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Story Protocol, an onchain platform focused on intellectual property (IP), and OpenLedger on Thursday, Jan. 29, announced a new standard meant to let artificial intelligence (AI) systems use creative work legally and pay the people who own it. Under the partnership, IP registered on Story Protocol can be licensed for AI training and AI-generated outputs. Meanwhile, OpenLedger – an AI-native blockchain – will enforce those licenses inside AI systems and send payments to rights holders. The companies are also building a shared onchain standard that records who owns the work, how it can be used, and who gets paid, according…
Polymarket is a prediction platform that has put BlackRock executive Rick Rieder at 32 percent to become the upcoming Chair of the US Federal Reserve. This is a significant increase of the previous numbers and puts him second behind Kevin Warsh who is still ahead with 46 percent. The traders immediately responded to the change, the amount around the name of Rieder rose as more people began to speculate on the politics. The indications of increasing faith are that Rieder has reached the serious candidate stage instead of being a far-off outsider. Trump Drives the Narrative In a recent public…
Farcaster, a once-promising social protocol, has changed hands, with venture-backed startup Neynar now steering the ship. Meanwhile, founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan slip away like ghosts in the blockchain. The Future of Farcaster: Infrastructure, Community, or Rebirth? Announced on January 21, 2026, the deal’s valuation reportedly hovers near $1 billion, shrouded in secrecy. Meanwhile, daily active users (DAU) have plunged by 40%, and revenue has cratered by 85%. Farcaster DAU. Source: Dune Analytics However, amid the whispers of failure, a more pressing question lingers: Is this the death of Web3 social ambitions, or a stealthy rebirth? Farcaster’s saga began…
A banking application connected to World Liberty Financial Inc., a crypto firm partially owned by President Donald Trump, will proceed as normal, according to the chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, who rejected a request from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to focus special scrutiny on the president’s potential conflict of interest with the company. The Massachusetts lawmaker, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, has been scrapping with a federal bank regulator and others in Trump’s administration over his personal stake in a company set to be regulated by the federal agencies he…
Crypto products on CME reached peak activity in Q4, announced the exchange operator. The shift was driven by $ETH futures, as well as the new $SOL and $XRP markets. For Q4, CME marked record activity on its crypto products, with peak engagement, volumes, and open interest. The peak activity led to CME’s decision to offer 24/7 trading for its crypto markets, mimicking native trading. CME completed nine years of $BTC futures trading in the past year, becoming one of the main indicators for the potential direction of $BTC. During those years, both CME and the crypto native market matured. Based…
Major pension funds across Sweden, Denmark, and Finland have initiated a comprehensive review of their substantial U.S. asset holdings, signaling a potential seismic shift in global capital flows driven by escalating geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainty. This strategic reassessment, first reported by Walter Bloomberg, involves analyzing billions in U.S. Treasury bonds, equities, and dollar-denominated securities as risk premiums climb to concerning levels. Consequently, some institutions have already begun selling portions of their government bond portfolios, a move that follows stark warnings from former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding retaliatory measures against European asset sales. Nordic Pension Funds Reassess US Asset…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against crypto exchange Gemini on Friday, tied to the company’s defunct Earn product, saying the suit was no longer warranted. The SEC sued Gemini and Genesis Global Capital in 2023, alleging the companies had sold unregistered securities in the form of Gemini’s yield-bearing Earn product. Investors had entrusted their funds to Gemini, which had loaned them to Genesis, which halted withdrawals after the 2022 FTX collapse and the broader crypto market downturn, the SEC said in its lawsuit. The SEC halted the lawsuit in April of last year,…
WhiteBIT denied claims made by Russia’s Prosecutor General alleging that it facilitated illegal fund transfers out of Russia to finance Ukraine’s armed forces. The Ukrainian crypto exchange asserted it stopped operating in Russian territory since wae broke out between the two countries. WhiteBIT Rejects Russia’s Allegations In an official statement, WhiteBIT pushed back against Russia’s ban, stating that it had completely ceased operations in the country shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. “Following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, WhiteBIT took a principled stance: it blocked all users from Russia and Belarus, and discontinued trading pairs with…
BlackRock is back in crypto headlines. A viral post on X claimed the asset manager “sold” millions in Bitcoin and Ethereum. The numbers spread fast and fear followed just as quickly. On January 23, Ash Crypto posted that BlackRock moved $22.3 million in Bitcoin and $44.4 million in Ethereum. The total came to about $66.7 million. BREAKING: 🇺🇸 BlackRock has sold $22.3 million worth of Bitcoin and $44.4 million worth of Ethereum. pic.twitter.com/pCVrZ9rFTi — Ash Crypto (@AshCrypto) January 23, 2026 The post used dramatic images and crashing charts. As a result, panic took over Crypto X within minutes. However, the…
Some of the U.S. Senate Democrats in the negotiation over the crypto market structure bill filed requested amendments on Friday, seeking a number of their top policy requests in the draft legislation pushed by Republicans in the Senate Agriculture Committee. The draft they’re trying to change was unveiled as a partisan effort without Democratic sign-off on Wednesday, so now the lawmakers are trying to insert such things as a ban of the president (and other government officials) profiting off of the crypto sector and a demand that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission fill out its slate of commissioners before digital…