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View More NewsThe Erik Voorhees-founded Venice AI has achieved unicorn status after raising $65 million in Series A funding at a $1 billion valuation. Led by Dragonfly and with backing from Coinbase Ventures, F-Prime, North Island Ventures, Morgan Creek and others, the funding round announced on Wednesday marks the company’s first external capital raise since launching in 2024. The fundraising came in the same month Anthropic was forced to suddenly cut foreign access to two of its latest AI models, and comes just weeks after OpenAI was accused in a class-action lawsuit for sharing ChatGPT data with third parties, highlighting the potential appeal of…
Its launch comes as Ethereum’s support ecosystem undergoes a broader evolution, following the debut of EthLabs and amid ongoing efforts by the Ethereum Foundation to respond to community criticism over transparency, communication and its role within the ecosystem by encouraging more independent organizations to take the lead on adoption and ecosystem growth.Vivek Raman, CEO of Etherealize, said on X that Ethereum Institutional is another example of Ethereum’s decentralized model in action.”Ethereum is not built by or run by a single organization,” Raman wrote. “Ethereum is a network of independent nodes that collectively make the infrastructure inevitable. Ethereum Institutional will play…
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A review of The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals by various authors; 208 pages; Simon & Schuster (May 2026)As the semiquincentennial of the American founding neared, a number of excellent books on the watershed events of 1776 were loosed upon the world. Titles like Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, and H.W. Brands’s American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington filled bookstores while their authors toured the podcast circuit. But one book in this recent glut stood out…
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Beyond the Robinhood Chain ecosystem, the company announced several additional product launches and international expansion efforts. Robinhood said it is expanding perpetual futures trading…
Anchorage Digital has integrated its off-exchange settlement platform with Binance, allowing institutional clients to trade on the exchange while keeping their crypto and cash…
In brief CRCL shares fell 18% on Tuesday amid news of a major stablecoin launch coming later this year. Analysts at Clear Street though…
Christopher Alexander Delgado, the former CEO of Goliath Ventures, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a crypto investment scheme prosecutors…
In brief Reve 2.0 debuted at #2 on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, behind OpenAI’s GPT Image 2 and ahead of Google’s Nano Banana 2.…
Aaron Terr (FIRE) reports, based on accounts from various publications. Some excerpts: The incident occurred outside a conference hall where Jay Bhattacharya, director of…
Last Tuesday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing on digital asset tax bills was pretty straightforward. The members of the committee asked largely substantive…
I have previously written about Donald Trump’s massive planned Section 301 tariffs, arguing that they have some of the same flaws as those invalidated…
Since debuting on Base in 2023, Aerodrome has become one of the most widely known DEXs on the network by using a system that…
“It doesn’t have to be done as a rulemaking,” said SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, who has led much of the agency’s crypto work since…
Ethereum could begin adding post-quantum protections to accounts for as little as $0.07, without waiting for a hard fork, according to the Ethereum Foundation’s…
A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the…