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ENI Partners With Audiera to Build an Economy Where AI Agents Are actual Participants

ENI and Audiera have announced a partnership to build an agent-native economy on $BNB Chain. The idea is straightforward but uncommon: AI agents stop being tools that humans use and start being participants with their own economic identities, wallets, and stakes in what they create. Through the Audiera platform, powered by the $BEAT token, AI agents can own wallets, earn and spend on-chain, compete in rhythm-based experiences, and create and monetize content without human intermediation at every step. @ENI__Official 🤝 @Audiera_web3 The future isn’t human vs AI, it’s human + agent economies. With Audiera, AI agents evolve from tools into…

BlockchainApr 3

Ethereum’s top 1,000 wallets could lose 20.5M ETH in 9 days without a quantum-resistant upgrade

The top 1,000 wealthiest wallets on the Ethereum ($ETH) network could be systematically drained in 9 days by an attacker equipped with a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, according to new research. The research published on March 31 by the Google Quantum AI team found that the majority of Ethereum accounts have already initiated at least one transaction, thereby making their public keys visible and their funds quantum-vulnerable. Together, the top vulnerable Ethereum accounts hold approximately 20.5 million $ETH, which is valued at about $4.27 billion at press time. Ethereum account vulnerability. Source: Google The Ethereum accounts that have never sent…

EthereumApr 3

Regulatory Clarity Can Unlock Tokenization For Small Enterprises

The clamoring for tokenization continues to increase, but enthusiasm largely centers around the opportunity for big crypto, large banks, and Wall Street. What about small enterprises? Small Crypto Last week, these institutions were part of the policy dialogue during the U.S. House Financial Services Committee tokenization hearing. The Democratic witness, Plume Network General Counsel Salman Banaei, provided a compelling view of the value proposition for tokenization in his testimony. “Plume is Ethereum’s ‘Compliance Layer’ and the only Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built to support tokenization with AML and sanctions controls at the protocol level. Our Nest asset management protocol also…

BlockchainApr 3

Ethereum Price Prediction: ETH Enters High-Risk Zone

Ethereum is showing two warning signs at the same time, with momentum weakening on the daily chart while a major liquidation cluster sits just above price near $2,100. Together, the setup points to a tight zone where $ETH could see a sharper move next if pressure builds in either direction. $ETH RSI Break Signals Weakening Momentum This $ETH daily chart shows a rising wedge type structure forming after the sharp February drop. Price has made slightly higher lows, while the top side has stayed capped near the same resistance zone around $2,200. As a result, buyers have pushed $ETH up…

EthereumApr 3

Quantum-Powered Crypto Mining Is Here—But It Won't Help You Mine Bitcoin

In brief Postquant Labs launched Quip Network, a blockchain testnet that allows mining with quantum computers or traditional hardware. The system replaces Bitcoin-style hashing with optimization problems based on the Ising model. The company says the network could also track quantum progress toward breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography. A startup working with quantum computing company D-Wave says it has built a new kind of crypto mining testnet that replaces Bitcoin-style hashing with optimization problems that quantum systems may solve more efficiently. On Thursday, Postquant Labs launched what it described as the first publicly available quantum-classical blockchain testnet. The network, called Quip Network,…

MiningApr 3

Grayscale’s research head says tokenization will happen in waves and explains how to play it

Tokenization has become one of crypto's favorite buzzwords, but Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said investors should think about it less as a single trade and more as a long roadmap with different winners at different stages. Speaking at EthCC conference in Cannes, France, Pandl said that the trend is still in its infancy. Tokenized assets — the process of using blockchain rails to settle, transfer and record ownership of all kinds of financial assets such as bonds, funds and equities — is rapidly growing. However, currently at $27 billion, it still represents roughly 0.01%, a tiny fraction, of…

BlockchainApr 3

Ethereum price approaches $2,200 as Iran signals willingness to end war

Ethereum price rose nearly 7% on drawing closer to the $2,200 psychological resistance level after reports suggested that the U.S.-Iran war could end soon. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price rose to a six-day high of $2,153 on Wednesday, April 1. The recovery followed after the leading altcoin fell nearly 16% from its monthly high of $2,360 to $1,972 earlier on Monday. The drop occurred amid growing uneasiness in the market due to the back-and-forth attacks between the U.S. and Iran. A ripple effect of it was the blockade at the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime corridor…

EthereumApr 3

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Dumps Meta, Nvidia and Bitcoin ETF Shares in Major Tech Sell-Off

In brief Ark Invest parted with nearly $41 million in META and $26 million in NVDA shares on Thursday. Cathie Wood's firm also dumped around $11 million worth of shares in its Bitcoin ETF. The sales come amid a sustained market downturn as uncertainty in Iran shakes stocks and crypto. Ark Invest, the investment firm of notable tech investor Cathie Wood, shed millions of dollars’ worth of shares of major tech stocks on Thursday, significantly trimming positions in Nvidia and Meta while also diminishing its exposure to Bitcoin via its own Bitcoin ETF. The firm’s Thursday activity saw it part…

RegulationApr 3

Hong Kong police have charged 6 men and 4 women with money laundering in the JPEX case

Ten individuals involved in the JPEX cryptocurrency scam have been charged with money laundering and conspiracy to launder money, bringing the total number of charged individuals to 26. Hong Kong’s authorities are still going after other suspects with help from international law enforcement agencies. For now, they continue to cast a wide net as no individual has been pegged as the main operator or mastermind of the JPEX operation yet. Hong Kong’s biggest crypto scam case Hong Kong police have charged ten additional individuals in connection with the JPEX cryptocurrency fraud case. The Commercial Crime Bureau stated that the ten…

LegalApr 3

Bitcoin miner Soluna acquires $53M wind farm to power AI facility

Soluna Holdings, a publicly traded Bitcoin ($BTC) mining and AI infrastructure company focused on renewable energy, announced on Thursday that it closed a $53 million deal to acquire a wind farm to power its upcoming Project Dorothy 3 AI data center campus. The Briscoe Wind Farm, located in Briscoe County, Texas, has a potential capacity of up to 300 megawatts (MW), according to the company's announcement. The company forecasts that the facility will generate annualized revenue between $20 million and $24.4 million. Shares of Soluna are up by about 7.6% following the news, and are trading at about $0.76 at…

MiningApr 3