Shares in Nvidia plunged amid concerns about Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, wiping a record amount of market value off the world's largest company. Nvidia shares fell as much as 13%, wiping about $465 billion off its market value, breaking the record of a 9% drop last September, when it lost about $279 billion in market value, the largest in U.S. stock market history.
Matrixport said that since the start of the bull market in late 2022, Bitcoin has shown strong resilience, with 30-day price corrections rarely exceeding -10%, while monthly losses during bear markets are often as high as 30% or more. Last week, Bitcoin was close to the -10% correction level, which is usually regarded as a consolidation bottom in this bull market. In contrast, the + 40% sharp rally in March and November 2024 is seen as a profit-taking opportunity. From the trend chart, Bitcoin i...
On January 27th, according to Bloomberg, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released a competitive AI model, raising concerns about its threat to the US technology leadership, and Japanese chip stocks fell sharply. Nvidia supplier Advantest fell 8.2%, Disco Corp fell 2.9%, SoftBank Group fell 5.4%, and data center cable makers Furukawa Electric and Fujikura Ltd both fell more than 8%. Market participants pointed out that the huge investment returns of large technology companies in the AI field are ques...
Bitcoin payments startup Breez announced the completion of a $5 million funding round, with participation from Entrée Capital, ego death capital, Plan Fund and Timechain.
Blockchain governance startup Agora is about to acquire its rival Boardroom. The company sees the acquisition as a strategic move to strengthen governance within the broader Ethereum ecosystem, citing US President Donald Trump's promise of regulatory clarity for the blockchain industry and the expectation that decentralized governance will grow again. Boardroom was established earlier than Agora and has similar goals to Agora, but adopts a more horizontal blockchain governance approach. Boardroo...
Blockchain analytics platform bitsCrunch has launched a $5 million ecosystem grant program to support Web3 developers with funding, API credits, and token-based assistance.
Former Coinbase CTO Balaji said in a post that many startups may try to raise funds in the future by issuing tokens as explicit crypto equity. He pointed out that from a technical perspective, there are obvious advantages to representing equity on the blockchain, allowing investors to check pricing through wallet holdings, APIs, and track it on a blockchain browser. At the same time, founders can more easily execute operations such as dividend distribution, repurchase and vesting plan management...
According to official news, grey release has launched recruitment again, this time offering positions as a digital asset derivatives trader, portfolio advisor, crypto product analyst, and Private Offering Fund sales analyst. Earlier this month, grey release also disclosed recruitment information, including analysts, tax specialists, digital asset traders, portfolio managers, senior assistants for ETF products, product managers, engineering supervisors, etc.
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.
According to Holoworld AI, its flagship AI agent launch platform, Agent Market, is now available on Solana. The platform offers V1 codeless agent creation tools, including one-click personality templates, drag-and-drop knowledge bases (RAGs), voice selection, storybook systems, 3D avatars and wearables creators, deployment management dashboards, and private AI chat capabilities. The platform is aimed at non-developers and is suitable for content creators, NFT communities, game projects, and bran...
According to official news, Holoworld AI has launched the AI agent launch platform Agent Market in Solana. It will launch the V1 no-code agent creator, which includes: one-click personality template, drag-and-drop knowledge base (RAG), voice selection, storybook system, agent profile, 3D avatar and wearable device generator, Twitter deployment and management dashboard, private AI chat and token-gated group chat. It will also implement multi-modal expansion, multi-chain and wallet integration and...
Chainalysis paid more than $100 million for AI agency security startup Alterya at an undisclosed valuation. Two people familiar with the deal put the total value at about $150 million. Alterya is a graduate of Y Combinator, a prominent Silicon Valley incubator that develops artificial intelligence technology that uses proxies to detect and prevent scams targeting Financial Institution Group, fintech and crypto service providers.
Starpower, a DePIN startup, announced the completion of a $2.50 million financing round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from Solana Ventures and Bitscale Capital.
Zero Gravity Labs (0G Labs or 0GL), a crypto-artificial intelligence startup, announced that it has raised around $30 million through a node sale. The new funds are intended to support global node deployment, build a decentralized AI operating system, and create a new AI agent standard. Last November, 0G Labs completed a $40 million seed round and received a $250 million token purchase commitment.
Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, is in advanced talks about a $2 billion deal that would value it at $60 billion. The round was led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would make Anthropic the fifth most valuable U.S. startup after SpaceX, OpenAI, Stripe and Databricks, according to data provider CB Insights. Last year, at Menlo Venture Capital (Me...