Zoro, a decentralized AI infrastructure, today announced a strategic alliance with BlueWhale AI, an artificial intelligence-powered data analytics platform. BlueWhale leverages this collaboration to combine its AI expertise with decentralized systems driven by Zoro’s technology to run practical, safe, and responsive solutions for real-world applications. This partnership enables AI agents on BlueWhale to efficiently engage
The Federal Reserve Board announced Wednesday it will host a conference on payments innovation on October 21, with a focus on emerging technologies in U.S. payment systems. The event will bring together regulators, academics, and industry participants to discuss ways to “innovate and improve the payments system,” per the announcement. “Innovation has been a constant
Bitcoin financial services firm River said its business clients are reinvesting 22% of profits into Bitcoin on average, signaling growing grassroots adoption. Of River’s client base, real estate firms have been the biggest adopters with nearly 15% reinvesting profits into Bitcoin (BTC), while hospitality, finance and software sectors are allocating between 8% and 10%, River’s
Venezuela is turning to dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies to shore up its foreign exchange market as US sanctions choke oil revenues and reduce the availability of hard currency. The government has quietly allowed private businesses to buy and sell USDT, a stablecoin issued by Tether that mirrors the US dollar, in a bid to keep trade moving
Biotech firm Portage Biotech is the latest publicly traded firm to shift its focus to a digital asset treasury, securing around $100 million to build a treasury centered on Toncoin (TON)—the asset linked to popular messaging app Telegram and its digital ecosystem. As part of the strategy shift, the firm will be renamed AlphaTON Capital
The most popular projects in the cryptocurrency market, based on weekly active user numbers, have been revealed. The list includes both layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and infrastructure projects. The 20 projects with the most weekly active users, the number of developers, and the change in this number compared to the previous period
The Chainlink Data Streams has been integrated on the Flex perpetual platform to power the trading of tokenized US equities market. Data Streams was recently unveiled to provide real-time streams for major US stocks and ETFs. Next-generation decentralized perpetual protocol with cross margins, Flex Perpetual, has become the latest to integrate Chainlink’s Data Streams for
World Mobile just cleared a big milestone: more than two million people are now using its blockchain-powered network every day. At the same time, the project’s native token, World Mobile Token ($WMTX), is set to make its U.S. exchange debut on Kraken on September 4, the first U.S. listing for the asset. The growth hasn’t
According to analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, institutions are now coming back to Bitcoin (BTC) after seemingly souring on Ethereum (ETH). On Tuesday, spot BTC exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted $332.8 million worth of inflows, with Boston-headquartered mutual fund Fidelity accounting for the biggest chunk of the aforementioned sum ($133 million). Surprisingly, the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin
The Nasdaq stock exchange halted trading of American Bitcoin (ABTC) shares five times Wednesday as volatility spiked on the stock’s relisting debut. Shares of ABTC, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company co-founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., climbed by nearly 85%, hitting a high of $14 per share during intraday trading, following American Bitcoin’s