OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals
Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments
President Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family's World Liberty Financial
reporting no longer grounded in truth. The facts are clear and stated as follows: 👇 @acyn : Collins: Can you explain why you chose to pardon the founder of Binance and did it have ...
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.
Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025
Acquisition marks Coinbase's eighth deal this year — Coinbase Global has struck a roughly $375 million deal to acquire Echo …
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud W...
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs
President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
Now, Trump wants to create a crypto “strategic reserve.” (1/2) @theangrydonkey : Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in this ...
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
Now, Trump wants to create a crypto “strategic reserve.” (1/2) @theangrydonkey : Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in this ...
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
Uniswap Labs says the US SEC has closed its probe into the company and will not file enforcement actions, after the SEC dropped OpenSea and Robinhood probes
WSJ: BBG John E Deaton / @johnedeaton1 : Hayden lays out the problem when it comes to regulators more interested in pushing a political agenda than enforcing the law. Hayden mentio...
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.
Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens
- North Korean group Lazarus suspected by industry researchers — Prices of Ether, Bitcoin and other tokens decline after theft
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”
Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
The “DeepSeek moment” is like in 2004 when Google detailed using distributed algorithms to build a supercomputer, and unlike Sputnik, when Russia shared little
I think the Deepseek moment is not really the Sputnik moment, but more like the Google moment. If anyone was around in ~2004, you'll know what I mean, but more on that later. I thi...
Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 is an “impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price” and OpenAI “will pull up some releases”
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek's R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.
Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
Trump says David Sacks will be the “White House AI and crypto czar” to “work on a legal framework so the crypto industry has the clarity it has been asking for”
- New post will help Trump put imprint on developing industries — Venture capitalist Sacks helped Trump make inroads with tech
Ethereum is grappling with uncertainties as its reliance on Layer-2 blockchains grows, leading to lower fee collection, while rivals like Solana gain ground
- The blockchain has seen fees slide after technical upgrades — Criticisms have weighed on Ether, which has underperformed
Ethereum is grappling with uncertainties as its reliance on Layer-2 blockchains grows, leading to lower fee collection, while rivals like Solana gain ground
- The blockchain has seen fees slide after technical upgrades — Criticisms have weighed on Ether, which has underperformed