According to the FT, US foundations and university endowments are ramping up their investment in cryptocurrencies, which, despite their volatility, have far outperformed other asset classes over the past five years, with many who had been sitting on the sidelines now jumping in, fearing they would miss out on a price rise.
On January 30, Cardano successfully activated the "Plomin" hard fork upgrade on Wednesday, which allows ADA token holders to participate in Cardano's future decisions, including voting on treasury measures and hard forks. The core change of this upgrade is the full introduction of Delegate Representatives (dReps), who will vote on governance issues on behalf of ADA token holders. Previously, Cardano's governance was governed by the Cardano Foundation, Input Output Global (IOHK) and Emurgo.
Philippine banks are collaborating to create a peso-backed stablecoin, PHPX, aimed at improving cross-border transfers and financial inclusion. The PHPX token is scheduled to be launched between May and July. The PHPX stablecoin, developed by Singaporean startup Just Finance, will be launched on the Hedera decentralized ledger technology (DLT) network. According to the Ledger Insights report, participating Philippine banks include Union Bank of the Philippines, Rizal Commercial Bank, Cantillan B...
Google has donated $1 million to President-elect Trump's 2025 inauguration fund, becoming the latest tech company to try to build a good relationship with the new administration. Karan Bhatia, Google's head of global government affairs and public policy, said the company will also offer a live stream of the inauguration on YouTube and a direct link on its homepage.
On the X platform, Mr. Musk "agreed" with Katherine Boyle, a16z general partner, and said it was "maybe time" to start TITS, which, if it happens, could create a huge real-world use case for Dogecoin and take adoption to a whole new level. Mr. Musk has already started two schools, Ad Astra (Latin for "to the stars") and a closed school for the children of SpaceX employees. The acronym TITS stands for "The Texas I...
Meta Platforms has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund as part of its efforts to repair ties with the Trump administration. It has not made a similar donation to President Joe Biden or Trump's first term. (Bloomberg)
The US government is negotiating with several political action committees (PACs) to return up to $13.25 million in political donations donated by former FTX executives. The request has been approved by Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is in charge of the FTX case, and the government will continue to discuss the forfeiture of the funds with the PAC until January 15. The data show that the donations were made by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried or former engineering director Nishad Singh, who testified that s...
Solayer announced the launch of the Restaking endogenous AVS standard on the Solana mainnet. Solayer's unique advantage is to leverage Solana's staking weight QoS to create a decentralized cloud marketplace on top of it. Participants can obtain sSOL by staking SOL, and then delegate the sSOL to selected e-AVS, resulting in native staking revenue (8.12%), MEV boost, and AVS revenue. Solayer also released the v1 power builder package, which allows developers to directly interact with core function...
Starknet announced on the X platform that in order to give RPC providers more time to upgrade, the deployment of Starknet v0.13.2 will be delayed by 2 days, the deployment time of the test network will be delayed from August 5th to August 7th, and the mainnet will be delayed from August 26th to August 28th.
CathieWood's ArkInvest will donate a fixed percentage of its revenue to OpenSats to permanently fund open-source Bitcoin contributors.
Flow has announced that its mainnet will undergo a Crescendo upgrade at 20:00 on September 4. Flow says that Crescendo will be the most significant upgrade to the Flow network since its inception, including full EVM equivalence for all developers on Flow and marking a point of maturity for the Flow native programming environment for Cadence 1.0. Full EVM equivalence means that any smart contract, protocol, or tool running on the Ethereum mainnet will be able to run on Flow, similar to EVM L2. Th...
Flow 宣布其主网将于 9 月 4 日 20:00 进行 Crescendo 升级。Flow 表示,Crescendo 将是自创世以来对 Flow 网络最重要的升级,升级包括 Flow 上所有开发人员的完全 EVM 等效性,并标志着 Cadence 1.0 的 Flow 原生编程环境的成熟点。 完全 EVM 等效意味着在以太坊主网上运行的任何智能合约、协议或工具都将能在 Flow 上运行,类似于 EVM L2。 此次网络升级估计需要约 6 小时,在此期间...
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Nintendo's president said Tuesday that the company has confirmed that it will not include artificial intelligence-generating technology in its games due to intellectual property concerns. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said during a Q & A session with investors that while generative artificial intelligence has become increasingly popular, the company has no current plans to use it in upcoming games. "We have decades of expertise in creating unique gaming experiences...
Flow is launching its EVM equivalent, Crescendo, which is designed to connect Flow to the EVM ecosystem to become one of the most scalable and powerful computing layers for developers. At the same time, a bug bounty program is launched, which is looking for vulnerabilities in smart contracts, transactions or scripts that may affect the stability or security of the network. The maximum bug bounty is $50,000.