COINBASE GOES PUBLIC, NEURALINK MIND MONKEY

In other tech news, Coinbase is now the first major cryptocurrency company to list its shares on the public market. It closed its first day of trading with a fully diluted market cap of $85.8B. For a little context, that’s about the same as what Airbnb was worth on the day of its IPO—and what Tesla was worth last January. This all means that cryptocurrency is making its way even more concretely into the mainstream. 

Also, related but different: Neuralink shared a video in which a monkey plays a game of pong, solely with his mind. He does so with the help of a chip called a “link” that was previously implanted in his brain. Woah. If you want to know more, this TikTok does a great job of explaining just how wild this technology is. 

—Darlene Kenney, Marketing Assistant