One of the most significant emerging trends of 2024 has been the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and the crypto ecosystem. Historically this has primarily been on the infrastructure side, affecting various layers of the stack such as decentralized compute, storage and model training and inference. However, the last few months the crypto x AI […]

The Russian government imposed a six-year ban on crypto mining in 10 regions due to the industry’s high power consumption, Tass reported. The ban, which includes participation in a mining pool and temporary restrictions in other regions during periods of peak demand, takes effect Jan. 1 and ends March 15, 2031, Tass said, citing a […]

Solana-based gaming-focused layer-2 blockchain Sonic will airdrop its SONIC token to all its users onboarded through social-media platform TikTok. Sonic built its SonicX game natively inside TikTok, attempting to replicate the success of mini apps that were built on theTON blockchain inside messaging platform Telegram. The game has over 2 million users onboarded using TikTok, […]

Bitwise’s Europe head of research, who has been accurately bullish on bitcoin (BTC) for months, has turned cautious after last week’s 8% dip, warning of deeper losses in the coming weeks. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, fell 8.8% to nearly $95,000 last week, the biggest percentage drop since August, according to data source […]