Over 10,000 AI Agent Licenses sold on Sui blockchain. Rollup News users verified 3M+ posts with Swarm tech. $3M strategic backing from Sui, Ghaf, Brinc, Y2Z, Zerostage. Swarm Network has secured $13 million in fresh funding to build a decentralised protocol designed to verify artificial intelligence (AI) outputs and make information on the internet more
Former team members behind prediction market platform Polymarket have launched a new venture, The Clearing Company. It secured a $15 million seed round led by Union Square Ventures, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Other investors include Haun Ventures, Variant, Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Rubik, Earl Grey, Cursor Capital, Asylum and several angel backers. Co-founder Toni
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: Bitcoin Mining Faces ‘Incredibly Difficult’ Market as Power Becomes the Real Currency Bitcoin Liquid Staking Gains Momentum as Lombard Launches BARD Token and Foundation Optimism Taps Flashbots to Supercharge
U.S. stocks are largely flat as the muted performance across Wall Street inches into the third session of the week, with investors’ focus now firmly on Nvidia earnings, set for release after the close on Wednesday. Summary Stocks opened lower on Wednesday following another muted session on Tuesday. Wall Street is cautious ahead of the
This is a segment from the 0xResearch newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. BTC sits at $110K as of this morning, with the vast majority of tokens down – except for Hyperliquid (up 14% from yesterday’s $43 lows) and Solana (up 4% today). We’ve already covered Hyperliquid twice this week, so I’ll spare the details.
Cross-border payments may soon move faster as banks gain access to stablecoin settlement through a new deal between Finastra and Circle. The collaboration will connect USDC, Circle’s dollar-pegged digital token, to Finastra’s Global PAYplus platform. Finastra Opens Its Network to USDC Finastra said the integration will allow banks using its payments hub to settle transactions
The largest company in the world by market cap at $4.4 trilion, Nvidia (NVDA) reports earnings after the U.S. market close on Wednesday. Data from Bitcoindata21 on X shows that Nvidia earnings have historically correlated with a positive Bitcoin’s performance. Over the last 10 earnings reports since early 2023, when the current bull market began,
Abu Dhabi-based investment manager Lunate, with $110 billion in assets under management, has partnered with hedge fund giant Brevan Howard, which manages $34 billion, to establish a new investment platform in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The launch begins with a $2 billion long-term commitment from Lunate. It will create a suite of exclusive
Although they’d hate to admit it, even Michael Saylor’s biggest fans would agree that Jim Chanos’ bearish Strategy (MSTR) trade this year has been exceptionally profitable. Chanos sold shares short and fully hedged that short-sale with a long bitcoin (BTC) position. In other words, rather than betting against MSTR’s overvaluation on an absolute basis, he