Tether will purchase 103M shares of Rumble, a media company focused on maintaining free speech and being censorship resistant, at a price of $7.50 per share.

Metaplanet (OTCQX: MTPLF) has raised approximately $60.3M USD in a new debt financing round for the sole purpose of acquiring more Bitcoin.

Asset management company Bitwise has officially launched a Solana staking Exchange Traded Product on the Deutsche Borse XETRA.

Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) has entered into a new deal with technology infrastructure company Switch to provide them with nuclear power for their data centres.

Ripple has officially launched their first ever stablecoin known as RLUSD, available on the XRP Ledger and the Ethereum blockchain and is backed by USD.

VanEck Ventures and VanEck Digital Assets have invested $2.5 million into decentralized physical infrastructure startup DAWN.

Kevin O’Leary has announced a partnership with the Alberta government to build a new data centre for high performance computing near Grande Prairie in Alberta.

Waymo has announced plans to officially begin testing their autonomous vehicles in Tokyo for the first time ever.

VERSES AI (CBOE: VERS) has announced their Genius system has outperformed OpenAI’s o1 Preview model in a comparison based on the code breaking game Mastermind.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a new partnership with the Illinois government to establish a National Quantum Algorithm Centre in Chicago.