U.S. Treasury Secretary Vincent Bescent said Musk's Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) is committed to making the federal government more efficient, so that U.S. taxpayers don't have to worry about the security of their personal data. So far, the DOGE team has identified about $50 billion in savings, Bescent said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. "So that's a good place to start." Cost-cutting efforts could end up saving "us a few percentage points of GDP," he added. However.....
1. DeepSeek will lower the cost again: NSA officially announced the release, accelerating reasoning to reduce costs without sacrificing performance. 2. XAI Grok 2 will be open-sourced after Grok 3 is officially available, and Grok 3 will also be open-sourced in the future. 3. Shenzhen responds to the induction of AI civil servants: it only assists government affairs, and cannot make decisions alone. 4. Step Star open-sourced the Step series multi-modal large model for the first time. 5. The Dark...
LME non-ferrous metals analysis, through the analysis of the fundamentals of copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, lead, tin, and technical indicators such as moving averages, MACD, RSI, etc., to interpret the current market conditions and provide support/resistance and target reference.
On February 19, according to the official announcement, OKX will officially launch the HYPEUSDT perpetual contract on the web, app and API at 3:00 pm (UTC + 8) on February 21, 2025, and will deliver the HYPEUSDT premarket contract at 6:00 pm (UTC + 8) on February 21, 2025. It is reported that Hyperliquid is a high-performance L1 optimized from scratch. Its vision is to create a fully on-chain open financial system. The flagship native application is a fully on-chain orderbook perpetual contract ...
As reported by VNEconomy last month, Vietnam's Ministry of Planning and Investment is seeking comments on the National Assembly's draft resolution on building a regional and international financial center in the country. The draft proposes that cryptoassets and cryptocurrency trading within the financial center will be officially implemented as of July 1, 2026. According to the draft, the regional financial center will be located in Da Nang City, while the international financial center will be ...
Digital asset investment firm CoinShares announced its 2024 Q4 earnings report, which revealed that the previous quarter was the company's strongest quarter ever, including: 1. Physical pledged Ethereum ETP inflows amounted to 75 million USD; 2. Physical XRP ETP attracts $31 million in new investment; 3. Physical Bitcoin ETP has become the largest ETP in the European market. 4. The overall inflow of cryptocurrency spot, futures and stock ETPs in the US market reached $16 billion.
Santiment said in a post on X that the average fee for Ethereum transfers is currently only $0.41, compared to a high of $15.21 in the past two years. When Ethereum transaction fees are low, it usually means the network is not overcrowded. When users transfer ETH or tokens without paying high fees, this is usually a good sign for the medium- and long-term price outlook...
Libra token co-founder Hayden Davis denied in a statement that he paid bribes to Argentine President Millet. He called the media reports "politically motivated." Asked if he denied making such allegations via text message, his public relations representative replied that there was no memory or record on Hayden's phone.
Bankless Ventures announced the launch of Fund II, with a goal of raising $50 million. Over the past 21 months, Bankless Ventures has entered multiple early-stage investment projects, and Fund I has completed 90% of the capital deployment, with a scale of 40 million US dollars. It also plans to add an investment partner to Fund II to further enhance strategic execution. The company emphasizes that the future crypto industry will usher in emerging fields such as AI agents, stablecoins, and zero-k...
The Utah Blockchain and Digital Innovation Amendment has been sent to the Senate for approval. If passed, it would allow the state to invest 10 percent of state funds in bitcoin and other digital assets. Utah remains ahead in the state reserve bill race, followed by Arizona and Oklahoma.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against major currencies, rose 0.3 percent on the day to close at 107.057 in late foreign exchange trading.
On February 18 local time, the US State Department issued a statement saying that US Secretary of State Rubio met with the Russian Foreign Minister in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier in the day, and then talked with the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs. Rubio briefed the foreign ministers of the meeting, and all parties agreed to continue to maintain close contact and work together to end the Ru...
Strategy (MSTR. O) announced that it intends to offer to qualified institutional buyers a private placement of its 0% convertible senior notes due 2030 for a total principal amount of $2 billion. Strategy also expects to grant purchase rights to initial purchasers of the notes, settled within five business days of the date of the notes' initial offering, for a total principal amount of up to $300 million. Strategy intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, ...
The Securities Exchange Commission is seeking public comment on whether the agency should approve options trading on three spot Ethereum ETFs. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) sought comments on whether to allow the Cboe Exchange, Inc. to list and trade options on the Grey Release Ethereum Trust ETF, the Grey Release Ethereum Mini Trust ETF, and the Bitwise Ethereum ETF, according to a regulatory filing released Tuesday. Comments should be submitted within 21 days of publication in the F...