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Bitcoin miners sell 5,359 BTC as winter power costs bite and their $7.4 billion treasury starts shrinking fast
Public Bitcoin miners collectively held 115,335 BTC as of Feb. 20, worth roughly $7.4 billion at the recent price, bu…
Bitwise CIO says crypto may be structurally mispriced as Wall Street accelerates onchain push
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said crypto markets may be underestimating Wall Street's accelerating shift toward tokenization.
Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secrets Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Allows Refiling
A federal judge has ruled that xAI's complaint failed to connect OpenAI to any alleged theft by former employees.
OpenAI Says Benchmark Used to Measure AI Coding Skill Is 'Contaminated'—Here's Why
OpenAI wants to retire the leading AI coding benchmark—and the reasons reveal a deeper problem with how the whole i…
Crypto isn't losing to AI, its just 'capitalism doing its job,' says Dragonfly
Comparisons between AI’s explosive consumer adoption and crypto’s trajectory misunderstand the nature of the prod…
The Daily: Analysts say full-blown bitcoin capitulation yet to come, Terraform Labs sues Jane Street over alleged insider trading, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Kraken rolls out round-the-clock perps for gold, major indexes and stocks like Apple, Nvidia and Tesla
These xStocks perps will provide eligible non-U.S. clients in over 110 countries with 24/7 tokenized equities exposure.
Ondo brings tokenized Apple, Alphabet, and Tesla to Binance
The integration of tokenized stocks on Binance could accelerate global adoption of digital asset trading, bridging tr…
Binance brings back tokenized stocks via Ondo Finance partnership
Binance now offers trading in select tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs through a partnership with Ondo Finance.
$161B WisdomTree to activate 24/7 trading and instant settlement for tokenized fund shares
This innovation could revolutionize fund management by enhancing liquidity, reducing settlement times, and increasing…
Brazil cuts Bitcoin miner import duty to zero and companies may plug them into stranded solar next
On Feb. 20, Brazil's foreign trade council published a technical resolution reducing import duties to zero for a narr…
Canaan acquires Cipher Mining’s stake in West Texas bitcoin mining projects in $40 million deal
The deal was funded through the issuance of Canaan shares valued at roughly $39.75 million, making Cipher a significa…
Is Artificial General Intelligence Already Here? One AI Founder Thinks So
The comments arrive as developers struggle to secure AI systems that behave less like software and more like humans.
Critics Mock Anthropic's Claims Chinese AI Labs Are Stealing Its Data
Anthropic says Chinese AI firms are copying Claude, drawing online ridicule and scrutiny of AI training practices.
We Talked to an AI Trained on Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails. Here's What It Said
Someone fine-tuned an AI on the Jeffrey Epstein email dump. We ran it locally. It called us "goyim" and invited us to…
NEAR Launches Near.com super app, touting AI capabilities and confidential transactions
The company is betting that the next big wave in crypto will come from its convergence with AI.
Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went to India with a bold new defense of AI energy use: Humans are less efficient than data cen…
The Daily: AI agent ‘accidentally’ sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy, Based raises $11.5M in Pantera-led round, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Largest US Bitcoin miner dumps entire BTC stash as margin pressure intensifies
Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week. Its corporate Bitcoin …
Australian police charge man over role in alleged $3.5 million crypto investment scam targeting elderly victims
Australian police have charged a 42-year-old man over his role in an alleged $3.5 million crypto scam targeting 190 e…
Hyperliquid web3 ‘SuperApp’ Based raises $11.5 million Series A led by Pantera
The round was structured as an equity investment with token warrants, Based co-founder and CEO Edison Lim told The Bl…
Bitcoin Mirrors Software Stocks More Than Any Other Market — Here’s Why
Bitcoin has increasingly moved in sync with the software and technology sector, and is reshaping its role in global f…
How Bitcoin Mining in Iran Can Cost Just $1,320 and Sell for $68,000
As Bitcoin mining gets more expensive around the world, one country stands out for the opposite reason: Iran. In ear…
AI bot's tipping blunder hands $450,000 memecoin pile to X sad story poster
AI trading bot "Lobstar Wilde" accidentally sent a large coin stash to an X user in need of 4 SOL for medical treatment.
The Funding: Why TradFi giants like BlackRock are buying DeFi tokens now
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
AI agent created by OpenAI dev ‘accidentally’ sends entire memecoin holdings to reply guy
The recipient quickly sold the entire stack of Lobstar tokens for a profit of about $40,000, though the same amount o…
To freeze or not to freeze: Satoshi and the $440 billion in bitcoin threatened by quantum computing
As quantum computing inches closer to reality, nearly 7 million bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1 million coi…
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin proposes AI 'stewards' to help reinvent DAO governance
The system would use zero-knowledge proofs and secure environments (MPC/TEEs) to protect voter identity and sensitive…
IoTeX hit by private key exploit draining around $2 million from bridge contracts, per co-founder
IoTeX co-founder Raullen Chai said losses are "significantly lower" than circulating estimates, but has not provided …