Category: crypto

Nicolas Kokkalis, co-founder of Pi Network, will speak at Consensus 2026 in Miami on May 7 about verifying human identity online without exposing private data. The panel discussion addresses a growing problem in the AI era. Pi Network’s KYC-verified user base is seen as a solution to this issue.

BridgeTower Capital has adopted Chainlink’s infrastructure stack to tokenize $11 billion in securities from the Arizona Copper-Gold Project, with plans to tokenize a pipeline exceeding $25 billion in natural resources, energy, and metals. This deployment is one of the largest live production tokenized asset projects ever announced and showcases Chainlink’s role as a core operational…

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23 as an agentic model capable of autonomous multi-step tasks without human guidance. The model surpasses its predecessor and is available for ChatGPT users. OpenAI shifts focus from chatbots to autonomous execution, targeting professional workflow integration and competitive landscape dominance.

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion in cash and potentially adding another $30 billion based on performance. The deal aims to deepen Anthropic’s integration with Google Cloud and TPU infrastructure to compete in AI. This investment highlights the importance of AI in absorbing capital from other sectors…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released preview models of its V4-Pro and V4-Flash on April 24, optimized for Huawei’s Ascend chip platform. This launch came after the White House accused China of stealing American AI systems. The V4 models outperform others in knowledge benchmarks and mark a shift away from Nvidia hardware.

The White House memo accuses Chinese entities of conducting campaigns to steal US frontier AI systems using proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques. The administration plans to share intelligence with US AI companies and explore accountability measures. The accusations come days before a Trump-Xi summit and amidst a dispute over Nvidia chip shipments to China.

The US Treasury and Tether have frozen $344 million in USDT linked to Iran’s IRGC, exposing Tehran’s $7.8 billion crypto ecosystem’s reliance on stablecoins to evade sanctions and move oil money. The move aims to cut off financial support to the regime, with IRGC-linked activity representing half of Iran’s crypto transactions.

The Senate defeated a war powers resolution 46-51, marking Democrats’ fifth consecutive failure to require the president to seek congressional authorization before continuing military operations against Iran. Despite Trump claiming victory, peace, and lower costs, the conflict continues. The outcome affects crypto and energy markets, with Bitcoin prices reacting to diplomatic signals.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced two bipartisan bills targeting AI chip exports to China on April 23. The AI Overwatch Act would give Congress oversight authority to review and potentially block export licenses, while the Chip Security Act addresses hardware verification. The bills face resistance from the White House and Nvidia.

President Trump announced a three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire on April 23 after high-level talks involving Israeli and Lebanese representatives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and US ambassadors. The extension is the first successful renewal of the truce, providing time for permanent peace negotiations.