LensLinks: Issue 323

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Len Pacek
February 14, 2024

  • FTX customers look set to get their money back in full

  • States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week

  • Grayscale, DCG stand against Genesis plan to liquidate $1.6 billion in trust shares

  • Spot Bitcoin Trading Reigns Supreme on Robinhood, 95% of Trades Bypass ETFs

  • A Metaverse Comeback? Zuckerberg Touts Meta's VR/AR Headset Lead Over Apple

  • Google launches Gemini Ultra, its most powerful LLM yet | TechCrunch

  • Robots Get X-Ray Vision

  • How robotics and AI helped Hippo Harvest land $21M to grow lettuce | TechCrunch

  • Blockchain interoperability project Analog raises token round at $120 million valuation

  • Citi Explores Private Fund Tokenization in Latest Blockchain Bet

  • 101: How Blockchain Works and Paved the Way for Web3

  • Bitcoin Hits $50,000 Milestone With the Help of Lunar New Year

  • Analysts rip up old estimates after BlackRock leads $3bn in Bitcoin ETF inflows

  • And Much, Much, More… (phew!)

#regimentco #blackrock #blockchain #bitcoin #grayscale

QUOTABLE

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“Accounting for the circa $6.5 billion exiting GBTC, we have seen net inflows of $3.1 billion in a little over a month of trading”

- B2C2

NOTABLE

FTX customers look set to get their money back in full*

In a surprise development, bankruptcy lawyers say that FTX customers – once considered to have lost almost everything – are now expected to get their money back in full from the remains of the cryptocurrency company … ...

9to5mac.com/2024/02/12/ftx-customers-money

The Singularity
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-engineering & Other Stuff on the way

States are introducing 50 AI-related bills per week

Nearly all of the state legislatures currently in session are considering AI-related bills and nearly half of those bills address deepfakes, according to an analysis by software industry group BSA, shared exclusively with Axios.

www.axios.com/2024/02/14/ai-bills-state-legislatures-deepfakes-bias-discrimination

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Grayscale, DCG stand against Genesis plan to liquidate $1.6 billion in trust shares

Crypto companies Digital Currency Group and Grayscale push back on bankrupt Genesis' $1.6 billion asset sale plan.

cryptoslate.com/grayscale-dcg-stand-against-genesis-plan-to-liquidate-1-6-billion-in-trust-shares

Crypto Trading

Spot Bitcoin Trading Reigns Supreme on Robinhood, 95% of Trades Bypass ETFs

Discover Robinhood's latest trend: 95% of crypto trades favor spot Bitcoin trading over the multitude of ETF offerings on the platform.

beincrypto.com/spot-bitcoin-trading-robinhood-bypass-etfs

VR, AR, Spatial Computing, Metaverse & Gaming

A Metaverse Comeback? Zuckerberg Touts Meta's VR/AR Headset Lead Over Apple

Explore why Mark Zuckerberg is touting Meta's Quest 3 VR superiority over Apple's Vision Pro amid a potential metaverse revival.

beincrypto.com/metaverse-comeback-zuckerberg-meta-headset-apple

The Singularity - a little more…

Google launches Gemini Ultra, its most powerful LLM yet | TechCrunch

Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI's ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name

techcrunch.com/2024/02/08/google-goes-all-in-on-gemini-and-launches-20-paid-tier-for-gemini-ultra

Robots Get X-Ray Vision

You don't want to play hide-and-seek with a robot powered by THOR, which uses human-inspired reasoning to locate partially hidden objects.

www.hackster.io/news/robots-get-x-ray-vision-cf7542657801

How robotics and AI helped Hippo Harvest land $21M to grow lettuce | TechCrunch

The indoor farming startup uses repurposed warehouse robots to grow produce for Amazon Fresh.

techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/hippo-harvest-series-b-fundraise

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

Blockchain interoperability project Analog raises token round at $120 million valuation

Analog, a blockchain interoperability project, has $16 million in a private token round at a $120 million valuation.

www.theblock.co/post/277171/blockchain-interoperability-project-analog-token-funding-valuation

Citi Explores Private Fund Tokenization in Latest Blockchain Bet

Citigroup Inc. has carried out a simulation which shows how a private equity fund can be tokenized on a blockchain network, potentially paving the way for greater adoption of distributed ledger technology on Wall Street.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-14/citi-explores-private-fund-tokenization-in-latest-blockchain-bet

How Blockchain Works and Paved the Way for Web3

Blockchain, like the Internet of Things (IoT) and non-fungible tokens (NFT), are frequently used buzzwords that can be hard to understand because they feel both ultra-modern and exclusive.

www.thomasnet.com/insights/blockchain-in-manufacturing

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Bitcoin Hits $50,000 Milestone With the Help of Lunar New Year

Bitcoin’s headline grabbing jump to $50,000 came as little surprise to traders noting a seasonality effect in a corner of the crypto market: The digital asset tends to move higher in light trading around the Lunar New Year.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/bitcoin-hits-50-000-milestone-thanks-to-a-little-help-from-the-chinese-new-year

Analysts rip up old estimates after BlackRock leads $3bn in Bitcoin ETF inflows

Spot Bitcoin ETFs are expected to see more price rises if the momentum of the past few days keeps up, B2C2 said in a Tuesday newsletter.

www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/spot-bitcoin-etfs-reach-see-billions-in-flows-in-three-days

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Mark Zuckerberg’s 20-Year Formula for Success Has Expired

Meta can’t copy or acquire its way to another two decades of prosperity. Is the CEO up to it?

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-11/mark-zuckerberg-s-20-year-formula-for-success-has-expired

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