Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe decentralized, cross-chain liquidity protocol Thorchain paused its savers and lending programs Thursday, preventing ThorFi users from being able to withdraw Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto assets from the embattled services.Roughly $111 million worth of digital assets has been borrowed through Thorchain’s protocol, and $98 million worth of crypto is currently locked in savers vaults. That amount from depositors includes $57 million worth of Bitcoin and $16 million worth of Ethereum, per a Thorchain dashboard.The problem is anyone who currently has money in ThorFi can’t get it out, as the network faces a $200 million insolvency. Thorchain network operators have frozen these funds in an attempt to prevent a disaster scenario for the DeFi protocol. Dragonfly Capital managing partner likened the move to a “bankruptcy freeze,” calling it the “first on-chain restructuring.”The decision was established “via nodes,” according to Thorchain founder JP Thorbjornsen, who said on X that the move gave Thorchain’s community 90 days to come up with a restructuring plan, while instructing “everyone [to] chill.”THORFi paused via nodes. The good news- 90 days to restructure with help of @1984_is_today @tbr90 and @ninerealms_cap- the protocol itself still works fine- the protocol makes a tonne of maney and can service the debt - once restructured From here- everyone chill

Collaboration will bring bespoke content and never-before-seen show integrationsJERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- BetMGM, a leading iGaming and sports betting operator, announced today a new and exclusive online casino rights partnership with Fremantle, a world leader in creating, producing and distributing entertainment content for over 100 years. The multi-year agreement secures the intellectual property rights for iconic game shows "The Price is Right" and "Family Feud" for slots, table games and non-traditional casino games. The partnership establishes the foundation for BetMGM to create customized online casino content around both game show brands."This partnership unlocks various ways for BetMGM and Fremantle to collaborate and expand our brand," said Adam Greenblatt, Chief Executive Officer, BetMGM. "'Family Feud' and 'The Price is Right' are two of the most popular game shows in North America, and we look forward to bringing their fun and excitement to our online casino in various exciting ways."During select weeks throughout the upcoming seasons, BetMGM will be featured as a sponsor with exclusive, never-before-seen partnership integrations for "Family Feud" and "The Price is Right." Throughout 2025 BetMGM and Fremantle will reveal additional details on these planned partnership activations.Suzanne Lopez, COO of Fremantle North America, said, "Our exclusive deal with BetMGM and our premier game show IP represents a significant milestone for us both. This innovative collaboration paves the way for in-game branding across diverse online casino categories, while also providing opportunities for integrated TV sponsorships

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe developers of virtual horse racing game Photo Finish Live have teamed up with crypto casino and sportsbook BlockBet, enabling users of the site to wager with the game’s CROWN token.CROWN, a token on the Solana blockchain, joins Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bonk, and others as supported assets for wagering.The partnership includes BlockBet becoming the first official simulcast partner of Photo Finish from developer Third Time Games, allowing users to watch and wager on the outcome of the platform’s virtual horse races that will be hosted around the clock on BlockBet.gg.Additionally, the partnership calls for BlockBet to become the inaugural Photo Finish™ Simulcast partner. This game-changing step calls for the online sportsbook to offer live wagering on thousands of Photo Finish™ races taking place 24/7/365. Users will have the ability to… pic.twitter.com/mfIJgORMzx — $CROWN (@TheCrownToken) January 24, 2025“Integrating Photo Finish simulcast wagering into BlockBet’s sportsbook is the first step in our strategic expansion into the sports wagering market,” said Third Time Games founder and CEO Ian Cummings, in a statement.Photo Finish Live simulcasts have previously been used in partnership with NBC Sports, powering 3D simulations of the Kentucky Derby. The platform’s simulcast off-track betting app was also approved for use on Roku devices with a full product launch slated for later this year.As part of the deal, BlockBet and Photo Finish Live are hosting a joint promotion, providing their respective tokens—CROWN and BLOCK—as rewards to top users wagering on virtual games.CROWN is up 6.3% in the last 24 hours. At its current price below $0.17, the token trades nearly 92% off its all-time high price of $1.98.BlockBet is a division of Blockasset, an official digital fan partner of the UFC

Create an account to save your articles.Create an account to save your articles.Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEEthereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) staged a recovery Monday evening after President Donald Trump extended his tariff pause to Canada, following a similar agreement with Mexico that eased fears of an escalating North American trade war.The world’s second-largest crypto bounced back to $2,881 after plummeting to $2,135 during Asian trading hours, a drop that marked its steepest single-day decline since May 2021.The 18% crash during manic Monday trading in the U.S. morning wiped out more than $600 million in Ethereum futures positions, Decrypt reported.Meanwhile, Solana demonstrated greater resilience, climbing 13.5% to $216 from its intraday low of $190. Solana remains little changed at $218, data shows.The recovery outpaced Ethereum's gains, showing SOL's growing strength in sectors such as meme-coin trading and decentralized finance. Trading volume for SOL swelled by 27% on the day, according to GeckoTerminal data."Strong performers this cycle, such as SOL and XRP, led the recovery, as AI-related tokens, which were among the worst performers yesterday, rebounded," Min Jung, an analyst at Presto Research, told Decrypt.The pause on tariffs for Mexico and now Canada "provided an additional bid for SOL," Jung said.The market turmoil kicked off after Trump threatened tariffs against America's largest trading partners, sparking fears of inflation and tighter monetary policy.The sell-off from geopolitical tensions triggered over $2.2 billion in crypto derivatives liquidations, marking one of the worst in the industry’s history.However, some observers such as Ben Zhou, CEO of Bybit, note that the figure could be underreported due to API limitations on exchange data.ETH's recovery "initially lagged" but “saw a strong bounce,” moments after Eric Trump posted on X about the crypto, Jung noted.“In my opinion, it’s a great time to add ETH,” Eric Trump said on the social media platform.Notably, Trump removed "You can thank me later." as a second sentence, the post's editing history shows.The statements from the president's son follow significant wallet transfers on Monday afternoon by World Liberty Finance, the decentralized finance project backed by the Trump family.In synchronized transactions around 3 P.M. ET, World Liberty Fi's Gnosis Safe Proxy executed multiple transfers totaling approximately $60 million, with $55.69 million in Ethereum and $5 million in USDC.The outflow transfers were tracked on Arkham, with most of those transfers directed to Coinbase Prime deposits

Tras el reciente acuerdo entre El Salvador y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), donde se acordó un préstamo de 1,400 millones de dólares a cambio de modificar la Ley Bitcoin, el fundador de la ONG enfocada en la educación sobre BTC en El Salvador, Mi Primer Bitcoin, John Dennehy, ve un menor margen de acción en las compras de Bitcoin por parte del gobierno.En su último acuerdo con El Salvador, el FMI lanzó la condición de “mitigar los riesgos de Bitcoin” para poder aprobar el crédito de 1,400 millones de dólares. No obstante, el gobierno de Nayub Bukele sumó 50 BTC en enero de 2025 y otros 5 BTC el 01 de febrero, pese al acuerdo con el organismo internacional.Mi Primer Bitcoin ve difícil que El Salvador compre más BTCPara el fundador de la ONG Mi Primer Bitcoin, John Dennehy, la estrategia detrás de los préstamos del FMI consiste en “presionar” y “ejercer control e influencias” sobre las economías a las que otorga un financiamiento, y que El Salvador no sería la excepción. Señaló que muchas personas creen que el país “puede gastar en lo que quiera” (como comprar BTC), pero no es así, ya que es poco probable que utilice un esquema de “contabilidad creativa”.“Una vez más, no se trata de dinero, sino de poder. El FMI decidirá si se cumplen los términos y tendrá amplia discreción. Por ejemplo, según el borrador del acuerdo, para el sector público, la participación en actividades económicas relacionadas con Bitcoin y las transacciones y compras de Bitcoin estarán limitadas. (Capturas de pantalla a continuación de los términos del borrador del acuerdo)”, explicó John Dennehy en X.Patrocinado PatrocinadoLeer más: ¿Cómo ha sido la adopción de Bitcoin (BTC) en El Salvador?John Dennehy ahondó que, si El Salvador utilizara Bitcoin para comprar Bitcoin, el dinero “dejaría de llegar”, pues el préstamo está programado para desembolsarse en 40 meses, tiempo en el que el FMI verificará la ejecución del dinero y que se cumplan los términos

Forecasts converge on freezing precipitation and accumulation across Greater Houston as National Weather Service upgrades advisory to a Winter Storm WarningThree staging sites set-up and approximately 1,200 additional mutual aid workers set to arrive tomorrow to support potential restoration effortsCenterPoint to activate its emergency operations center Monday afternoon ahead of the projected start of precipitationCenterPoint urges customers and the public to be weather alert and have a plan to stay safe and warm through freezing temperatures and precipitationHOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CenterPoint Energy continues to execute its cold weather readiness plan and actively monitor the weather for new developments. Weather forecasts continue to converge on a major winter storm, now named Enzo, impacting the Greater Houston area beginning Monday evening, with wintry precipitation and significant accumulation forecasted across the region this week.The company has secured an additional 1,200 mutual aid workers to support potential restoration efforts. CenterPoint's emergency operations center will be activated Monday evening ahead of the projected arrival of wintry precipitation and the company is standing up three staging sites and pre-positioning crews across its service territory to respond, if needed, as safely and as quickly as possible.CenterPoint's Emergency Preparedness and Response, Meteorology and Operations teams will remain on alert throughout the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend and continue to utilize in-house and third-party weather modeling and historical data from previous weather events to plan for all potential impacts to CenterPoint's system.In preparation for the mixture of snow, sleet and freezing rain anticipated to impact the region, the National Weather Service has upgraded the Winter Storm Watch to a Winter Storm Warning for Southeast Texas beginning at 6 p.m. Monday through 6 p.m

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEAre blockchains and AI agents a match made in heaven?A new protocol called Metropolis hopes to perfect that hybrid by using AI agents to cheaply and easily create small, purpose-built, interconnected blockchains called “chainlets” that, in turn, provide ideal environments for AI agents to interact and create a profusion of new services.The project, which launches in the spring, was put together by layer-one blockchain developer Saga in collaboration with AI-powered DAO ai16z, AI agent developers Virtuals, and AI-focused omni-chain developer Wayfinder.“Metropolis is specifically designed for AI agents,” Saga CEO Rebecca Liao told Decrypt, adding that it “is a specialized protocol that allows AI agents from multiple agent protocols like ai16z, Wayfinder and Virtuals to speak to one another on the same chain and to establish and operate their own blockchain networks within Saga's infrastructure.”For instance, Ai16z’s ElizaOS will power advanced AI functionalities for cross-chain interactions. Virtuals’ “Butler Agent” will offer hosted wallets and pre-coded functions for deploying applications like memecoins or prediction markets. And Wayfinder’s multi-chain AI agent framework will provide tools for deploying smart contracts and navigating ecosystems.Said Liao: “Right now, there is no way for Wayfinder agents to talk to Virtuals’ agents to talk to ai16z agents. Metropolis is developing breakthrough innovations in composable consciousness to make this possible on-chain.”“This is unique and new functionality for AI agents,” she said. “No other project models their agents or has them performing these tasks

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El mundo de las criptomonedas, conocido por su volatilidad y tendencias impredecibles, fue testigo de un evento sin precedentes este fin de semana. La memecoin TRUMP, que había cautivado a inversores y entusiastas del mercado con su meteórico ascenso, enfrentó una caída significativa tras el lanzamiento de MELANIA, una nueva memecoin dedicada a Melania Trump.TRUMP, que logró un ascenso estratosférico desde su lanzamiento inicial, atrajo tanto a especuladores como a fanáticos de las criptomonedas por su asociación con Donald Trump, presidente electo de EE. UU. Sin embargo, este auge también exponía la fragilidad de las memecoins, cuyos precios suelen depender más de narrativas y tendencias sociales que de fundamentos económicos sólidos.¿Un fenómeno con bases frágiles? MELANIA arrasa con el mercado de TRUMPEl domingo, el precio de TRUMP cayó de 73 dólares a 38 dólares, un descenso del 40% en pocas horas. Aunque logró una breve recuperación a 52 dólares, terminó estabilizándose en 42 dólares. Esta volatilidad refleja cómo eventos externos pueden cambiar drásticamente la percepción del mercado.El anuncio de MELANIA, respaldado por un post de Melania Trump y un retweet del propio Donald Trump, desvió la atención de los inversores

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEEthereum layer-2 network Abstract is building out its ecosystem with a growing list of consumer applications—including a major focus on gaming.The chain’s most recent update indicates that at least 33 games or gaming-related projects will have some connection to the ecosystem after the Abstract mainnet launches this January.To prepare you, we’ve highlighted 9 of the most anticipated games set to launch on Abstract.Pudgy WorldPudgy World is the official gaming world of Pudgy Penguins, the NFT project whose parent company is building Abstract. Inside, users are able to build their own “forever Penguin” and explore mini-games, go on quests and adventures, and more.The game is currently in pre-alpha, where users can create a profile and play Pengu Dash, a Frogger-inspired game in which you move your Penguin across a roadway and earn in-game coins. Users can join an early access waitlist at PudgyWorld.com to gain more information when on the project’s eventual launch.Onchain HeroesOnchain Heroes is a fully on-chain idle RPG game that’s launching soon. The developers announced that the game will use in-game infrastructure built by Proof of Play, the parent company of Pirate Nation, but launch on the Abstract network shortly after its mainnet launch.It aims to require low-time, but high-thought commitments, with users expected to play 10-15 minutes per day while building guilds, navigating dungeons, and more.The project held its Genesis Ring NFT mint on Ethereum in December, but will host the official Onchain Hero collection mint on Abstract soon. Season 1 of its gameplay will begin shortly after the mint.77-BitA cyberpunk MMORPG, 77-Bit is a browser-based game expected to launch this January

President Donald Trump said Monday (Feb. 3) that Elon Musk can “let people go” only with the approval of the administration and not in instances in which he may have a conflict of interest.Musk leads the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that is tasked with boosting efficiency and productivity within the federal government.Trump’s answer came after a reporter asked him Monday why Musk should have access to the payment systems at the Treasury Department, according to a video posted on X by the White House’s official “rapid response” account, Rapid Response 47.“He’s got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good, if we agree with him, and it’s only if we agree with him,” Trump said.Trump said later: “Elon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval, and we’ll give him the approval where appropriate. Where not appropriate, we won’t.”After noting that Musk runs big companies, Trump added, “If there’s a conflict, then we won’t let him get near it.”In a repost of the video on X, Musk commented: “Exactly.”Trump said in the video that Musk’s team has found “tremendous waste” and probably fraud and abuse.It was reported Saturday (Feb. 1) that the Musk-led DOGE had access to the system that disburses money on behalf of the federal government, having been given that access by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and that this access provides DOGE with a tool that can be used to monitor and limit government spending.On the previous day, it was reported that U.S. Department of the Treasury Fiscal Assistant Secretary David A. Lebryk would step down after clashing with Musk allies over a request from DOGE for access to sensitive payment systems

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Two years after ChatGPT hit the scene, there are numerous large language models (LLMs), and nearly all remain ripe for jailbreaks — specific prompts and other workarounds that trick them into producing harmful content. Model developers have yet to come up with an effective defense — and, truthfully, they may never be able to deflect such attacks 100% — yet they continue to work toward that aim. To that end, OpenAI rival Anthropic, make of the Claude family of LLMs and chatbot, today released a new system it’s calling “constitutional classifiers” that it says filters the “overwhelming majority” of jailbreak attempts against its top model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It does this while minimizing over-refusals (rejection of prompts that are actually benign) and and doesn’t require large compute. The Anthropic Safeguards Research Team has also challenged the red teaming community to break the new defense mechanism with “universal jailbreaks” that can force models to completely drop their defenses.“Universal jailbreaks effectively convert models into variants without any safeguards,” the researchers write. For instance, “Do Anything Now” and “God-Mode.” These are “particularly concerning as they could allow non-experts to execute complex scientific processes that they otherwise could not have.” A demo — focused specifically on chemical weapons — went live today and will remain open through February 10. It consists of eight levels, and red teamers are challenged to use one jailbreak to beat them all. As of this writing, the model had not been broken based on Anthropic’s definition, although a UI bug was reported that allowed teamers — including the ever-prolific Pliny the Liberator — to progress through levels without actually jailbreaking the model. Naturally, this development has prompted criticism from X users: Only 4.4% of jailbreaks successfulConstitutional classifiers are based on constitutional AI, a technique that aligns AI systems with human values based on a list of principles that define allowed and disallowed actions (think: recipes for mustard are Ok, but those for mustard gas are not). To build out its new defense method, Anthropic’s researchers synthetically generated 10,000 jailbreaking prompts, including many of the most effective in the wild

Los mercados cripto están entrando en el segundo mes del año, con el precio de Bitcoin (BTC) insinuando un potencial de caída adicional. A medida que los analistas se preparan para mayores oscilaciones del mercado, los airdrops de criptomonedas podrían ofrecer a los inversores una forma de beneficiarse sin inversiones iniciales.Los airdrops distribuyen tokens gratuitos, a menudo para ganar seguidores y expandir la base de usuarios de un proyecto. Aquí hay cuatro airdrops notables que vale la pena seguir esta semana.Buzz.FunBuzz.fun es el primer Meme Coin Exchange (MCEX), cambiando la forma en que los tokens se lanzan y negocian. Construido sobre un compilador de contratos personalizado, Buzz.fun asegura un despliegue sin problemas y desbloquea posibilidades avanzadas para creadores, traders y miembros de la comunidad. El proyecto ha confirmado su airdrop, con su sitio web indicando al menos dos temporadas más:. “Buzz.Fun actualizado – absorbe la información

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday calling for the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund—and Bitcoin investors are already seeing gold.Following Trump’s announcement that he’s now ordered the U.S. government to create a sovereign wealth fund within the next 12 months, Bitcoin advocates leapt with enthusiasm—taking the news as a signal that the United States is taking active steps towards investing directly in the world’s top cryptocurrency.Most notably, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), a prominent Bitcoin advocate, referenced Bitcoin when she reacted to the news. “This is a ₿ig deal,” she posted on X, making use of the Bitcoin “₿” symbol and sending crypto enthusiasts into a euphoric tizzy. BTC is up 4% on the day, to $102,050 at writing.This is a ₿ig deal

Desde su implementación hace dos meses, la regulación de Mercados de Criptoactivos (MiCA) ha creado un marco cohesivo y estándares claros para los emisores de activos digitales en toda la Unión Europea (UE). El modelo busca equilibrar la innovación y la protección al consumidor, creando mayores vías para la adopción de criptomonedas.BeInCrypto habló con expertos de Monerium, Moonpay, OKX y Yellow Network para entender mejor qué significa esta regulación sin precedentes para los usuarios de criptomonedas con sede en la UE y los desafíos que enfrentan las empresas que buscan establecerse en la región.La UE establece un precedente globalEl 30 de diciembre de 2024, la Unión Europea hizo historia al convertirse en la primera región del mundo en promulgar una regulación cripto generalizada. Las empresas cripto que deseen operar en la UE pueden obtener una única licencia MiCA para ofrecer servicios en todos los estados miembros, evitando la molestia de obtener permisos separados para cada país:. “MiCA establece un punto de referencia global como el marco regulatorio más extenso para criptoactivos hasta la fecha, posicionando a la UE como líder en dar forma al futuro de las finanzas digitales y proporcionando un modelo para que otras jurisdicciones sigan,” Erald Ghoos, CEO de OKX Europe, dijo a BeInCrypto. Leer más: ¿Cómo es la regulación de las stablecoins a nivel mundial?Varias empresas cripto regionales ya han solicitado MiCA y han recibido licencias. Hace menos de dos semanas, Crypto.com se convirtió en la primera plataforma cripto global en recibir la aprobación completa bajo el marco regulatorio de la UE

Uniswap lanzó su actualización v4 en mainnet, presentando hooks para la personalización por parte de desarrolladores, operaciones más económicas y más. El lanzamiento llegó un poco más tarde de lo inicialmente previsto.Sin embargo, esta actualización no cumplió con las expectativas de que crearía momentum de precio para UNI. Su precio subió brevemente pero inmediatamente cayó de nuevo, y las condiciones bajistas continuaron.El tan esperado Uniswap v4 para desarrolladoresUniswap, un exchange descentralizado popular basado en Ethereum, finalmente lanzó su tan esperada actualización v4. Esta actualización fue anunciada por primera vez en junio de 2023, pero nunca se estableció claramente un cronograma para el lanzamiento en mainnet. La actualización fue anunciada a principios de la semana y se activó en mainnet:. “¡Uniswap v4 está aquí! v4 convierte el Protocolo Uniswap en una plataforma para desarrolladores

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A federal court in New York unsealed on Feb. 3 a five-count criminal indictment against Andean Medjedovic for allegedly exploiting KyberSwap and Indexed Finance to steal $65 million.Medjedovic has not been apprehended by law authorities as of Feb. 3 and remains at large.According to a statement from the US Department of Justice, Medjedovic faces charges of wire fraud, unauthorized damage to a protected computer, attempted Hobbs Act extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering.The charge of unauthorized damage to a protected computer carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, while the other counts carry a potential 20-year sentence.Court documents state that Medjedovic allegedly exploited automated smart contracts in the KyberSwap and Indexed Finance protocols between 2021 and 2023. Medjedovic is accused of borrowing tokens worth hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate smart contract calculations.This strategy allegedly allowed him to withdraw funds at artificial prices, rendering investors’ holdings worthless.Authorities alleged that Medjedovic laundered the proceeds through swaps, bridging transactions, and crypto mixers. He is also accused of conspiring with others to open accounts at crypto exchanges using false and borrowed identities to obscure the funds’ origins.The exploitsIn November 2023, after executing the KyberSwap exploit and draining roughly $49 million, Medjedovic allegedly attempted to extort the victims.He proposed a settlement in which he would gain control of the KyberSwap protocol and it’s governing decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) in exchange for returning half of the stolen assets.In December 2023, KyberSwap committed to reimbursing affected users, offering grants from its treasury equal to the dollar value the user lost when the protocol’s liquidity pools were drained. The program became effective on Feb

Según el CEO de Satoshi Action Fund, Dennis Porter, Utah está liderando la carrera para establecer una reserva de Bitcoin en los Estados Unidos. Porter afirmó que el corto calendario legislativo del estado fomenta una acción rápida.Además, Utah tiene un grupo de trabajo de activos digitales que continúa operando fuera del calendario. Este grupo de trabajo coordina activamente la estrategia para una reserva de Bitcoin, que se pone en acción cuando el horario normal se reanuda.¿Cuán pronto podría Utah establecer una reserva de Bitcoin?La carrera para establecer una reserva de Bitcoin se ha intensificado entre 15 estados de Estados Unidos. El presidente Trump prometió establecer tal reserva durante su campaña, pero su orden ejecutiva de “reserva cripto” no cumplió del todo. Aún así, hay una lucha a nivel estatal y federal para crear una reserva de Bitcoin, y el CEO de Satoshi Action Fund, Dennis Porter, apuesta a que Utah será el primero:. “Hay una muy buena posibilidad de que Utah sea el primero porque tienen un calendario legislativo tan corto

Según Claudia Sheinbaum y Donald Trump, los aranceles entre Estados Unidos y México están pausados por un mes. Esto ya ha desencadenado un repunte en el mercado cripto, particularmente XRP. Sin embargo, el Primer Ministro canadiense Justin Trudeau está respondiendo duramente a los esfuerzos arancelarios de Estados Unidos. Su país está mucho más involucrado con los mercados cripto que México, presentando una verdadera incógnita.Estados Unidos y México Llegan a un AcuerdoLos aranceles propuestos entre Estados Unidos y México han estado causando estragos en el mercado cripto. Las acciones tecnológicas de Estados Unidos ya estaban tambaleándose por DeepSeek, pero los nuevos aranceles contra México, Canadá y China han provocado liquidaciones de criptoactivos por miles de millones de dólares. XRP, que se recuperó más del 300% desde la victoria electoral de Trump, cayó más del 25% durante el fin de semana después de que el presidente de Estados Unodos impusiera indirectamente una guerra comercial global

The following is a guest post by Kadan Stadelmann, CTO of Komodo Blockchain.The 14th Amendment and the Debt LimitThe debt limit is the amount of money the United States government can borrow to pay its existing legal obligations. These include Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and more.In June 2023, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 suspended the debt limit through January, 1 2025. The U.S. Treasury anticipates that sometime thereafter—say, somewhere between Jan. 14 and Jan. 23– the U.S

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENECarnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have teamed up to develop a new training technique that enables humanoid robots to perform complex athletic movements with unprecedented agility—from Cristiano Ronaldo's signature mid-air spin celebration to Kobe Bryant's fadeaway jump shot.The framework, Aligning Simulation and Real Physics (ASAP), bridges a critical gap between simulation and reality by allowing humanoid robots to execute high-level athletic movements previously thought too complex for machines."Humanoid robots hold the potential for unparalleled versatility for performing human-like, whole-body skills," the researchers noted in their paper. "However, achieving agile and coordinated whole-body motions remains a significant challenge due to the dynamics mismatch between simulation and the real world.”ASAP tackles this challenge through a two-stage process.First, it pre-trains motion tracking policies—the algorithmic rules that control the tracking—in simulation using human motion data. It then deploys these policies in the real world to collect data that helps bridge the gap between simulated and actual physics.The result is a humanoid robot capable of replicating signature moves from sports legends, including Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic "Siu" celebration (involving a 180-degree mid-air rotation), LeBron James's "Silencer" celebration (featuring precise single-leg balancing) and Kobe Bryant's fadeaway jump shot (which involves jumping and landing in one foot).Beyond these fancy sports moves, the robot demonstrated other impressive feats like forward and side jumps of over 1 meter.At first glance, the robots may still look clumsy, but this time, it’s mostly due to hardware limitations, as they have way less articulation than a human.However, they have more dexterity than other robots thanks to the "delta action model"—a correction mechanism that compensates for the differences between simulated and real-world physics. "The delta action model effectively serves as a residual correction term for the dynamics gap."Using this approach, researchers reduced tracking errors by up to 52.7% compared to previous methods, enabling robots to perform complex movements that were previously impossible."Our approach significantly improves agility and whole-body coordination across various dynamic motions," noted the researchers, who demonstrated the system's effectiveness is “paving the way for versatile humanoid robots in real-world applications.”Developing robots with this level of dexterity is particularly difficult and has been one of the most persistent challenges in robotics."For decades, we have envisioned humanoid robots achieving or even surpassing human-level agility. However, most prior work has primarily focused on locomotion, treating the legs as a means of mobility." the researchers wrote.ASAP, on the other hand, mimics the human body in pre-train and is able to adapt its knowledge to real-world scenarios after learning about it in simulations.This way, the robot’s extremities behave like human extremities, being used for movement, balance, counterweight, expression, and more.Achieving that is a lot harder than it seems

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Humanoid robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Imagine a world where robots not only collaborate with us in factories but also greet us in stores, aid in surgeries and care for our loved ones. With Tesla planning to deploy thousands of Optimus robots by 2026, the age of humanoid robots is closer than we think. This vision is becoming increasingly tangible as more companies showcase groundbreaking innovations. The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) showcased several examples of how robotics is advancing in both functionality and human-centric design

Charles Hoskinson, el fundador de Cardano, compartió sus principales prioridades para la red blockchain durante este año.Su enfoque incluye integrar Bitcoin en el ecosistema de finanzas descentralizadas (DeFi) de Cardano, mejorar la escalabilidad de la red y buscar una interoperabilidad más amplia a través de posibles colaboraciones.El plan de crecimiento de Cardano enfatiza BitcoinHoskinson reveló recientemente su estrategia para fortalecer las capacidades de Cardano en tres áreas críticas. Un punto destacado clave es la integración de la liquidez de Bitcoin en el ecosistema DeFi de Cardano. Describió esto como un componente vital para el crecimiento a largo plazo, señalando que el mercado potencial de Bitcoin en Cardano eclipsa al de Ethereum y Solana combinados. El año pasado, reveló que tenía como objetivo una manifestación en mayo de 2025 para el evento Bitcoin2025. Este movimiento podría posicionar a Cardano como un actor importante en Bitcoin DeFi, obteniendo liquidez de la criptomoneda líder.Sin embargo, el anuncio generó debate cuando Hoskinson mencionó a Fairgate como socio. Los críticos cuestionaron si esto reemplazaría a BitcoinOS, que Emurgo había anunciado previamente

Presented by Raymer Oil, Jake Owen will perform Saturday night, May 17 at North Wilkesboro Speedway as part of NASCAR All-Star Race weekend. (Photo credit: Spidey Smith)Multi-platinum country music sensation Jake Owen will take the stage Saturday night, May 17 for a 90-minute concert following the All-Star Race Heat Races and the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race.The infield concert is free for all Saturday and Sunday All-Star Race weekend ticket holders; NASCAR All-Star Race weekend tickets can be purchased online at www.northwilkesborospeedway.com.NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASCAR All-Star Race Weekend will feature a "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" on Saturday, May 17, when Jake Owen takes the stage for an infield concert presented by Raymer Oil at historic North Wilkesboro Speedway.Named a "country-grounded odyssey" (Billboard Magazine), Owen has become a country music mainstay with his career a boasting collection of gold and platinum records, 10 No. 1 singles and more than 2.5 billion U.S. on-demand streams. The chart-topping superstar and ACM (Academy of Country Music) award winner is signatured by his laid-back style and hit recordings such as "Barefoot Blue Jean Night," "Beachin'," "Anywhere With You," "Alone With You" and "The One That Got Away.""I am excited to be part of the NASCAR All-Star Race Weekend at the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway," Owen said

Los analistas James Seyffart y Eric Balchunas evaluaron la probabilidad de que la SEC apruebe varios productos ETF. Afirmaron que un ETF de Litecoin es el más probable, pero hicieron algunas predicciones inesperadas.Específicamente, creen que Dogecoin tiene más probabilidades de obtener aprobación que Solana o XRP porque la SEC verá la memecoin como una mercancía. De cualquier manera, esperan más claridad y acciones de la SEC pronto.El debate sobre seguridad vs. producto básico Desde que el ex presidente Gary Gensler dejó la SEC, ha habido un aumento de nuevas solicitudes de ETF. Varias nuevas empresas están intensificando sus esfuerzos para ganar algunos ETF populares, pero hay recién llegados. Por ejemplo, Bitwise presentó una para Dogecoin, intentando crear el primer ETF de memecoin

Five former Democratic Treasury secretaries wrote Monday that the efforts of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to gain access to federal payment systems are a “cause for concern.”. Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew and Janet Yellen wrote this in a paywalled opinion piece in The New York Times, The Hill reported Monday (Feb. 10). The former secretaries wrote that DOGE representatives have taken over positions that were previously operated by nonpartisan civil servants, have not been subject to rigorous ethics rules, and lack the training and expertise to handle private data, according to the report

World Liberty Financial (WLF) has scooped up $48 million worth of Ethereum over an eight-hour buying spree, stretching from Sunday afternoon to late evening. The purchases come as the Trump family has rocked the crypto industry with consecutive meme coin launches over the weekend.The platform purchased 14,403 ETH at an average price of roughly $3,300, data from Arkham Intelligence shows. This brings the Trump-linked total holdings in ETH to 28,612, worth approximately $109 million at current prices."Wait until you see what they do tomorrow," Eric Trump posted on X, tagging the project's account after the initial transactions surfaced.Further details on what's expected were not provided. Decrypt has reached out to the project to learn more.WLF's accumulation follows the project's clarification last Tuesday, when it moved approximately $60 million in assets, writing on X that this was part of the venture's routine "treasury management" for its operations.This involves "payment of fees and expenses" and "working capital requirements," the project explained, as speculations of its trading activity began circulating on social media."The timing is notable given recent Trump-related token activity on Solana," Min Jung, an analyst at Presto Research, told Decrypt.At that point, WLF "appears to be acting more like a fund than a DeFi or DEX-style protocol," Jung noted. "The size and timing of these purchases suggest preparation for a significant market move or platform upgrade."Minutes after initial tracking done by Decrypt, WLF stated on X that it has "sold 20%" of its token supply. Citing "massive demand and overwhelming interest," WLF confirmed that it has decided to open an "additional block of 5% of token supply.""To celebrate the successful launch of $TRUMP, we decided to distribute 5% of the $WLFI supply between our community," a separate tweet from the official WLF account on X reads.Total holdings across ETH, USDC, USDT, and several other assets from the WLF tracker on Arkham now show that the figure has spiked from $187 million to $235 million at press time.Trump effectAfter President-elect Donald Trump's victory rally in Washington, DC, a Solana-based meme coin linked to Melania Trump was launched on Sunday afternoon.Hours before the Melania Trump meme coin launched, Donald Trump Jr

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. There’s almost never a dull moment on the AI beat, and today was no exception: The Wall Street Journal this afternoon reported that a consortium of private investors led by the world’s wealthiest man, the multi-company owning Elon Musk, had presented a bid of $97.4 billion to OpenAI’s non-profit board of directors to acquire the for-profit subsidiary of the company led by former co-founder turned rival, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.Putting aside the long and messy history between the two men, which has already resulted in several lawsuits, Musk’s stated goal of wanting to acquire another company atop the six he already owns or runs (SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, X, xAI) is to make OpenAI open source, per its original founding mission statement of delivering AI benefits and artificial general intelligence (AGI) for all.“It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” Musk said in a statement provided by his attorney to the Journal. “We will make sure that happens.”The takeover bid is also personal for Musk, who after co-founding and bankrolling the company in 2015 alongside Altman and 9 others, decided to exit the venture in 2018, only to turn into one of its biggest public critics and business rivals. He founded his own xAI startup in 2023 and is building a massive AI model training supercluster of graphics processing units (GPUs) in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Colossus.Musk’s double-speakYet the bid to control OpenAI would seem to be a tacit admission. Despite all his rapid and hefty investment in spinning up a competitor — the rival Grok chatbot baked into social network X, and the underlying Grok-2 large multimodal model and application programming interface (API) for third party software developers — Musk is not succeeding at winning as many users as he and his collaborators might like.It would also suggest that the Grok-3 model — reportedly in training, and which pseudonymous AI rumor accounts on X have hyped as industry-leading — is perhaps not as advanced or ready as the competition (namely, these days: DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI’s “o” series of models.”)Altman himself took to Musk’s social network X to dismiss the idea of Musk acquiring OpenAI, writing: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” to which Musk responded with another post calling Altman “Scam Altman.”While some journalists have suggested that Musk’s bid may have the effect of complicating OpenAI’s neat plans to spin off the for-profit arm from the non-profit holding company — for which the price was suggested to be less than $40 billion — the truth is that OpenAI’s last funding round valued it at $157 billion, so both prices are ultimately much lower than the current crop of investors have bought into the company for.Not out of the questionYet it’s hardly out of the question that Musk could succeed with this takeover bid

Donald Trump's official meme coin, TRUMP, fell sharply late Sunday evening following a post from Melania Trump’s social media accounts promoting what appears to be a crypto tied to her name.“The Official Melania Meme is live,” a post on Melania Trump’s X account, that Donald Trump has since retweeted, reads. The post was also shared via the incoming First Lady’s Truth Social account.Dubbed Melania, the Solana-based token has surged more than 12,000% in the last 24 hours to $6.70, DEX Screener data shows. Decrypt has reached out to Trump’s team for additional details.The Melania Meme token's distribution model allocates 35% to team vesting with a 13-month release schedule (vesting period), according to the token's webpage.Notably, the equal 20% distribution to both treasury and community initiatives while maintaining a conservative 10% liquidity pool and 15% public distribution. Such a framework appears to support the token's primary function as a collectible digital asset rather than a speculative instrument.The Melania Meme token is "intended for collecting and entertainment purposes only," the project's website states in an FAQ section. "They are not financial instruments or investments."Interestingly, the vesting schedule's gradual unlock mechanism starts with a 30-day lock period, followed by measured monthly releases. That differs from Trump’s own token which consists of daily vesting periods.It comes just days before the President-elect is expected to assume the presidency following his inauguration on January 20. Trump has promised to drive the industry forward by establishing a Bitcoin reserve and fostering a favorable regulatory environment for the asset class this year.TRUMP is down about 32% over the last six hours to $45, down from a peak of around $77 earlier on Sunday, according to data provided by GeckoTerminal.“Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP, crashes … as Melania Trump launches her own memecoin

Specialty insurer also planning to migrate Guidewire BillingCenter to the cloud; selects Guidewire ClaimCenter for its International Wholesale operationRICHMOND, Va. and SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Markel , the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc. (NYSE: MKL), and Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) announced that Markel successfully migrated Guidewire ClaimCenter from an on-premise environment to Guidewire Cloud to power and simplify its claims and IT operations. The company implemented ClaimCenter on Guidewire Cloud for its specialty lines of business across its US operations. Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting Global Strategic member PwC led the implementation project

Piero Cipollone, miembro del consejo ejecutivo del Banco Central Europeo (BCE), ha instado a los bancos de la UE a acelerar los esfuerzos para implementar un euro digital.Sus comentarios llegan después de que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, firmara una orden ejecutiva que podría influir en las regulaciones de las stablecoins.El BCE impulsa el euro digitalSegún Reuters, Cipollone destacó que la orden de Trump podría llevar a las personas a cambiar de los bancos tradicionales a alternativas digitales. La última orden ejecutiva de Trump propone un marco regulatorio para las stablecoins y apoya las stablecoins legítimas respaldadas por dólares a nivel mundial.Cipollone ha apoyado consistentemente la introducción de un euro digital. La iniciativa de moneda digital del BCE se encuentra actualmente en la fase preparatoria, con una decisión sobre si proceder o no esperada para octubre de 2025:. Leer más: ¿Qué son las CBDC? La nueva apuesta de los bancos centrales

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has issued a formal letter to multiple crypto firms and organizations, requesting evidence and accounts of instances where crypto firms and individuals have been systematically denied access to banking services.The letter was addressed to several entities, including the Blockchain Association, Uniswap Labs, Coinbase, Payward, AH Capital Management, and Lightspark.The Blockchain Association, representing some of the largest crypto firms and investors, confirmed that it had received the letter on Jan. 24. The organization praised Representative James Comer’s leadership and stressed the urgency of addressing this issue.The investigation is part of the Oversight Committee’s broader inquiry into whether political motivations or regulatory overreach have systematically excluded crypto businesses from essential banking services.The committee’s letter cites several high-profile examples of debanking, including statements from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Uniswap Labs CEO Hayden Adams, who claimed their companies were abruptly denied banking services without explanation.Emerging patternAccording to the Blockchain Association, a clear pattern emerged under the Biden administration in which legal crypto businesses were denied banking access for vague or undisclosed reasons. It argued that these actions stifled innovation and forced many companies to relocate or operate under uncertain conditions.In response, the association launched an anonymous tipline for individuals affected by debanking and filed multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to investigate possible regulatory interference.The committee’s letter references former President Barack Obama’s administration and its alleged Operation Chokepoint, which targeted high-risk industries by restricting their access to financial services.On Jan. 10, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) interim Chair Travis Hill acknowledged the agency’s role in debanking crypto firms. However, he did not expressly confirm the existence of an effort such as Operation Chokepoint.Swift actionThe Blockchain Association and its allies have called for swift action, placing the issue of debanking at the top of their policy agenda.Following November’s election, the association sent a letter to President Trump and the new Congress, urging them to prioritize the protection of lawful crypto companies.Senator Cynthia Lummis, a vocal advocate for crypto, vowed to prevent initiatives like Operation Chokepoint 2.0 in a statement following her nomination to lead the new Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets.The Oversight Committee’s investigation aims to determine whether financial institutions are acting independently or under direction from regulators to limit access to banking for crypto companies.It also seeks to uncover the broader implications for US innovation, entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion.Critical moment for innovationThe committee’s findings could have significant implications for the future of crypto in the US, determining whether the industry can thrive under fair regulatory practices or continue to face barriers that stifle growth and drive innovation overseas.The Blockchain Association stated:“This saga shows why many are drawn to crypto in the first place

La Blockchain Association anunció hoy que recibió una carta del Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara solicitando información sobre la Operación Choke Point 2.0.El Comité Bancario del Senado también llevará a cabo su propia audiencia a principios de febrero, intensificando aún más el escrutinio de los reguladores federales.La lucha contra la Operación Choke Point 2.0Para muchas figuras líderes en la comunidad cripto, la Operación Choke Point 2.0 fue un ejemplo clave de extralimitación gubernamental en el espacio. La campaña involucró a reguladores federales presionando a los bancos para que no hicieran negocios con empresas de criptomonedas, y documentos que prueban su existencia continúan apareciendo. Sin embargo, varios reguladores y líderes financieros han llamado a esto un engaño. Hoy, sin embargo, el gobierno federal está tomando medidas proactivas para detener la Operación Choke Point 2.0 antes de que alcance sus objetivos principales. Con ese fin, el Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara envió una carta a la Blockchain Association y otras empresas cripto influyentes, pidiéndoles que proporcionen evidencia de malas prácticas:. Leer más: 10 consejos básicos de seguridad para criptomonedas

Carney, Freeland, and Gould express willingness to reverse course on divisive policy

NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising-- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC, a nationally recognized law firm, notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Block, Inc. ("Block" or "the Company") (NYSE: SQ) and certain of its officers.Class DefinitionThis lawsuit seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Block securities between February 26, 2020 and April 30, 2024, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: bgandg.com/SQ.Case DetailsThe Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Block had engaged in widespread and years-long compliance lapses at Square and Cash App, including by failing to conduct basic due diligence regarding its customers' identities or the nature of customer transactions so as to prevent the platforms from being used for illegal or illicit activities; (2) Block had effectively created a haven for widespread illegal and illicit activities on its Square and Cash App platforms by imposing minimal obligations on customers seeking to open accounts, transact, and deposit or withdraw funds; encouraging the use of bitcoin; and pressuring Block's banking partners to forgo ordinary know your customer due diligence activities; (3) thousands of transactions on Square and Cash App were made in connection with a wide variety of illegal and illicit activities, including, , money laundering, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, terrorism financing, contract killings, and illicit payments to entities and persons subject to economic sanctions; (4) Block allowed its customers to withdraw funds even after the accounts had been flagged for potentially illegal or illicit activities; (5) Block customers could open up multiple accounts using fake identities in order to engage in illegal or illicit activities; (6) Block's senior leadership and the Board of Directors had failed to correct identified compliance deficiencies despite numerous red flags, internal employee reports of deficiencies, and customer complaints; (7) Block's Cash App user metrics had been artificially inflated through the use of fake accounts and the ability of criminals and other bad actors to open multiple accounts; and (8) as a result of the above, Block was subject to a material, undisclosed risk of its conduct being exposed, thereby exposing Block to reputational harm, adverse regulatory actions, the loss of business activity, and adverse impacts to Block's operations and financial results.What's Next?A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint, you can visit the firm's site: bgandg.com/SQ. or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis (quant) firm High-Flyer Capital Management, has sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and the wider world with its release earlier this week of a new open source large reasoning model, DeepSeek R1, that matches OpenAI’s most powerful available model o1 — and at a fraction of the cost to users and to the company itself (when training it).While the advent of DeepSeek R1 has already reshuffled a consistently topsy turvy, fast moving, intensely competitive market for new AI models — previous months saw OpenAI jockeying with Anthropic and Google for the most powerful proprietary models available, while Meta Platforms often came in with “close enough” open source rivals — the difference this time is the company behind the hot model is based in China, the geopolitical “frenemy” of the U.S., and whose tech sector was widely viewed, until this moment, as inferior to that of Silicon Valley. As such, it’s caused no shortage of hand-wringing and existentialism from U.S. and Western bloc techies, who are suddenly doubting OpenAI and the general big tech strategy of throwing more money and more compute (graphics processing units, GPUs, the powerful gaming chips typically used to train AI models) toward the problem of inventing ever more powerful models.Yet some Western tech leaders have had a largely positive public response to DeepSeek’s rapid ascent.Marc Andreessen, a co-inventor of the pioneering Mosaic web browser, co-founder of the Netscape browser company and current general partner at the famed Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) venture capital firm, posted on X today: “Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I’ve ever seen — and as open source, a profound gift to the world [robot emoji, salute emoji].”Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist for Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) division, posted on his LinkedIn account: “To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think:‘China is surpassing the US in AI.’You are reading this wrong.The correct reading is:‘Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones.’DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g. PyTorch and Llama from Meta)They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people’s work.Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it.That is the power of open research and open source.”And even Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg, Meta AI’s founder and CEO, seemed to seek to counter the rise of DeepSeek with his own post on Facebook promising that a new version of Facebook’s open source AI model family Llama would be “the leading state of the art model” when it is released sometime this year

Search for Chief Executive Officer to commence immediatelySAN DIEGO and CALGARY, AB, Feb. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech® Inc. (NASDAQ: ONCY) (TSX: ONC), a leading clinical-stage company specializing in immunotherapy for oncology, today announced that Matt Coffey, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, will not return following a medical leave of absence and ongoing health concerns. After much thought and consideration, Dr. Coffey reached a decision that in the best interest of his family and Oncolytics Biotech Inc., he would officially step down as CEO and Director of the company."While we are saddened by his departure, we fully understand, respect, and support his decision. For the past 25 years, Matt has been invaluable to the organization and has led the development of pelareorep from pre-clinical through successful Phase 2 studies for metastatic breast cancer and pancreatic cancer

Caroline Pham, presidenta interina de la Comisión de Comercio de Futuros de Productos Básicos (CFTC), ha anunciado planes para celebrar una serie de mesas redondas públicas para recabar aportaciones sobre diversos temas del mercado, incluidos los relacionados con las criptomonedas. Las mesas redondas de la CFTC interactuarán con líderes de la industria, participantes del mercado y grupos de interés público para discutir las tendencias e innovaciones en desarrollo en la estructura del mercado.Mesas redondas sobre el mercado de criptomonedasEn un aviso publicado hoy por la CFTC, Pham anunció que la CFTC organizará debates sobre temas que incluyen entidades afiliadas y conflictos de intereses, mercados de predicción y activos digitales. Las mesas redondas tienen como objetivo aumentar la transparencia y la participación pública dentro del proceso de formulación de políticas de la CFTC:. “La innovación y las nuevas tecnologías han creado un renacimiento en los mercados que presenta nuevas oportunidades accesibles para más personas, así como riesgos. La CFTC volverá a lo básico organizando mesas redondas de personal que desarrollarán un sólido registro administrativo con estudios, datos, informes de expertos y aportes del público. Un enfoque holístico de las tendencias cambiantes del mercado ayudará a establecer reglas claras y salvaguardas que promoverán el crecimiento económico de Estados Unidos y la competitividad estadounidense”, dijo Pham. Leer más: ¿Cómo declarar impuestos sobre criptomonedas en Estados Unidos (2025)? Guía completa

Arthur Hayes predijo un dramático colapso en el valor de Bitcoin, pero afirmó que se recuperaría a un nuevo máximo histórico para fin de año.La mayoría de sus argumentos no estaban relacionados con la agitación del mercado de hoy relacionada con DeepSeek, pero afirmó que estos eventos podrían servir como un catalizador.Arthur Hayes espera una mini-crisis financiera para BitcoinArthur Hayes, ex CEO de BitMEX, ha cambiado drásticamente sus predicciones a corto plazo para Bitcoin. A principios de este mes, afirmó que el precio de Bitcoin alcanzaría su punto máximo a mediados de marzo antes de enfrentar una corrección severa. Sin embargo, hoy, Hayes actualizó su predicción para afirmar que BTC ya estaba al borde de este declive:. “Revirtiendo el orden de mi serie de ensayos trípticos. Estoy pronosticando una corrección de 70,000 a 75,000 dólares en BTC, una mini crisis financiera y una reanudación de la impresión de dinero que nos llevará a 250,000 dólares para fin de año,” afirmó Hayes. Leer más: Predicción del precio de Bitcoin (BTC): 2025/2026/2030Hayes luego publicó un desglose extenso de esta proyección en su blog personal

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. DeepSeek, the fast-growing Chinese AI company, is shaking up global technology yet again. Just as the rapid rise of the company’s frontier AI models triggered a sell-off of U.S. artificial intelligence stocks, the company launched a brand new product: Janus Pro 7B, an open-source vision-based AI model. (You can try a demo right here.)This unexpected release from DeepSeek intensifies investor worries about China’s growing power in AI and further pressures American tech companies

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEHe pumped and dumped Solana meme coins today for $68K in profit. Welcome to the trenches, Mr. Dave Portnoy.The Barstool Sports founder today took to X (formerly Twitter) to reveal to the world that he’s learned how to trade shitcoins, and doxxed his Solana wallet to the public in the process.“Uh oh. Davey learned how to trade shitcoin and is already up a billion percent on my 1st one!!!!!!,” he posted alongside a screenshot of a Phantom wallet with 2.68 million MONTOYA tokens—a meme coin based on the “Montoya, por favor” phrase from a “Love Island”-like Spanish reality television show, according to Know Your Meme.Uh oh. Davey learned how to trade shitcoin and is already up a billion percent on my 1st one!!!!!! #montoyaporfavor pic.twitter.com/7qlI1ZoxT0 — Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) February 7, 2025Eagle-eyed crypto sleuths on X immediately matched a wallet address beginning in “5rkPD” that lined up with his trades

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. OpenAI is now showing more details of the reasoning process of o3-mini, its latest reasoning model. The change was announced on OpenAI’s X account and comes as the AI lab is under increased pressure by DeepSeek-R1, a rival open model that fully displays its reasoning tokens.Models like o3 and R1 undergo a lengthy “chain of thought” (CoT) process in which they generate extra tokens to break down the problem, reason about and test different answers and reach a final solution. Previously, OpenAI’s reasoning models hid their chain of thought and only produced a high-level overview of reasoning steps. This made it difficult for users and developers to understand the model’s reasoning logic and change their instructions and prompts to steer it in the right direction. OpenAI considered chain of thought a competitive advantage and hid it to prevent rivals from copying to train their models

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorney Advertising -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC, a nationally recognized law firm, notifies investors that a class action lawsuit has been filed against GSK plc ("GSK" or "the Company") (NYSE: GSK) and certain of its officers.Class DefinitionThis lawsuit seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired GSK American Depositary Receipts ("ADRs") between February 5, 2020 and August 14, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm's site: bgandg.com/GSK.Case DetailsThe complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, and specifically: (1) Defendants represented to investors that GSK removed Zantac from the market "[b]ased on information available at the time and correspondence with regulators," and that GSK was "continuing with investigations into the potential source of NDMA;" (2) Defendants assured investors that "GSK, the FDA, and the EMA [European Medicines Agency] have all independently concluded that there is no evidence of a causal association between ranitidine therapy and the development of cancer in patients," findings that were "consistent with other ranitidine data published prior to 2019;" and (3) Defendants claimed that they could not "quantify or reliably estimate the liability" GSK could face from Zantac-related legal proceedings.What's Next?A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint, you can visit the firm's site: bgandg.com/GSK. or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Client Relations Manager, Nathan Miller, of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 332-239-2660

La FSA de Japón solicitó a Apple y Google que eliminen cinco exchanges de criptomonedas de sus tiendas de aplicaciones. La FSA afirma que estos exchanges no están registrados y no cumplieron con las normativas a pesar de las advertencias anteriores.Los negocios en cuestión son KuCoin, Bybit, Bitget, MEXC Global y LBank Exchange. Varios de ellos habían estado tratando de cumplir con las normativas en otras jurisdicciones.Japón prohíbe cinco exchangesSegún informes locales, la Agencia de Servicios Financieros de Japón (FSA) ha pedido a Apple y Google que bloqueen las descargas de cinco exchanges de criptomonedas. Específicamente, la FSA apuntó a KuCoin, Bybit, Bitget, MEXC Global y LBank Exchange. Como informó BeInCrypto anteriormente, el regulador advirtió previamente a estos negocios sobre no cumplir con los requisitos de registro. Parece que estas advertencias no fueron atendidas

Un reciente documento de la SEC reveló que BlackRock aumentó su participación en Strategy (anteriormente MicroStrategy) al 5%, equivalente a aproximadamente 11.2 millones de acciones.Las frecuentes adquisiciones de Bitcoin por parte de Strategy la han convertido en una opción preferida para los jugadores institucionales que buscan una inversión indirecta en Bitcoin.Las acciones de Strategy están en alzaEn un reciente documento, BlackRock, el mayor gestor de activos del mundo, reveló una nueva adquisición de acciones de Strategy. Esta última compra representa un aumento del 0,91% respecto a su anterior propiedad del 4,09% en septiembre de 2024. Se presenta un Schedule 13G cuando un inversor adquiere más del 5% de las acciones de una empresa que cotiza en bolsa pero no tiene la intención de influir o controlar la empresa. Los inversores institucionales deben presentar el documento dentro de los 45 días posteriores al final del año o dentro de los 10 días si la propiedad supera el 10%. Según TradingView, Strategy experimentó mayores volúmenes de trading en respuesta a la compra de BlackRock, mientras que sus acciones en NASDAQ aumentaron un 2%. El aumento de la participación de BlackRock coincide con la continua acumulación de Bitcoin por parte de Strategy

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEOpenAI says it's investigating after a hacker claimed to have swiped login credentials for 20 million of the AI firm's user accounts—and put them up for sale on a dark web forum.The pseudonymous breacher posted a cryptic message in Russian advertising "more than 20 million access codes to OpenAI accounts," calling it "a goldmine" and offering potential buyers what they claimed was sample data containing email addresses and passwords. As reported by Gbhackers, the full dataset was being offered for sale “for just a few dollars.”Image: Gbhackers“I have over 20 million access codes for OpenAI accounts,” emirking wrote Thursday, according to a translated screenshot. “If you're interested, reach out—this is a goldmine, and Jesus agrees.”If legitimate, this would be the third major security incident for the AI company since the release of ChatGPT to the public. Last year, a hacker got access to the company’s internal Slack messaging system. According to The New York Times, the hacker “stole details about the design of the company’s A.I

La SEC ha pospuesto su decisión sobre la aprobación del trading de opciones para los fondos cotizados en bolsa (ETF) de Ethereum. El regulador ha extendido su período de revisión por 60 días, estableciendo el 9 de abril como la nueva fecha límite.La SEC retrasa la aprobación de las opciones del ETF de Ethereum por tercera vezEl 7 de febrero, la SEC anunció otro retraso en la determinación de si los ETF de Ethereum pueden negociar opciones. Este es el tercer aplazamiento después de retrasos previos en septiembre y noviembre de 2024. La agencia citó que necesita más tiempo para evaluar el impacto potencial en el mercado y recopilar opiniones del público, abriendo un período de 21 días para comentarios. “La Comisión está extendiendo el período de tiempo para aprobar o desaprobar el cambio de regla propuesto por 60 días adicionales. La Comisión considera apropiado designar un período más largo dentro del cual emitir una orden aprobando o desaprobando el cambio de regla propuesto para que tenga tiempo suficiente para considerar el cambio de regla propuesto y los problemas planteados en él,” declaró la SEC stated

El equipo de TON Core lanzó su roadmap para la primera mitad de 2025, detallando una serie de nuevas características. Estas incluyen importantes mejoras en la calidad de vida en varias funciones principales e investigación para futuras fuentes de ingresos.La empresa recientemente restableció una asociación con Telegram, pero la disminución de los ingresos de GameFi ha creado problemas notables para su crecimiento.TON establece ambiciosa ruta para el primer semestre TON (The Open Network), un proyecto de infraestructura blockchain basado en Telegram, acaba de lanzar su roadmap para la primera mitad de 2025. Este roadmap establece objetivos ambiciosos en varias áreas, desde proyectos como una importante actualización de la mainnet hasta una mayor colaboración con la comunidad:. “¡El equipo de TON Core traerá GRANDES actualizaciones en H1 2025! Aquí un adelanto: enorme actualización del Kernel “Accelerator” en Mainnet, nuevas herramientas para validadores, API de Toncenter renovada (Acciones, Pendiente, Emulación, Dominios), mejoras de UX + colaboración con los principales productos de la comunidad, un lanzamiento de la Capa 2 de la Red de Pagos, y más,” publicó TON en X (anteriormente Twitter). Leer más: ¿Qué es Toncoin (TON) y qué tiene que ver con Telegram?TON ha crecido desde que Telegram cortó lazos directos con el proyecto en 2020. La popular aplicación de mensajería citó presión regulatoria en esta decisión, pero el nuevo entorno regulatorio bajo Trump ya ha abierto nuevas oportunidades

Los analistas cripto han observado un cambio significativo en el sentimiento de los inversores en las últimas semanas, sugiriendo una base de inversores más informada, incluso entre los holders minoristas.Anteriormente dominado por memecoins especulativas, el mercado ahora se centra cada vez más en proyectos de altcoin de alta tecnología con utilidad en el mundo real y soluciones novedosas de blockchain.El interés de los inversores se desplaza hacia RWA y DeFiLa plataforma de información Web3 Kaito AI y los análisis de los analistas cripto sugieren que la atención de los inversores se está desplazando cada vez más hacia activos del mundo real (RWAs), finanzas descentralizadas (DeFi) y protocolos avanzados de blockchain. Según Kaito AI, la atención hacia los RWAs ha aumentado después de alcanzar un mínimo de 12 meses en enero. Este resurgimiento señala un renovado interés en tokenizar activos financieros del mundo real, lo que ha atraído a jugadores institucionales. De manera similar, DeFi ha recuperado protagonismo, superando a los tokens de IA en interés de mercado. El resurgimiento de DeFi sugiere un cambio hacia mecanismos financieros más sostenibles, en contraste con la naturaleza especulativa de memecoins.Leer más: Criptomonedas meme: ¿Qué son y cuáles son las más populares en 2025?Varios proyectos de blockchain han emergido como grandes beneficiarios de este cambio de sentimiento. Berachain (BERA) y MegaETH (WETH) han ganado tracción

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEWhile artists worldwide have been complaining about AI stealing their work, Story Protocol believes it has come up with a solution.The platform has introduced a system that lets AI agents trade intellectual property rights with each other, turning them into paying customers for tokenized IP rights on the blockchain.If you can't beat them, join them, as they say.Zerebro, which on Wednesday became a chain validator and is one of the most active agents on the network, has already started purchasing artistic content to enhance its training data, according to Story Protocol CEO Seung-yoon Lee.“The inputs are IP, and the agents are creating poems or creating trading strategies, so the outputs are also IP,” Lee told Decrypt. "We actually allowed agents to exchange IP on Story."The ins and outsSince Story Protocol functions as an IP market, everything revolves around that idea, and the mechanics are straightforward.AI agents register their work on Story's blockchain, and then other agents purchase those assets using crypto.The system handles licensing, rights management, and revenue distribution automatically through smart contracts. Humans can use the system instead of agents, but that’s not nearly as cool.In fact, some agents are already negotiating the IP with other agents—not just humans.“There's a lot of agentic commerce happening on Story because Story is a permissionless, programmable IP system," Lee said.Solving a problemLee further explained that AI agents can generate assets and integrate them into the story, while others—whether AI or humans—can build on those creations.This establishes a business model where AI agents can sell their intellectual property, and others can purchase and use it freely. The permissions are predefined through smart contracts, which govern how the IP is shared and utilized.The platform has captured Hollywood's attention. David Goyer, screenwriter of "The Dark Knight" trilogy and showrunner of Apple TV's "Foundation" series, registered a new sci-fi universe on Story—with all its components essentially being tokens, according to the CEO.Lee described a system where AI-generated content based on Goyer's universe would automatically split revenue between the AI creator and the original IP holder.This model ensures creators are compensated when AI builds on their work

President Donald Trump is holding off imposing tariffs on imports from Colombia after the two countries came to an agreement late Sunday over migrant deportations.Colombian authorities agreed to accept deportation flights after Trump threatened the country with 25% import duties and other sanctions to punish Colombia for refusing to accept U.S. military planes carrying deportees last week.“We have overcome the impasse with the United States government,” Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said in a news conference Sunday. “Colombia confirms that diplomatic channels of dialogue will be maintained to guarantee the rights, national interest and dignity of our citizens.”The Trump administration claimed victory in the potential trade spat that could have impacted freight movements of oil, coffee, cut flowers and more.“The government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X. “Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again.”Earlier, Trump had ordered 25% tariffs on all imports from Colombia, along with other retaliatory measures in response to Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s decision to reject two inbound U.S. military aircraft carrying migrants.In response to Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on all Colombian products, Petro initially said on Sunday his country would impose a 50% tariff on U.S

SINGAPORE, Feb. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AEON, the next-generation payment protocol pioneering payment abstraction, has partnered with Viction, a blockchain platform redefining scalability and interoperability through its World Wide Chain (WWC). This collaboration enables AEON Pay to support Viction's native tokens like $VIC, $C98, and stablecoins, allowing users to transact seamlessly within the ecosystem. The partnership will initially focus on supporting offline payments for over 1.5 million merchants in SEA and Global markets, driving mass crypto adoption in real-world scenarios.The partnership is a key step toward demonstrating the power of its payment abstraction for AEON. By integrating with Viction's innovative infrastructure, AEON enhances the usability of AEON Pay, bridging the gap between crypto and traditional payment systems. Users can now utilize Viction's native tokens, such as $VIC, $C98, or stablecoins for offline shopping, dining, and other purchases

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENECrypto entrepreneur and alleged criminal Roger “Bitcoin Jesus” Ver is pleading with President Donald Trump for a pardon—but Trump confidant and Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk said that Ver’s renounced U.S. citizenship makes that impossible.Musk, the tech titan and close President Trump ally—not to mention noted Dogecoin fan and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE—said on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday that Ver would not get pardoned because of the move.Ver, 46, is facing jail time after the feds last year charged him with avoiding paying $50 million in taxes, along with alleged mail fraud and filing false tax returns. He is now campaigning for President Trump’s help via social media posts.“Roger Ver gave up his U.S. citizenship,” Musk, the world’s richest man, wrote on X. “No pardon for Ver

NEW YORK, Jan 27, 2025 - (ACN Newswire) - Hola Prime, a leading name in the prop trading industry, has taken another leap in empowering traders by launching the Hola Prime Visa Card. Designed to streamline access to earnings, this innovative solution ensures that traders can effortlessly manage their payouts whenever and wherever they need.With the new Visa Card, Hola Prime addresses a major pain point for traders - delayed or complicated payout processes. This card provides instant access to funds, allowing traders to seamlessly handle their earnings through online transactions, in-store purchases, and ATM withdrawals worldwide. A New Standard in Trader Accessibility. Instant Payouts: Traders can access their earnings immediately without relying on lengthy bank transfers

Justo días después de su lanzamiento en mainnet y airdrop, la comunidad de Berachain está preocupada por el visible favoritismo del proyecto hacia los inversores privados. También hay acusaciones sobre el desarrollador principal de la red intercambiando grandes cantidades de tokens BERA airdropeados.A pesar de esto, sin embargo, Berachain tiene la oportunidad de reconstruir la confianza pública. Si su sistema de Proof of Liquidity se implementa y se vuelve operativo, sería un proyecto verdaderamente novedoso.Decisiones cuestionables de los desarrolladoresBerachain, la nueva red blockchain de capa 1, ha creado un notable compromiso en el espacio cripto debido a su airdrop y lanzamiento en mainnet la semana pasada. Aunque la empresa tiene una visión clara de convertirse en una red novedosa con su mecanismo único de ‘Proof of Liquidity’, su marketing y entusiasmo evocan la cultura de las memecoins.Su plataforma de liquidez previa al lanzamiento atrajo 2,3 mil millones de dólares en depósitos. Berachain también inició uno de los mayores airdrops de este año con su lanzamiento en mainnet el 6 de febrero. Su token BERA también recibió un listado en Binance inmediatamente después de TGE, junto con otros exchanges importantes.Leer más: ¿Qué es la mainnet de una criptomoneda y en qué consiste?

New service adds additional option for East and Southeast Asian air travelONTARIO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ontario International Airport (ONT) welcomed news from STARLUX Airlines that it will begin service between the Inland Empire and Taiwan in June.The Taipei-based carrier will initiate nonstop service between ONT and Taipei, Taiwan (TPE) on June 2, 2025, with flights operating four times a week in both directions – Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEFollowing recent teases, Ethereum NFT project Goblintown revealed and dropped a trailer for its upcoming PC and Mac game, Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game, which will be available to play via Steam and the Epic Games Store.The game trailer depicts the crypto-native IP’s familiar Goblintown Burger Truck in an endless runner game, similar in style to popular mobile game Temple Run or Dookey Dash, the sewer-based game connected to the Bored Ape Yacht Club.“It’s really hard, by the way, honestly, it’s incredibly hard,” read the end credits for the game’s first official trailer. “When my mom played she immediately drove off the side and crashed because it’s so hard.”Introducing Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game. Coming Sₒₒₙ to a Mac or PC near you.Save to your Steam and Epic wishlists now! ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/5n4PzdpQFp — goblintown (@goblintown) February 10, 2025Though Goblintown has roots in Web3, the game will not have any crypto or NFT connection. Though the Epic Games Store allows blockchain based games, Valve’s popular Steam marketplace banned them in October 2021—though some creators have employed workarounds.“The game is a straight Web2 game using our IP and world,” Truth Labs co-founder and CEO Alexander Taub told Decrypt.Goblintown: Really Hard Driving Game is still 60-90 days out from release, according to Taub, but more details will be released as it gets closer—including how Goblintown will be connected to Abstract, the consumer-focused Ethereum layer-2 network that was recently launched by the Pudgy Penguins parent company, Igloo Inc.“Abstract has a big focus on streaming, and we think our game will be one of the most fun games to stream in 2025,” he said.Goblintown is not entirely new to Steam. In 2023, Goblintown imagery was featured heavily in a popular Steam game, Only Up, which was able to use the artwork as it was originally released via an open-source Creative Commons 0 (CC0) license.However, the developer of the game—who went only by Indiesolodev—removed it from Steam a few months later.“I'm a solo developer and this game is my first experience in game dev—a game I did for creativity, to test myself, and where I made a lot of mistakes,” they wrote

Hackers anónimos tomaron el control de la cuenta X del ex Primer Ministro de Malasia, Mahathir Mohamad, para promover una memecoin falsa. Los hackers están aprovechando el entusiasmo en torno a la memecoin del Presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para realizar rug pulls más amplios.Este incidente es uno de varios fraudes de memecoins que utilizan un barniz político. El ex Presidente de Brasil fue objetivo de un ataque similar el mes pasado, pero estos hackers probablemente están afiliados al infame Evil Corp ruso.MALASIA: La última falsa memecoinLos estafas en redes sociales están creciendo en el espacio cripto, y es difícil saber cómo prevenirlas. En un ejemplo particularmente atroz, los hackers usaron a un ex Primer Ministro de Malasia para promocionar una memecoin. Mahathir Mohamad fue el Primer Ministro con más años de servicio en el país, y sus cuentas de redes sociales comenzaron a respaldar MALAYSIA:. “¡La criptomoneda oficial de Malasia, MALAYSIA, ya está en vivo en Solana! Esto marca un hito significativo al mostrar la fuerza de nuestra gente y la presencia de nuestra nación en la economía digital

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEAnother solo Bitcoin miner scored big Monday, mining a block and bagging a 3.125 BTC reward without the help of a major company’s resources.As first flagged by journalist Pete Rizzo, an unknown miner on Monday processed Bitcoin block 883,181. The block contained 3,071 transactions and the miner received a payout of 3.125 BTC, as well as 0.033 BTC in fees.That’s a grand total of 3.158 BTC. At Bitcoin's price of about $98,300 per coin at the time of the block win, that adds up to a reward of around $310,000.BREAKING: ANOTHER SOLO MINER HAS MINED AN ENTIRE #BITCOIN BLOCK WORTH $300,000 BEATING UNBELIEVABLE ODDS 🔥 🔥 🔥 pic.twitter.com/pjcivSu2PQ — The Bitcoin Historian (@pete_rizzo_) February 10, 2025It isn’t clear how the miner managed to mine the block, but some speculated on X (formerly Twitter) that they may have used a $200 hobby machine.Bitcoin miners are operations that work to process transactions and keep the Bitcoin network secure.Mining Bitcoin gets gradually harder—and more energy-intensive—as the years go on, and therefore requires more resources.Most blocks mined on a day-to-day basis are done via huge industrial operations: warehouses full of expensive and noisy mining machines run by companies, many of which are public ones trading on U.S. stock exchanges.But every so often, a “solo miner” may get lucky and mine a block. The chances of doing this, though, are slim—and it has become a bit like winning the lottery.Just last month, a solo miner managed to mine a block using an old, cheap machine—but it later emerged that the operation had received hash power from a bigger, more established miner to help do the work.Edited by Andrew Hayward

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Melbourne has once again solidified its reputation as Australia's sporting, cultural and events capital, securing the first-ever National Football League (NFL) Regular Season game to be played in Australia.The historic event will take place in the 2026 season at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), with the Los Angeles Rams as the designated home team. It marks the first time an NFL game has been played outside the Americas or Europe

Elon Musk liderliğindeki bir yatırımcı konsorsiyumu, OpenAI'ın kontrolünü ele geçirmek için 97,4 milyar dolarlık bir satın alma teklifi sundu. Bu teklif, Musk'ın uzun süredir yapay zeka şirketiyle yaşadığı gerilimi yeni bir seviyeye taşıyor.Musk, 2015 yılında Sam Altman ile birlikte OpenAI'ı kâr amacı gütmeyen bir kuruluş olarak kurmuş, ancak daha sonra şirketten ayrılmıştı. OpenAI'ın şu anda kâr amaçlı bir yapıya geçme çabası, Musk'ın sert tepkisine neden olmuş ve milyarder iş insanı, şirketin orijinal misyonundan saptığını öne sürerek dava açmıştı. Musk, OpenAI'ı tekrar açık kaynak odaklı ve kamu yararına çalışan bir organizasyon haline getirme vaadiyle bu hamleyi gerçekleştirdiğini belirtti.Musk'ın avukatı Marc Toberoff, teklifi doğrularken, Musk'ın şirketin orijinal vizyonuna dönmesi gerektiğine inandığını vurguladı. Musk'ın kendi yapay zeka girişimi xAI da bu teklifin içinde yer alıyor. Eğer satın alma gerçekleşirse, OpenAI ve xAI'ın birleşebileceği konuşuluyor."Hayır teşekkürler, ama isterseniz biz de Twitter’ı 9,74 milyar dolara satın alabiliriz"Ancak OpenAI tarafı bu teklife pek sıcak bakmıyor

It is being billed as artificial intelligence's “Sputnik moment”, the day when the hype bubble burst and American companies in the sector and their investors recognized that other countries wanted to challenge their dominance. Last month, on January 27, a trillion dollars was wiped off the values of companies in the semiconductor, power and infrastructure sectors exposed to AI, more than half of it from chipmaker Nvidia — the biggest one-day loss in the history of the United States.Veteran investor Marc Andreessen made the space race-era reference on X following the launch by China’s DeepSeek of R1, an open-source reasoning model that is “on par with” OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1, the successor to the large language model (LLM) that inflated the AI balloon in 2022. The big difference is cost — DeepSeek is potentially 30 to 100 times cheaper to use, according to some claims.Dubai-based venture capitalist and strategic advisor Kevin Czok, who has built and invested in many travel technology startups, said it is important to recognize that AI isn’t new and has been used in applications like predictive pricing, personalized recommendations and demand forecasting for years. In fact, according to Phocuswright’s Travel Startups Interactive Database, AI has been at the core of almost 400 travel startups since 2005, well before the recent AI hype bubble.If generative AI costs come crashing down, as seems likely, this number may explode. What sort of landscape will these startups face on launch?Marcus Nigond, CEO of AI travel startup iWander, a PhocusWire Hot 25 Startup for 2025, said travel startup funding peaked in 2021

Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanı Mehmet Fatih Kacır, zincir marketlerdeki fiyatları takip etmeyi ve karşılaştırmayı kolaylaştıracak yeni bir internet sitesinin kullanıma sunulduğunu duyurdu. Marketfiyati.org.tr adresi üzerinden vatandaşlar, 50 bine yakın ürünün fiyat bilgilerine erişim sağlayabilecek ve farklı marketler arasında karşılaştırma yapabilecek.Bakan Kacır, sosyal medya hesabından yaptığı paylaşımda, "Merkez Bankası ve diğer ilgili kamu kurumlarının araştırmaları için TÜBİTAK eliyle yürüttüğümüz çalışmanın ürünü olan internet sitesini tüm vatandaşlarımızın istifadesine ve erişimine açtık. Böylelikle herkes, zincir market şubelerindeki 50 bine yakın ürünün fiyatını görecek ve karşılaştırma yapabilecek." ifadelerini kullandı.Market Fiyatı nasıl çalışıyor?Marketfiyati.org.tr, Türkiye'deki temel gıda ve ihtiyaç maddelerinin güncel fiyatlarını takip etmeyi amaçlayan bir platform olarak karşımız çıkıyor. Kullanıcılar, bu site üzerinden farklı marketlerdeki ürünlerin fiyatlarını karşılaştırabiliyor ve en uygun fiyatlı seçenekleri belirleyebiliyorlar. Platform, tüketicilere tasarruf yapma imkanı sunarken, piyasadaki fiyat dalgalanmalarını da gözlemlemelerine yardımcı oluyor.Kullanıcı dostu bir arayüze sahip olan platform, ürün kategorileri ve marketler arasında kolay gezinme imkanı da sağlıyor. Ayrıca, belirli ürünler için fiyat alarmı kurma ve favori ürünleri listeleme gibi özellikler de mevcut

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENESome thought the bull market surge for Bitcoin was over after the price of the biggest digital asset dipped below $93,000 on Monday. The reason? President Trump's trade tariffs spooking markets—again.But the increasingly commander in chief's change of heart to pause tariffs against Mexico and soon after Canada led to a rebound in the orange coin's price—and other digital tokens.The asset then jumped over the magical $100,000 mark before spending most of the week hovering between $96,000 to $98,000. Bitcoin's price now stands at $96,050, CoinGecko shows. That's a dip of nearly 6% over the past seven days.ETF movementsSince the start of the week, investor enthusiasm for Bitcoin exchange-traded funds has been underwhelming. On Monday, speculators pulled $234 million out of the funds; since then, it's been up an down, but data from Farside Investors shows about $200 million in total inflows across the whole week.In other news, there might be a new contender in the already crowded race: President Donald Trump's new fintech venture, Truth.fi, announced that it had applied to register trademarks two Bitcoin vehicles: the Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus ETF and the Truth.Fi Bitcoin Plus SMA.Trump Media and Technology Group did not respond to Decrypt's questions about the future products—including what the "Plus" in the name might entail.MicroStrategy stops buying—and changes its nameBitcoin treasury company MicroStrategy rebranded to just Strategy, and the internet had a field day, posting and reposting the same meme about the marketing move.The company, which is the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin with a stash valued at over $45 billion as of this writing, said the rebrand was "a natural evolution" as it becomes more BTC-focused.Its makeover came as the Nasdaq-listed firm released its Q4 2024 earnings, posting a net loss of $670.8 million

HONG KONG, Jan. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the New Drug Application (NDA) of its internally-developed IL-17-targeting monoclonal antibody gumokimab (AK111) has been accepted by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. The strategic combination of drugs such as gumokimab and ebronucimab (PCSK9) to address the differentiated treatment needs of psoriasis has further enhanced the company's overall product synergy in the autoimmune disease field.Gumokimab is the eighth successfully approved drug developed independently by Akeso (with six already approved for market), and it is also the third non-oncology innovative drug, following ebronucimab (PCSK9) and ebdarokimab (IL-12/IL-23), to progress to the commercialization stage.Gumokimab has been evaluated in four clinical studies involving patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, including one pivotal Phase III clinical trial (AK111-301) and three supportive studies.Efficacy data show that gumokimab acts quickly, with significant therapeutic improvement observed after just 2 weeks of treatment.Short-term Efficacy: At week 12, the PASI 75 response rate approached 96%, with an sPGA 0/1 response rate nearing 90%. The PASI 90 response rate was close to 80%, and the PASI 100 response rate exceeded 40%, all efficacy measures significantly superior to the placebo group. Over 80% of patients achieved a PASI 90 response, and approximately 50% achieved a PASI 100 response.Long-term Efficacy: Gumokimab monotherapy demonstrated sustained efficacy over 52 weeks, with continuous improvement and long-lasting maintenance

Create an account to save your articles.Create an account to save your articles.Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in!Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games.Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tidbits you might have missed. We also showcase a few of our original stories from the week.Biggest newsTelegram and TON go exclusive: On Tuesday, Telegram and The Open Network Foundation announced an exclusivity deal that will require Telegram mini apps—the biggest of which are games like Hamster Kombat and Trump's Empire—with crypto integrations to use TON, with Telegram also providing various benefits to projects that utilize the network.Telegram is actually the original creator of TON, which was first known as the Telegram Open Network, but the messaging app dumped the project in 2020 due to regulatory scrutiny. Development continued externally via a community of builders, who eventually launched TON as The Open Network.Betting with TRUMP: Crypto casino Rivalry added the recently launched TRUMP Solana meme coin as a form of payment on the platform

El declive del dólar estadounidense como moneda hegemónica ha abierto paso a debates sobre el futuro del dinero. Robert Kiyosaki, autor de renombre y defensor del Bitcoin, argumenta que esta criptomoneda representa una alternativa robusta frente a la inflación y la impresión monetaria desenfrenada.En un reciente comentario en redes sociales, Kiyosaki destacó cómo el público está perdiendo confianza en el dólar y buscando alternativas que ofrezcan mayor seguridad y preservación de riquezaBitcoin: La Ley de Gresham y su papel en la economía moderna, según KiyosakiDe acuerdo con la Ley de Gresham, las personas tienden a deshacerse del “dinero malo” en favor de conservar “dinero bueno”. En este caso, el dólar, debilitado por políticas monetarias cuestionables, pierde protagonismo frente a Bitcoin y los metales preciosos como el oro y la plata. Para Robert Kiyosaki, este fenómeno es más visible que nunca en el panorama actual. “Cuando el dinero MALO entra en un sistema, el dinero BUENO se esconde. El dinero bueno, el oro y la plata, se han estado escondiendo de los dólares estadounidenses FALSOS durante años

The Cosmos ecosystem is becoming a hub for Real-World Assets (RWAs) with the recent announcement of Ondo Finance’s new Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for institutional-grade RWAs, Ondo Chain.Ondo Chain was revealed at the Ondo Summit in New York, which featured a surprise closing speaker, Donald Trump Jr. “The future of RWAs in the US is bright, and new leadership has the potential to make the US the global center for crypto,” posted the Ondo Finance account.According to Ondo Finance’s blog, Ondo Chain is an omnichain network designed to support RWAs, with features like verified collateral and native margin capabilities.Ondo Finance has already expanded its presence in the Cosmos ecosystem through its integration with digital asset issuer Noble, bringing tokenized treasuries to the platform and increasing the uptake of Ondo’s US-backed products across over 90 blockchains.Noble’s partnership with Ondo Finance has also led to the launch of USDY, a native yield-bearing stablecoin for Cosmos ecosystem blockchains. This development highlights the growing importance of the Cosmos ecosystem in the burgeoning RWA segment with a market cap at over $35 billion today.“Cosmos has the biggest emerging RWA ecosystem with [Noble], [Ondo Finance], [Mantra] and [REDACTED] coming soon. This should be no surprise that the world is coming on chain in Cosmos—real assets and real companies demand real scale and real control,” commented Barry Plunkett, co-CEO of Interchain Labs (formerly Skip Protocol).Cosmos-based Mantra has also recognized the potential of RWAs in the space. Despite the broader downturn in the crypto markets following President Donald Trump’s tariff orders which caused $2 billion in liquidations, Mantra’s OM token remains up by over 68% in the last 14 days, reflecting rising institutional demand.Mantra co-founder and CEO JP Mullin posted:“The deals are getting bigger. The institutions are getting more credible than ever

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. AI is already reshaping industries and society on a global scale. IDC predicts that AI will contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, comprising 3.5% of GDP. This momentum is exemplified by the recent announcement of “Project Stargate,” a partnership to invest up to $100 billion in new AI-focused data center capacity. This is all indicative of the tremendous activity going on with AI development

NEW YORK, Feb 8, 2025 - (ACN Newswire) - Hola Prime, a leading prop trading firm, has launched a series of impactful corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, including school renovations, community support programs, and environmental sustainability efforts, aimed at creating lasting positive change.In a world where businesses are often measured by their bottom line, Hola Prime, an award-winning prop trading firm, is proving that true success goes beyond financial returns. While known for funding traders, the company is also investing in communities, ensuring that its impact extends far beyond the trading world. Through a series of CSR initiatives, Hola Prime is redefining corporate responsibility by transforming lives and fostering hope where it’s needed most. Renovating School: A Better Space To Learn. At Tarauli School, Punjab the firm took on the challenge of turning an abandoned backyard into a thriving playfield. The newly developed ground now fosters teamwork, discipline, and a love for sports among students

Virtuals Protocol, una plataforma descentralizada para lanzar agentes de IA, ha anunciado su expansión a la blockchain Solana. Este movimiento tiene como objetivo fomentar la disponibilidad multi-chain mientras empodera a los constructores e impulsa la innovación dentro del ecosistema.Ambición multi-chain de Virtuals ProtocolEl 25 de enero, Virtuals Protocol confirmó su expansión de Base a Solana. El protocolo destacó que este paso marca el comienzo de un nuevo capítulo, permitiéndole crecer su comunidad y crear más valor para los desarrolladores. Virtuals busca desbloquear nuevas oportunidades de crecimiento aprovechando la avanzada escalabilidad de Solana y su activa comunidad de desarrolladores,. “Estamos más que emocionados de anunciar la expansión de Virtuals a Solana, marcando un paso significativo en nuestro viaje para empoderar a los constructores e impulsar la innovación a través de múltiples ecosistemas. Solana, conocida por su velocidad, escalabilidad y vibrante comunidad, es el lugar perfecto para que crezcamos y llevemos nuestra visión a la realidad,” expuso Virtuals

The parents of deceased OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have sued the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the real cause of his death was not suicide, but murder.The lawsuit, filed in January, alleges that the SFPD covered up the crime, ruling it a suicide without conducting a thorough investigation.Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment last November. Attorneys say Balaji’s parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested further investigation into his death but were told the case was already closed.“The lawsuit demands that the city, police department, and medical examiner release public documents withheld under the Public Records Act,” Joseph Goethals, attorney for the petitioners, told Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren’t provided within 10 days, and “no valid exceptions apply, a lawsuit can compel their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them.”The lawsuit claims that SFPD violated the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy also argued that the investigation into their son’s death was rushed and inadequate, with officials ignoring key forensic findings and failing to address their requests for further inquiry.The lawsuit demands the immediate disclosure of all reports, photos, and videos, along with coverage of legal costs.Said Geothals: “If the San Francisco Superior Court does not interpret and impose the law correctly, we will seek recourse with the Court of Appeal. We hope it doesn’t come to that.”Balaji worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024

El Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental (D.O.G.E) de Elon Musk está evaluando la tecnología blockchain como parte de los esfuerzos para optimizar las operaciones federales.Aunque la confirmación oficial está pendiente, varios desarrolladores de blockchain han expresado su disposición a participar.Elon Musk y D.O.G.E evalúan utilizar la tecnología blockchainUn informe de Bloomberg sugiere que D.O.G.E de Musk está explorando cómo blockchain podría mejorar la gobernanza al aumentar la transparencia y reducir costos. Los casos de uso potenciales incluyen el monitoreo de gastos gubernamentales, la protección de datos sensibles, la gestión de sistemas de pago y el seguimiento de propiedades federales. Esta iniciativa podría representar un paso transformador para la administración pública en Estados Unidos. Observadores del mercado señalaron que el diseño descentralizado y transparente de blockchain permitiría el acceso a datos en tiempo real. También reduciría el riesgo de corrupción y garantizaría que los fondos públicos se utilicen de manera efectiva. Además, el movimiento podría establecer un nuevo estándar para la integración tecnológica en las operaciones gubernamentales.Además, la tecnología podría alinearse con la misión más amplia de D.O.G.E de eliminar ineficiencias y mejorar la responsabilidad

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEMaryland and Kentucky this week joined a growing list of U.S. states mulling Bitcoin and other digital assets as a way to strengthen their reserves.Dubbed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act of Maryland, a measure introduced by Democratic State Delegate Caylin Young on Friday would enable the state to establish exactly that, according to a description of the bill’s text.While some state lawmakers have introduced bills that call for investments in digital assets broadly, Young’s bill explicitly mentions the largest cryptocurrency by market cap. What’s more, the bill authorizes the Maryland State Treasurer to invest in Bitcoin using funds derived from the “enforcement of certain gambling violations.”Young’s bill was preceded by a bill with a less descriptive title in Kentucky—currently dubbed House Bill 376. Introduced by T.J. Roberts, a Republican member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives, the bill calls for the state to begin investing in digital assets and precious metals.Bitcoin, nor any other cryptocurrency, is explicitly referred to in Roberts’ bill by name, according to the bill’s text

The cryptocurrency industry notched two major victories last year when several fund issuers secured long-awaited approvals to offer spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and their Ethereum-based counterparts in the U.S. But that doesn't mean issuers are ready to rest on their laurels just yet. In recent months, fund managers have proposed new investment offerings directly tracking the prices of a variety of cryptocurrencies, from Dogecoin to XRP, Solana, and even Donald Trump’s meme coin. Here are the various crypto-based ETFs that could soon be offered in the United States, and a look at the high-profile filings so far for each asset.SolanaSpot Solana exchange-traded funds are one potential alternative to Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs that could begin trading in the U.S. this year or next.The proposed funds, which include the VanEck Solana Trust, 21Shares Core Solana ETF, Canary Solana ETF, and Bitwise Solana ETF, would directly track the price of the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.Meanwhile, a handful of proposed Solana futures ETFs such as the ProShares Short Solana, ProShares 2x Solana, and Vol Shares’ Solana ETF would enable investors to make more complex bets on Solana's price movements.However, both spot and futures Solana ETFs will likely not begin trading in the U.S. until 2026, according to Bloomberg analyst James Seyffert. That’s because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission still has to assess a batch of spot Solana ETF applications. The SEC typically takes between 240 and 260 days to make decisions on applications

El CEO de Tether, Paolo Ardoino, ha desatado un debate en la comunidad cripto tras denunciar una serie de ataques dirigidos hacia Tether y Bitcoin. En un mensaje compartido en X, Ardoino señaló que las mismas empresas detractoras de Tether son también responsables de acciones que buscan debilitar a Bitcoin, poniendo en evidencia la fragilidad y las tensiones internas del sector.Bitcoin y Tether bajo ataque: ¿Qué dice Paolo Ardoino?Las críticas de Ardoino coinciden con declaraciones recientes de Pierre Rochard, quien acusó a Ripple (XRP) de financiar esfuerzos de lobby contra Bitcoin. Rochard alegó que Ripple gastó millones para influir en políticos con el objetivo de obstaculizar iniciativas relacionadas con Bitcoin. “El mayor obstáculo para la Reserva Estratégica de Bitcoin no es la Fed, el Tesoro, los bancos o Elizabeth Warren. Es Ripple/XRP,” decía el post de Rochard. Por su parte, el CEO JAN3, Samson Mow, se hizo eco de este sentimiento y expresó su postura contra el emisor de XRP, al igual que el entusiasta Néstor (lodelascripto)

The following is a guest article from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at IntoTheBlock.Artificial intelligence and blockchain technology have converged to create Web3-based AI Agents—sophisticated models powered by advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs). These agents are transforming digital interactions. Their ability to act semi-autonomously represents a significant leap from simpler automated systems, driving the explosive growth of a tokenized AI agent market exceeding $16 billion in just six months.What is Agentic AI?Agentic AI describes AI agents capable of independent action without constant human direction. Unlike their predecessors limited to routine tasks, today’s LLM-powered agents can reason and strategize, making them increasingly valuable in cryptocurrency markets.The Genesis of Crypto AI AgentsThe concept of AI agents isn’t new, but its widespread adoption is. The Truth Terminal, an AI agent that freely navigated the internet, gained significant traction by promoting a meme-based ideology on social media. This demonstrated the potential for AI agents to autonomously influence and participate in the digital economy.The Truth Terminal’s success opened up numerous possibilities for AI agents in the cryptocurrency world

A version of this post first appeared on TKer.co After hitting a few bumps over the past month, the bull market resumed and stocks hit record highs last week. This happened despite some notable headwinds intensifying in recent months. Long-term interest rates, while off their highs, remain above levels we’ve experienced in recent years. This is a headwind for anyone needing to borrow money or refinance debt. On the short end of the yield curve, expectations for rate cuts from the Federal Reserve have been coming down, a hawkish development that has market bears salivating. The U.S

Un usuario de Coinbase ha perdido supuestamente 110 cbBTC, valorados en 11.5 millones de dólares. La pérdida ocurrió después de que el usuario fuera víctima de un scam de ingeniería social en Base, la red de Capa 2 de Ethereum respaldada por el exchange.El 31 de enero, el investigador de blockchain ZachXBT descubrió el exploit, vinculándolo a un patrón más amplio de fraude que afecta a los usuarios de Coinbase.ZachXBT expone $150 millones robados Según ZachXBT, el cbBTC robado—el producto de Bitcoin envuelto de Coinbase—fue rápidamente lavado a través de múltiples exchanges instantáneos. El hacker intercambió, puenteó y movió los fondos a través de varias plataformas antes de consolidarlos con otros activos robados en Ethereum. Estas acciones hacen que la recuperación sea casi imposible.El investigador señaló que este incidente es parte de una tendencia creciente, con múltiples usuarios de Coinbase sufriendo pérdidas similares. Estima que scams de esta naturaleza han drenado al menos 150 millones de dólares de los clientes de Coinbase:. “Coinbase tiene un serio problema de fraude

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday that will impose 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, along with an additional 10% tariffs on goods from China.Canadian energy imports will only be tariffed at 10%.The tariffs were announced through Trump’s social media platform Truth Social.“Today, I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on Canadian Energy), and a 10% additional Tariff on China. This was done through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our Citizens, including fentanyl,” Trump posted.Trump did not say when the tariffs will take effect, but Canadian authorities said the duties on all three countries will be fully in force by Tuesday.The import duties are aimed at forcing more cooperation from the countries on stopping illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the U.S., Trump said.Both Canada and Mexico have said they are prepared to impose retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods entering their countries if necessary.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that her country has prepared, “a plan A, a plan B and a plan C,” to respond to Trump’s tariffs, according to The Associated Press.Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized Trump’s tariff policy for instigating a trade war with U.S. neighbors and allies Canada and Mexico.“We should be focused on going hard against competitors who rig the game, like China, rather than attacking our allies. If these tariffs go into full effect, they will raise prices for everything from groceries, to cars, to gas, making it even harder for middle-class families to just get by,” Schumer said in a news release.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a statement Saturday slamming the executive orders.“The imposition of tariffs under IEEPA is unprecedented, won’t solve these problems, and will only raise prices for American families and upend supply chain,” U.S

El gigante bancario suizo UBS ha probado con éxito su producto UBS Key4 Gold en ZKSync, una red Capa 2 de Ethereum.Este movimiento destaca la creciente adopción de la tecnología blockchain por parte de las instituciones financieras tradicionales que buscan eficiencia y seguridad.UBS integra ZKSync para el trading de oro basado en blockchainEl 31 de enero, ZKSync informó que UBS, que gestiona activos por valor de 5,7 billones de dólares, está explorando cómo el blockchain puede agilizar las inversiones en oro.La prueba se centra en permitir a los clientes suizos del banco comprar oro físico directamente a través de un sistema basado en blockchain, asegurando escalabilidad, privacidad e interoperabilidad.UBS Key4 Gold permite a los inversores minoristas comprar acciones fraccionadas de oro, ofreciendo precios en tiempo real, alta liquidez y almacenamiento seguro. El producto opera en la UBS Gold Network, una blockchain sin permisos que conecta vaults, proveedores de liquidez y distribuidores. Para optimizar la eficiencia, UBS aprovechó el modo Validium de ZKSync. Es una solución de rollup de conocimiento cero que mejora la escalabilidad al almacenar datos fuera de la cadena.Como parte de la prueba de concepto, el banco desplegó contratos inteligentes en la testnet de Validium para simular UBS Gold Network. Estos contratos facilitaron la emisión de tokens de oro y el procesamiento de transacciones

Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to “go it alone” as an entrepreneur.But what about scaling that one-person business into something meatier — an enterprise of unicorn proportions?Historically, this would have been an unfathomably tough task, due to the skills and resources required, not only to scale a product but also to grow and maintain a sufficiently bountiful customer base. But AI agents could unshackle the would-be solo-preneurs of the world.AI agents are all about embedding human workflows into software, freeing the human to do more in less time. Agents can be assigned tasks, and they can make decisions with varying degrees of autonomy. Multiple AI agents could even collaborate on complementary tasks, paving the way for getting some real work done entirely autonomously.In an interview last year with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, OpenAI’s Sam Altman predicted this exact scenario.“In my little group chat with my tech CEO friends, there’s this betting pool for the first year that there is a one-person billion-dollar company,” Altman said. “Which would have been unimaginable without AI — and now [it] will happen.”In a discussion at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos last week, a panel of entrepreneurs and investors also discussed the prospect of the single-person billion-dollar enterprise — and, more importantly, what this might mean for the future of employment.In humans we trustRecent history reveals a slew of svelte billion-dollar companies

Un tribunal turco revocó un veredicto anterior que declaraba culpables al CEO de Thodex, Faruk Fatih Özer, y a sus dos hermanos de crear una organización criminal. El tribunal revocó los veredictos de culpabilidad para 16 acusados, pero solo 4 de ellos fueron completamente absueltos y liberados.Faruk y los hermanos Özer fueron condenados a 11,196 años por cargos como fraude agravado y lavado de dinero, además de este cargo de crimen organizado. Permanecerán en prisión, aunque exigen un nuevo juicio. Rug Pull de Thodex de Faruk ÖzerFaruk Fatih Özer fundó el exchange Thodex con sus hermanos Güven y Serap, y cometieron uno de los mayores rug pulls en la historia cripto. Juntos, supuestamente robaron alrededor de 2 mil millones de dólares en cripto, y Faruk permaneció prófugo tras el arresto de sus hermanos. Sin embargo, en 2022, fue capturado en Albania y luego extraditado a Turquía

Poco antes de asumir la presidencia, Donald Trump lanzó su propio memecoin en Solana. Melania Trump hizo lo mismo un día después. Solana enfrentó problemas de congestión importantes ya que millones de usuarios inundaron la red para negociar los tokens.En una conversación con BeInCrypto, Chris Chung, CEO de la plataforma de swap de Solana Titan, dijo que los cuellos de botella se debieron a las aplicaciones descentralizadas (dApps) en lugar de la blockchain en sí. El evento demostró que Solana estaba lista para la adopción masiva. A solo 48 horas de asumir la presidencia de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump anunció el lanzamiento de un memecoin TRUMP en sus cuentas oficiales de X y Truth Social. Dentro de un día del lanzamiento del memecoin en la red de Solana, TRUMP alcanzó una capitalización de mercado de más de 14,5 mil millones de dólares y un volumen de trading de más de 26 mil millones de dólares. Tomando nota del éxito del memecoin de su esposo, Melania Trump lanzó su propia moneda MELANIA un día antes de la inauguración de Trump.  Poco después del lanzamiento, la capitalización de mercado de MELANIA superó los 5 mil millones de dólares. Leer más: Estas son las AI memecoins más populares en 2025Este rápido y agudo aumento provocó que el token TRUMP cayera en 7,5 mil millones de dólares en diez minutos

La firma de gestión de activos 21Shares presentó un S-1 ante la SEC para un ETF de Polkadot. La compañía planea listar acciones en el Cboe BZX Exchange.El propuesto 21Shares Polkadot Trust reflejará su actual Polkadot Trust.Polkadot se une a la carrera de ETF de altseasonEl ETF de Polkadot de 21Shares seguirá los precios de DOT utilizando la CME CF Polkadot-Dollar Reference Rate. Según la presentación, Coinbase Custody mantendrá los activos. El fondo seguirá una estrategia de inversión pasiva. Evitará el apalancamiento, los derivados y el trading activo. Notablemente, el precio de Polkadot no ha reaccionado en absoluto a este anuncio

T3 FCU, un grupo compuesto por Tron, Tether y TRM Labs, ayudó a las autoridades españolas a congelar 26,4 millones de dólares utilizados en una operación de lavado de dinero con criptomonedas.Aunque las fuerzas del orden no mencionaron ningún arresto en este caso, esta colaboración logró exponer y debilitar financieramente a una importante red criminal internacional.T3 FCU Contraataca al Crimen CriptoEn los últimos meses, la Unidad de Crímenes Financieros T3 (FCU) se ha convertido en un nombre popular en la seguridad cripto. La unidad ha estado activamente abordando varios casos de alto perfil. El grupo se formó en septiembre pasado a partir de una alianza entre Tron, Tether y TRM Labs, y congeló una operación de lavado de dinero de 100 millones de dólares este mes. Según un nuevo informe, el grupo ayudó a las autoridades españolas a desmantelar una red similar esta semana:. “Esta organización [criminal] movió millones a través de fronteras, utilizando tanto efectivo como criptomonedas para ayudar a grupos criminales a lavar sus ganancias. Trabajando con T3 FCU, pudimos congelar más de 26.4 millones de dólares en activos

Crisil Coalition Greenwich anuncia los ganadores del premio al mejor banco y líder accionario de 2025 para bancos corporativos. J.P. Morgan y HSBC obtienen los máximos honores como el mejor banco corporativo global y el mejor banco corporativo de divisas del mundo, respectivamente, de Crisil Coalition Greenwich. NUEVA YORK, 5 de febrero de 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Crisil Coalition Greenwich anunció hoy los ganadores de los premios al Mejor Banco y Líder Bursátil de 2025. Más de 60 bancos fueron reconocidos a nivel mundial, regional y por país en el segmento de banca corporativa. J.P

Kraken doubled its revenue in 2024 to $1.5 billion in earnings, a 128% increase from the previous year, according to its latest released financial data.The exchange also disclosed that it holds $42.8 billion in customer assets, with an average revenue of more than $2,000 per customer.Kraken’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) totaled $380 million for the year. Meanwhile, the platform recorded $665 billion in trading volume and was supported by over 2.5 million funded accounts.The exchange released these financials following a series of strategic adjustments, including changes in its product offerings and a renewed focus on core services.Regulatory and market developmentsThe exchange made headlines by restoring staking services in the US after a two-year hiatus.Following a $30 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2023, Kraken had paused its staking service due to regulatory concerns. The reinstated service is now available to residents in 37 states, covering 17 digital assets, including Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot.Meanwhile, speculation continues regarding Kraken’s potential public listing. ETF issuer Bitwise has projected that the company could go public in 2025, joining a cohort of crypto firms expected to list on traditional stock exchanges, including Circle and Chainalysis.Additionally, Kraken has expanded its futures trading offerings, introducing new perpetual and quarterly futures contracts for key cryptocurrencies. The exchange also announced plans to enhance its margin trading services, providing traders with increased flexibility and higher leverage options.Mentioned in this article

La SEC está reduciendo el tamaño de su unidad de cumplimiento cripto. Según los últimos informes, la comisión está reasignando a más de 50 abogados y miembros del personal que trabajan en casos relacionados con criptomonedas.Esto marca un cambio significativo en el enfoque federal hacia la regulación de activos digitales bajo la administración del Presidente Trump.La SEC está reduciendo la aplicación de la ley en criptomonedasLa reducción sigue una orden ejecutiva del Presidente Trump para impulsar el crecimiento de los activos digitales al reducir las restricciones regulatorias. Como parte de este movimiento, varios abogados de la unidad cripto están siendo reasignados a diferentes departamentos dentro de la SEC. Según un informe del New York Times, un abogado senior ha sido transferido fuera de la división de cumplimiento. Algunos informantes también están viendo estas medidas como una degradación injusta: “La SEC está reduciendo su unidad de cumplimiento cripto. Algunos en una unidad especial de 50 abogados y personal que se habían dedicado a llevar acciones de cumplimiento están siendo reasignados,” escribió el analista Eric Balchunas.Leer más: Inflación y Política Monetaria: Interpretando a los bancos centralesLa reasignación de personal plantea preguntas sobre el futuro de los casos de alto perfil de la SEC, incluyendo su demanda de larga data contra Ripple

NEW YORK and LONDON and BERLIN and TOKYO, Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Group Corporation (Sony) and Nature are proud to announce the inaugural recipients of the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature, honoring outstanding early to mid-career women researchers who are spearheading breakthroughs for the betterment of society and the planet in the field of technology (science, engineering, and mathematics). The award grants each winner a prize of $250,000 to support and accelerate their technological research

The crypto market rebounded Monday evening as Bitcoin briefly surpassed $102,000, following weekend volatility sparked by AI firm DeepSeek's breakthrough announcements.Bitcoin is hovering above $102,000, though it's still down about 6.5% from January 20’s all-time high, near $109,000, CoinGecko data shows.A "noticeable recovery" can be seen "as investors seem to be reallocating to their favorite crypto assets" in a trend that's "driven by optimism about the long-term impact of AI democratization on the market," Dominick John, an analyst at Kronos Research, told Decrypt.Seminal meme crypto Dogecoin, which, on Monday, suffered its worst daily performance since the year began, is up 2.6% to $0.33, while other top performers include BNB and XRP—up 3.6% and 3.2%, respectively.The recovery coincides with Wall Street analysts offering measured perspectives on DeepSeek's impact, countering initial market panic that sparked an $860 million crypto liquidation cascade and rattled U.S. tech stocks."Is DeepSeek doomsday for AI buildouts? We don't think so," Bernstein semiconductor analyst Stacy Rasgon wrote in an investor note. "DeepSeek did not build OpenAI for $5 million," she said, suggesting that market reaction to the Chinese startup's emergence was "overblown."On the other hand, analysts from Morgan Stanley noted DeepSeek demonstrates "an alternative path to efficient model training" rather than a threat to established players.DeepSeek's latest release of Janus-Pro-7B, an open-source AI image generation model focusing on multimodal capabilities, furthers market confidence.NVIDIA bore the brunt of DeepSeek’s recent popularity on Monday, wiping $600 billion from its market cap—the largest single-day loss in history—triggering a $1 trillion wipeout in the U.S. tech sector.The tech giant attempted to assuage investor concerns via an ambiguous response to the Kobeissi Letter on Monday."DeepSeek's work shows how new models can be created, leveraging widely available models and compute that is fully export control compliant," a spokesperson from NVIDIA reportedly said.President Trump chimes inPresident Donald Trump, who has used rhetoric against China on trade matters, has softened his stance on the country, saying last week at the Roosevelt Room that his administration was looking at "a tariff of 10% on China.”This is lower than the 60% he promised on the campaign trail."The Chinese LLM poses a potential threat to US equity markets by disrupting US AI dominance with their cost efficiency and groundbreaking open-source technology," analysts from QCP Capital wrote in a report Monday.Speaking earlier today during a House Republican conference meeting held in Miami, President Trump chimed in on the DeepSeek concerns."The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company should be a wakeup call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win," Trump said. "[...] that's good because you don't have to spend as much money. I view that as a positive, as an asset."Edited by Sebastian SinclairDaily Debrief NewsletterStart every day with the top news stories right now, plus original features, a podcast, videos and more

El Zar Cripto David Sacks realizó una conferencia de prensa hoy con líderes del Senado, donde expuso las prioridades de la administración, incluyendo la legislación sobre stablecoins y una Reserva de Bitcoin. Sacks ya habló en contra de la Operación Choke Point 2.0 y especificó hoy que las regulaciones poco claras crearon un efecto paralizante y un acoso anti-cripto desproporcionado. Con una legislación más clara y amigable, tanto las empresas como el estado se beneficiarán.Conferencia de prensa sobre la política cripto de David SacksDesde que Donald Trump nombró a David Sacks como el primer Zar Cripto, no ha estado claro qué papel tendrá en la política federal. Ha abogado por poner fin a los esfuerzos de desbancarización anti-cripto y reclasificar los NFTs y ciertas memecoins como coleccionables, pero hasta ahora ha habido poco más. Hoy, sin embargo, Sacks aclaró sus planes en una conferencia de prensa con el Senador Tim Scott. Según Sacks, la prioridad número uno del recién formado Grupo de Trabajo de Activos Digitales sería evaluar planes para una Reserva de Bitcoin

El CEO de Tether, Paolo Ardoino, celebró que Rumble integrara Bitcoin y la stablecoin USDT para el pago a creadores de contenido de la red social de monetización de videos. Días atrás, la plataforma anunció el lanzamiento de “Rumble Wallet” para permitir a los creadores de contenido realizar transacciones cripto.Apenas el 20 de enero, Rumble, con más de 50 millones de usuarios, anunció su primera compra de Bitcoin como parte de su estrategia de reservas financieras. La empresa invirtió 20 millones de dólares e indicó planes para expandir sus tenencias de Bitcoin en el futuro. Tras el anuncio, las acciones de Rumble se dispararon más del 5%.CEO de Tether felicita y hace sugerencias a RumbleEl pasado 23 de enero, el CEO de Rumble, Chris Pavlovski, anunció la llegada de “Rumble Wallet”, con el que creadores de contenido podrían obtener propinas con Bitcoin (BTC) y USDT. La noticia fue celebrada por la comunidad, quienes calificaron de “audaz”, y quienes a la plataforma “tomar porcentajes muy pequeños” de ganancias para que el monedero “se vuelva una solución increíble”. “El equipo de Rumble tiene la misión de hacer que los creadores ganen más dinero por visualización que YouTube

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe XRP Ledger halted block production for about an hour on Tuesday before spontaneously recovering, marking a rare disruption for one of crypto's oldest networks.Network activity froze at ledger height 93927173, prompting an immediate investigation from validators. The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has since resumed normal operations, with no loss of assets or transactions reported.✅ XRP Ledger is Back Online The XRP ledger is now fully operational after the recent halt, and transactions can resume as normal. We’re monitoring the situation and will share a full update once more information is available. — Xaman® Wallet 🪝 (@XamanWallet) February 4, 2025“It looked like consensus was running, but validations were not being published, causing the network to drift apart,” David Schwartz, CTO of XRPL, said on X. "Very few UNL operators actually made any changes, as far as I can tell, so it's possible the network spontaneously recovered."Schwartz is referring to the Unique Node List (UNL), a core component of the XRPL consensus mechanism that acts as a trusted validator directory to ensure network integrity and transaction finality.In January 2023, the XRPL Foundation removed a Ripple-operated validator from its UNL to comply with a "one entity, one validator" policy, lowering Ripple’s influence to 2 out of 34 validators at the time.A subsequent update in March of that year expanded the UNL to 36 validators by adding community-run nodes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEFantastic Four fans are calling foul after eagle-eyed users on X pointed to telltale signs of the use of generative AI: badly drawn hands.The image features a crowd of cheering fans in a retro-futuristic poster. Yet a closer examination of the hands of several figures shows some with missing fingers or disfigured hands in a form typical of AI image generators.Since the public launch of ChatGPT in 2022, Hollywood has grappled with AI's encroachment on the creative process.In May 2023, the Writers Guild of America went on strike after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers collapsed over several factors, including compensation and the inability to agree on the use of AI in the writers’ room.The WGA strike was followed in July 2023 by the members of SAG-AFTRA, who went on strike, citing several factors, including a lack of residuals and AI protections in the negotiations with the Alliance, as factors in the decision.While AI has convincingly mimicked many aspects of the creative process, hands have remained a small but looming detail that can give away AI-generated images.The backlash directed at the Fantastic Four poster also highlights the long-standing distaste by the general public towards AI-generated content.In a 2023 study published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, between 50 and 60% of people surveyed said they prefer human-created art to AI-generated images.Marvel denied the allegations of using AI to create the Fantastic Four poster, according to a report by The Wrap. Marvel Studios did not immediately respond to requests for comments by Decrypt.Social media users voiced concerns over the AI-generated posters, arguing that the move replaced human artists and reduced creative opportunities.Others questioned why a billion-dollar movie studio would rely on AI for posters instead of hiring an artist, and some have argued that it undermines the value of the industry's massive budgets.Marvel using AI is a slap in the face to the decades of artist who made the brand what it is https://t.co/D3wjVqOf5r — Film Colossus (@FilmColossus) February 4, 2025“Using AI to make the poster?” music and culture writer Ted Gioia said. “Hollywood really has gone to war with creatives.”No way I just woke up to Marvel dropping AI posters, man. — Andrew J

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEPopular Kick streamer Adin Ross said he plans to create a crypto-infused custom server for Grand Theft Auto 6 with gaming influencer and FaZe Clan CEO and co-founder Richard "FaZe Banks" Bengtson, once the hotly anticipated title hits shelves.But the plan could be doomed from the start.“When GTA 6 drops, me and Ricky are going to make the biggest server together,” Ross said during a livestream on Monday. “And I promise you, it’s going to be completely crypto. Everything pro-crypto about it. It’s going to change the game.”Adin ross announces GTA 6 news pic.twitter.com/uNuht1Vi3w — Rak (@vvsrak) February 4, 2025Banks further suggested that the server would have an in-game crypto economy fueled by "a newly-made coin," while Ross said that the pair would "put a lot of money into it."If history is anything to go by, however, the server would likely get banned—here’s why.Back in 2022, Rockstar Games, the creator of the GTA franchise, published an article explaining that player-run servers on Grand Theft Auto Online (and Red Dead Online) could no longer use cryptocurrencies, crypto assets, or NFTs in any way.At the time, users had been running GTA 5/GTA Online “role-playing servers” strapped with fan-made modifications of the PC game. Some of these servers implemented NFTs and crypto into the server as a way to add weight to in-game assets, or offer exclusive benefits for players.In response to Rockstar prohibiting crypto usage, a wave of GTA servers were forced to close.This included Chicago rapper Durk “Lil Durk” Banks, who had launched an NFT-centric GTA server called The Trenches

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) has scheduled a conference call for Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025, at 1:30 PM (PT); 4:30 PM (ET) to announce its second quarter fiscal year 2025 financial results for the period ending Saturday, January 25, 2025.Financial results will be released over PR Newswire via US National and European Financial distribution, after the close of the market on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Cisco's quarterly earnings press release will be posted at https://newsroom.cisco.com.Date:Wednesday, February 12, 2025Time:1:30 PM (PT); 4:30 PM (ET)To Listen via Telephone:888-848-6507212-519-0847 (for International Callers)To Listen via the Internet:We are pleased to offer a live and replay audio broadcast of the conference call with corresponding slides at https://investor.cisco.com.Replay:A telephone playback of the Q2 FY2025 conference call is scheduled to be available beginning at 4:00 PM (PT) on February 12, 2025, through 4:00 PM (PT) Feb 18, 2025. The replay will be accessible by calling 800-395-6236 (International callers: 203-369-3270). The call runs 24 hours/day, including weekends. An archived version of the webcast will be available on Cisco's Investor Relations website at https://investor.cisco.com.About CiscoCisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEPudgy Penguins ended its PENGU token claim on Solana on Wednesday, and burned (or effectively destroyed) all remaining unclaimed tokens—about 13.69% of the total supply, valued at more than $150 million at the time of burning.The team initially intended to allow claims until March 9, but later changed the date, giving users just five more days to claim their PENGU.The expedited claim was put in place because a majority of Pudgy Penguins NFT owners had already claimed, according to project leader Luca Netz.“Makes no sense to keep it open if the data says that the only people claiming today are bots who are running scripts for the 8 million eligible wallets,” Netz posted on X (formerly Twitter) on January 30.Only people claiming here are Bots that have no interest in being apart of the ecosystem. 95% of penguins have claimed. Makes no sense to keep it open if the data says that the only people claiming today are bots who are running scripts for the 8m eligible wallets — Luca Netz 🐧✳️ (@LucaNetz) January 30, 2025After the announcement, only about 10% of the remaining airdrop supply was claimed, leaving the Penguins with more than 12 billion PENGU tokens to burn when the claim closed at 9am ET Wednesday.Soon thereafter, an address labeled as “Pudgy Penguins Airdrop” by Solana block explorer Solscan transferred the remaining unclaimed PENGU to “1nc1nerator,” the Solana burn address, effectively removing the tokens from the supply.Today, we burned 13.69% of the total $PENGU supply upon the close of the claim. That is 12,164,667,616 tokens. pic.twitter.com/GMVljqFygG — Pudgy Penguins (@pudgypenguins) February 5, 2025Despite the supply reduction—a move that often can boost a token’s price due to scarcity considerations—the PENGU price is down almost 8% in the last 24 hours to $0.0117, and remains below the price at the time of the burn.The token, which is the “culture coin” of the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem, has fallen outside the top 100 tokens by market cap according to CoinGecko.Last week, Pudgy Penguins parent company Igloo Inc

SoftBank reportedly is leading a $500 million investment round in Skild AI, a startup developing general intelligence for robots that can be adapted to perform different tasks. Typically, robots are trained to do limited tasks. The startup developed what it calls the Skild brain, which is a robotics foundation model that is scalable and adaptable across hardware and tasks, from opening the fridge to loading the dishwasher and using a computer. Skild AI was founded by two professors from Carnegie Mellon University, Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta. Last July, it raised $300 million in Series A funding, whose investors include SoftBank, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Bezos Expeditions, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ family office

Berachain anuncia detalles del airdrop antes de su lanzamiento en la mainnet el 6 de febrero. La red hará un airdrop del 15,8% de sus 500 millones de tokens BERA a usuarios elegibles después del evento de generación de tokens (TGE) en la mainnet.El lanzamiento de la mainnet de Berachain ha ganado notable participación entre la comunidad cripto, en gran parte debido a su único mecanismo de consenso Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL). El proyecto previamente recaudó 142 millones de dólares en dos rondas. Detalles del airdrop de BerachainDespués del anuncio del lanzamiento de la mainnet ayer, Berachain hoy reveló la tokenómica detallada del token BERA y detalles del airdrop. La distribución está dirigida a una amplia gama de participantes. Esto incluye usuarios de testnet, holders de NFT, constructores de la comunidad, seguidores en redes sociales y dApps del ecosistema.La mayor parte del airdrop de BERA irá a los holders de Bong Bears NFTs y rebases relacionados, como Bond, Boo, Baby, Band y Bit Bears. Esto incluirá a usuarios que conecten sus NFTs a Berachain. Además, se harán airdrop de más de 8,2 millones de tokens BERA a usuarios que participaron en las testnets públicas de Berachain

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is preparing to revise its guidelines for banks engaging in crypto-related activities, Barrons reported on Feb. 5.The changes would allow banks to participate in certain crypto-related activities without requiring prior regulatory approval. Some banks have reportedly engaged with government officials to advocate for offering crypto custody services and exploring tokenized deposits as a potential alternative to stablecoins.These tokenized deposits could integrate checking accounts with blockchain technology, signaling a shift toward adapting banking infrastructure to the evolving digital asset landscape.New documents related to pause lettersOn Feb. 5, the FDIC released 175 documents related to its oversight of banks involved in or seeking to engage in crypto services, highlighting a shift in the agency’s stance.The documents pertain to the 2022 “pause letters,” which the FDIC sent to 24 financial institutions, advising them to halt or avoid offering crypto-related services.In a statement, FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill said:“Our decision to release these documents reflects a commitment to enhance transparency, beyond what is required by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), while also attempting to fulfill the spirit of the FOIA request.”The FOIA request was filed by Coinbase on Oct. 18 and seeks clarity on an alleged 15% deposit cap imposed on crypto-friendly banks. The FDIC complied with the request in December 2024, although the documents were heavily redacted

MicroStrategy, el gigante de la inteligencia empresarial, ha dado un paso trascendental al cambiar su nombre a Strategy. Este cambio de marca no es solo una estrategia publicitaria, sino una declaración de intenciones en un mercado global que se dirige hacia la adopción de las criptomonedas. Con este giro, la compañía subraya su apuesta por el Bitcoin como pilar central de su modelo de negocio, posicionándose como la mayor tesorería corporativa de Bitcoin del mundo.El cambio de marca: un mayor enfoque pro BitcoinLa decisión de MicroStrategy de adoptar el nombre Strategy no es solo un cambio estético. También refleja una evolución natural que refleja la dirección que ha tomado la compañía en los últimos años. La firma ha acumulado una impresionante cantidad de Bitcoin, con un total de 471,107 BTC en su poder, por un valor aproximado de 44 mil millones de dólares. Este enfoque no solo la coloca en el centro de la atención del ecosistema cripto, sino que también refleja un modelo de negocio único que combina inteligencia empresarial con criptomonedas

La FDIC acaba de publicar 175 documentos que detallan sus directivas anteriores y la supresión del comercio de los bancos con negocios de criptomonedas. Este conjunto de documentos está relacionado con investigaciones del Congreso sobre la Operación Choke Point 2.0.El presidente interino de la FDIC, Travis Hill, escribió una declaración que acompaña esta publicación. Hill criticó estas iniciativas anti-cripto mientras era vicepresidente y desde entonces ha sido promovido.La guerra de la FDIC contra la criptoLa FDIC tiene un historial turbio con la comunidad cripto, ya que encabezó directamente un gran ejemplo de extralimitación regulatoria. Bajo la supuesta Operación Choke Point 2.0, se ordenó a los bancos cortar con las criptomonedas, y aún no conocemos el alcance total de esta campaña. Sin embargo, el presidente interino de la FDIC, Travis Hill, está buscando cambiar eso al publicar 175 documentos relevantes:. “He sido crítico en el pasado con el enfoque de la FDIC hacia los criptoactivos y el blockchain