The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has officially made using AI-generated deep fakes in robocalls illegal, the agency announced on Thursday. The declaration comes after the FCC had started to study illegal robocalls using generative AI in November. On Tuesday, the FCC had joined lawmakers in Texas in issuing a cease and desist order to Lingo Telecom LLC, which is accused…
A quarter of all Ethereum (ETH) in supply is now being staked, data shows. According to figures from blockchain data firm Nansen, over 30 million ETH—or about $74 billion worth of the cryptocurrency—has been locked up. Staking is the process of “locking up” digital coins or tokens to help keep a blockchain network running. Proof-of-stake assets like ETH require users…
The PIXEL token is almost here. Pixels, a popular crypto game running on the Ronin network, announced late Wednesday that it will debut the game’s token with the debut of a Binance Launchpool promotion that will reward users with token incentives. Crypto exchange Binance will roll out the token with its Launchpool promo, which lets Binance customers earn PIXEL in…
Blast, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, aims to address the Ethereum network’s scalability challenges. It has attracted significant interest by securing a total value locked (TVL) of over $1.4 billion and fostering a growing ecosystem of applications and users. Blast differentiates itself with features including native yields for ETH and stablecoins, facilitated by auto-rebasing mechanisms and collaborations with real-world asset…
Solana holders are starting the day with a smile on their faces. SOL has made a 6% recovery, bouncing back from a debilitating network outage two days ago. This bounce follows the bigger trend of a bull market within the overall cryptocurrency market, with Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, up 4% over the past 24 hours. The resurgence of Solana is…
Will they or won’t they? The Montenegro Court of Appeals has revoked its agreement that would have allowed the U.S. to extradite former TerraForm Labs CEO Do Kwon, according to a statement issued by the court. The decision to extradite Kwon was originally made by the High Court of Podgorica in early December. But a few weeks later, his lawyers…
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BlackRock and Fidelity’s spot Bitcoin ETFs have an advantage over Grayscale’s GBTC in two key liquidity metrics, according to a new report by JP Morgan shared with Decrypt. Although outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs, and in particular GBTC, have slowed over the past two weeks, JP Morgan’s analysts concluded that over time Grayscale’s fund will likely lose further funds to…
Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud computing platform AWS, sees parallels between the hype around AI and the rush of companies hoping to capitalize on the emergent tech to the dot-com bubble in the 1990s. “If you go back to, say, 1997 and you ask, ‘Was the internet underhyped or overhyped?’ I would argue it was underhyped,” he told…
We’re thrilled to announce that Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL) is now available on Kraken for residents of Canada! Funding and trading POL funding and trading are live. Add POL to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit POL on Polygon. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got POL and a Kraken…
