Yogita Khatri / The Block: Portal, a startup building a BTC-based cross-chain decentralized exchange and wallet, raised a $34M seed from Coinbase and others, for a $42.5M total in funding  —  – Portal has raised $34 million in a seed funding round from Coinbase Ventures, OKX Ventures and others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: Binance bowed to pressure from customers to let them hold their assets with an independent custodian, highlighting growing unease after the US’ fines  —  Customers switch trading collateral to independent banks including Switzerland’s Sygnum and Flow Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Stenberg / Adweek: Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 employees, amid media industry-wide cuts  —  The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019  —  Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: A look at Intel’s mistakes under CEO Brian Krzanich, and CEO Pat Gelsinger’s attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers including via its UMC deal  —  There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is rather easy.  Just consider Brian Krzanich: when he took over the Intel job in 2013, I wrote in The Intel Opportunity: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple’s visionOS doesn’t let users rearrange home screen icons or pin web apps to the home screen, particularly limiting as Netflix and YouTube lack native apps  —  In addition to not letting you rearrange home screen icons, visionOS 1.0 also doesn’t support the ability to pin web apps to the home screen. Lees verder op Tech Meme