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London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

HBO Max: "Harry Potter"-Serie geht in Produktion
Warner Bros. Discovery beginnt mit der Produktion der auf mehrere Jahre ausgelegten "Harry Potter"-Serie für HBO Max. Die erste Staffel soll 2027 erscheinen.

Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/walmart-amazon-stablecoin-07de2fdd?st=ezVFpp&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p123#a250613p123

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

Air-Stable Room-Temperature Quasi-2D Tin Iodide Perovskite Microlasers
Sangyeon Cho, Wenhao Shao, Jeong Hui Kim, Letian Dou, Seok-Hyun Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08180

Air-Stable Room-Temperature Quasi-2D Tin Iodide Perovskite Microlasers
Quasi-2D tin iodide perovskites (TIPs) are promising lead-free alternatives for optoelectronic applications, but achieving stable lasing remains challenging due to their limited environmental stability. Here, we report air-stable, room-temperature lasing from quasi-2D TIP microcrystals as small as 4 μm. Incorporation of the organic spacer 5IPA3 significantly enhanced the stability of these materials compared to previously reported TIPs. Lasing was observed from both dielectric (n=4) and plasmo…

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.

Disney schafft mit ANDOR eine viel gelobte ScIFi-Serie, doch Milliardenverluste zwingen zum Sparen. Mehrere #StarWars Serien werden abgesetzt: KENOBI Staffel 2? Abgesagt. THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Staffel 2? Ebenfalls begraben. Budgets gekürzt, Jobs gestrichen. Ist Streaming am Ende – oder nur das Vertrauen der Fans? - Stefan Holzhauer

GrapheneOS veröffentlicht Android 16 im Stable-Kanal
Das datensparsame GrapheneOS steht als Stable-Version auf Basis von Android 16 zur Installation für Pixel-Geräte bereit. Einfach hatten es die Entwickler nicht.
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Sources: Zerohash, which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure, is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation, up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/11/

Exclusive: Crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup zerohash to raise $100 million at almost $1 billion valuation
The company is the latest beneficiary of venture capital’s booming interest in stablecoins.

Sources: Walmart, Amazon, and Expedia have recently explored issuing or using stablecoins in the US to potentially save fees from cash and card transactions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/walmart-amazon-stablecoin-07de2fdd…