Ripple CTO Criticizes Government’s Indirect Regulation
In a recent Joe Rogan interview, Mark Andreesen stated that the debanking of tech firms pushed Silicon Valley to lean toward Trump. David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer of Ripple, has joined the growing list of tech leaders speaking out against Operation Chokepoint 2.0—a government-led initiative targeting the crypto industry through debanking practices. Schwartz criticized the operation, […]
New York Regulator Poised To Approve Ripple Labs’ RLUSD Stablecoin: Report
According to CoinGecko data, the entire stablecoin market capitalization as of November 29 was over $196 billion. The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is anticipated to approve Ripple Labs’ RLUSD stablecoin, an overcollateralized dollar-pegged asset, within the coming days, according to sources cited by Fox Business. A Nov. 29 report by Fox Business […]
Crypto User Gets AI Bot Freysa to Transfer $47K Prize Pool
The $47,000 of prize pool funds were transferred after Freysa was convinced by a persuasive message after 482 attempts from 195 participants. A contestant in the adversarial agent game Freysa successfully convinced an AI bot to transfer over $47,000 from its prize pool. Freysa, described as an autonomous AI bot tasked with safeguarding a prize […]
SecondLane Lists Pump.fun Equity Stake at $1.5B Valuation
The private market site reports that Pump.fun has $15 million equity up for grabs. SecondLane has listed an equity interest in the memecoin protocol Pump.fun with a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $1.5 billion. The private markets trading platform priced the 1% equity stake in Pump.fun at $15 million, making it available on SecondLane’s web app and […]
Partior Secures $80M in Series B Funding with Deutsche Bank Backing
Deutsche Bank joins other investors such as Peak XV Partners, JP Morgan, Jump Trading Group, Standard Chartered, Temasek, and Valor Capital Group. German banking giant Deutsche Bank participated in the second Series B funding round for blockchain firm Partior, pushing the total raised in the round to $80 million. Partior, founded in 2021, launched its […]