Mois : avril 2025

Shaquille O’Neal has reached a settlement agreement with a group of FTX investors who accused him of enabling the failed crypto exchange’s fraud by acting as a celebrity promoter, according to a court filing.

Details of the settlement agreement, including the amount O’Neal will pay, have not yet been disclosed. Plaintiffs in the case are seeking up to $21 billion in total damages from O’Neal and other promoters, former executives and other insiders.

The former basketball star-turned-business mogul was just one of a host of celebrity promoters named in the class action suit. Other athletes, including tennis player Naomi Osaka, baseball player Shohei Otani, basketball player Steph Curry and retired football player Tom Brady were also named as defendants, along with comedian Larry David, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, and model Gisele Bundchen.

Though O’Neal is the first big-name defendant in the case to settle on Wednesday, seven other celebrity promoters and former executives reached a settlement agreement with the investors back in 2023, including Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, and Youtubers Tom Nash, Graham Stephan and Andrei Jikh. The first tranche of settlements were relatively small, totalling a collective $1.4 million.

O’Neal’s settlement with FTX investors is not his first tied to a promotion of a failed crypto project. Last year, O’Neal and several of his associates agreed to pay $11 million to Astral non-fungible token (NFT) holders who lost money in the Solana-based project he founded and promoted.

O’Neal faisait partie des nombreuses célébrités et athlètes de renom accusés d’avoir soutenu FTX.

D’autres célébrités citées dans des actions en justice similaires incluent le quarterback de la NFL Tom Brady et le mannequin Gisele Bündchen.

Il s’agit du deuxième règlement très médiatisé d’O’Neal lié à la cryptographie au cours des derniers mois.

Shaquille O’Neal a conclu un accord confidentiel avec des investisseurs qui ont allégué des pertes liées à l’effondrement de la bourse de crypto-monnaie FTX, selon un dossier déposé le 23 avril auprès du tribunal de district américain pour le district sud de la Floride.

Les termes de l’accord restent confidentiels, et les détails spécifiques devraient être divulgués une fois que les plaignants auront déposé une demande d’approbation préliminaire du tribunal.

O’Neal faisait partie des nombreuses célébrités et athlètes de renom accusés d’avoir soutenu FTX et d’avoir prétendument contribué aux pertes des investisseurs par le biais d’activités promotionnelles avant la faillite de la bourse.

Le procès fait partie d’un litige multidistrict plus large visant à obtenir jusqu’à 21 milliards de dollars de dommages et intérêts de la part des initiés, des conseillers et des promoteurs de FTX, un montant qui dépasse de loin les 9,2 milliards de dollars qui devraient être disponibles dans le cadre du processus de faillite en cours.

Les promoteurs de célébrités sous surveillance

D’autres célébrités citées dans des actions en justice similaires incluent le quarterback de la NFL Tom Brady, le mannequin Gisele Bündchen, l’investisseur Kevin O’Leary, l’ancien joueur de la NBA Udonis Haslem, la légende du baseball David Ortiz et la star du tennis Naomi Osaka.

Tous ont été accusés d’avoir prêté crédibilité à FTX dans des campagnes promotionnelles, trompant ainsi prétendument les investisseurs particuliers.

O’Neal a initialement fait les gros titres dans cette affaire pour avoir éludé la signification de documents juridiques, les avocats des plaignants l’accusant de « fuir le procès ».

Selon certaines informations, les équipes juridiques auraient passé des mois à tenter de lui signifier des documents, tentant même de les remettre lors des diffusions de la NBA et à ses domiciles.

Le règlement fait suite à la résolution juridique du NFT

Il s’agit du deuxième règlement très médiatisé d’O’Neal lié à la cryptographie au cours des derniers mois.

Il a récemment accepté de payer 11 millions de dollars pour résoudre un recours collectif concernant son rôle dans la promotion du projet Astrals NFT, une initiative basée sur Solana comprenant 10 000 NFT, un métavers appelé Astralworld et un jeton de gouvernance connu sous le nom de Galaxy.

Ce procès alléguait que les NFT étaient des titres non enregistrés et qu’O’Neal avait induit les investisseurs en erreur par ses recommandations.

Il a été condamné à une peine de prison dans cette affaire lors d’un match éliminatoire de la NBA en mai 2023 au Kaseya Center de Miami, anciennement appelé FTX Arena.

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With Canada’s federal election less than one week away, Canadians are closely watching how political leaders intend to address digital assets. Millions of Canadians hold, use, or work in crypto, making it a growing focal point for economic growth and innovation. This politically prominent and growing community is shaping conversations about the future of finance, with voters signaling cautious openness, not to ban or ignore crypto, but to responsibly integrate it into Canada’s financial system with clear protections, accountability, and forward-looking policy.

Dean Skurka is a speaker at Consensus 2025, in Toronto May 15, appearing with Kevin O’Leary on Mainstage.

Canada’s leadership in digital assets isn’t theoretical. It has evolved through first-of-its-kind milestones, homegrown innovation, and meaningful regulatory advancements, including:

Canada installed the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in Toronto in 2013;Ethereum, co-founded by Canadian Vitalik Buterin, began in Canada in 2015;Vancouver’s Dapper Labs introduced groundbreaking NFT platforms like NBA Top Shot, which launched in 2020;The Ontario Securities Commission and Canadian Securities Administration introduced a novel regulatory framework for crypto trading platforms in 2021; andRegulatory initiatives such as Alberta’s fintech sandbox and blockchain innovation hubs actively support industry growth, which launched around 2022.

Voter Momentum and Public Sentiment

The pro-crypto voter base is large, diverse, informed, and engaged. According to a survey bu Nanos Research for the Canadian Web3 Council:

Younger Canadians and those with direct investment experience tend to view crypto favourably, indicating a generational and experiential shift in sentiment.60% of Canadians surveyed support the federal government working with industry experts to develop cryptocurrency regulations and protect public interest. Only about one in five surveyed were opposed.48% of Canadians say the government should implement a strategy for a “more accessible, inclusive, and effective financial ecosystem” that includes digital assets.

This engaged voter base, the majority being under 50, represents a significant political force. The election and subsequent administration offer policymakers a chance to support voters’ eagerness for clarity around Canada’s digital future.

In 2022, the (pro-crypto) Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made headlines for advocating financial freedom through Bitcoin and decentralized finance, calling for less control from politicians and bankers and more power in the hands of individuals. He said he wanted to make Canada “the blockchain capital of the world,” allowing people to “opt out” of inflation by using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Read more: Nik De – Previewing the Canadian Election’s Crypto Angle

By contrast, former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, representing the Liberal Party, while supportive of digital innovation, remains skeptical of the idea that cryptocurrencies like stablecoins will fundamentally reshape the monetary system. He has argued that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would be a safer, more stable foundation for digital money.

« Stablecoins are ultimately only an appendage to the conventional monetary system and not a game changer. CBDCs would reduce the risks of digital money and form the foundation of a more stable, programmable financial future,” he wrote in 2021.

Meanwhile, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has openly criticized crypto’s volatility, citing the financial losses suffered by Canadians who bought into digital assets as a hedge against inflation.

“We have a leader of the opposition who thinks he can magically opt out of inflation by buying cryptocurrency, which ended up tanking and hurting people,” he said in 2022.

The successful candidate from this upcoming election has a chance to translate these varied views into coherent platform frameworks and enhance Canada’s position as a forward-thinking and tech-driven economy.

Global Signals: Local Opportunity

The European Union has implemented the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, offering clear crypto regulations.

The U.S. is playing catchup following the election of Donald Trump last November. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee has advanced the « Stable Act of 2025, » a significant step toward establishing a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins. And bipartisan efforts like the Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act propose to exempt small crypto transactions under $200 from capital gains taxes. Congressional leaders are now working on a comprehensive “market structure” bill for crypto and regulators are open-minded about working with companies to adapt existing laws to modern needs.

Canada is well-positioned to do the same. With the right policies, we can continue to attract leading talent, keep homegrown companies here, and strengthen our global voice in Web3.

The choice is ours.

Why Policy Clarity Matters

Clarity on digital asset policy will affect how Canadians save, invest, and transact; whether new jobs and industries are built here or abroad; and whether our country will lead or follow in a rapidly emerging digital sector.

Digital assets offer tangible benefits like faster, cheaper remittances for newcomers supporting families overseas, more accessible financial tools for underserved communities, and diversified investment alternatives in times of economic uncertainty. Beyond personal finance, blockchain technology has real potential to modernize Canada’s financial infrastructure, enhance anti-fraud efforts, and improve transparency in sectors like supply chain management and government services.

The Canadian Web3 Council has called for integrating blockchain into Canada’s broader innovation strategy, urging federal support for talent development, funding, and the creation of a national blockchain strategy. They advocate for clear frameworks around decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoin regulation, and for Canada to take a leadership role in global digital asset policy conversations.

The Role of Industry & Community

The responsibility of highlighting crypto’s importance largely falls on the industry itself. Initiatives like Stand with Crypto Canada (a national advocacy campaign supported by WonderFi and nine other major companies) are actively educating voters and policymakers about the economic benefits of clear crypto regulation.

Similarly, Blockchain North’s Voices for Canadian Crypto campaign, featuring prominent thought leaders, is helping unify industry voices, emphasizing the need for proactive policy conversations with leaders.

We have talent. We have the infrastructure. And we have momentum.

Now, we need leaders who see crypto not as a passing trend, but as a powerful opportunity to fuel Canada’s economy and empower a new generation of builders, investors, and innovators.

The digital economy is here. The only question is: will Canada lead?

In today’s crypto for advisors, Dovile Silenskyte from WisdomTree talks about the growth of crypto products and how they’ve evolved into a strategic investment allocation.

Then, Kim Klemballa from CoinDesk Indices answers questions about digital asset benchmarks and trends in Ask an Expert.

– Sarah Morton

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The Evolution of Crypto Products — From Speculative Bets to Strategic Assets

Crypto is no longer the “Wild West” of investing. Once dismissed as mere speculative bets, digital assets have matured into a credible and increasingly strategic component of institutional portfolios.

Figure 1: Global assets under management (AUM) in physical crypto ETPs

Source: Bloomberg, WisdomTree. 01 April 2025. Historical performance is not an indication of future performance and any investment may go down in value.

As of the end of Q1 2025, global assets under management (AUM) in physical bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs) was more than $100 billion. That figure signals deep, sustained conviction from institutional investors, meaning this is no longer just the realm of early adopters. Today, sovereign wealth funds, pension schemes and asset managers are allocating to crypto at scale.

After more than 15 years of development, multiple boom-and-bust cycles and a global user base exceeding half a billion people, crypto has proven it is no passing trend. Bitcoin has emerged as a crypto macro asset — scarce, decentralized and increasingly positioned as a core holding within diversified multi-asset portfolios.

But here’s the catch — crypto allocations are still under-diversified.

Despite growing adoption, most crypto portfolios remain narrowly concentrated in bitcoin. That is a legacy mindset and one that is fundamentally flawed. Investors wouldn’t allocate their entire equity exposure to Apple, nor rely on a single bond to represent fixed income. Yet that is precisely how many still treat crypto.

Diversification is foundational in traditional finance. It spreads risk, enhances resilience and unlocks access to broader opportunity sets. The same principle holds in digital assets.

The cryptocurrency universe has expanded far beyond bitcoin, evolving into a dynamic ecosystem of distinct technologies, use cases and investment theses.

Smart contract platforms like Ethereum, Solana and Cardano are building decentralized infrastructure for everything from decentralized finance (DeFi) to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), each with unique trade-offs in scalability, security and network design. Meanwhile, Polkadot is advancing interoperability, enabling seamless communication across chains — a key building block for a multi-chain future.

Beyond these Layer 1 blockchains, we are seeing rapid innovation in:

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization where traditional finance meets blockchain railsDeFi protocols powering decentralized lending, trading and liquidity solutionsWeb3 infrastructure, from decentralized identity to storage, forming the backbone of a more open internet

Each of these sectors carries its own risk-return profile, adoption curve and regulatory trajectory. Treating them as interchangeable, or worse, ignoring them altogether, is similar to reducing global equity investing to a single tech stock. It is not just outdated — it is strategically inefficient.

Diversification in crypto is not about avoiding risk, but rather, capturing the full spectrum of innovation. In a multi-chain, multi-thesis world, failing to diversify means leaving opportunity on the table.

The case for crypto indices

The reality is that most investors do not have the time, tools or technical expertise to keep up with 24/7 crypto markets. Crypto indices offer a powerful solution for those seeking broad, systematic exposure without having to dive into tokenomics, validator uptime or network upgrades.

Just as equity investors rely on benchmarks such as the S&P 500 or MSCI indices, diversified crypto indices allow investors to access the market passively — with scale, structure and simplicity. No guesswork, no token-picking, no need for constant rebalances. Just clean, rules-based exposure to the evolving crypto landscape.

– Dovile Silenskyte, Director of Digital Assets Research, WisdomTree

Ask an Expert

Q. Why is diversification important in crypto?

A. Among over 20,000 listed cryptocurrencies, bitcoin now accounts for approximately 65% of total market capitalization. Diversification is key for institutional investors to manage volatility and capture broader opportunities. Indices can be an efficient way of tracking asset class performance, while products like exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and separately managed accounts (SMAs) can provide exposure to multiple cryptocurrencies at once, potentially helping to spread risk. 

Q. What trends are you seeing in digital assets?

A. Institutional investors are entering the market, pushing digital assets from a niche investment into a key asset class. EY-Parthenon and Coinbase conducted a survey of more than 350 institutional investors around the world in January 2025. Of the investors surveyed, 87% plan to increase overall allocations to crypto in 2025, spanning a variety of options such as exchange-traded products (ETPs), investments in digital asset companies, stablecoins, futures and thematic mutual funds. Per the survey, 55% hold spot crypto through ETPs, with 69% of those who plan to own spot crypto planning to do so using registered vehicles.

Q. Does a broad-based benchmark exist in crypto?

A. There are broad benchmarks in digital assets. At CoinDesk Indices, we launched the CoinDesk 20 Index in January 2024, to capture the performance of top digital assets and act as a gateway to measure, trade and invest in the ever-expanding crypto asset class. Designed with liquidity and diversification in mind, the CoinDesk 20 has generated an unprecedented $14.5 billion in total trading volume and is available in twenty investment vehicles globally. CoinDesk Indices also has the CoinDesk 80 Index, CoinDesk 100 Index (CoinDesk 20 + CoinDesk 80) and CoinDesk Memecoin Index, amongst others.

– Kim Klemballa, Head of Marketing, CoinDesk Indices

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At a time when countless crypto projects are awkwardly pivoting toward artificial intelligence, Eric Winer has spent over a decade building bridges between cutting-edge technology and everyday users. Now, as CTO of NEAR AI, he’s pursuing a vision where AI agents negotiate, communicate, and transact on our behalf — a vision that could fundamentally reshape how we interact with the digital world.

Winer speaks with the measured enthusiasm of someone who has repeatedly been early to technological revolutions. Having joined the Winklevoss twins as Gemini’s first engineer in 2013 and helped launch one of the earliest NFT marketplaces before the term « NFT » became commonplace, he now confronts what may be his most ambitious challenge: creating a decentralized ecosystem of AI agents that preserves user sovereignty in an increasingly AI-mediated future.

Eric Winer is a speaker at Consensus 2025. This interview has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

CoinDesk: You’ve been in crypto for over a decade now. How did that journey lead you to focusing on AI?

Eric Winer: I’ve been in the crypto world for 11 years now. Eleven years ago I met the Winklevoss twins through mutual acquaintances. They hired me as the first engineer at Gemini, which was the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in America at the time. Our mission from the CEO was to take this fantastic blockchain technology (really just Bitcoin at the time) and apply some grown-up engineering around it so that it could be effectively adopted by institutions, governments, and people broadly.

Back in 2013-2014, Coinbase was around, but it was kind of a rinky-dink Silicon Valley startup at a time before there was really much of a fintech culture even in California. So it wasn’t particularly built well. We were building Gemini in New York City with people who knew how money worked and trying to build not just for cryptography enthusiasts, but for the masses.

I’ve always been trying to get blockchain technology over the adoption barrier to reach a place where people would be using it, perhaps under the hood, to make the world more efficient and give people more sovereignty, even if they don’t know it.

CoinDesk: And that led you to NFTs before most people had even heard the term, right?

Eric Winer: Within Gemini, we acquired a company called Nifty Gateway, which was basically the third NFT startup after OpenSea and CryptoKitties. We launched what was the first NFT marketplace targeted at « normies » in March 2020. It ended up growing by about 1000% month over month for a few months, going from selling a thousand dollars of NFTs to selling a hundred million dollars of NFTs in a day.

This exposed a lot of people to the world of collectibles and art online, right in the middle of the pandemic. From there they got bit by the NFT bug and then by the crypto bug, bringing them into the blockchain ecosystem as a whole.

Personally, I think the promise of NFTs got unfortunately co-opted by the crypto and speculation crowd. Nifty Gateway never used the term « NFT » on its website or in its materials when it launched. We fought against that even becoming what it was called. NFT is just a thing, but online. We were selling art, selling tickets. Having to assign a technical moniker and put that into the public, I think, was actually counterproductive at the end of the day.

CoinDesk: Many crypto projects seem to be awkwardly pivoting toward AI without a clear vision. What makes NEAR AI’s approach different?

Eric Winer: Near AI is a fascinating company because the founders of Near actually started by building an AI company. They started as an AI company, trying to train models to write code around 2017-2018. It was a little early for that to be effective at the time.

AGI has always been the vision here. Near AI is less a « crypto x AI » company than it is an AI company that’s vision-aligned with the same purpose of Near. Near’s vision is for users to own their own data, own their own decision making, not be beholden to corporate, financial, or governmental interests, and be able to decide where their money goes and how their decisions are made.

Whether that’s done via a blockchain or done via an AI model, you have to have both. If we don’t have a user-owned AI effort going, then we’ll lose the game because everybody will start using ChatGPT for everything in their world, and whatever ChatGPT uses for payments is whatever you’ll use for payments. Then blockchain loses because you didn’t win the AI battle – not the crypto x AI battle, but the real actual AI battle.

Near AI does have interactions with blockchains, including Near, because we think that Near and other blockchains are a good way of doing things. But we’re primarily an AI company that sees crypto as a technology; we are not a crypto company trying to shove in AI.

CoinDesk: What exactly does NEAR AI offer as a platform right now?

Eric Winer: Near AI as it exists right now is mostly an agent hosting platform. It’s actually one of the easiest ways to get an AI agent running online. You upload some pretty simple Python code or TypeScript code, and boom, it’s hosted online with a user interface, embeddable into any website.

It can be backed by any open weights models, although by and large, we delegate the actual model operation to other providers like Fireworks and Anthropic that are out there. The special sauce of our framework is that it makes it easy for those AI agents to talk to other AI agents, whether on our platform or off.

The other thing that isn’t live yet, but will be by the time consensus rolls around, is that we are heavily invested in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments). We think it’s very important that you know where your data is going, that it’s not being harvested by these models for training, that even us as operators of a cloud system are not able to look at your data, analyze it, or steal it if we wanted. So we’re putting all those agents and all the underlying models into these trusted execution environments so that you can use them with confidence.

CoinDesk: Your vision seems to center on AI agents communicating with each other. What does that future look like to you?

Eric Winer: What we’re trying to build within Near AI is an ecosystem of AI agents that talk to each other. « AI agent » is a very overloaded term at this point. Most of the time when you see something talking about itself as an AI agent, it’s really a set of guidelines and tools for an AI model to act on your behalf. Like, « I’ve got Llama or Claude or GPT models, and I’m going to instruct it to post on Twitter on my behalf. » To do that, it needs the ability to access Twitter and some general guidelines about how to read and post tweets.

But that’s not how I necessarily think about agents. I think about agents mostly in terms of how they interact with the rest of the world on your behalf. My AI agent is posting on Twitter, managing my calendar, looking at all my messages and emails, deciding which are spam, which to reply to, which to surface to me – just like an assistant in my life should be.

The future that we envision, which I think is going to happen inevitably, is a world where most of our access to the internet and to the rest of the world is mediated by our personal AI assistants.

CoinDesk: That’s a remarkably different vision from most crypto projects. How does it reshape our financial systems?

Eric Winer: If it’s my AI agent talking to, say, Amazon’s AI agent, and they’re going to buy something and negotiate, they’re more likely to rationally choose a crypto-based payment method and probably an AI-based dispute resolution method and AI-based credit. We reshape the financial system not by building a better one and trying to convince people to use it, but by building a better one and trying to convince AIs to use it that’s easier for AIs and for the people operating them.

I think that’s the crypto adoption play now: we build a world of AIs talking to AIs on your behalf, and then we convince the AIs that blockchain and decentralization is a better world for them and for us than the one we’ve got.

CoinDesk: So in your view, AI could actually be the catalyst that drives blockchain adoption, rather than the other way around?

Eric Winer: I think in the future, and probably not too far in the future, you’ll see that vision that everybody seems to want – the super app, the one place you go where everything you do online really becomes an AI assistant. It’s giving you a content feed, it’s taking action on your behalf, it’s spending money on your behalf.

And it’s not just doing it alone. It’s not just hitting APIs and browsing websites – it’s talking to other AI agents. It’s also handling your interpersonal, person-to-corporate, or person-to-governmental communications. That needs to be a decentralized ecosystem much like the internet is to some extent a decentralized system, but maybe we can do one better on top of blockchain-based registries.

Zora’s much-hyped ZORA token launch was meant to be a celebration — a « fun » moment for its community, and a supposed triumph for the tokenization of content creators everywhere, with strong demand expected for the Coinbase Ventures-backed token.

Instead, it has turned into a familiar post-airdrop slog so far: A quick pop in price, followed by a slow bleed.

The token, issued late Wednesday, is down more than 50% from a price spike following launch, continuing a grim pattern that has become all too common for tokens pushed by venture-backed projects.

“Sold my $ZORA, thanks for playin,” wrote one trader, Faycytw, on X, summarizing the sentiment. They humorously posted images of deleting the Zora network and blocking its X profile – a jibe at users exiting most platforms after receiving token rewards.

Zora’s pitch is that it’s a factory for tokenizing anything — tweets, memes, videos. Its sudden virality this week led to expectations of a game-changing token. Instead, ZORA came with no utility, no governance, and no roadmap beyond the phrase “a token for fun.”

What it did have was on-chain liquidity (over $1.7 million) and listings on prominent exchanges, such as Binance Alpha, on the first day.

Allocations were calculated based on a user’s activity on Zora, including but not limited to coining, minting, trading and referring. Last week, market watchers also perceived the rampant promotions and backing by senior Base network team members as contentious.

Down, but out?

Zora’s early price action makes it join the graveyard of tokens swiftly abandoned by fresh recipients, who felt they were being used as exit liquidity for better-connected insiders.

“Traders have grown weary of holding altcoins as numerous high-profile and VC-backed projects try to attract new buyers by launching on exchanges with low liquidity,” Nick Ruck, director at LVRG Research, said in a Telegram message.

« Market makers would pump prices after the listing, but the token price would later decline as vesting schedules created more selling pressure.”

“n most cases, token use cases could not offset the selling pressure, as utilities were often limited to governance, discounts, subscriptions, or other low-buying-pressure services,” Ruck added.

The pattern is what industry people call the “low float, high FDV” trap — where tokens are launched with sky-high fully diluted valuations but only a sliver of supply available for trading. Another qualm is transparency, where a sizable amount may be held by team members directly or indirectly.

“The $ZORA launch highlights a recurring issue in Web3: overpromising and underdelivering,” said Min Jung, a research analyst at Presto. “When a project markets itself as community-first but fails to communicate transparently — especially around something as sensitive as a token drop — it quickly erodes trust.”

“Labeling the token ‘for fun’ with no utility only deepened the confusion and frustration,” Jung added.

Online, some watchers indicate the sell-off is reflective of cautious market sentiment. ‘The fact that $zora is at $50m mcap on day 1 means we’ve made good progress,” well-followed trader CryptoKoryo said on X. “One year ago a VC funded project like that could have launched at maybe $500m, shilled by a big actor like Coinbase, when sentiment was bullish and prices going up.”

Despite the backlash, Zora still holds significant clout in the creator crypto space. Its NFT minting protocol has seen solid adoption in the past week, metrics show, and both digital artists and brands have favored its platform.

That’s not to say ZORA prices may not pick up in the coming days or weeks, especially as it trades around the 2-cent level as of Thursday morning at a relatively small $73 million market capitalization.

Risk-takers could see short-term upside as the initial sell-off settles, and current valuations of a token linked to Coinbase and Base seem attractive.

However, the no-utility nature of ZORA is reminiscent of lessons from the past: Tokens without substance rarely hold their shine for long.

Solana, nouvelle star ? Depuis plusieurs mois, le réseau Solana est au cœur de l’attention et de nombreuses entreprises ont manifesté leur intérêt pour le réseau. Ainsi, après Janover, rebaptisée DeFi Development Corporation, c’est au tour de SOL Strategies d’annoncer un investissement massif dans Solana.

SOL Strategies lève 500 millions de dollars pour acheter du SOL

Face à l’engouement autour de Solana, de plus en plus d’entreprises souhaitent se positionner sur le réseau. C’est donc le cas de SOL Strategies, une entreprise d’investissement canadienne qui vient d’annoncer avoir levé 500 millions de dollars via l’émission de billets convertibles.

Selon le communique de presse, ces fonds seront utilisés pour acheter des jetons SOL et les staker. Les 500 millions de dollars ont été levés auprès d’un seul investisseur, à savoir ATW Partners, une société d’investissement basée à New York.

SOL Strategies est une entreprise cotée en bourse sur le marché canadien et suite à cette annonce, le cours de l’action a enregistré une hausse de 25%.

Solana attire les investisseurs et SOL Strategies va mettre 500 millions de dollars sur la table

Solana : la blockchain qui attire les investisseurs

L’entreprise n’est pas la seule à se positionner sur Solana. Ainsi, le 21 avril dernier, l’entreprise DeFi Development Corporation annonçait avoir levé 42 millions de dollars pour créer une réserve en SOL.

En parallèle, les institutionnels sont eux aussi de plus en plus nombreux à se tourner vers Solana et la semaine dernière, la plateforme d’échange Astra Fintech dévoilait un fonds de 100 millions de dollars dédié aussi à Solana.

Dernièrement, c’est Mike Novogratz qui avait même déclaré avoir échangé 100 millions de dollars d’ETH contre du SOL pendant qu’un projet de NFT propose de racheter un bunker nucléaire ! Quand on vous dit qu’il se passe des choses sur Solana…

L’article Solana : SOL Strategies lève 500 millions de dollars pour acheter du…SOL ! est apparu en premier sur Journal du Coin.

La pièce ZEREBRO a grimpé de 178 % au cours des dernières heures.
La pièce ZEREBRO fonctionne sur un système d’IA autonome qui crée et partage du contenu sur plusieurs plateformes sans intervention humaine.
Les haussiers envisagent une hausse potentielle à 0,1 $ si la résistance de 0,085 $ est franchie.

Dans un marché où règne la volatilité, Zerebro (ZEREBRO) s’est distingué, son prix ayant grimpé de plus de 178 % en une seule journée, passant de moins de 0,03 $ à 0,08031 $. Cette augmentation spectaculaire a suscité la curiosité de la communauté crypto, beaucoup se demandant ce qu’est Zerebro et ce qui alimente sa hausse de prix.

Qu’est-ce que la crypto-monnaie Zerebro ?

Zerebro est une cryptomonnaie qui transcende les frontières conventionnelles en intégrant l’intelligence artificielle (IA) à la technologie blockchain .

Fonctionnant comme un système d’IA autonome, il crée et partage du contenu sur des plateformes décentralisées et sociales sans intervention humaine. Son approche s’appuie sur une technique appelée « freebasing AI », qui affine de vastes modèles de langage à l’aide de données éclectiques à haute entropie provenant de sources telles que Reddit et 4chan. Cela produit des résultats dynamiques et créatifs qui se démarquent dans un océan de contenu prévisible généré par l’IA.

L’essence du projet réside dans l’« hyperstition », une fusion de fiction et de réalité qui influence les récits culturels et financiers. Les agents IA de Zerebro interagissent avec les communautés sur des plateformes telles que X, Instagram et Telegram, s’intégrant aux sous-cultures cryptographiques avec un contenu authentique et captivant.

Son infrastructure multi-chaînes renforce sa portée : le jeton natif prospère sur Solana, des œuvres d’art numériques sont créées sur Polygon et des inscriptions marquent sa présence sur Bitcoin.

Au-delà du contenu, Zerebro s’aventure dans des applications du monde réel, en lançant de manière autonome des jetons, en produisant de la musique et en s’intégrant à la finance décentralisée, tout en visant à repousser les limites de l’intelligence artificielle générale.

Pourquoi le prix du Zerebro augmente-t-il ?

L’explosion du prix de Zerebro résulte de la convergence d’avancées techniques, de l’enthousiasme du marché et de la puissance narrative.

Son intégration avec Zentients , une plateforme où sont créés et déployés des agents IA utilisant des jetons ZEREBRO, est un facteur clé. Ces agents opèrent sur une courbe de liaison, déclenchant des transferts de liquidité vers les plateformes d’échange décentralisées à mesure que les valorisations augmentent, déclenchant ainsi des échanges spéculatifs. Cela a alimenté une frénésie d’achats, amplifiant la trajectoire ascendante du jeton.

Techniquement, le graphique du jeton témoigne d’une dynamique. Après une phase d’accumulation silencieuse, un pic de volume massif a brisé les principaux niveaux de résistance, propulsant le prix au-delà de toutes les principales moyennes mobiles. L’indice de force relative (RSI) a dépassé 85, reflétant une demande surchauffée mais indéniable.

Des facteurs de marché soutiennent cette envolée : les achats de baleines, une épuisement de l’offre et un contrat détenant d’importantes réserves laissent entrevoir un possible short squeeze, tandis que l’offre en circulation et l’offre totale quasi identiques rassurent les investisseurs quant à la stabilité.

Sur le plan culturel, le contenu hyperstitieux de Zerebro trouve un écho auprès des adeptes de la cryptomonnaie, portés par les mèmes, et tisse des récits en phase avec l’éthique de la décentralisation. Sa polyvalence multi-chaînes et sa feuille de route ambitieuse – couvrant la DeFi, les NFT et les projets créatifs – profitent de l’engouement pour l’IA et la cryptomonnaie, suscitant l’intérêt des particuliers comme des institutions. Ce mélange d’innovation et d’adéquation culturelle a fait de Zerebro un véritable pôle de spéculation.

Jusqu’où le prix de Zerebro peut-il monter ?

Le cours futur de Zerebro dépend à la fois de la dynamique immédiate et de l’exécution à long terme. À court terme, le RSI suracheté suggère un probable ralentissement, avec un support se formant entre 0,065 et 0,060 $.

Le maintien de cette fourchette pourrait ouvrir la voie à une nouvelle poussée, potentiellement au-delà de 0,085 à 0,090 $ et visant 0,10 $. Une telle évolution nécessiterait des catalyseurs tels qu’une adoption accrue de Zentients.xyz ou de nouvelles initiatives axées sur l’IA, ainsi qu’une clarification du portefeuille de développement, qui a suscité un certain malaise.

À plus long terme, la modeste capitalisation boursière de 80,3 millions de dollars de Zerebro offre un potentiel de croissance si la société concrétise sa vision. Le développement de son écosystème d’IA, la production de contenus culturels percutants et l’approfondissement des intégrations blockchain pourraient propulser le cours vers le haut.

Cependant, son passé – en baisse de 89,9 % depuis un pic de 0,7841 $ – laisse présager une volatilité, et son succès dépend du maintien de la dynamique, du renforcement de la confiance et de la gestion du sentiment du marché. Pour l’instant, la zone de support de 0,065 $ est un test critique, tandis que son parcours plus large pourrait redéfinir le rôle de l’IA dans la cryptographie.

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Le jeton XRP vise une cassure à 3,00 $ dans un contexte de prudence de la Fed et de force technique.
Toncoin monte en flèche grâce au retour de Durov et au soutien de 400 millions $ de capital-risque vers la résistance de 6 $.
Le prix de PepeX a augmenté de 27,5 % en quelques semaines lors de sa prévente, visant une augmentation de 311 % d’ici la fin de la prévente.

Les jetons XRP et Toncoin s’imposent aujourd’hui comme les leaders du marché, portés par la montée en puissance des altcoins, grâce à des catalyseurs macroéconomiques et à des avancées innovantes sur la blockchain.

Parallèlement, PepeX, un nouveau projet de cryptomonnaie actuellement en phase de prévente, fait également parler de lui avec son initiative visant à révolutionner les processus de lancement des pièces de mème grâce à une équité optimisée par l’IA.

Pour les investisseurs, comprendre les prévisions de prix pour les jetons XRP et Toncoin, ainsi que la proposition de valeur de PepeX, actuellement en phase de prévente, pourrait leur permettre de déterminer quelle est la cryptomonnaie la plus adaptée à leurs besoins.

Prévision de prix pour XRP : potentiel de cassure à venir

Au cours de la semaine dernière, le prix du jeton XRP a bondi de plus de 8 %, regagnant le support critique situé à 2,00 $ et s’imposant comme l’un des actifs à grande capitalisation les plus performants.

La récente clarification du président américain Donald Trump, affirmant qu’il ne limogerait pas le président de la Fed, Jerome Powell, et son appel à des baisses de taux préventives ont stabilisé les marchés et alimenté de nouveaux flux de capitaux risqués vers les jetons numériques comme le jeton XRP.

Sur le graphique journalier, le prix du jeton a franchi une ligne de tendance baissière de longue date et a clôturé nettement au-dessus des moyennes mobiles exponentielles de 50 et 100 jours, autour de 2,22 $, signalant un passage de la consolidation à une tendance haussière.

Le RSI (Relax Strength Index) à 14 jours, franchissant la barre neutre de 50 et se situant actuellement à 56,61, souligne la montée d’une dynamique haussière et suggère que les acheteurs ont le contrôle.

Les données de Coinglass révèlent que l’intérêt ouvert pour les contrats à terme liés au XRP a grimpé de plus de 25,24 % en 24 heures pour atteindre 4,13 milliards $, avec un ratio long/short de 1,024, reflétant la conviction croissante des traders d’une nouvelle hausse. Alors que la résistance à court terme se situe au niveau psychologique de 3,00 $, les analystes techniques anticipent un prochain test de la ligne des 3,40 $, ce qui correspond au plus haut niveau historique de l’actif et aux niveaux d’extension de Fibonacci.

Parallèlement aux avancées techniques, le regain d’optimisme suscité par le procès opposant la SEC à Ripple a accru l’intérêt institutionnel, les développeurs anticipant que la clarté réglementaire débloquera de nouveaux flux de capitaux.

De plus, l’adoption croissante du XRP dans les paiements transfrontaliers et le développement des partenariats de Ripple en matière de liquidité à la demande avec les principaux fournisseurs de paiement pourraient soutenir une demande durable au-delà du trading spéculatif.

Cependant, les traders doivent rester vigilants, car un échec à se maintenir au-dessus de 2,00 $ pourrait déclencher un nouveau test de la MME de 200 jours à près de 0,96 $, exposant le XRP à des corrections plus profondes dans un contexte de prises de bénéfices.

Prévision de prix pour Toncoin : retournement haussier et perspectives à long terme

Le prix du jeton Toncoin a progressé de plus de 6 % au cours des dernières 24 heures pour s’échanger autour de 3,12 $, porté par une TVL accrue sur les projets de DeFi et un rétrécissement de l’écart par rapport à son record historique de 8,25 $ atteint en juin 2024, soit une baisse de 61,19 % par rapport à ce pic.

L’optimisme de l’écosystème a été dynamisé par le retour du fondateur de Telegram, Pavel Durov, après des contraintes juridiques, ainsi que par un investissement historique de 400 millions $ en capital-risque américain, qui souligne la confiance des institutions dans The Open Network.

Le mois de mars a été marqué par de nombreuses mises à jour cruciales, notamment une API en attente pour le suivi des transactions avant confirmation, la prise en charge des Jettons, des NFT et du DNS TON dans le portefeuille natif, ainsi qu’un taux d’adoption de 90 % du dernier fork par les validateurs en deux jours.

La finance décentralisée (DeFi) sur TON atteint une maturité rapide : la plateforme de prêt Factorial a presque doublé sa TVL pour atteindre 29 millions $, les pools de liquidités de TONCO ont atteint 7,9 millions $ et le coffre-fort de tokenisation de FIVA a franchi le cap du million de dollars en quelques jours seulement, tandis que les robots de trading ont traité plus de 75 000 utilisateurs actifs.

Le nouveau réseau de paiement de TON de couche 2 a lancé les swaps atomiques et la prise en charge de Jetton, et l’intégration de RedotPay permet désormais de payer en utilisant des jetons USDT chez plus de 130 millions de commerçants via Apple Pay, Google Pay et Alipay, avec une mini-application Telegram à venir.

Les innovations dans le domaine du jeu vidéo grâce aux mini-applications Telegram et aux intégrations de NFT ont élargi la base d’utilisateurs de TON, attirant développeurs et joueurs à la recherche d’expériences fluides en chaîne.

Avec plus de 900 millions d’utilisateurs actifs mensuels sur Telegram, représentant un marché potentiel considérable, Toncoin devrait bénéficier de l’expansion de l’utilité des jetons à mesure que de plus en plus de portefeuilles et de services intègrent la monnaie native.

D’un point de vue technique, le RSI à 14 jours s’établit à 55,40 et le RSI hebdomadaire à 39,88, indiquant une dynamique neutre. Le cours reste supérieur aux moyennes mobiles exponentielle (MME) à court terme (10 et 20 jours), mais inférieur aux MME à 50, 100 et 200 jours, avec quatre signaux d’achat et neuf signaux de vente sur 17 indicateurs.

Les analystes pointent un premier niveau de résistance majeur à 3,23 $, qu’il faudra franchir pour atteindre 3,60 $. Une invalidation sous le support de 2,77 $ risque d’ouvrir la voie à des retracements plus profonds.

Historiquement, le mois d’avril a été synonyme de sous-performance pour le jeton Toncoin, clôturant en dessous de son ouverture mensuelle lors de trois des quatre dernières années, tandis que novembre a été le mois le plus haussier, terminant en hausse trois fois sur cinq.

Les prévisions à court terme incluent une hausse vers 3,16 $ au cours des dix prochains jours, et les projections à plus long terme envisagent que Toncoin atteigne une moyenne de 10,97 $ d’ici la fin de l’année 2025, grâce aux déploiements continus de produits et à l’expansion de l’écosystème.

La prévente de PepeX prend de l’ampleur grâce à sa proposition d’investissement unique

Alors que XRP et Toncoin captivent les investisseurs en cryptomonnaies, PepeX instaure un nouveau paradigme dans l’émission de jetons en combinant la tokenisation instantanée sans code à des protocoles d’équité propriétaires, permettant à tout individu ou organisation de lancer des actifs d’investissement sur la blockchain en quelques secondes.

La plateforme très attendue PepeX.fun s’appuie sur AKIRA, un moteur de croissance basé sur l’IA, pour automatiser les stratégies marketing, déployer du contenu sur Telegram et X, et ajuster dynamiquement les tactiques promotionnelles en fonction des indicateurs d’engagement en temps réel.

Elle intègre également une technologie anti-sniping et des cartes à bulles transparentes pour appliquer un modèle rigoureux de distribution de jetons 5/95, garantissant que les fondateurs sont limités à 5 % de l’offre totale, tandis que 95 % des jetons sont mis à disposition de la communauté, avec des mécanismes de liquidité et de responsabilisation verrouillés.

Depuis le lancement de sa prévente de jetons de 90 jours il y a quelques semaines, le prix du jeton PEPX est passé de 0,02 $ (étape 1) à 0,0255 $, soit une hausse de 27,5 %.

Le prix devrait atteindre 0,0823 $ lors de la dernière phase de la prévente, ce qui offrirait aux premiers investisseurs un rendement de 311,5 %.

À mesure que la prévente progresse, les investisseurs potentiels disposent de fenêtres limitées pour acquérir des jetons à des tarifs réduits avant l’arrivée du jeton en bourse.

PepeX a notamment géré la rareté des jetons grâce à des allocations plafonnées à 35 millions de jetons par phase et à des calendriers d’acquisition sticts, ce qui crée une pression à la hausse sur les prix à chaque phase de la prévente.

Au-delà des mécanismes de prix, la feuille de route de PepeX prévoit un écosystème d’agents d’IA pour un marketing décentralisé, une intégration directe aux DEX pour une liquidité transparente et des lancements de jetons à terme gérés par DAO, autant de catalyseurs susceptibles d’augmenter significativement la valorisation des jetons.

Les mécanismes de sécurité et de confiance de la plateforme, notamment la surveillance des activités en chaîne suspectes des robots et un modèle de responsabilisation des défaillances qui redistribue à la communauté les liquidités bloquées des lancements sous-performants, réduisent encore davantage l’exposition des investisseurs.

Le jeton ayant progressé de plus de 27 % en six phases de prévente, les analystes du secteur prévoient une forte hausse de sa valeur après un lancement réussi sur le réseau principal et une cotation en bourse. Il constitue donc un investissement intéressant pour ceux qui recherchent la meilleure cryptomonnaie à acheter.

Si vous êtes intéressé, vous pouvez consulter le site officiel de PepeX pour plus d’informations sur le projet.

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They call him “El Presidente.” But unlike the other President, Dave Portnoy draws a line at launching a memecoin. He worries his followers will lose their shirts.

“I got involved in memecoins because I wanted to launch a Barstool memecoin, but I didn’t want my fans and followers to lose money,” he said in an interview with CoinDesk. Memecoins are “legalized Ponzi schemes,” he said, “there’s no value to it, so you gotta get in and get out before it crashes.” [Note: memecoins aren’t legalized in the U.S. but they are popular.]

While Portnoy hasn’t launched a Barstool branded memecoin, he has launched other memecoins. In February he launched GREED, a token that reached a market cap of $41.5 million. According to Lookonchain, Portnoy bought 357.92M $GREED, totalling 35.79% of the total supply, then sold all in a single transaction causing the price to crash. He made around $258,000.

The Barstool Sports founder took to X in the aftermath to say, “I warned people I could sell. I could have cashed out +1 million. I let it drop 75% before cashing out. Lots of people made money. I took profits + poured it into #jailstool which I can’t touch. I didn’t make a dime on it. Some people won. Some lost. Only the losers keep bitching.”

Portnoy started trading stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and even launched the YouTube channel Davey Day Trader, where fans could follow his trades. His trades weren’t always successful, and there wasn’t always a clear strategy, but they were entertaining. At one point, he pulled letters out of a Scrabble bag, put RTX (Raytheon Technologies Corporation) together, and put $200,000 into the stock.

It was around this time that Portnoy was introduced to bitcoin. “I don’t think you can be involved in anything, stock market [or] finance without crypto being a major part of it,” he says now. He has a love/hate relationship with bitcoin because he says he’s “been on the wrong side of it every time it rips.” Over the years he’s also experimented with investing in cryptocurrencies like XRP.

Although Portnoy got into memecoins because he wanted to launch one for the Barstool community, he admits that he still doesn’t understand how to implement blockchain technology or cryptocurrencies into his business model. Barstool once accepted bitcoin as part of its Barstool Fund to help small businesses, but out of $50 million raised, he said only $30,000 came from bitcoin.

“They talked big, big talk, but it didn’t work out,” he said, reflecting on the bitcoin community who persuaded him to accept the cryptocurrency. “Crypto is the league leader in people telling you what [you] should be doing, and it’s also the league leader in people I don’t trust.”

Portnoy has experimented with memecoins, bitcoin, and even launched an NFT attached to his popular One Bite Pizza Reviews YouTube channel that sold for $138,000. And, although he doesn’t always understand them, he says “as much as I have back and forth with the crypto community, I actually love them. I think they’re hilarious […] an interesting group, which I guess I’m a part of.”

Dave Portnoy will be sharing more about his crypto journey at Consensus 2025 in Toronto on May 15. Get your tickets here.