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Valour launches first ETP for Near Protocol’s native token

[Jul 17 9:16 AM] The exchange-traded product will be available on Sweden’s Spotlight Stock Market.

AI Preparedness Index: South Africa Best Prepared African Country; Nigeria Ranks Outside the Continent’s Top 7

[Jul 17 5:20 AM] The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index reveals that only seven African countries have preparedness indices of 0.4 or more. South Africa leads the continent with a score of 0.5, while the Republic of…

Former Tesla, OpenAI exec founds ‘AI native’ education startup Eureka Labs

[Jul 16 1:31 PM] The startup aims to create virtual teaching assistants using generative AI.

a16z co-founders pledge to support Trump in wake of Vance VP pick: Report

[Jul 16 11:41 AM] Numerous Silicon Valley insiders are reportedly donating to the Republican presidential nominee.

Polygon's New ZK Proving System, 'Plonky3,' Comes as Open-Source Toolkit

[Jul 16 7:00 AM] Proving systems are a crucial component at the heart of blockchain ecosystems, allowing secondary "rollup" networks to confirm transactions on a base chain like Ethereum. Polygon's prior version, Plonky2, was released in 2022.

Plaintiffs amend complaint in Tether lawsuit for alleged USDT scheme

[Jul 15 5:07 PM] The class-action lawsuit alleges Tether and Bitfinix conspired to manipulate crypto market prices.

US military partner Constellation opens Hypergraph network to app developers

[Jul 15 3:14 PM] The “Layer 0” network was created in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense and is now open for commercial Web3 applications.

Crypto Casino Founder Apologizes For Gambling Away Investor Funds

[Jul 15 9:30 AM] Galaxy is one of several investors who have accused Richard Kim of misappropriating at least $3.67 million of company funds belonging to Zero Edge, his crypto casino.

Skild AI announces $300M funding from Jeff Bezos, Softbank to build ‘robot brains’

[Jul 14 10:43 AM] Another unicorn has entered the race the develop human-level AI.

Exponential.fi Wants to Make It Easier to Invest in DeFi

[Jul 11 6:45 AM] The platform aims to make it easy to identify opportunities, bridge fiat, assess risk, and invest in crypto all-in-one.

Compound Finance, Celer Site Compromised in Phishing Attack

[Jul 11 5:35 AM] The website leads to a phishing page that could drain user funds, but the actual protocol remains unaffected.

Protocol Village: SKALE's 'Pacifica V3' Upgrade to Double Transaction Throughput

[Jul 10 7:20 PM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of July 18-24.

Intuit lays off 10% of staff to focus on AI

[Jul 10 2:27 PM] About 1,800 people were laid off, but the company plans on hiring about the same number of replacements.

The Protocol: Side-Dealing Accusations Put Crypto VC Funding in Spotlight

[Jul 10 11:40 AM] In this week's blockchain tech newsletter, we're highlighting the firm Polychain's accusation against a former general partner over an alleged ethics breach, along with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's speech in Brussels and Bitcoin's Saxony…

Starknet, Layer-2 Chain on Ethereum, to Open Staking By End of Year

[Jul 10 6:42 AM]

Vitalik Buterin Reflects On Strengths, Weaknesses of Ethereum, 'Hardening' the Blockchain

[Jul 10 6:31 AM] The co-founder and intellectual leader of the largest smart-contracts blockchain ecosystem addressed a packed room at the EthCC conference in Brussels.

Top Crypto VC Says Ex-General Partner Made Undisclosed Side Deal With Portfolio Company

[Jul 9 10:34 AM] Polychain says Niraj Pant broke the fund's policies by secretly accepting "adviser" tokens from Eclipse.

TON Blockchain Will Release New Layer-2 Based On Polygon’s Technology

[Jul 9 9:00 AM] The new protocol, called the TON Applications Chain (TAC), will make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), as well as their AggLayer.

Sam Altman’s Layer-2 Blockchain Project, World Chain, Opens to Developers

[Jul 9 7:00 AM] This means that select developers can apply to build, test, and give feedback to Tools For Humanity, the developer firm behind Worldcoin, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.

Blockchain Startup Rome Raises $9M to Serve Ethereum Layer-2s Through Solana

[Jul 9 5:00 AM] Shared sequencers and data availability (DA) are services that Rome could provide, as blockchain builders increasingly rely on "modular" networks to handle Ethereum's myriad components and functions.

MetaMask Developer Consensys Releases New Toolkit for 'Seamless Onboarding'

[Jul 9 1:00 AM] The Delegation Toolkit will allow for instant user onboarding without needing to interact with a traditional wallet, in addition to eliminating “user friction completely,” meaning no pop-ups or confirmations when switching between a decentralized…

Memecoins and AI are pushing Gamefi out of the spotlight

[Jul 8 7:53 AM] Industry figures disagree on whether GameFi is having a good year as other aspects of Web3 hog the spotlight.

China to ramp up brain chip program after teaching monkey to control robot

[Jul 7 2:33 PM] The country’s current progress appears to be on par with Elon Musk’s Neuralink.

Judge dismisses coders’ DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub

[Jul 7 10:53 AM] The partial dismissal indicates complainants failed to demonstrate that GitHub reproduces human-created code.

Big Tech faces financial reckoning if human-level AI doesn’t happen soon

[Jul 5 2:14 PM] Sequoia Capital says the industry needs to make about $600 billion in profit before the current expenditures start to make sense.

ChatGPT users on macOS shocked to learn chats were stored unencrypted

[Jul 5 10:08 AM] The problem has since been resolved, but it begs the question of how such an oversight happened in the first place.

Protocol Village: Valora Introduces 'Mobile Stack' to Simplify Web3 Apps on iOS, Android

[Jul 5 9:57 AM] The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of July 5-10.

Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and more filed SEC warnings that AI could ruin business

[Jul 4 12:23 PM] The reasons ranged from cannibalizing their own businesses to releasing potentially inferior products.

Softbank lost 99% when the dotcom bubble burst, now it’s all-in on AI

[Jul 3 2:42 PM] Softbank Group stocks reached an all-time-high on a market capitalization of $97.2 billion.

The Protocol: 'Private Jet Brandization' Is One Way Polkadot Burnt Cash

[Jul 3 12:15 PM] Crypto twitterati showed no mercy as Polkadot published a transparency report detailing spending on $87 million of DOT tokens – a lot of it on marketing. PLUS blockchain tech news and project highlights from the past week.