Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, wrote in an X post: "Last month, I had several conversations with game companies with market capitalisation of over $1 billion, including public companies, who are now actively considering launching a token. Twelve months ago, they wouldn't even be discussing it. 2025 compresses four years of development to one year."
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said in a social media post, "The Ethereum community in Argentina is full of amazing developers who have made many important software contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem. Argentina's current drive, building energy, and determination to use cryptocurrencies and other emerging technologies to build a prosperous 21st-century society are real. Recent news should not be seen as a reason to give up, but as an example of why education is so important. I stil...
StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson wrote on the X platform that Vitalik Buterin has led Ethereum through many crises, everything will be fine, Ethereum will survive and solve problems, although I don't know how it will happen and I'm not involved, but people need strong Ethereum.
"Games are games," wrote Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, in a post on social media. "Obviously, I think meme is a net gain, but if you are a politician and turn your back on your supporters, there may be no consequences in the crypto world, but your political career may suffer. Whether it is worth it depends on whether you value your supporters."
Jupiter co-founder Siong posted on social media, "Jupiter has not joined forces with LIBRA, ENRON and other projects to do evil, and we have no direct financial interest in these projects at all.
Jason Choi, co-founder of Tangent, wrote that "most of the'revenue 'in the crypto industry is not sustainable, as most products do not solve everyday problems and are just leveraged bets on the current crypto cycle. Most are, but not all."
Today, the three co-founders and CEOs of OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle, Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son, and Larry Ellison, attended a live press conference hosted by Trump. Trump announced that SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle jointly established a new AI company, Stargate, which will invest $500 billion in the next four years. $100 billion will be invested immediately to build AI infrastructure. Stargate's initial equity investors include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are Stargate...
Arthur Hayes, co-founder and former chief executive of BitMex, said: "I don't think Trump is going to set out to build a bitcoin reserve. At the end of the day, I don't know what's the use of borrowing money to buy bitcoin on any of Trump's platforms." "You had so much borrowing capacity before you destroyed the bond market," he said. "You would borrow...
Michael Saylor, co-founder and chairperson of MicroStrategy, told the ICR conference in Orlando that companies should turn to bitcoin investments because traditional bonds such as treasuries are "poison". He highlighted that bitcoin has outperformed bonds since the company began implementing its bitcoin investment strategy in 2020, and advised businesses to consider bitcoin as digital capital. Saylor revealed that MicroStrategy recently increased its holdings of Bitcoin for $243 million, which i...
In an interview with Coindesk, Nick van Eck, CEO and co-founder of stablecoin issuer Agora, said that blockchain-based payment methods will proliferate in the next decade. He said: "We will see most cross-border transfers move to stablecoins instead of using Swift like the current banking system. You will also see a lot of foreign exchange transactions settled on-chain...
"A lot of people try to pitch their projects to me at conferences, often taking selfies with me while doing the pitch," wrote CZ Yu X, co-founder of Binance. "It doesn't work. I'm not smart enough to understand a project in seconds. A live demo is worth a thousand pitches. Business cards work for me. It's easy for me to pass business cards to my team, it's much easier than asking for my contact details."
In an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, Microstrategy co-founder and former CEO Michael Saylor said he plans to continue buying bitcoin as part of the company's strategic reserve, even if the price of bitcoin reaches $1 million per coin. Michael Saylor compared bitcoin to the Manhattan real estate market, which he pointed out was in the 1830s...
Cobo co-founder and CEO Shenyu posted on X: "I was wrong, I didn't expect the counterfeit products season to come at the end of November." Previously, Shenyu had said that "there is no counterfeit products season in this cycle."
Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss posted on the X platform that the SEC's war on cryptocurrencies is evil, but at least it's largely public. In contrast, the coordinated effort by the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC to eliminate the banking of cryptocurrencies is an evil act carried out in secret under the cover of the Patriot Act and other federal prerogatives. So you can expect their behavior to be 10 times worse than that of the SEC. Now is the time to uncover the political enemies who allo...
OpenLayer, a crypto AI startup co-founded by three former Robinhood employees, raised $5 million from investors including a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), Geometry, IOSG Ventures, Spartan Group, LongHash Ventures, and undisclosed angel investors from crypto projects such as EigenLayer, AltLayer, Puffer Finance, and Sei Network. OpenLayer acts as an AI data layer, enabling users to contribute and validate data and gain insights through Chrome extensions.