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From the Server Room to the Order Book: Anthony Armstrong’s Move to Coinbase Coinbase Global recently expanded its board of directors from nine to ten members by appointing Anthony Armstrong. For those tracking the intersection of frontier technology governance and traditional corporate finance, the pedigree is straightforward . Armstrong arrives following stints as the chief financial officer of xAI and X Corp ., alongside past leadership roles as the global head of technology mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley . He also served as a senior adviser to the Office of Personnel Management during the tenure of the Department of Government Efficiency and advised on the 2022 acquisition of Twitter . For the average Coinbase stockholder , this personnel addition is less about celebrity and more about operational mechanics. Armstrong’s background centers on cost efficiency, governmental alignment, and scaling high-throughput technology platforms. As digital currency exch...

On Thursday , August 27, 2026, visitors to the official Pokémon X account were met with an unusual sight. Instead of the expected posts about upcoming battles and championship hype, the account was sharing posts promoting new Pokémon-themed   NFTs . The posts claimed that The Pokémon Company was launching an official memecoin and encouraged followers to buy in quickly ahead of a major announcement. The posts were quickly deleted , but not before they were seen and shared by thousands of users. The Pokemon Company later confirmed that its social media had been temporarily compromised. In a follow-up statement posted after regaining control of the account , the company clarified that it has no affiliation with any digital currency, memecoin, or blockchain project, and that any posts promoting such a token were unauthorized and fake . The incident appears to be a classic case of social media hijacking for cryptocurrency promotion, a tactic that has become increasingly ...

What Is Happening With Elon Musk And The Nudification Law? If you told someone five years ago that one of the biggest legal battles in tech would be about AI-generated nudification , they would have thought you were pitching a Black Mirror episode that got rejected for being too on the nose. Yet here we are , and at the center of it all is Elon Musk . According to reports circulating online , Musk's company X Corp . has taken legal action to challenge or limit a new law aimed at curbing so-called nudification tools, the AI apps that can digitally undress photos of real people without their consent . The law, passed in response to a tidal wave of deepfake abuse , would make it easier to hold platforms liable when these tools are used to create and spread non-consensual intimate images. Musk , never one to shy away from a fight that blends free speech, technology, and controversy, is reportedly arguing that the law is overly broad, unconstitutional, and a threat to inno...

The Boy Who Kept the Change Ben Pasternak built a platform to fund the next generation of startups. The fees were real. The tokens were not. And somehow, the hobbyist economy may be the quiet winner. Before there were rug pulls , there were chicken nuggets. Ben Pasternak, the Sydney-born serial entrepreneur who dropped out of high school at fifteen to accept venture capital funding in New York, first made the tech world take notice with Simulate — a plant-based food company that sold vegan chicken nuggets under the brand NUGGS , and reportedly raised over $50 million at a quarter-billion-dollar valuation before being acquired in late 2024. The pivot from fake meat to digital assets is, in hindsight, a study in consistent branding . In January 2025, Pasternak launched a Solana -based token platform initially called Clout , later rebranded as Believe . The pitch was almost poetic in its simplicity : anyone could launch a token by replying to a post on X . No wallet required...