Crypto firm HashKey Group, which operates the Hong Kong-based HashKey Exchange, has reached “unicorn” status after raising nearly $100 million in a Series A funding round. In an announcement, HashKey Group said that the raise had carried it to a $1.2 billion valuation—above the $1 billion “unicorn” threshold for a private company. The company said that the newly raised capital…
Month: January 2024
AI Misinformation Could Rock the 2024 Elections—Here’s How OpenAI Plans to Fight It
With the threat of artificial intelligence to democracy being a top concern for policymakers and voters worldwide, OpenAI laid out its plan Monday to help ensure transparency on AI-generated content and improve reliable voting information ahead of the 2024 elections. After the launch of GPT-4 in March, generative AI and its potential misuse, including AI-generated deepfakes, have become a central…
Biconomy (BICO) Price Prediction 2024 2025 2026 2027
Biconomy Overview Biconomy Price Change 24h -5.96% Biconomy Price Change 7d 13.02% Biconomy Market cap $231,861,863.95 Biconomy All time high $21.87 Biconomy All time low $0.19 Biconomy Price Prediction 7d $0.344340 –7.34 Biconomy Fear-Greed Index 52 Neutral Biconomy Volatility 8.02% Biconomy Green Days 13/30 (43%) Our real-time BICO to USD price update shows the current Biconomy price as $0.37 USD.…
The Rise and Fall of GameStop’s NFT Marketplace
GameStop has given up on NFTs. Less than three years after first hinting at its interest in NFTs, GameStop is ditching its NFT marketplace. The game retailer, which began as a U.S.-based brick-and-mortar operation back in 1984, has recently struggled to maintain a profitable business. GameStop was profitable for the first time in years in late 2022, but this followed…
Assassin’s Creed Maker Ubisoft Backs Yet Another Crypto Gaming Network
Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six: Siege publisher Ubisoft is joining Korean game publisher WeMade’s Wemix’s blockchain node council as a partner, Wemix announced late last week. Ubisoft is now one of Wemix’s 40 partners running validator nodes for its new “Wemix 3.0” network, which is an Ethereum-compatible EVM blockchain. Previously, Wemix’s blockchain existed on the Klaytn mainnet. Now, WeMade has…
Mysterious Ordinals Inscription Teases ‘Cursed’ Bitcoin Art Project
A mysterious message was inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain on Sunday—and the riddle held within has Bitcoiners eager to figure out the meaning in case there’s a hidden tease about a hot new Ordinals art project. “10,000 sats, side by side,” the message found in Ordinals inscription 55,365,041 reads. “A single UTXO, untouched inside. Born together, cursed at heart. Built…
Michael Saylor Sounds Alarm on Deepfake Bitcoin Scams
Want to get rich quick in crypto? It won’t be from a Bitcoin giveaway on YouTube. Michael Saylor, founder of cloud software company MicroStrategy, issued a warning on Twitter this week regarding the rise of AI-powered deepfake scams aimed at stealing cryptocurrency from credulous YouTube viewers. “There is no risk-free way to double your Bitcoin, and MicroStrategy doesn’t give away…
Jupiter Finally Sets a Date for JUP Airdrop, Teases Meme Coin Drop on Solana
Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator Jupiter has officially penciled in a launch date and time for its hotly anticipated token airdrop—and will also use its platform to launch a new meme coin before then. The drop—which is set to deliver one billion freshly minted JUP tokens into the wallets of Solana DeFi users—will commence on January 31 at 10:00 am…
Hackers Steal Over $4 Million in Fake Airdrops and Other Scams on Solana
Two wallet drainers have successfully stolen millions of dollars worth of crypto assets from Solana users in the last month alone, according to a new report based on public blockchain data. Deployers of both programs, Rainbow Drainer and Node Drainer, have stolen a combined $4.17 million worth of assets from 3,967 Solana wallets since late November, according to analysis by…
Xai Gaming Token Surges 35% as Airdrop Value Hits $140 Million
The Xai gaming network on Ethereum scaler Arbitrum launched its initial airdrop last week, serving up some 125 million XAI tokens for early users and supporters. Over the weekend and into early Monday, the token spiked to new heights, boosting the value of said airdrop for those who held or have newly claimed the tokens. XAI is up 35% over…