Babylon Chain closes $18M funding round for Bitcoin staking Polychain Capital and Hack VC led the Series A funding round of Babylon Chain, a protocol working on Bitcoin staking for proof-of-stake networks.Dec 7, 2023Ana Paula Pereira
Meta releases ‘Purple Llama’ AI security suite to meet White House commitmentsMeta believes that this is “the first industry-wide set of cyber security safety evaluations for Large Language Models (LLMs).”Dec 7, 2023Tristan Greene
SEC discussing ‘key technical details’ with spot crypto ETF applicants: ReportIn November, the commission separately met with representatives of BlackRock and Grayscale to discuss their spot crypto exchange-traded funds.Dec 7, 2023Turner Wright
Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc. launches self-custody Bitcoin walletUsers who lose their Bitkey wallet don’t need to input a seed phrase to recover funds, the company said.Dec 7, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
‘Early bull market’ — Bitcoin price preps 1st ever weekly golden crossBitcoin is lining up a never-before-seen bull signal that could print on the Bitcoin chart by the start of 2024.Dec 7, 2023William Suberg
Montenegrin official plans to extradite Do Kwon to the United States: ReportThe Terraform Labs co-founder had been awaiting extradition to either the U.S. or South Korea after being arrested and charged in Montenegro.Dec 7, 2023Turner Wright
Phoenix seals $380M deal with WhatsMiner for green Bitcoin miningPhoenix Group is acquiring hydro cooling mining equipment from WhatsMiner worth over $136 million, with the option of an additional $246-million purchase.Dec 7, 2023Ana Paula Pereira
Web3 Gamer: Games need bots? Illuvium CEO admits ‘it’s tough,’ 42X upsideIf your game isn’t overrun with bots it means bot owners just don’t care enough, claims Pixels founder. Plus we review Galaxy Fight Club, chat to Illuvium and more in Web3 Gamer.Dec 7, 2023Ciaran Lyons
Changpeng Zhao’s next move could involve decentralized scienceDecentralized science, or DeSci, aims to apply decentralized business models to medical research.Dec 7, 2023Robert D. Knight
Web3 can benefit from adopting Web2 optimization: NBX Berlin User experience remains a barrier to entry for the world of Web3 and industry builders believe the solution lies in onboarding Web2 functionality.Dec 7, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
COP28: Blockchain projects make push to decentralize climate marketsBlockchain and crypto projects joined the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai and unveiled initiatives focusing on contributing to the fight against climate change.Dec 7, 2023Ezra Reguerra
Is Google’s Gemini smarter than OpenAI's Chatgpt? Community sleuths find out After Google launched its new high-performance AI model Gemini and claimed it to be far superior to OpenAI’s GPT-4 users on social media began to challenge those claims.Dec 7, 2023Savannah Fortis
FTX to submit revised reorganization plan in mid-DecemberBankrupt crypto exchange FTX is preparing to present an updated reorganization plan to the court in mid-December.Dec 7, 2023Amaka Nwaokocha
Web3 firms to support ecosystem development through grants amid market uptickThe Worldcoin Foundation rolled out a $5 million grant to support its community through WLD tokens or stablecoins.Dec 7, 2023Ezra Reguerra
Polygon 2.0: 2024 to see unified ZK-powered L2 chainsPolygon’s evolution will continue into 2024 as various protocols that make up its ecosystem become increasingly interconnected through the use of zero-knowledge proofs.Dec 7, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
Robinhood launches crypto trading services in EuropeAll eligible customers in the EU region can access Robinhood for crypto trading services, with over 25 cryptocurrencies available for trade.Dec 7, 2023Prashant Jha
AI regulations in global focus as EU approaches regulation dealConcerns over the potential misuse of AI have prompted the U.S., U.K., China and the G7 to speed up regulation of the technology, but Europe is already ahead.Dec 7, 2023Amaka Nwaokocha
British regulator adds Justin Sun-linked Poloniex to warning list after $100M hackThe Financial Conduct Authority warns that the crypto exchange is operating without proper authorization.Dec 7, 2023David Attlee
Meta to fight AI-generated fake news with ‘invisible watermarks’Meta will make use of a deep-learning model to apply watermarks to images generated with its AI tool, which would be invisible to the human eye.Dec 7, 2023Arijit Sarkar
Ocean mining pool refutes claims of censoring certain Bitcoin transactionsDashjr rejected blame for accusations aimed against Ocean and asked Samourai Wallet to fix the bug “on your end.”Dec 7, 2023Arijit Sarkar
Bitcoin HODL Waves: 2020 bull market buyers now control 16% of supplyBitcoin buyers from the past cycle are more stubborn than ever before, data shows, even after 165% year-to-date BTC price gains.Dec 7, 2023William Suberg
US GOP presidential candidate slams Gensler and ‘three-letter agencies’U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slammed Gary Gensler and the SEC at the Republican Party presidential debate.Dec 7, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
Bitcoin’s huge rally has nuked $6B in shorts this year — S3 PartnersShort sellers have lost more than $6 billion trying to bet against crypto stocks in 2023.Dec 7, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
Crypto is for criminals? JPMorgan has been fined $39B and has its own tokenCrypto proponents on X wasted no time pointing out the hypocrisy of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s recent remarks about Bitcoin and crypto to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.Dec 7, 2023Brayden Lindrea
Google’s ‘GPT-4 killer’ Gemini is out, here’s how you can try itGoogle has deployed its newest weapon in the AI arms race, a new artificial intelligence model that it claims is smarter and more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4.Dec 7, 2023Martin Young
House committee passes bill to ‘preserve US leadership’ in blockchainThe pro-crypto bill is one of many before Congress that aims to promote the country’s deployment and use of blockchain technology.Dec 7, 2023Jesse Coghlan
Terraform’s Do Kwon mounts last-ditch effort to avoid extradition: ReportLawyers for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon have mounted a final attempt to appeal his extradition from Montenegro.Dec 7, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
UAE researchers launch blockchain carbon trading platform at COP28The institute said it adopted a lightweight, efficient blockchain not intended to be computationally wasteful, where trading can be facilitated at little to no cost.Dec 7, 2023Brayden Lindrea
Global policymakers are still pushing CBDCs despite their failuresFrom Thailand to the Eastern Caribbean, the CBDC experience has been one of government waste. So why do financial authorities keep pushing them?Dec 6, 2023Nicholas Anthony
Judge accepts Binance CEO CZ’s guilty plea, with sentencing in FebThis court “hereby accepts the guilty plea of the defendant to the charge [...] and the defendant is adjudged guilty of such offense,” wrote Judge Richard Jones.Dec 6, 2023Jesse Coghlan