Circle reported stronger second-quarter earnings as USDC circulation and transaction activity expanded. The stablecoin issuer also set a September launch date for Arc, its institutional blockchain network.
Key Takeaways
Circle posted $48M in Q2 profit as USDC transaction volume jumped 151% to $14.8T.
USDC reached $73.3B in circulation, strengthening Circle’s institutional payments reach.
Circle…
Bitcoin traders have quietly stacked more than $41 billion into futures contracts, while the options market is flashing price targets thousands of dollars above where bitcoin actually trades. At $64,711 on Aug. 5, spot bitcoin looks almost cheap compared with the bets piling…
Abu Dhabi has built one of the world’s clearest paths for crypto and blockchain companies to set up shop, and sovereign money is following close behind.
Key Takeaways
Citadel Mining holds about 6,996 BTC built through Abu Dhabi mining operations since 2022.
Mubadala…
Astronomers witness the strange final moments of a massive star's supernova death (video)
August 6, 2026
Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual explosion that may bridge the gap between ordinary supernovas and more extreme, gamma-ray-burst-producing stellar explosions
The event began in March 2026, when China’s Einstein Probe spacecraft detected a brief X-ray flash from a galaxy about 500 million light-years away.
On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from what is now Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and spent the next five years…
Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting “breathing room” on the Red Planet without inhaling toxic dust is yet another issue.
Given NASA’s plans to eventually put astronauts on the Red Planet, the agency assembled a Martian Dust Limit Working…
Leaked: Google Pixel Watch 5 Specifications, Pixel 11’s Thinner Camera Bar, Pixel Glow To be Called HiLight
August 6, 2026
A new set of leaks have emerged online, leaving little to the imagination about what’s to come from Google at its August 12 event. The new leaks reveal the detailed Google Pixel Watch 5 specifications, a new look at the Pixel 11’s thinner camera bar, along with the capabilities of the rear LED on the Pixel 11 Pro models which could be dubbed “HiLight.”
Google Pixel Watch 5…
Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup.
Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer…
E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search.
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for…
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the bigger task for AI may be making it easier for people and organizations to put those forecasts to work.
WindBorne Systems, a startup that collects data with the world’s longest-flying weather balloons and feeds it into a powerful…
