[ad_1] The team behind Lens, a Web3 social media protocol, has announced the launch of a new “layer 3” network to scale blockchain social media apps. Called “Bonzai,” the new network processes and stores posts, comments and shares, taking this data off the Polygon network and thereby increasing scalability for Lens, according to an April […]
[ad_1] Technology conglomerate Alphabet has expanded the Google for Startups Cloud Program. As of April 25, the program now includes Web3 firms such as Alchemy, Aptos, Base, Celo, Flow, Hedera, Nansen, Near, Polygon, Solana and Thirdweb. The same day, blockchain analytics firm Nansen announced that it has partnered with Google Cloud to provide real-time blockchain […]
[ad_1] When it comes to providing stable value, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) appear to serve two sides of the same proverbial coin. Crypto stable assets, however, can provide entirely different use cases — and CBDCs simply cannot compete. The key is programmability — smart contracts that automate and add new features to […]
[ad_1] Top Stories This Week Elon Musk threatens Microsoft with lawsuit, claims AI trained on Twitter data Microsoft has been threatened with a lawsuit from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who claimed the Big Tech firm “illegally” trained its artificial intelligence on Twitter data. The entrepreneur suggested that Microsoft mined user tweets to train its AI-powered […]
[ad_1] From tokenizing investment assets to game avatars, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have an array of applications that go beyond digital art, with more projects coming online despite the market downturn in 2022. At the NFT.NYC 2023 conference, Cointelegraph’s team learned first-hand from experts, projects, companies and the NFT community how the technology is shaping the […]
[ad_1] The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with data platform Trycarbonara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana blockchain. 1/ Today, the Solana Foundation is leading the charge in the climate fight by making Solana one of the first blockchains to have its emissions measured in real time, […]
[ad_1] Nigerian crypto exchange Roqqu has been granted regulatory approval to operate in South Africa, allowing users to purchase cryptocurrencies and withdraw funds with the country’s fiat currency, the South African Rand, according to local media reports. South Africa has been a top priority for Roqqu as the exchange seeks to expand its dominance in […]
[ad_1] Blockchain data provider Chainstack has launched a hosted service for collections of Web3 data known as “subgraphs,” according to an April 19 announcement from the company. The service, called “Chainstack Subgraphs,” allows developers to create subgraphs and post them for a fee. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Chainstack Subgraphs, an enterprise-level data […]
[ad_1] Tribe Capital, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm that previously invested in FTX before its collapse, is exploring the possibility of injecting new capital to revive the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, Bloomberg reported on April 18. The venture capital firm is reportedly contemplating leading a $250 million fundraising campaign, anchored by $100 million from itself […]
[ad_1] According to an April 17 Fox News report, Elon Musk told Fox anchor Tucker Carlson that he’s developing a ChatGPT rival known as “TruthGPT,” a large language model (LLM) that Musk says will be trained to explore the mysteries of the universe. “I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT, or a maximum […]