U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Tuesday that his department will begin issuing economic data “on the blockchain” in the Trump administration’s latest overture to the crypto industry. “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president,” Lutnick told a nodding President Donald Trump
OpenPad AI has recently announced a strategic partnership with Fireverse, a next-generation music platform incorporating the use of artificial intelligence and intersecting with blockchain technology. The two projects have in common the vision of transforming the relationship between communities and digital assets and creative content. Fireverse has established itself as an innovative environment in which
Circle is partnering with the XDC Foundation to integrate its USDC stablecoin and the advanced V2 Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP V2) into the XDC network. This integration enhances the XDC network’s capabilities for dollar-denominated transactions, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and decentralized finance (DeFi). The collaboration provides developers and institutions with secure and programmable USDC transfers,
Offchain Labs is making a zero-knowledge play for Arbitrum. Its venture studio Tandem has entered a one-year exclusive partnership with Succinct to build a zkVM tailored to the Arbitrum ecosystem. The agreement, announced Tuesday, binds both companies to collaborate solely with each other on this effort. “For one year, Tandem by Offchain Labs has an
Mind Network has excitedly announced its groundbreaking partnership with AntChain to redefine Asset transfer privacy. This collaboration aims to explore the onchain integration of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to make asset flow more secure, compliant, and privacy-driven. Together with @AntChain, industry-leading blockchain infrastructure provider, we will explore how to bring fully homomorphic encryption on-chain, combining
Blockchain developers are sharing “horror stories” related to eye-watering bills received from Google Cloud’s BigQuery service, including a developer who was suddenly charged a total of $15,000 for performing three queries. BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse offered by Google Cloud, designed for analyzing large sets of data via Structured Query Language (SQL) with built-in
Exciting news is buzzing across the crypto landscape! The innovative modular blockchain Hemi has successfully secured a substantial $15 million in a recent funding round. This significant capital injection positions Hemi as a compelling new player, aiming to merge the unparalleled security of Bitcoin with the dynamic smart contract capabilities of Ethereum. It’s a development
Animoca Brands has teamed up with Antler’s corporate innovation arm, Ibex Japan, to launch a dedicated Web3 entertainment investment fund aimed at bringing Japan’s anime and manga intellectual property (IP) onchain. The announcement was made on Tuesday at the WebX conference in Tokyo, Animoca Brands revealed in a post on X. Animoca’s co-founder and chairman,
Arichain, a multi-dimensional L1 chain, has partnered with CGPTDotFun, the 1st combined platform for memecoin launching and AI Agents. The key objective of this partnership is to advance Web3 innovation by increasing engagement with blockchain and AI technologies. Announcing Arichain’s Web3 Partnership Arichain X cgptdotfun@cgptdotfunis the first hybrid AI Agent and Memecoin launcher built natively