With the support of Galaxy Ventures and previous investment from notable industry leaders like Vitalik Buterin, RISE sets out to solve the blockchain adoption challenge with its exponentially faster blockchain technology; offering real-time performance of as low as 5ms latency and a 100k TPS target, while maintaining a decentralization-first roadmap.
The founders of LayerZero, SEI, Selini Capital, Virtuals, Plume, and Presto Labs have collectively backed an AI platform that uses autonomous agents and real-time data to uncover crypto opportunities. AI-focused firm TrueNorth, co-founded by former WOO COO Willy Chuang and ex-Temasek AI tech investor Alex Lee, has raised $1 million in funding to develop Crypto’s first AI-powered engine. An engine symbiotic to the...
ghost.fun has announced the development of the first onchain marketplace for AI video influencers. The platform introduces a new category at the intersection of AI video, crypto native tokenomics, and the creator economy, enabling users to launch, customize, and invest in programmable AI video personas.
Ethereum’s recent Pectra upgrade, the network’s biggest update since the Merge, is changing the game for crypto stakers. Activated on May 7, 2025, this feature-packed upgrade makes Ethereum staking easier, faster, and more rewarding. It introduced key improvements like EIP-7251, which raised the validator stake limit from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH, letting stakers combine and top up validators for compounded rewards.
In today's rapidly evolving digital finance landscape, existing large language models (LLMs) struggle to keep pace. General-purpose models, though powerful, often falter when confronted with the unique complexities of cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi), and broader digital finance systems. They sometimes hallucinate critical facts, lacking the domain-specific accuracy, and failing to integrate smoothly with all real-world...
Fourteen leading organizations in blockchain and artificial intelligence, including Cyber, EigenLayer, Sentient, and others, today announced the formation of the Crypto AI Benchmark Alliance (CAIBA). The community-led initiative aims to establish transparent standards for evaluating AI models and agents in the crypto ecosystem.
Lunar Digital Assets, the leading full stack blockchain venture studio announced the launch of LitVM, the first EVM-compatible Layer 2 built on Litecoin at the Litecoin Summit. LitVM is a trustless zero-knowledge (ZK) Omnichain for Litecoin, which is designed to empower the Litecoin community with the full spectrum of Web3 functionality and is endorsed by the Litecoin Foundation.
While Big Tech continues its expensive race for ever-larger AI models, Assisterr is quietly building an arsenal for everyone else. The Solana-native platform, which empowers users to create, deploy, and monetize their own specialized AI agents without writing a single line of code, today announced it has raised $2.8 million in funding. The round, valuing the company at $75 million, includes participation from Google for Startups,...
GIBO Holdings Ltd, a leader in digital content innovation, today announced the official launch of SparkRWA, a next-generation platform designed to tokenize inspirational IP—beginning with short film storylines and scripts—while also serving as a verification system for Real-World Assets (RWA) in the creative and collectible economy.
AEON, the next-generation crypto payment framework built for AI and real-world use, is proud to announce a partnership with PIN AI, the innovative platform for Personal AI with crypto-economic security. This collaboration brings AEON's AI Payment technology to the forefront of the emerging ecosystem where AI agents autonomously interact with real-world services and complete secure crypto payments, unlocking a truly...