#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.
OKX Ventures partners with Securitize, STBL and Hamilton Lane
#OKXVentures has partnered with #Securitize , #STBL , and #HamiltonLane to support the launch of an RWA-backed stablecoin on #XLayer . The new stablecoin combines institutional private credit, regulated tokenization, and programmable settlement to power the next generation of onchain financial infrastructure.
The ecosystem-specific stablecoin will be issued on OKX’s X Layer and backed by tokenized exposure to Hamilton Lane’s Senior Credit Opportunities Fund via Securitize. The stablecoin will adopt a dual-token structure that separates yield generation from the stable asset, as U.S. regulators increase scrutiny of yield-bearing stablecoins.
$AZTEC token from the #AztecNetwork has been initially listed on Coinbase, Bybit, Kraken, Kucoin, Gate, MEXC and other exchanges today, on February 12th at 7:00 UTC. In addition, the #AztecIgnition network has been launched on the #Ethereum mainnet and is actively generating blocks.
Current $AZTEC price is $0.020 Current market cap is $58.56M Current FDV is $210.48M
#Aztec is an Ethereum L2 network that prioritizes privacy by using zero-knowledge proofs to enable confidential transactions and smart contracts, and it is the first blockchain with privacy built into the base layer. Aztec raised $119.1M from a16z crypto, Paradigm, ConsenSys, Coinbase Ventures, and other investors.
#Espresso $ESP has been initially listed on Binance, KuCoin, Gate, MEXC, Bitmart, and other exchanges today, on February 12th at 13:00 UTC.
Current $ESP price is $0.07 Current market cap is $38.06M Current FDV is $262.77M
Espresso builds infrastructure that supports cross-chain composability, powering user and developer experiences that make all chains work together like one.