American mining company MARA Holdings has finalized the acquisition of a 64% stake in French data center operator Exaion. It’s time. MARA’s transaction to acquire a 64% stake in EDF subsidiary Exaion has been completed, with Xavier Niel and Fred Thiel joining Exaion’s Board as we scale secure HPC and AI infrastructure from France. pic.twitter.com/TqFiSs3Hub […]
The asset management division of the French banking group BNP Paribas has utilised Ethereum for a pilot project exploring the potential of tokenising financial instruments on public blockchain infrastructure. The initiative involves issuing tokenised shares of the BNP Paribas Asset Management money market fund via the AssetFoundry platform. The digital assets are issued under a […]
A roundup of the week’s key cybersecurity developments. Hackers devised a stealthy scheme to swap bitcoin addresses. A new Android trojan was disguised as IPTV apps. Trezor and Ledger users received phishing letters by post. A researcher exposed major firms for tracking Chrome users via extensions. Hackers devise a stealthy bitcoin address swap Criminals have […]
BGD Labs, a key technical developer for the Aave lending DeFi platform, announced it will cease collaboration with the project due to “radical changes” in the structure of the DAO. The current agreement between the parties concludes on April 1. Founded in 2022, BGD Labs played a central role in building and maintaining Aave’s infrastructure. […]
The market supply of the stablecoin USDT from Tether decreased by $1.5 billion in February, according to Bloomberg, citing data from Artemis Analytics. Source: Bloomberg. In January, the coin’s market capitalization also fell by $1.2 billion. If the trend continues, USDT could record its largest supply drop since December 2022 by the end of the […]
The first cryptocurrency is unprepared for a future where government agencies, using ultra-fast quantum computers, could crack its cryptography. This view was shared by developer Hunter Beest at the ETHDenver conference. “Today, we are completely unprepared for the consequences. It’s a multidimensional problem, and you only realize its true scale when you start to delve […]
The trading volume of xStocks tokenized shares has reached $25 billion, according to the Kraken exchange. $25,000,000,000 in total transaction volume. In under 7 months since launch.@xStocksFi is making history. As part of @payward’s group, xStocks is cementing its position as the largest provider and leading framework for tokenized equities globally. pic.twitter.com/XTPyXOMpBU — Kraken (@krakenfx) […]
Bitcoin infrastructure firm Voltage has launched a programmatic revolving credit line, Voltage Credit. Today we’re launching Voltage Credit. 👀 The industry’s first programmatic revolving line of credit built on top of Bitcoin payment rails. ⚡ Send payments with instant finality over BTC/Lightning. Repay your credit line in USD from a standard bank account or in […]
Vitalik Buterin has urged against “lengthening the feedback distance” between humans and artificial intelligence, a notion he deems detrimental for the future, according to the Ethereum co-founder. Bro, this is wrong. Lengthening the feedback distance between humans and AIs is not a good thing for the world. Today, it means you’re generating slop instead of […]
To determine the long-term trend, attention should be paid to four key levels of realised price for Bitcoin investors. This was stated by CryptoQuant analyst Burak Kesmechi. According to the expert, crossing these levels would indicate a potential movement of the asset towards a deeper bottom. He referred to this as a “roadmap.” Kesmechi identified […]
