According to a blog post by bitcoin developer b10c, in the past few weeks, b10c has detected 15 missing transactions from OFAC sanctioned addresses, spread across 14 blocks, 11 of which were mined by F2Pool and one each by SBI Crypto, ViaBTC, and Foundry USA. After analyzing these blocks, b10c believes that F2Pool may have started filtering transactions sanctioned by the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) again, but since F2Pool is currently the only mining pool that may be filt...
On January 9th, stablecoin issuer Avalon Labs announced in its official blog that the TGE event for its governance token AVL will be held at the beginning of Quarter 1, and the claim process will also open shortly thereafter. AVL will be launched on a centralized exchange (CEX) at the same time as TGE. The total supply of AVL tokens is capped at 1 billion, of which community incentive allocation accounts for 30%, airdrop allocation accounts for 20%, ecosystem and treasury allocation accounts for...
According to the official blog, BNB Chain today announced six outstanding AI projects on the chain, namely: MyShell, NFP, ChainGPT, Gata, Alaya, and MEET 48.
On January 6th, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said in a new blog post that the company is convinced that it has a way to build AGI (general artificial intelligence). He predicted that 2025 could see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and substantially change corporate output. Altman reviewed the second anniversary of ChatGPT, noting that the product has grown from an initial 100 million weekly active user to more than 300 million. He emphasized that OpenAI is shifting its focus to the develop...
On January 4th, according to CNBC, Microsoft (MSFT. O) said in a blog post on Friday that Microsoft will spend $80 billion on AI data centers in fiscal year 2025. Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chairperson and president, wrote that more than half of Microsoft's $80 billion spending will go to the United States. Microsoft's fiscal year 2025 ends in June this year.
Microsoft (MSFT. O) said in a blog post Friday that it will spend $80 billion on AI data centers in fiscal year 2025, according to CNBC. Of Microsoft's $80 billion spending, more than half will go to the U.S., wrote Brad Smith, vice chairperson and president of Microsoft, which ends fiscal year 2025 in June.
On December 31st, SPACE ID, a decentralized domain name protocol, revealed its 2025 roadmap on its official blog: 1. It will continue to expand its identity capabilities to more blockchains and ecosystems; 2. It is beginning to plan to expand its business beyond Web3, providing integration between Web2 and Web3 domains; 3. It is designing a new way to simplify the on-chain transaction process, creating a customized solution to unify wallet addresses; 4. It will explore new collaborations in 2025...
According to the official blog, Binance released the year-end report of the 2024 Anti-Fraud Refund Program, saying that a total of $9.10 million was recovered; 30,000 calls were made to contact potential victims; total losses prevented exceeded $129 million; 47,000 malicious addresses were blacklisted; and more than 15,000 alerts were sent to users every day.
An American YouTube blogger found that the Taliban frequently traded Meme coins and were rugged pulled.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has released a new blog post detailing his vision for the ideal crypto wallet. The article focuses on security and privacy, proposing key features such as cross-L2 transaction experience, account security, fraud prevention, data wallet, etc. For cross-L2 transactions, Vitalik proposes to adopt a chain-specific address format (such as [email protected]), and suggests that the wallet automatically handles cross-chain exchanges and transfers...
On November 27, Chainalysis pointed out in a blog post that cryptocurrencies continue to gain mainstream acceptance in many ways with the approval of spot bitcoin and ethereum ETFs in the United States and the revision of fair accounting rules by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in the United States. Chainalysis also noted that year-to-date inflows into "legitimate" services were the "highest level" since 2021, the last bull market peak. It noted that year-to-date funds for illici...
According to market news, The Mining Pod blog show revealed that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is detaining certain imported Bitmain Antminer miners at U.S. ports of entry. The equipment involved is Bitmain's Antminer S21 and T21 series, which are Bitmain's latest ASIC miner series. The sources said that the FCC and CBP are not targeting other ASIC manufacturers such as MicroBT or Canaan. In addition to disclosing that the FCC has requested a freeze, U.S. Customs and Border Protec...
In a post on the Binance blog, Richard Teng reviewed his first year as CEO of Binance. He said that the Binance platform currently serves more than 240 million users around the world and protects more than $130 billion in user assets. In 2024, Binance's institutional occupancy rate more than doubled from the previous year, indicating that professional investors continue to increase their trust in Binance's platform and services. It has become the first...
On November 14, according to the official blog, the crypto exchange Crypto.com announced the acquisition of Fintek Securities Pty Ltd. (Fintek), a brokerage services and trading company that holds an Australian financial services license and is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Through this acquisition, Crypto.com companies will be able to offer eligible users a wide range of financial products, including deposit products, derivatives, securities, foreign exchang...
On November 11th, according to the official blog, Yield Guild Games (YGG) announced the launch of YGG tokens on the Base blockchain. At present, the YGG/ETH flow pool has been set up on the base's native DEX Aerodrome. YGG holders who wish to transfer YGG tokens between Ethereum and Base will soon be able to bridge through the official Superchain Bridges, Superbridge and Brid.gg. It is reported that YGG tokens will be first deployed on Ethereum in 2021, and will be launched on Polygon in 2022 an...