Tools for Humanity, the company behind Sam Altman’s iris-scanning project, Worldcoin, has dropped hints that it soon could be collaborating with major tech and finance companies, according to Bloomberg. “There’s some natural things in how we might and will work together,” said Alex Blania, Tools for Humanity’s CEO, regarding a potential partnership with OpenAI. “But
Diogo Mónica (left) and Nathan McCauley (right) cofounders of Anchorage Digital. “Our federal bank charter explicitly permits Anchorage Digital Bank to offer custody and settlement services, giving Atlas participants that participate in settlement using Anchorage Digital Bank the highest levels of regulatory protections,” McCauley said. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency platform Anchorage Digital is launching its
The blockchain race is about to get even more crowded: Movement Labs, a San Francisco–based software development team that’s building a layer 2 Ethereum blockchain, has closed a $38 million funding round, Fortune has exclusively learned. Polychain Capital, the crypto VC mega firm led by Coinbase alum Olaf Carlson-Wee, led the Series A, with participation
In the early days of crypto there were just a handful of companies, including some venerable names like Coinbase, Kraken, and Grayscale, which are still around. Today, there are hundreds of firms that offer crypto, including those like BlackRock and PayPal that operate primarily in the world of conventional finance. For me, the most intriguing
Scammers are exploiting the rising popularity of Telegram and its associated cryptocurrency, Toncoin (TON), to execute a highly scalable scheme design to pilfer the digital tokens from unsuspecting users. Kaspersky researchers have discovered the operation, which has been active since November 2023, and warns that it is a growing threat. Victims are being lured into
Block ecosystems Square and Cash App have begun rolling out a feature that will allow eligible Square sellers to automatically convert a portion of their daily sales to bitcoin with Cash App. The rollout of this new Bitcoin Conversions feature began Wednesday (April 24), Block said in an email to PYMNTS. “Block believes that bitcoin is an instrument of economic
The recent Bitcoin mania may have been driven by the approval of ETFs in the U.S., but blockchain entrepreneur Jack Mallers wants to expand the cryptocurrency’s availability in Europe. His company, Strike, announced on Wednesday that it’s launching its Bitcoin-focused app, which includes buying and selling services along with payment tools, to customers across Europe,
One cryptocurrency sector that has been gaining significant traction in recent times is the AI and big data space. According to a recent tweet by Santiment, a leading cryptocurrency analytics platform, the top 100 AI and big data projects have collectively grown their market caps by an impressive 22% in the past week. As the
The cryptocurrency market is a mix of new and old crypto coins that hail from a variety of startups and endeavors. In the middle of such a diverse set of crypto coins, exchange-based tokens are also paving their path ahead; however, the limelight on such coins has often been overshadowed by major market players like
CHICAGO (CBS) – Victims who were sucked in by scammers have shared their stories with CBS 2 time and time again. They were romantics left with broken hearts and empty wallets. “My mind was so brainwashed.” “I believed this person. That’s why I fell for her.” “This person doesn’t even exist. This person wasn’t a