On August 15, U.S. Treasury Secretary Benson said that the confiscated Bitcoins will be used as U.S. strategic reserves, and the United States is exploring "budget-neutral" methods to obtain more Bitcoins.
Biswarup Chatterjee, global head of partnerships and innovation at Citigroup’s services unit, said in an interview that the group is exploring offering stablecoin custody and other services.
Sola, a global AI-native application development platform, today announced the completion of a $17.5 million Series A funding round led by top venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Gemini announced the launch of a self-hosted smart wallet, which users can use without mnemonics or downloading an app. It also supports gas-free transactions and free ENS subdomains.
The American Bankers Association and other bank lobbying groups joined 52 banker organizations, including Americans for Financial Reform and the National Consumer Law Center, to call for changes to the stablecoin bill.
OKX CEO Star will be invited to attend the TOKEN2049 Summit in Singapore on October 1-2, and will share the latest blueprint for the crypto industry to reach one billion users.
The Sapien Foundation will hold the SAPIEN Token Generation Event (TGE) on August 20th to issue and distribute the first token. The token is built on Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base and will support a decentralized data mining platform.
Apple is planning a comeback in artificial intelligence with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a simulated Siri, smart speakers with displays, and home security cameras.
On the evening of August 13, Gate Ventures announced that it would join forces with Solana Superteam UK and the Cambridge Blockchain Association to jointly launch the Web3 (Open-web) & AI Frontier Program.
On August 14th, The Block reported that there were rumors that the Google Play Store planned to ban unregistered, non-custodial crypto wallets in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, starting in October.