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The Ohio Teachers Retirement Fund has just made a big step into the world of digital assets. As reported by crypto analyst Ash Crypto, the fund bought $23.7 million in MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares. This is the first time that the fund has invested in a stock connected to Bitcoin. By buying MicroStrategy shares, the fund can benefit from Bitcoin’s growth without actually owning the cryptocurrency. This makes it easier and safer for a pension fund to explore the digital asset market. Why MicroStrategy? MicroStrategy is mainly a business software company. However, it is best known for holding big amounts of…

USDe, a synthetic stablecoin created by Ethena Labs, has reached a phenomenal feat by crossing 600 million dollars in value on Binance within a single day. The event occured following the exchange’s announcement of its 12 percent rate (APR) rewards program. This exponential increase in USDe’s value shows the increasing demand of yield-earning stablecoins on popular exchanges. Also, the event puts the stablecoin in the line to cross $1 billion on Binance with the extensive distribution network of the platform consisting of over 280 million users all over the world. The high influx of capital suggests the importance of the…

Spheron Network, a community-led AI workload data center, has officially partnered with Meganet, a decentralized compute infrastructure. The partnership focuses on merging the decentralized bandwidth-sharing model of Meganet with the compute and GPU infrastructure of Spheron Network. As Spheron Network revealed in its official social media announcement, the collaboration signifies a strategic move toward resilience, efficiency, and scalability in decentralized networks. Hence, the users can anticipate a strong decentralized AI economy. We’re excited to announce our partnership with @meganet_appMeganet is building a decentralized network where users earn by sharing idle internet bandwidth, powering content delivery, serverless compute, and AI inference.Now,…

BabyDoge has updated its Decentralized Exchange (DEX), which went live on September 22, as detailed in an announcement from the project’s official X account. The platform operates on the BNB Chain, offering users tools for token swaps, liquidity provision, and other Decentralized Finance (DeFi) activities. This development enhances the BabyDoge ecosystem, which centers on the memecoin BabyDoge and features designed for traders and liquidity providers in the cryptocurrency space. Overview of the BabyDoge DEX Launch The BabyDoge DEX represents an update to the project’s trading infrastructure, positioned as the largest exchange within the BNB Chain ecosystem based on available metrics.…

The United Nations leaned into blockchain technology to overhaul its own pension system, and a study of that process concluded the innovation is the “ultimate technology for digital identity verification,” which has spurred the UN toward extending the system and sharing it with other international groups. The UN — which has explored various blockchain uses over the years — tried it out on their United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF), according to a white paper released this week that suggested its use in confirming people’s identities can help in security, efficiency and transparency. In cooperation with the Hyperledger Foundation,…

Shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) rose as much as 9% on Monday morning after the company announced it’s launching a venture capital arm focused on early-stage artificial intelligence startups. The stock was higher by 4.5% as midday U.S. hours approached.. The new fund, called CoreWeave Ventures, will focus on investing in startups building tools, infrastructure or applications for AI. The company didn’t disclose how much capital would be committed but framed the effort as an extension of its broader mission to support high-performance computing for machine learning and generative AI. “Our aim with CoreWeave Ventures is to give other audacious, like-minded…

CDARI, a Web3 ecommerce platform, announced a strategic partnership with GPT360, an AI-Powered super-app for Web3 growth. Based on this partnership, CDARI integrated GPT360’s AI infrastructure into its blockchain-powered online marketplace to advance the capability of the digital commerce ecosystem. CDARI is a Web3 ecommerce platform that provides people with online shopping products, entertainment services, and digital asset rewards, all powered by blockchain technology. The platform is built on top of the AI-driven Layer-2 scaling solution Matchain on the BNB Chain, enabling it to build the future of digital commerce. On the other hand, GPT360 is an AI-driven decentralized network…

Ethereum price is trading firmly above $3,900, a high time frame support zone positioned over the value area high of last year’s range. Consolidation here suggests bullish continuation, with targets extending toward $5,800. Summary $3,900 Support: Key high-time-frame level above last year’s value area high. Bullish Structure: Consolidation favors continuation, with $5,800 as the next target. Open Interest Surge: Historic levels signal strong buying pressure and sustained demand. Ethereum’s (ETH) price action is showing strength as it holds above the $3,900 level, which sits just beyond the value area high of its prior yearly trading range. This area is now…

U.S.-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) is creating a new ecosystem that combines stablecoin-based micropayments with AI. Building on the release earlier this year of x402, an open source payment protocol that enables instant stablecoin payments on any website, Coinbase engineers have added a discovery layer for AI agents, something like a “Google for agents,” that the firm is calling x402 Bazaar. This matters because it’s about unlocking new paradigms within agentic commerce, a term often associated with humans setting out requirements and preferences for AI agents to shop for them. In fact, the marketplace of things AI agents are going…

Coinbase and Cloudflare announced the creation of the x402 Foundation on Tuesday, calling it a new governance body designed to advance payment integration directly into the internet’s core protocols. The initiative builds on the HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code, historically unused, to enable the x402 protocol—an approach embedding payments into web interactions. The move is intended to reduce friction in digital transactions and lay the groundwork for agent-driven commerce across AI systems, APIs, and applications. The x402 protocol is gaining momentum among developers and enterprises experimenting with pay-per-use models. Early pilots include per-request access to artificial intelligence models, on-demand…