The AI news out of OpenAI this week has a sharp edge: the company launched a paid Safety Fellowship offering $3,850 weekly stipends to external researchers studying what could go wrong with advanced AI — announced within hours of a New Yorker investigation reporting that OpenAI had dissolved its internal safety teams and quietly removed
Morgan Stanley’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) began trading Wednesday with solid early activity, logging more than 1.6 million shares traded and roughly $34 million in inflows, the bank said. The fund, listed under the ticker MSBT, tracks the CoinDesk Bitcoin Benchmark 4 PM New York Settlement Rate and charges a 0.14% expense ratio. It
A billion dollars in loans originated in a single month — not by JPMorgan, not by Wells Fargo, but by a blockchain-native lending company most people outside of crypto have never heard of. — Figure Technologies quietly crossed that threshold in March, and the implications for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization are hard to overstate. Bernstein,
Midas, a tokenized real-world asset platform with approximately $1.7 billion in assets minted, has launched a new verification system called the Attestation Engine, built in collaboration with Chainlink. Midas, a tokenization platform with $1.7B assets minted, adopts Chainlink to bring unparalleled transparency to mHYPER & its suite of mTokens. Powered by Chainlink, @MidasRWA’s new Attestation
L2BEAT, a decentralized platform that provides real-time analytics to blockchain Layer-2 scaling solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with several Web3 projects, including Celo, an Ethereum Layer-2 platform designed to make DeFi applications accessible to all, and Ink, a Layer-2 network built on Optimism’s Superchain and developed/owned by Kraken crypto exchange. According to the announcement
SEOUL, South Korea – March 2025 – The landscape of digital finance in South Korea has reached a pivotal milestone. Danal Fintech, the blockchain subsidiary of payments giant Danal, and JB Jeonbuk Bank have successfully completed a comprehensive proof-of-concept (PoC) for a South Korean won-based stablecoin. This crucial test validates the entire operational lifecycle of
Noos Protocol, a decentralized infrastructure for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) era, is pleased to disclose its strategic partnership with Cluster Protocol, a decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that joins blockchain technology with AI infrastructure for a secure and privacy-focused ecosystem for AI deployment. 🚀 Noos × @ClusterProtocol Ecosystem Partnership Noos has partnered with Cluster
SEOUL, South Korea – March 2025 – KakaoBank, South Korea’s premier digital-only bank, has declared a definitive strategic pivot for the year, aiming to spearhead the issuance of a Korean won-backed stablecoin. Furthermore, the institution plans a fundamental transformation into an AI-native bank while accelerating its international footprint into Mongolia. This multi-pronged approach positions KakaoBank
XFUNDS has unveiled a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to give investors simultaneous exposure to Bitcoin and short-term US Treasury bonds. The Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF takes a novel approach by switching its allocations between US Treasuries during trading hours and Bitcoin exposure after US markets close, aiming to capture value from after-hours
Circle (CRCL) stock jumped by more than 7% during the pre-market trading session on April 8 after reports that economists at the White House have dismissed claims that stablecoin rewards have the potential to harm banks. Towards the end of last month, the Circle stock price dropped due to concerns that the CLARITY Act would