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Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/telegrams-crypto-wallet-launches-in-the-us/

Telegram's crypto wallet launches in the US | TechCrunch
Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the US.

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-serv…

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch
In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications.

A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/the-stab…

The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun's fight for digital dollars | TechCrunch
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/after-india-openai-l…

After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in Indonesia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Go in Indonesia to compete with Google AI Plus plan.

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/payp

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people | TechCrunch
PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border.

Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K users, including 10K paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/rocket…

Rocket.new, one of India's first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures | TechCrunch
Rocket.new has surged to 400,000 users and $4.5M ARR in three months.

AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/21-year-old-mit-dropou…

21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight | TechCrunch
Delve gets $32 million from Insight Partners to scale its platform that automates regulatory compliance with AI agents.

X removes the ability for free-tier developers to like posts and follow users via its API to "protect the platform from spam, bots, and manipulative activities" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/x-pu

X pulls the ability to like and follow from its developer API's free tier | TechCrunch
X is making it harder for spammers with these API changes.

Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/robot-guard-dogs-help-asylon-rai…

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B | TechCrunch
DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection.