VC Roundup: Capital flows into emerging AI-blockchain sector

What started as a joke to celebrate April Fools Day has become yet another sign of a frothy, overeager market as a bonding contract designed to sell baseball cap vouchers sold 468 hats in just a few hours, raising over $100,000 and bumping the price per hat to $3700.Solana-based decentralized finance, or DeFi, platform Mango…

Grok costs $16 per month on X Premium Plus. But for now it is only offered to a limited number of users in the United States. 3986 Total views 10 Total shares Elon Musk and his artificial intelligence startup xAI have released “Grok” — an AI chatbot which can supposedly outperform OpenAI’s first iteration of

Crypto startup companies attracted $2.7 billion in venture capital funding during the second quarter of 2024.

Musk may finally be acknowledging the sun has set on X’s ad sales, but he isn’t going quietly into that good night.

"We could be exposed to reputational risks brought by DT service providers created in Singapore, and which provide services relating to virtual assets," said Alvin Tan. 47 Total views 1 Total shares The Singaporean government has approved legislation that will give the Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, additional power to respond to crypto firms…

While the Ethereum blockchain has the community advantage, the competition with Solana is heating up thanks to the rise of blockchain-based play-to-earn games, which is now simply called GameFi.Founded by Scopely and Glu Mobile veterans, game developer and publisher Faraway announced that the studio has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by…

Security firm HashDit says the lower amount lost to scams on BSC could be due to an uptrend in security products addressing the threat. 245 Total views 7 Total shares Scams facilitated on BNB Smart Chain (BSC) decreased from $55.4 million in the second quarter of 2023 to $13.6 million in the third quarter, according

“The question is when this will happen, how it will happen and how it will be regulated. Now both the Central Bank and the government are actively engaged in this,” said trade minister Denis Manturov. 434 Total views 15 Total shares Russia will legalize crypto payments “sooner or later” according to the Ministry of Industry…