Bitwise Is Pitching NEAR to Wall Street as an AI Bet
Bitwise's NRR, the first U.S. spot NEAR ETF, drew $35.5M on day one. Hunter Horsley and Sal Ternullo explain the demand and NEAR's AI-first pitch.
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Solana x AI: The Democratization Layer
Solana can give AI agents permissionless access to compute, training, identity, memory, and machine-native payments.
Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI for Private AI Payments
The EF and Open Anonymity's new zkAPI lets you prepay for AI and other APIs on Ethereum, then spend with ZK proofs so usage isn't tied back to you.
🏴 Ethereum's New AI Swarm
Digging into IMD, the rising AI experiment that has the potential to become a new kind of prolific workforce.
Inside IMD, Ethereum's New AI Swarm Experiment
A new kind of AI workforce is ascending in the Ethereum ecosystem, replete with experimental tokenomics. Here's why it matters, and how you might...
Tempo Launches Mercator Tool Router for AI Agents
Mercator lets agents discover, pay for, and combine use outside tools, improving their performance on domain specific tasks along the way.
BlackRock Maps Crypto’s Role in the AI Economy
BlackRock says AI agents could drive stablecoin payments and help create new markets for trading and financing compute.
How AI Is Reshaping Crypto Security, with Michael Coates
A ~$116 million Coldcard exploit shows why crypto security must eliminate single points of failure and automate defenses for AI-speed threats.
Beyond slop, taste, and AI moral panic: What social science tells us
In the early 18th century, if you lived in London and you wanted to slander an opponent or rival, you could head to Grub Street, a slum just north...
Habits of AI writing, and what to do about them
A guide for founders who write: The hallmarks of AI writing — filler phrases, Alexa voice, over-structure, em dashes — and when to edit or embrace them.
How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)
Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser tells the origin story of zero-knowledge proofs, from mental poker and interactive proofs to SNARKs,...
The triage is the product: running AI agents against Ethereum's protocol code
Notes from the Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team on running coordinated AI agents against real protocol code, including how we organize...
Coinbase shares pop as CEO Brian Armstrong cuts 700 jobs and blames AI
Coinbase just cut 700 jobs. But Wall Street is liking what it sees. Coinbase shares popped as much as 4% early on Tuesday morning after the...
‘Every hit earns crypto’? App that gives users Bitcoin for getting stoned deemed ‘dangerous’ and ‘unethical’
A California-based cannabis vape pen company that says it rewards customers with crypto for using its product is raising alarm among health...
Anthropic’s new Mythos AI will hit crypto. Bitcoin investors don’t care, says Coinbase
Artificial intelligence is a Sword of Damocles dangling over crypto — but Wall Street isn’t quailing, says Coinbase. Anthropic’s new Claude...
Bitcoin mining meltdown? Why IREN’s real future is in AI, according to Bernstein
Artificial intelligence is the real opportunity for Bitcoin miners, analysts say. IREN’s future now rests on transforming into a hyperscale AI...
Bitmine buys $294m more Ethereum ahead of Clarity Act ‘markup in May’
Bitmine continues to amass the largest Ethereum war chest as US lawmakers debate crypto’s future. On Monday, the crypto treasury firm bought up...