Blockchain provides a robust, transparent and secure platform for building decentralized applications, while artificial intelligence has the ability to adapt, learn and automate complex tasks. The fusion of these technologies has unleashed a wave of innovation, with intelligent dApps and AI agents that redefine how data is owned, monetized and processed. Already, we see a…
First professional exhibition dedicated to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), DePIN Expo 2025, announced that it has secured strategic support from peaq, the distributed computing platform driving the human-centric Machine Economy. Representing more than 55 DePIN projects across over 20 industries, peaq will participate in the expo to demonstrate the capabilities and adaptability of community-operated…
World’s first professional exhibition dedicated to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN), DePIN Expo 2025, announced strategic support from Hyra Network, a decentralized AI infrastructure protocol. Hyra Network, recognized for its computational transparency in the DePIN space, will showcase its zero-knowledge proof technology at the event, highlighting how verifiable AI models can be applied to global…
Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin announced the launch of its latest Spotlight token sale featuring AKEDO (AKE), reflecting the exchange’s focus on supporting innovative Web3 projects that intersect AI, gaming, and blockchain technology. Established in 2024 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, AKEDO is a multi-agent AI platform designed to revolutionize Web3 gaming through autonomous content creation and…
ElevenLabs, a company specializing in AI audio research and deployment, announced that its Startup Grants program will now provide support for 12 months, offering each recipient 33 million free credits on its platform, equivalent to more than 680 hours of conversational AI audio. This program provides a full year of access to ElevenLabs’ AI audio…
Platform focused on AI agents for gaming and entertainment, Virtuals Protocol launched the “Ethereum is for AI” Hackathon with support from the Ethereum Foundation’s Founder Success program. The event offers $100,000 in prizes for the most advanced AI agent deployments, with winners receiving travel to Buenos Aires and access to DevConnect 2025 in November. AI…
Development platform on Solana, Helius introduced an update that enables users to receive SOL rebates for transactions. The feature, called Helius Backrun Rebates, provides a share of the Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) produced by trades. When a transaction creates profitable arbitrage opportunities, searchers compete to backrun it, and part of their profit is returned to…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have employed AI to develop two novel antibiotics effective against drug-resistant gonorrhea and MRSA, potentially offering new strategies to combat infections responsible for millions of deaths each year. By leveraging generative AI algorithms, the team created over 36 million potential compounds and computationally screened them for antimicrobial activity. The…
Decentralized creative-AI platform Sogni AI announced its sponsorship of an international student hackathon in collaboration with Base and Virtuals Protocol, organized by Blockchain@NTU, a student organization at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Scheduled from August 16th to 26th, the virtual event invites students from around the world to develop practical applications and solutions using the…
Research division of technology company Meta, which develops AI and augmented reality technologies, Meta AI has introduced DINOv3, a state-of-the-art, generalist computer vision model trained using self-supervised learning (SSL) to generate high-quality visual features. For the first time, a single frozen vision backbone surpasses specialized models on multiple established dense prediction tasks, including object detection…