Former BitMex CEO Arthur Hayes Calls His Maelstrom Capital a ‘Very Patient’ Fund

“At the time, no one cared about them due to the negativity around [initial coin offerings] and the massive bear market,” Hayes said. “This led to a surge of projects claiming to be the next Uniswap, Compound,or Aave, but many were based on something less substantial. Investors were willing to put money into these projects, knowing they could exit in a few months after getting their tokens,” Hayes added. Source

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Hints at Chat AI for Google

The determination to float products that will be able to provide an interactive search interface for users has been cited by the Alphabet CEO as a major opportunity to be tapped into. Sundar Pichai Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of American multinational tech giant, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has hinted that the company is working on a conversational chat Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution that can be integrated into its Google search engine tool. While Pichai confirmed this in an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the exact…

Meta Platforms CTO Says CEO Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending Time on AI

Bosworth heads the Meta Platforms unit that handles the company’s metaverse initiative and according to the veteran, the AI product being developed will help reshape this yet-to-be-launched technology in remarkable ways. Andrew Bosworth, the Chief Technology Officer of Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) has revealed in a recent interview that the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, alongside other top executives is now spending considerable time on developing the firm’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. As reported by CNBC, Bosworth noted that the AI solution that the company is working on will be…

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Crypto Industry Needs More Decentralized Exchanges

The chief executive of the world’s largest crypto exchange platform by volume says that the crypto industry needs more decentralized exchanges (DEXes). In a recent thread, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says that even though DEXes can be flawed and he runs a massive centralized crypto exchange (CEX), he believes decentralized crypto swapping platforms are exactly what the industry needs. “We need more DEXs. PancakeSwap has most of the users. Uniswap has most of the TVL [total value locked]. That’s still ‘too centralized’… (I know, imagine that coming from me.) Need…

Paxful closing, CEO blames staff departures, regulatory challenges

Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace Paxful announced on April 4 that it was suspending operations. Paxful founder and CEO Ray Youssef said in a blog that “key staff departures” and the regulation environment were behind the decision. “We are not sure if it [the marketplace] will come back,” Youssef wrote. He added that all customer funds are accounted for and asked customers to withdraw their funds. The blog post provided links to other platforms that Paxful suggested for non-U.S. users to migrate to. Youssef said in a Twitter Spaces meetup that Paxful is…

Banking crisis could spark the first ‘extended duration Bitcoin bull market,’ says Swan Bitcoin CEO

The latest banking crisis could lead to “the first-ever extended duration bull market” for Bitcoin (BTC), according to Swan Bitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Klippsten pointed out that far more people today know about Bitcoin as a tool to opt out of the traditional financial system than during the previous banking crisis, which engulfed Cyprus in 2013.  That means the next Bitcoin bull could potentially last for two to three years, instead of just a few months, thinks Klippsten.  According to Klippsten, Bitcoin is not threatened…

Amber Group’s Ex-U.S. CEO Raazi Joins EDG, a Digital-Asset Structured Product Firm

“It’s a natural next step after leading Amber’s expansion in the Western hemisphere, which was focused on regulatory compliance,” Raazi said in the statement. “With 25 years of sales and trading leadership experience, in both New York and London, at Goldman Sachs and at start-ups, I’ll be helping the EDG team grow a compliant and dynamic derivatives and structured products business.” Source

ChatGPT and AI must pay for the news it consumes: News Corp Australia CEO

The creators of artificial intelligence (AI) fuelled applications should pay for the news and content being used to improve their products according to the CEO of News Corp Australia. In an April 2 editorial in The Australian, Michael Miller called for “creators of original journalism and content” to avoid the past mistakes that “decimated their industries” which he claimed allowed tech companies to profit from using their stories and information without compensation. Chatbots are software that ingests news, data and other information to produce responses to queries that mimic written…

US crackdown will push crypto’s ‘center of gravity’ to Hong Kong: Kaiko CEO

The U.S. government’s frosty approach to cryptocurrency regulation could ultimately see the industry’s “center of gravity” shift to Hong Kong, says Ambre Soubiran, the CEO of Paris-based institutional crypto market data provider Kaiko. The U.S. has been at the forefront of the crypto sector for quite some time, however, with the government seemingly adopting a regulation by enforcement approach, there is a growing feeling by some that a significant amount of companies, developers and investors will soon flock elsewhere to work in friendlier environments. 1 million tech jobs are at…