On January 24th, Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, posted a video saying that thanks to Trump's words, it feels great to be free again. This is an important moment for everyone. I will slowly readjust to my new life and feel the world well. Previously, Ross Ulbricht was fully and unconditionally pardoned by Trump. Previously, Ulbricht was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 40 years for operating the dark web market Silk Road. Trump had promised during the 2024 election campaign that if e...
According to GMGN market data, affected by pump.fun founder CTO related news, the market value of its namesake Meme token alon once exceeded 250 million dollars, and currently fell back to about 150 million dollars, and the 24-hour trading volume reached 395 million dollars.
Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, said that the free version of ChatGPT will launch the O3-mini. ChatGPT Plus will receive a lot of O3-mini usage.
OpenAI founder Sam Altman: The free version of ChatGPT will be available in the O3-mini.
Curve founder Michael Egorov posted on the X platform with five suggestions for improvement for the Ethereum Foundation: 1. Adopt a roadmap focused on scaling L1. Accept the fact that L2 is fragmenting the ecosystem. Pushing users towards the VC chain is not the neutrality we want. L2 is still suitable as an "application chain" for non-financial applications or applications that don't require composability. 2. Funding important non-profit infrastructure projects. Vype...
Ledger co-founder David Balland has been released after being kidnapped in France. Bloomberg reports that the details of the case have not been disclosed and the relevant investigation is ongoing.
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann said in a social media post that he has not participated in (VINE) and will never participate in any Meme coin.
Andy Ayrey, founder of Truth Terminal, announced the sale of most of the FARTCOIN tokens held by the project over the counter. Ayrey said that counterparties have committed to hold these tokens responsibly and will not cause selling pressure on the market. Some of the proceeds from the transaction will be used to increase the holding of GOAT tokens as a thank you to the community driving the development of decentralized AI. The Truth Terminal Foundation currently holds about 0.5% of the GOAT sup...
Kyle Samani, founder of Multicoin Capital, said in a recent Solana investment paper that Solana is the leading public blockchain supporting internet capital markets. In addition, Solana as a technology can outperform major traditional finance (TradFi) players on core performance metrics such as latency (including NYSE, NASDAQ, CME, JPM, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley in financial marekt, as well as Visa and Mast in payments).
On January 23rd, Rus Yusupov, co-founder of short video platform Vine, announced the release of VINECOIN on the X platform and released a video to confirm that the account was not stolen. VINECOIN's market value once exceeded 20 million US dollars. Mr. Musk had previously said on January 19 that the X platform was considering restarting Vine, a well-known six-second short video platform owned by Twitter that was founded in 2012 and shut down its core service in 2017.
Cantelopepeel, the core developer of Solana, announced his departure and founded Unto Labs to develop the new Layer 1 blockchain. As the core engineer of the new Firedancer client, he led the team to demonstrate the performance of 1 million transactions per second and 1 billion computing units per second at Breakpoint 2024. Unto Labs will adopt a new architecture, redesigning from virtual machines to consensus mechanisms, but will not create SVM chains. Cantelopepeel expects tens of millions of ...
Trump previously pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, ending his nearly 12-year prison sentence. In 2013, the FBI seized 144,000 bitcoins held by Ulbricht, and the U.S. Marshals Service auctioned them at $334 each in 2014 for a total of about $48 million. At current prices, the bitcoins are worth about $14 billion. Venture capitalist Tim Draper bought about 30,000 bitcoins in the auction. Despite the amnesty, Ulbricht has been unable to recover the assets under the Supreme Court's 1993 lega...
Dennis Porter, co-founder and CEO of the Satoshi Action Fund (SAF), posted on social media that he met with U.S. lawmakers to discuss a proposal to establish a "strategic bitcoin reserve" and said "now is the time."
Konstantin Lomashuk, founder of Lido, said that a second Ethereum Foundation was not actually created. He posted on Platform X: "No second foundation has actually been created. Ethereum is the ultimate world computer, and every Ethereum user can help it grow, develop, and succeed. If a second foundation does form, it must have a clear purpose to complement the tremendous work done by current contributors. I thank everyone for their support and believe we need more organizations for...
According to Cointelegraph's disclosure on the X platform, people close to Ledger founder Eric Larcheveque responded to the kidnapping rumors, saying that he is currently safe. According to relevant information, Gregory Raymond, whose X account is authenticated as The Big Whale, wrote that Eric Larcheveque was not involved in the kidnapping rumors about him, and he cautioned against the information that has been released, because it may threaten the ongoing investigation in France, and may even ...