Ethereum Foundation announces leadership change as Tomasz Stańczak steps down
#EthereumFoundation co-executive director Tomasz Stańczak said he will step down at the end of February, less than a year after the foundation formalized its co-ED structure. Bastian Aue will take on the co-ED role on an interim basis alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.
Stańczak said he will remain active in the ecosystem as a builder, with a focus on core development, governance, and work related to AI and onchain infrastructure.
#Anthropic secures $30B in a Series G funding round co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, with participation from Accel, Addition, Alpha Wave Global, Altimeter, AMP PBC, Appaloosa LP, Baillie Gifford, Bessemer Venture Partners, affiliated funds of BlackRock, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and others. The round also includes part of the previously announced investments from Microsoft and NVIDIA.
Anthropic is an #AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
#GoogleCloud is joining as a partner for #LayerZero 's #Zero to explore enabling #AIagents to instantly make micropayments and trade resources without the need for a bank account. Zero is a new high-performance blockchain developed by LayerZero Labs, designed for global finance. It achieves up to 3 million updates per second by utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, enabling fast, private, and low-cost #DeFi transactions.
LayerZero is an interoperability protocol linking various blockchains, enabling developers to create cohesive omnichain applications, tokens, and experiences.
World Liberty Financial is set to roll out a foreign exchange remittance service
#WorldLibertyFinancial plans to launch a foreign exchange and remittance platform named #WorldSwap . The platform will connect users directly to debit cards and bank accounts worldwide, settling FX remittances at a fraction of the fees charged by traditional providers.
World Liberty Financial is a decentralized finance platform launched by #DonaldTrump . It aims to provide services like borrowing, lending and earning interest on cryptocurrencies, with a strong emphasis on supporting unbanked and underserved communities.
Lighter and Circle partner to share revenue from $920M in USDC deposits
#Lighter and #Circle have reached a revenue-sharing agreement covering roughly $920M in $USDC deposits on the Lighter platform. Under the deal, interest income from Circle’s $USDC reserves will be shared between the two, following a model similar to Circle’s arrangements with Coinbase and Bybit.
Lighter is a perpetual trading protocol based on #Ethereum, specialized zk-rollup that utilizes cryptographic methods and data structures to ensure scalability, security, and transparency.