On January 19, Tachi, founder of Playgrounds, the team behind arc (AI Rig Complex), said that the team has migrated 5 million ARC tokens from multi-signature to metora pool to provide liquidity. The fees generated will be used to fund operating expenses and support growth plans.
On January 12th, Tachi, co-founder and CEO of Playgrounds, the team behind Arc, announced a strategic cooperation with Aiccelerate DAO to provide Rust-based AI framework consulting services. The team has transferred 100% of the AICC token allocation to Arc Treasury, 30% of which will be used to create the AICC/ARC liquidity pair, and the generated fees will be returned to Arc Treasury for ecosystem construction; the remaining 70% is locked in the escrow contract and will be released linearly wit...
Offchain Labs, the team behind Ethereum L2 network Arbitrum, has appointed Ira Auerbach as head of its collaborative studio and venture capital arm, Tandem. Auerbach previously served as Nasdaq's head of digital assets and held leadership roles at cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, including global head of its major businesses. Ira Auerbach will lead select blockchain projects backed by Tandem, which was launched in August last year to support initiatives to solve the "most intractable technical pr...
Kye, the developer behind AI Agent swarms, wrote on the X platform, "Every AI should be open-sourced. Every one is. I'm not a big fan of the artificial intelligence security community, but non-open-source artificial intelligence is very, very dangerous. With open-source, people can make changes to bring artificial intelligence in line with humans. If it's closed-source, it's impossible. We should encourage everyone to open-source their artificial intelligence, or we will face unimaginable conseq...
Offchain Labs, the developer behind Arbitrum, announced at CES 2025 that the Arbitrum Foundation had awarded the largest developer grant ever to Lotte Group, a multi-billion dollar South Korean conglomerate known for its vast portfolio of shopping malls, media companies and entertainment assets. A representative for the company declined to disclose the exact amount of the grant "at this stage", which, according to Offchain Labs, solidifies Arbitrum's role as the main player for the Rakuten Metav...
On December 11th, bond yields have fallen sharply recently. When investors enjoy the dividends brought by the bond market surge, they must also maintain a sense of rationality and not ignore the risks behind it. The market has fully expected the bond market. If there is a gap between the implementation of future policies and expectations, the market may have the possibility of a major correction. Most Financial Institution Groups are bulls in the bond market. In the case of unilateral interest r...
On December 10th, the A50 futures index rose by more than 4% at the end of yesterday's trading, and it rose by nearly 1% again at night. However, after the opening of today's trading, the index ushered in a rapid plunge, with the index falling by 3.5%, almost erasing yesterday's sharp rebound. What happened behind this strong shock? Analysts believe that on the one hand, it may be related to the external environment. Today's Asian session, the world's major stock index futures sold out across th...
The team behind Layer 1 blockchain network Avalanche launched its major upgrade on the testnet on Monday. This upgrade is called "Avalanche9000" and contains several technical improvements designed to reduce the cost of blockchain deployment by 99.9%. These improvements include community proposals ACP-77 (to make Avalanche's Layer 1 validator more flexible) and ACP-125 (to reduce the base fee of Avalanche by 96%). Also launching alongside the upgrade is Retro9000, a $40 million grant program to ...
Monster League Studios, the Barcelona Web3 gaming company behind the chain game Mokens League, announced that it has completed 3.70 million euros in financing. The investor information has not been disclosed. The new funds are intended to support the development of the Mokens League game ecosystem, including in-game purchases, player rewards, and the use of utility tokens.
ENS Labs, the company behind the Ethereum domain name service ENS, is moving ahead with its plans for the L2 network. Katherine Wu, chief operating officer of ENS Labs, said the new network Namechain should go live by the end of next year. It will use zero-knowledge rollup. "This technology allows Namechain to process and execute transactions outside the main Ethereum network, while still inheriting the full security of Ethereum, but at a fraction of the cost," ENS Labs said in a press release o...
Nitro Labs, the team behind Termina, the Solana scaling infrastructure platform, raised $4 million in seed funding led by Lemniscap, with participation from Animoca Ventures, Borderless Capital, Finality Capital, Race Capital and No Limit Holdings. In addition, undisclosed angel investors such as Solana Foundation, Jump Crypto and Spartan also participated in the round. Termina is an open-source platform designed to make it easy for developers to deploy custom Solana Rollup or SVM "network exten...
Hana Network, the developer behind Hypercasual Finance, has completed a new round of financing of $4 million, with participation from Sushiswap, Alliance and Orange DAO. The valuation of this round of financing has not been disclosed.
The European Central Bank's governing council, Muller, said that the best policy option is to cut interest rates cautiously; not to worry about falling behind the situation; and still believe that we will see a gradual economic recovery.
Botanix Labs, the developer behind Ethereum-compatible Spiderchain, has become the first Bitcoin second-layer project to join the Chainlink Scale initiative. It is reported that Chainlink's feed data will serve as Spiderchain's main cross-chain communication tool, facilitating data transfer between L2 and other EVM-compatible networks.
Opti Games, the studio behind the sports fighting game Sparkball, announced the completion of a $2 million financing round, led by L1D, with participation from CMS Holdings, Impossible Finance, YGG, Monad CEO Keone Hon and his angel investment group Purple.