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Visa launches card payments for on-chain transaction fees

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Visa has been exploring ways to allow users to pay blockchain gas fees directly with a credit or debit card. Gas fees are required for transactions on blockchain networks like Ethereum (ETH). Traditionally, users needed to hold balances of native cryptocurrencies like ETH to cover these fees. In an internal experiment, Visa leveraged smart contract technology to let users pay gas fees in fiat currency through a linked Visa card. This aims to remove the need…

Biden administration launches AI cybersecurity challenge to ‘protect Americans’

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In an Aug. 9 press release, the Biden administration revealed an opportunity for hackers to compete for substantial monetary rewards by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to safeguard vital United States infrastructure from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. In spring 2024, a preliminary phase will select up to 20 high-performing teams to progress to the semifinals of DEF CON 2024, which is a major cybersecurity conference. Of these, a maximum of five teams will earn $2 million each and move on to the DEF CON 2025 finals. The top three teams will compete for extra prizes,…

Coinbase Launches Own Blockchain as Sleuths Scour PayPal’s Stablecoin Software

Decentralized finance or DeFi ecosystems are still suffering through crypto winter, according to the analysis firm Messari. As a whole, the industry’s total value locked, or TVL – a key metric that represents collateral and deposits put into blockchain protocols – has been declining. On Ethereum, by far the biggest DeFi ecosystem, TVL dropped by 13% drop to $23 billion over the past 30 days. Optimism and Solana eked out gains. Source

Coinbase Launches ‘Base’ Blockchain, in Milestone for Public Company

“Historically the aperture of what people can do with crypto has been relatively limited, mostly speculation,” Pollak said. “In order for Coinbase and crypto and this work that we’re doing to have the impact that we all want, we need to move from the place where this is speculation to a place where this is integrated into every part of someone’s day-to-day existence.” Source link

Decentralized Exchange PancakeSwap Launches on Arbitrum Layer-2 Blockchain in Expansion Drive

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‘There’s No Playbook’ as Public Company Launches Base Blockchain

And I think we kind of see the progression over the last decade as working through the first three phases of what we consider our master plan, which was like, build the protocols Bitcoin Ethereum, build the exchange so people get money into those protocols, build the consumer interface, and so people can start using those protocols. But we’ve kind of gotten stuck on phase four, like we don’t have millions and billions. That’s just not where we are as an industry. And so what’s in it for Coinbase is…

USDC issuer Circle launches MPC wallet beta for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche

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USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle has released a beta version of a multi-party computation wallet (MPC) service, according to an Aug. 8 announcement. The new service will allow developers of DeFi apps, Web3 video games, e-commerce services, and other blockchain applications to create customized wallets specifically for their users. It will be available initially on Ethereum, Avalanche, and Polygon. Building crypto apps is still too hard. Plus, less than 0.5% of the 100 million developers worldwide are actively building crypto apps today. This needs to change. Our new wallet-as-a-service developer…

OpenAI launches web crawler ‘GPTBot’ amid plans for next model: GPT-5

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Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched “GPTBot” — its new web crawling tool which it says could potentially be used to improve future ChatGPT models. “Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models,” OpenAI said in a new blog post, adding it could improve accuracy and expand the capabilities of future iterations. A web crawler, sometimes called a web spider, is a type of bot that indexes the content of websites across the internet. Search engines like Google and Bing use them…

Decentralized asset management system launches for Arbitrum, Optimism

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Decentralized asset management platform Valio has launched publicly, according to an announcement from the platform’s team. The new protocol allows users to have their funds managed by professional traders but without having to trust these traders as custodians. The app’s launch is initially taking place on the Abitrum and Optimism networks. Valio previously launched in a whitelisted version on July 24, but the new public version unveiled on Aug. 7 does not require managers to be approved in advance. Valio user interface. Source: Valio In a conversation with Cointelegraph, Valio…

Massachusetts launches probe into AI in securities industry

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Massachusetts securities regulators have started a new investigation into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the securities industry, after becoming increasingly concerned about the implications. On Aug. 3, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin officially announced an investigation into the ways in which firms may be using AI in their interactions with Massachusetts investors. Galvin’s securities division on Aug. 2 sent letters of inquiry to a number of registered and unregistered firms known to be using or developing the use of AI for business purposes in the securities…