It’s time to relegate Craig Wright’s claim of being the creator of Bitcoin to the ash heap of history, lawyers representing the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) said in court on Monday. Since 2021, Wright has been locked in a legal battle with COPA and a group of Bitcoin Core developers over his claim that he is the fabled Satoshi…
Dymension’s anticipated airdrop took place on Tuesday as the network’s mainnet went live, serving up over $390 million worth of DYM tokens for early users and select communities as the token surged in value following the launch. DYM is currently up 58% on the day to a current price of $5.60, according to data from CoinGecko, with some $246 million…
Software company MicroStrategy kicked off the year buying even more Bitcoin (BTC), the firm has announced. In January, MicroStrategy bought 850 BTC at a price of $37.5 million, Saylor wrote on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday. The company confirmed the latest buy in its 2023 fourth quarter earnings presentation. The company now owns 190,000 BTC. That’s $8.2 billion in digital…
Gotta catch them all? There’s an AI for that. Introducing POKE´LLMON, a new LLM-based AI agent designed to play Pokémon battles with human-like proficiency. POKE´LLMON is the brainchild of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who say it uses in-context reinforcement learning and knowledge-augmented generation to learn from its gameplay experiences and makes decisions with remarkable accuracy. The model…
The latest updates to a law from 1934 still don’t cover digital assets, even after stakeholders asked for it. Source: https://decrypt.co/216147/sec-advances-rules-for-securities-dealers-but-leaves-crypto-a-mere-footnote
Digital Currency Group (DCG) has opposed its collapsed subsidiary’s plan to pay back customers, claiming that some former clients would receive too much money. Court documents filed Monday explain DCG’s objections to Genesis payment plan. Genesis was a crypto lender that went bankrupt last year. One of many companies run by crypto behemoth DCG, it allowed users to earn cash…
We’re thrilled to announce that Dymension (DYM) is now available on Kraken! Funding and trading DYM funding and trading are live. Add DYM to your Kraken account by navigating to Funding, selecting the asset, and hitting Deposit. Only deposit DYM on Dymension. Deposits using other networks will be lost. Got DYM and a Kraken account? ⤵️ DYM is tradeable on…
A GameStop-inspired Solana meme coin launched in late January has followed the rollercoaster-like trajectory of the video game retailer’s own meme stock in recent years, surging last week before falling just as quickly. It’s back on the rise now—and even Tuesday’s Solana network outage couldn’t slow its roll. GME, the unofficial GameStop-themed meme coin, has jumped 91% over the past…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to enact new laws specially calibrated for crypto, hoping to combat systemic risks that existing laws can’t cover. “Congress should pass legislation to provide for the regulation of stablecoins, and of the spot market for crypto assets that are not securities,” said Yellen during a hearing before the House Financial Services…
Solana just had another major outage—and that’s OK, the developers behind the network say. It’s likely going to happen again. That’s what happens when you’re building on the bleeding edge of tech, and at least one prominent builder on the network—Helius Labs co-founder and CEO Mert Mumtaz—says he’s prepared to take the heat that comes with it. “What we can’t…
