UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) launches a Blockchain Advisory Group consisting of Arbitrum, Algorand, SUI Foundations, Avalanche, Cardano, Ethereum, Stellar and many more.

ZCASH devs have proposed to use Ironwood pool to restore supply verification after the Orchard flaw last week.

Yuga Labs team completed a whitehat operation to rescue dozens of at-risk NFTs like Bored Apes, Azuki and CryptoPunks from an exploit.

Coinbase is now official deployer of Hyperliquid’s USDC treasury wallet.

Metamask just launched Agent wallet for AI powered onchain trading.

Sam Bankman Fried has formally applied for a Presidential pardon from Donald Trump, as per bloomberg.

OpenAI’s Stargate project developers are struggling to power AI compute due to costs.

Nvidia and Google is considering Intel to be their backup chip manufacturer. Nvidia in the meantime is also partnering with LG Group on humanoid Robotics and data center development; they have also partnered with South Korea’s SK Hynix, to co-develop next-gen memory chips for the global AI factory buildout.

Executives at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup all signaling job elimination while major banks prepare for mass AI job cuts.

Figure is now producing one robot per hour from one per day in just about 120 days.