Month: April 2025

OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

Image credit: Creative Commons Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI’s latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI’s LLMs went…

Lack of Disclosure on LUNA Costs Galaxy Digital $200 Million

Galaxy Digital, founded by Michael Novogratz, has agreed to pay $200 million in penalties to resolve allegations that it violated New York laws by promoting the cryptocurrency LUNA without disclosing its financial interests. Galaxy’s LUNA Disclosure Failure Violated NY Laws…

JUST (JST) available on Kraken with $90,000 Reef Program airdrop

Share this article Singapore, April 1, 2025 —Kraken, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges renowned for its rigorous compliance standards, has officially listed JUST (JST), the native governance token of the JUST ecosystem. JUST is a leading decentralized finance…

Nintendo Switch 2 Direct: When is it and how to watch

Back in January, Nintendo did us all a solid and told us that the Switch 2 is real and we would hear more about it soon. “Soon” is now. Nintendo is holding a Nintendo Direct livestream at 9 a.m. ET…

Did Vitalik Just Quietly Rewrite PrivFi? What are Privacy Pools and How Can You Use Them?

Vitalik Buterin just quietly reshapes the world of private finance, or PrivFi. The Ethereum crypto community is now talking about Privacy Pools, a new tool inspired by research co-authored by Vitalik Buterin himself. Launched by 0xbow, this cypherpunk-inspired innovation has…

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force on Tuesday as part of a devastating purge of federal…

BPI Proposes Bitcoin Bonds to Help Pay the $36 Trillion National Debt

The Bitcoin Policy Institute predicts that bitcoin bonds, treasury instruments that invest part of their income in bitcoin purchases, would help the U.S. save over $354 billion in the next ten years without considering the possible upside of BTC’s price….

Crypto Game Founder in Hot Water After Former CMO Drops Truth Bomb on Fallout

Amber Bella, the former Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the blockchain-based action RPG Blade of God X (BoGX), broke her silence on Tuesday. In a tweet series that outlined her fallout with the game’s founder, Tnise Liu Yang, and the…

CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees

CaaStle, a startup that launched in 2011 as a plus-sized clothing subscription service and later became an inventory monetization platform for clothing retailers, is facing financial difficulties, the company confirmed to TechCrunch following a report by Axios. Citing a letter…

Ethereum’s chart looks “disastrous” — and the ETH/BTC ratio just confirmed it

Can Ethereum still claim L1 dominance as Solana gains ground and the ETH/BTC ratio crashes below 0.022? ETH/BTC hits a multi-year low Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second-largest crypto by market cap, is facing a sobering reality check. The ETH/BTC ratio,…