Tether launches a massive 41-billion-token AI dataset and privacy-focused app that runs artificial intelligence models entirely on users' devices, challenging Big Tech's dominance over AI data and cloud computing while planning future integration with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions.
Andreessen Horowitz launches massive $10 billion fundraising campaign targeting AI and defense sectors while conspicuously omitting crypto from new fund plans, despite remaining one of Silicon Valley's biggest digital asset investors with recent $105 million in blockchain deals.
WebAssembly 3.0 launches with massive 16 exabyte memory support, garbage collection, and enhanced features for high-level programming languages like Java and Kotlin.
Google launches an AI-powered payments protocol that supports stablecoins, partnering with major companies like Coinbase, Salesforce, and American Express to enable secure transactions between AI agents.
Donald Trump Jr.'s venture firm invests millions in Polymarket, a $1 billion predictions market that acquires CFTC-licensed QCEX, clearing regulatory hurdles for potential U.S. expansion.
Groundbreaking AI capabilities are disrupting traditional software models, while Ethereum's price soars driven by a company's ambitious strategy to accumulate 5% of the total ETH supply, echoing MicroStrategy's Bitcoin accumulation approach.
Crypto exchange Bullish skyrockets on NYSE debut, with shares opening at $90 and surging as high as $118 after raising $1.1 billion in oversubscribed IPO priced above expected range.
Malicious npm packages sw-cur, sw-cur1, aiide-cur, and pumptoolforvolumeandcomment stole data from over 3,200 Cursor users and targeted cryptocurrency wallets, executing arbitrary code and persisting even after removal, highlighting the importance of supply chain security.
World Chat, a new encrypted messaging app, combines World ID, Contacts, and the World App wallet, enabling verified communication and seamless crypto transactions, while World Build, an incubator program, aims to foster more Mini Apps on the World Network.
Markets were rattled as stocks and bitcoin plummeted due to fears surrounding President Trump's tariff plans, his aggressive cost-cutting mission, declining consumer confidence stemming from inflation worries, and the increasing alignment of cryptocurrency markets with traditional markets.