- Celestia has announced a Genesis airdrop, distributing 60 million tokens to 7,579 developers and 576,000 on-chain addresses.
- Paradigm has launched the “Policy Lab”, a policy experimentation initiative.
- Homomorphic encryption-based blockchain Fhenix has completed a $7 million seed funding round, led by Multicoin Capital and Collider Ventures.
- Asset management giant Franklin Templeton has submitted a 19b-4 filing to the U.S. SEC to initiate the review of a Bitcoin spot ETF.
- OpenAI is considering selling a portion of its stock at a valuation of $80 billion to $90 billion.
- Walmart will sell a toy series of the NFT project Pudgy Penguins in 2,000 of its stores across the United States.
- Arbitrum Odyssey has restarted, and the first-week tasks are on GMX.
- Mixin has stated that it has completed most of its asset inventory work, and the situation is more optimistic than expected.
- The Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission has issued the “Special Action Plan for Key Technology Research on Blockchain in Shanghai (2023-2025).”