SignalPlus, a cryptocurrency trading software developer, completed a $11 million Series B funding round, led by AppWorks and OKX Ventures, with participation from Avenir Group and HashKey. It is reported that SignalPlus is an Asian cryptocurrency trading software service provider that aims to expand globally. Founded in 2021, it provides institutional-grade trading tools in the cryptocurrency space.
On January 23rd, according to media reports, after the organizational structure adjustment was announced on January 10th, Tencent insiders said that "core producers will lead the team to make breakthroughs around key tracks and products". The report said that the core studio group of "Honor of Kings" and Tencent games has been built, and 13 studios have been merged into 4 research and development sub-studios, as well as Z1 Studio and G1 Studio, which are specially responsible for innovation incu...
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 ...
USDh developer Hermetica, a stablecoin built on Bitcoin's Layer 2 Stacks, has completed a transaction that brings about $3 million in liquidity to the token. Hermetica and bitcoin lending agreement Zest plan to provide USDh proceeds through sBTC lending.
On January 22nd, Eric Conner, a core developer of Ethereum and co-author of EIP-1559, posted on the X platform in the early hours of yesterday morning: "I am no longer a member of the .eth [Ethereum domain name]. Maybe one day those leaders will be back in line with the community, but for now, I am gone. Deep down, I really want Ethereum to succeed. Good luck." In addition, Eric Conner wrote today: "My passion is all about the potential of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence. Add...
Eric Conner, an early developer of Ethereum, said in an x-post that the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is becoming more opaque and disconnected from the community as Vitalik Buterin gradually recedes into the background. He pointed out that EF is currently exhibiting an "anti-victory and competitive mentality", which has led many community members to question whether to stay. Eric said that leadership, culture and community are all important, but currently EF is more inclined to focus on "goodwill" an...
IP Blockchain Story announced that the developer mainnet is now live and open to validators, ecosystem projects, and core infrastructure partners, marking the beginning of the Singularity phase of the network. Story's developer mainnet is the final stage before the public mainnet goes live, allowing teams to deploy and test their applications in a closed environment before the system is made available to the entire community via the public mainnet.
According to a blog post by bitcoin developer b10c, in the past few weeks, b10c has detected 15 missing transactions from OFAC sanctioned addresses, spread across 14 blocks, 11 of which were mined by F2Pool and one each by SBI Crypto, ViaBTC, and Foundry USA. After analyzing these blocks, b10c believes that F2Pool may have started filtering transactions sanctioned by the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) again, but since F2Pool is currently the only mining pool that may be filt...
Ethereum developers plan to launch the Pectra upgrade of the network in March 2025 and set specific milestones ahead of the mainnet fork. After coordination with the client side software team, a new client side for the upgrade and hard fork for Ethereum test networks Sepolia and Holesky is expected to be released in February, according to a core developer conference call held on Thursday. If the fork on the testnet goes as planned, the mainnet will be launched next month.
One of the largest financial securities software developers in China will suspend trading from tomorrow, and the estimated suspension time will not exceed 2 trading days! 5-day 4-board robot concept hot stock warning risk... What are the announcements worth paying attention to after the market today?
On January 13, the SCIHUB community developed a new AIAgents architecture SCAI (SCientific AI), which aims to provide researchers with more accurate and reliable tools. SCAI's goal is to solve the "hallucination" phenomenon in LLM answering scientific questions, so that AI can better serve scientific research and provide researchers with more accurate and reliable tools.
On January 10th, Sundial, the developer of identity protocol Onflow, announced the completion of a strategic Pre-Seed round of financing led by Figment Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Avalanche, and others. This round of financing will continue to develop its privacy-respecting identity protocol Onflow. According to reports, Sundial aims to build applications and infrastructure for the entire stack, and it launched its ZK ID solution Onflow last November.
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...
According to DefiLlama data, stablecoin developer Commonal launched a stablecoin product backed by real-world assets, USD0, with a market capitalization of $1.813 billion, surpassing the market capitalization of FDUSD ($1.71 billion) and rising to fifth place among stablecoins, up 237% in the past month.