Sentient closes $85M seed round for open-source AI

Ripple continues its run of acquisitions, announcing an expansion into Iceland with its acqui-hire of crypto trading firm Algrim in a blog post on Sept. 30.Ripple strengthens European presenceThe acquisition adds six engineers to Ripple’s ranks. This new team will play an integral role in its On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) program.Per the announcement, Iceland will now…

DuelNow is the latest in a string of Web3 gambling venture deals amid surging activity on Polymarket.

Social networking giant Facebook is hiring PayPal staff ahead of its alleged cryptocurrency launch, Bloomberg reported on May 8.Facebook, which has courted rumors over its planned entry into blockchain and payments for around a year, could launch its own token as soon as Q3 2019, anonymous sources told the publication.The company began hiring for a…

When we hear about holders of crypto being tracked down by the Internal Revenue Service, or that imprisonment is being considered for anyone using crypto in India, it conjures up a disconcerting image of what regulation might entail. It’s part of crypto’s DNA to be unregulated, some might say. It falls outside the scope of government…

Shezmu recovered nearly $5 million in stolen crypto through negotiations with a hacker and agreed to a higher bounty.

Regulators want to know the details of the GameStop short squeeze. 421 Total views 5 Total shares Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev will reportedly testify before the United States House Financial Services Committee over the firm’s role in the volatile trading of GameStop and other volatile stocks.According to a report by the American political publication Politico,…

Eight major cryptocurrency mining operators signed an open letter to the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. In Kazakhstan, the world’s third-largest market in terms of Bitcoin mining hash rate, the local crypto-mining operators are complaining about the high energy prices to the national leader. According to the local media, eight major cryptocurrency mining operators signed an

Binance.US, the United States-based arm of major crypto exchange Binance, will start trading on Sept. 24, offering zero trading fees until Nov. 1, 2019.13 trading pairsBinance.US will launch 13 fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto trading pairs tomorrow, according to a blog post on Sept. 23.The trading pairs include major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP,…

Long Blockchain, previously named Long Island Iced Tea, has reached an agreement to sell its ready-to-drink tea business to Canadian firm ECC2 Ventures. The deal is documented in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) document filed on March 6.At the beginning of 2018, the company had rebranded from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain,…