Author: Elan

Nigeria’s startup ecosystem has long been the powerhouse of African tech by attracting significant capital despite macroeconomic headwinds. After raising an estimated $520 million in equity funding in 2024, the nation successfully reclaimed its position as the continent’s top VC destination. The continued momentum is largely driven by a highly focused group of venture capital firms, both local and international, which are placing strategic bets on startups tackling critical challenges in sectors such as fintech, logistics, and agriculture Nigeria’s startup ecosystem has long been the powerhouse of African tech by attracting significant capital despite macroeconomic headwinds. After raising an…

Blockchain is being pulled between traditional finance and its decentralized ethos as the industry shifts to serve institutional products.Zac Williamson, CEO of Aztec Labs, said early decentralized governance failures shifted blockchain’s trajectory away from community coordination.“There is a real risk that blockchain just becomes a slightly more efficient settlement layer than Visa or Mastercard,” he told Cointelegraph. “If we lose the social coordination side of this, then the entire point of the technology gets hollowed out.”Williamson entered the blockchain field from an academic background. He left particle physics for software engineering, and in 2017, a contact connected through his brother…

Everyone makes mistakes on their first PC build. Most are harmless. Some, however, can kill parts, corrupt drives, or cost you days of troubleshooting. I’ve made a huge number of mistakes over the years while learning how to build PCs. Thankfully, I’ve never fully killed one of my machines before booting, but I’ve definitely come close a few times. Now, not all of these problems are truly catastrophic. However, they can be an absolute pain to recover from and can cause damage to your hardware in specific cases. So, it’s best to avoid making 8 Forcing the CPU into the…

In brief 80% of Solana’s circulating supply is held at a loss, raising the risk of a panic-selling cascade. A drop below $124.40 could liquidate $239 million in SOL long positions. Despite the pressure, spot Solana ETFs have attracted $719M in inflows since launch, with no outflows. Solana, like other major altcoins, continues to buckle under pressure due to the sustained crypto market selloff.Nearly 80% of Solana’s circulating supply is now in loss, according to a Sunday tweet from on-chain market intelligence platform Glassnode—underscoring “how top-heavy the market structure had become before the recent contraction,” the firm’s analysts noted.“When most…

There are times when you may want to keep the audio from a video for a future project, use it as a ringtone, or for any personal reason you can think of. While this often requires a third-party app, website, or secondary device, you don’t actually need one to extract audio. Using the Shortcuts app on your iPhone, you can easily create a sequence of actions to extract audio with a single tap. Here’s how to set it up and use it. Since we’ll be using the Shortcuts app to extract the audio, make sure it’s installed on your iPhone.…

A $314 million Hyperliquid token unlock scheduled for Saturday puts the perpetuals decentralized exchange (DEX) under its most significant tokenomics spotlight yet, as one community member calls for clearer communication on how the core contributor unlock will be managed. Tokenomist data shows that on Saturday, Hyperliquid will release 9.92 million HYPE tokens, which is 2.66% of the supply. The tokens are worth about $314 million at the time of writing. The HYPE allocation will be released in a “cliff unlock,” which means they will be released all at once. The unlock ignited public conversations among holders, including an open letter from an…

As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet.Climate change is the single biggest health threat to humanity, accelerated by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, which generate greenhouse gases that trap the sun’s heat.The average temperature of the earth’s surface is now 1.2°C warmer than it was in the late 1800’s,…

In brief Prediction market Myriad, owned by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, has hit a cumulative $100 million in trading volume since its launch. The milestone represents a 10x in trading volume over the past three months, with its more than 400,000 active traders making over 6.3 million trades and 7.3 million transactions. Myriad’s rapid growth illustrates the “massive demand” for prediction markets, the firm’s co-founder said. Prediction market protocol Myriad has hit $100 million in cumulative trading volume since its launch, demonstrating the “massive demand” for the burgeoning industry.Trading volume on the platform has surged 10x in just three months,…

If you’ve spent the better part of this spring and summer lugging your lawn mower around your backyard every weekend, it might be time to upgrade and fully automate your lawn care. And this Black Friday, Segway Navimow is offering massive discounts on its robot lawn mowers, so you don’t miss out!Segway Navimow was one of the first brands to release a wire-free lawn mower for residential use, and its “i” series was the first under $1,000. Ideal for small residential lawns, it’s no surprise that it was the top-selling robot lawn mower on Amazon in 2025. If you’re looking…

I once tried to send a single photo from my Android phone to my friend who uses an iPhone. A simple photo. Nothing big. It felt like it should take five seconds, but it turned into a long search through settings, apps, and options that didn’t lead anywhere. That moment made me realise that moving files between these two phones is not as straightforward as it should be. The systems work differently, and you need the right method depending on what you want to send. This guide breaks down how to transfer files from Android to iPhone through five interesting…