A Hong Kong legislator wants the special administrative region to take advantage of China’s “one country, two systems” policy to include Bitcoin in its national reserve for financial security. Wu Jiexhuang, a member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, told state-owned newspaper Wen Wei Po that Hong Kong could study the market impact of United States-based…

Agentic artificial intelligence platform ai16z is mulling launching its own layer-1 (L1) blockchain network as part of a broader tokenomics overhaul. The project is considering creating a platform similar to Pump.fun for launching AI agents, according to a post on its governance forum. It is also contemplating “[p]ositioning ai16z as an L1 blockchain for AI,” the post…

DeFi platform SwissCheese Finance has capped off a remarkable 2024 with a series of significant advancements, paving the way for sustained growth in the coming year. The year 2024 was marked by significant spikes in trading volume, broader mainstream acceptance and a surge of new platforms vying for market share. Innovations in decentralized trading models,…

In another rollercoaster year for crypto, 2024 delivered monumental wins for Bitcoin hodlers, crypto ETF issuers and memecoin creators, particularly as Bitcoin soared past the $100,000 milestone in December. But not all was rosy. Scams and hacks cost victims $2.2 billion this year, and failed celebrity memecoin ventures drew the ire of disgruntled investors and…

The number of long-term Ether holders steadily increased throughout 2024, while the number of Bitcoin holders fell over the last year amid rising confidence in ETH heading into the new year. In a Dec. 30 post to X, citing data from its platform, IntoTheBlock shared that the total percentage of Ether who had held their tokens for the long haul had…

David Holtzman — a former military intelligence professional, author, White House advisor, and chief strategy officer of the Naoris decentralized security protocol — recently told Cointelegraph that centralized data systems invite abuse from state and corporate actors due to their single point of control. “The whole problem with centralized systems is that there’s a center,”…