Month: March 2025
Ethena Labs, Securitize launch blockchain for DeFi and tokenized assets
Stablecoin developer Ethena Labs and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company Securitize are launching a new blockchain for retail and institutional investors seeking access to the DeFi and tokenization economies. According to a March 17 announcement, the forthcoming Converge blockchain is an Ethereum Virtual Machine that will provide retail investors with access to “standard DeFi applications.” … Read more
Bitfarms Completes Acquisition of Stronghold Digital Mining as It Eyes AI Demand
The Toronto-based Bitcoin miner last year said it would acquire the U.S. firm in a deal it valued at $175 million.
Mark Rober’s Tesla video was more than a little weird
Mark Rober’s Tesla video has kicked up a lot of reactions claiming it was fake. | Screenshot: Mark Rober Over the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that sought to demonstrate the difference between Teslaâs camera-only Autopilot system and a vehicle equipped with lidar. He wanted to see whether the … Read more
Perplexity dunks on Google’s ‘glue on pizza’ AI fail in new ad
The AI search engine Perplexity just debuted a new ad featuring Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, who’s trapped in a room and must answer a series of questions to escape. One question targets Google’s AI gaffe last year, as Lee taps Perplexity to answer, “How do I make cheese stick to a pizza?” The AI … Read more
Hashdex amends S-1 for crypto index ETF, adds seven altcoins
Asset manager Hashdex has amended its S-1 regulatory filing for its cryptocurrency index exchange-traded fund (ETF) to include seven altcoins in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), according to a March 14 filing. The revision proposes adding seven specific altcoins to the index ETF — Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP), Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), Avalanche … Read more
European Cyber Report 2025: 137% More DDoS attacks Than Last Year – What Companies Need To Know
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, March 17th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Cyberattacks are no longer an abstract threat – they dominate risk planning for companies worldwide. The latest Link11 European Cyber Report shows an alarming trend: the number of DDoS attacks has more than doubled, and they are shorter, more targeted, and more technically sophisticated. Organizations that do not continuously … Read more
Canary Capital Files Application With SEC for SUI-Based ETF
The investment firm has filed with regulators to offer a fund that tracks SUI, a token that the Trump-linked World Liberty Fi project recently added to its reserves.
Bitcoin price fails to go parabolic as the US Dollar Index (DXY) falls — Why?
Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen 12% since March 2, when it nearly reached $94,000. Interestingly, during the same period, the US dollar weakened against a basket of foreign currencies, which is usually seen as a positive sign for scarce assets like BTC. Investors are now puzzled as to why Bitcoin hasn’t reacted positively to the declining … Read more
Standard Chartered drops 2025 ETH price estimate by 60% to $4K
Ethereum price is more than 52% down from its December 2024 high at $4,107 and data from TradingView shows ETH (ETH) down 42% since the start of 2025. Despite being one of the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and holding the dominant spot as the leader in Web3 and DeFi, many analysts believe that ETH’s … Read more
Great savings on the EcoFlow Delta Pro 3, which will keep your home powered
I don’t want to sound alarmist or anything (although I admit I’m naturally pessimistic), but the way things are going, it’s a good idea to have an extra source of power for your home in case of storms and other outages. Luckily, EcoFlow is running a sale through March 26th, letting you save on several … Read more
NymVPN launches fully decentralized VPN amid privacy crackdown
Privacy protocol Nym has launched NymVPN, which it describes as the “world’s most secure VPN” and says will help protect users from government, corporate and AI surveillance. The release comes amid an increasingly hostile global environment for privacy-focused products — one that is seeing governments crack down on privacy projects and demand backdoors to encryption. … Read more
DOGE Lord Elon Musk Claims US Runs ‘Magic Money Computers’
Elon Musk’s comments on a podcast with Texas Senator Ted Cruz alarmed Bitcoin aficionados fearful of currency debasement.
AI Honeypots Are the Future of Cybersecurity
Photo by Carla Quario on Unsplash n Responding to cybersecurity threats means a company must be five steps ahead of the hackers. Clone traps, a vanguard in deception technology, automate threat response by deceiving the deceivers and fighting AI with AI. By the end of 2024, there were 240,830 live cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures(CVE): These are only the … Read more
Flexport accuses former employees of stealing its source code to create a rival startup
Flexport accuses Freightmate of being the product of “theft, not ingenuity” in its lawsuit against the startup. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
New BITCOIN Act would allow US reserve to exceed 1M: Law Decoded
The newly reintroduced Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide (BITCOIN) Act of 2025 by Senator Cynthia Lummis would allow the United States to potentially hold over 1 million Bitcoin (BTC) in its crypto reserves. The bill directs the government to buy 200,000 BTC annually over five years, to be paid for with … Read more
Polymarket bettors say there’s a 100% chance the Fed ends QT before May
Betters on Polymarket believe it’s now a certainty that the US Federal Reserve will wind down its quantitative tightening (QT) program by May of this year, a move many analysts say could trigger the next leg of the crypto bull market. By March 14, Polymarket’s betting odds that the Fed would end QT by April … Read more
XRP’s role in US Digital Asset Stockpile raises questions on token utility — Does it belong?
Ripple’s XRP (XRP), the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, gained national recognition after President Donald Trump mentioned the “valuable cryptocurrency” alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, and ADA as part of a planned US strategic crypto reserve. Trump’s executive order on March 6 established a new structure for the altcoins — the Digital Asset Stockpile, managed by … Read more
Robinhood shares up 8% after launching betting markets hub
Robinhood has launched a betting markets hub as the online brokerage — best known for stock trading — expands its presence in emergent asset classes, including cryptocurrencies and event contracts, according to a March 17 announcement. Robinhood’s stock, HOOD, rose roughly 8% on the Nasdaq after the announcement, according to data from Google Finance. The … Read more
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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has acquired Hotshot, a startup working on AI-powered video generation tools along the lines of OpenAI’s Sora. Aakash Sastry, Hotshot’s CEO and co-founder, announced the news in a post on X on Monday. “Over the past 2 years we’ve built 3 video foundation models as a small team — Hotshot-XL, … Read more
OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack
OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to start beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch. ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to … Read more
Ripple files trademark application for custody service, wallet
Ripple Labs has filed a trademark application for the word mark “Ripple Custody,” indicating that the company behind the XRP (XRP) token is considering expanding its brand in the crypto custody space. The filing notes four use cases for the word mark, including one that reads “Financial services, namely, custodial services in the nature of … Read more
Klarna nabs Walmart away from Affirm and boosts its IPO prospects
On the heels of its IPO filing, Swedish fintech giant Klarna announced on Monday that it will exclusively provide buy now, pay later loans for Walmart. The partnership with Walmart is one that rival Affirm had previously owned. Klarna will provide the loans to Walmart customers through OnePay, a fintech startup in which it owns … Read more
Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Will Underpin New Financial Architecture: Coinshift CEO
The next evolution of stablecoins represents a trillion-dollar opportunity, argues Coinshift CEO Tarun Gupta.
YC-backed ReactWise is applying AI to speed up drug manufacturing
Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: YC-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up chemical manufacture — a key step in bringing new drugs to market. Once a promising drug has been identified in the lab, pharma firms need to be able to produce much larger amounts of the … Read more
Intelligent healthcare assistants: Empowering stakeholders with personalized support and data-driven insights
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, enabling machines to understand and generate human-like text with remarkable accuracy. However, despite their impressive language capabilities, LLMs are inherently limited by the data they were trained on. Their knowledge is static and confined to the information they were trained on, which becomes … Read more