Cryptocurrency can accelerate artificial intelligence adoption by helping AI startups onboard users, according to Polygon's co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. “You can use crypto incentives and disincentives to onboard users to onboard the ecosystem players

A16z Crypto led a $25 million investment round into Miden, an independent blockchain project spun out of Polygon Labs.Miden closed its $25 million seed rounds led by a16z Crypto, 1kx, and Hack VC, with participation from Finality Capital Partners, Sy

Global funds network Calastone is integrating Fireblocks’ blockchain infrastructure to support a new tool that will enable asset managers to tokenize any fund on its platform, according to an announcement on Monday. “The integration enables connectiv

Polygon-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) took the top spot in digital collectible sales after surging 20% in the last seven days. On April 22, NFT data tracker CryptoSlam showed that Polygon NFTs overtook Ethereum, reaching a $22.3 million volume in

DigiFinex will list Voxies (VOXEL) on April 21st.VOXEL InfoVoxie Tactics is a blockchain-based role-playing game (RPG) launched in 2021, drawing inspiration from classic tactics games of the 1990s and 2000s. Developed on the Polygon network, it integ

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, April 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget Wallet, a leading Web3 non-custodial wallet, has introduced the token contract risk detection feature to strengthen transaction security across its platform. The feature enables us

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Thursday! Well, following up on yesterday's lingering question, President Trump's tariff announcements were harsher than expected, le

Tracy Jin, the chief operating officer at the MEXC crypto exchange, warns that tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) carries a substantial amount of centralized risks that can lead to censorship, liquidity issues, legal uncertainty, cybersecurity probl

The four-year crypto market cycle that traders and investors have become accustomed to is no longer as pronounced due to the maturation of crypto as an asset class and the participation of institutional investors, according to Polygon co-founder Sand

A portion of the Ethereum community is pressuring the Ethereum Foundation to make decisions that may “break the entire social fabric” of the smart contract network by restricting Ethereum's layer-2 (L2) networks, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal sa

New York, NY, March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Binaryx is reshaping the world of real estate investing by enabling anyone to invest in luxury properties with as little as $50. Through innovative blockchain technology, Binaryx provides small invest

It has been a wild few years for GameStop, the video game retailer turned memecoin stock. After being pulled from the edge of bankruptcy in 2021 thanks to a surging stock price, the company has made sensible business decisions over the years, such as

Asset manager BlackRock has expanded its BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) to Solana, its seventh blockchain network, according to a statement issued Tuesday.The move comes as BUIDL’s assets under management (AUM) surpassed $

WARSAW, Poland, March 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Millionero, a cryptocurrency exchange that focuses on simplifying cryptocurrency tools for everyday users, has been named “Best Blockchain Fintech” at Next Block Expo 2025. The award, announced duri

After 15 years of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) is ready for commercialization in the Web3 industry, according to Muriel Médard, an MIT professor and founder of blockchain infrastruct

OriginTrail is organizing a podcast titled “How are semantic tech & graphs reshaping AI?” on March 6th. The event will feature speakers Brana Rakic, the founder and CTO of OriginTrail, and Charles Ivie, the senior graph architect from Amazon Web Serv

Aave deployed its lending markets on Sonic, a high-performance blockchain that evolved from Fantom. This is Aave’s first Layer 1 expansion this year, marking another step in its efforts to expand across blockchains.The move to deploy Aave version 3 o

Artificial intelligence (AI) will never become a conscious being due to a lack of intention, which is endemic to human beings and other biological creatures, according to Sandeep Nailwal — co-founder of Polygon and the open-source AI company Sentient

Delta Blockchain Fund founder Kavita Gupta is fronting a new startup called Inclusive Layer, designed to help people build blockchain applications on multiple chains without deep coding expertise.The product aims to abstract away technical friction a

The Ethereum Foundation has announced the Open Intents Framework (OIF), a modular and open framework designed to improve interoperability across the Ethereum ecosystem.The new standard is developed with the collaboration of over 30 teams which includ