China’s Alibaba joins stablecoin platform MetaComp’s $35M fundraise
MetaComp’s Pre-A+ funding round, backed by Alibaba and Spark Venture, brings the total capital raised to $35 million, with aims...
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Vitalik Buterin Distances Himself From FLI’s AI Strategy While Defending His $500M SHIB Donation
TLDR: Buterin’s $500M FLI donation originated from unexpected SHIB tokens sent by creators as a marketing tactic in 2021. FLI...
Zcash Development Lab Secures $25 Million to Expand Privacy Infrastructure
Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) has raised more than $25 million in seed funding from major crypto investors to accelerate...
Foundry Expands Beyond Bitcoin With Zcash Mining Pool
Digital asset infrastructure firm Foundry Digital plans to launch a U.S.-based zcash (ZEC) mining pool in April 2026 aimed at...
Polychain Capital Leads $10M Seed for VeryAI’s Human-Centric Internet Vision
Proof of reality platform, VeryAI, said it has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Polychain Capital to scale...
What Is Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade? New Consensus Could Deliver 150ms Transaction Finality
Solana’s next major protocol overhaul is edging closer to reality, and developers say it could dramatically reduce transaction confirmation times...
Crypto miners must put their Bitcoin to work to survive: Wintermute
Miners who treat their Bitcoin holdings as a working asset rather than a passive reserve “will carry a structural edge...
Bitcoin advocate group to fight Basel’s ‘toxic’ treatment of cryptocurrency
The Bitcoin Policy Institute wants to ensure “US regulators get Bitcoin’s treatment right” when the Federal Reserve issues proposals to...
Eightco lands $125M from Bitmine, ARK as Tom Lee joins board
The fresh capital from Kraken’s parent company, Ark Invest, and Bitmine has backed Eightco’s new bets on OpenAI and MrBeastShares...
Human brain cell wetware plays Doom, fly’s mind uploaded: AI Eye
The truth behind viral claims scientists have uploaded a fly’s mind, and human brain cell AI wetware may perform better...
Dems say they will oversee reported DOJ probe into Binance
Senators Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren and Ruben Gallego have vowed to ensure that the Justice Department “conducts a serious...
MEV bot makes $10M in $50M crypto swap gone wrong
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says a user confirmed a warning to proceed with the swap, despite “extraordinary slippage,” while a...
US Treasury sanctions enablers of North Korea IT worker fraud ring
Fraudulent tech workers with ties to North Korea target a range of industries, including blockchain companies, with schemes and infrastructure...
CFTC chair opens prediction markets rulemaking to public comment
“This ends today,“ said CFTC Chair Michael Selig, who has been reiterating his position that the agency has exclusive jurisdiction...
Beyond AI Detection: Brevis Unveils System to Cryptographically Verify Media Origins
Brevis recently launched an end-to-end media authenticity system that allows images and videos to cryptographically prove their origins while protecting...
