insights: Argentina Controls Dollar Exchange Rate, Brazilian Ponzi Operator Gets 128-Year Sentence
20.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Argentine government manages to control the dollar’s exchange rate after lifting currency controls, the operator of a Brazilian...
Switch 2 Pre-Orders Reportedly Could Start Next Week In Canada And Soon After In The United States
15.4.2025
A reliable video game leaker is claiming that Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada will go live on April 23. The leaker also shared information that suggested Switch 2 pre-orders in the United States would start on either April 21 or April 30, depending on the retailer. Read more
Seizable? Indeed! Crypto Is Now Closer to Functioning as Money in Brazil
14.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition explores how an unfortunate ruling has brought cryptocurrency closer to being considered money in Brazil, making it seizable for settling debts. Latam Insights...
Latam Insights: Argentine Congress Takes Aim at Libra, Crypto Now Seizable in Brazil
14.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Argentine lower chamber will investigate Libra’s launch, cryptocurrency can now be legally seized in Brazil, and the Brazilian CBDC...
Latam Insights Encore: Brazil Fights a Pointless War Against Stablecoins
9.4.2025
Welcome to Latam Insights Encore, a deep dive into Latin America’s most relevant economic and crypto news from the past week. This edition examines how the Brazilian government’s proposed ruleset that would outlaw stablecoin self-custody is pointless, as Brazilians will find a way to sidestep...
Switch 2 Joy-Con Don't Have Drift-Resistant Hall Effect Sticks And Fans Are Worried
7.4.2025
Nintendo has confirmed that Switch 2's Joy-Cons will not use Hall Effect thumbsticks despite all the stick drift issues Switch owners have put up with since the console launched in 2017. Read more
Nintendo Defends Controversial Switch 2 Pricing Strategy And Says $450 Isn't Because Of Tariffs
7.4.2025
All of the cool stuff revealed in last week’s Switch 2 Direct was quickly overshadowed by worries about its higher prices, including $450 for the console and Mario Kart World being Nintendo’s first $80 game. Then the company halted pre-orders in the U.S. in the face of unprecedented tariffs that...