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Aave governance dispute intensifies as ACI founder publishes ‘audit’ of Aave Labs ahead of $51M funding vote
ACI founder Marc Zeller published a sweeping "audit" of Aave Labs’ past performance and funding ahead of a key DAO …
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.
Vitalik Buterin sold 17,000 ETH this month as ether fell 37%
The Ethereum co-founder's tracked wallets dropped from 241,000 ETH to 224,000 ETH in February, with sales routed thro…
Ethereum Founder Keeps Moving Coins — ETH Sell-Off Continues
Vitalik Buterin has been moving Ether into stablecoins again. According to on-chain data, wallets linked to him carri…
Ethereum’s Legal Status Gains Clarity After SEC Leadership Signal
The regulatory outlook for Ethereum is gaining renewed attention following signals from Paul Atkins, who has reported…
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.
Vitalik selling Ethereum grabs attention — but this liquidity shift matters more
Ethereum is getting two headline signals at once, and they point in different directions. On-chain trackers have flag…
Ethereum Foundation begins staking part of ether treasury, plans to deploy about 70,000 ETH to generate yield
The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its ether treasury, targeting about 70,000 ETH to generate rew…
A coordinated attack caused the USD1 peg wobble but one exchange holds 93% supply
World Liberty Financial's stablecoin slipped to $0.994 on Feb. 23, a 0.6% deviation that lasted minutes before recove…
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…
Vitalik Buterin sells over 10,000 ETH in three weeks after pledging funding for open-source projects: onchain analysts
Vitalik Buterin has sold over 10,000 ETH since early February, according to onchain data, following his pledge to fun…
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.
‘Ethereum Foundation believes in Defipunk’, says org as it forms team to support protocol development
The Ethereum Foundation named former DELV CEO Charles St. Louis as DeFi Protocol Specialist and ivangbi as DeFi Coord…
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.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial says USD1 short and social media attack fails as stablecoin briefly dips
USD1 briefly fell to about $0.99707 on Monday morning, a drop that typically would not be considered a stablecoin depeg.
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 …
Pharos Network launches RealFi Alliance to unify real-world asset markets
The RealFi Alliance could significantly enhance institutional adoption of tokenized assets by standardizing and scali…
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…
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin accelerates ether sales
The latest sales are part of a broader plan announced in late January to fund ecosystem development and other initiat…
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.