Day: April 1, 2025

X2Y2 NFT Marketplace Closes After Three Years To Focus On AI

X2Y2, a notable NFT marketplace, is shutting down its operations on April 30 after three years. The team revealed a pivot into artificial intelligence (AI), describing the decision as the most significant technology shift in a lifetime. Despite its closure, X2Y2 generated $53.6 million in trading volume over the past year, placing it fourth among […]

Pump.fun Rebounds After PumpSwap Launch

Pump.fun, a leading meme coin creation platform, has seen a dramatic resurgence after unveiling PumpSwap, a new decentralized exchange (DEX) on Solana. Despite facing market hurdles earlier this year, Pump.fun’s latest expansion is catapulting the protocol back to the top of the industry—by fees, revenue, and trade volume. A Return to Form Before PumpSwap went […]

Privacy Pools on Ethereum

A new semi-permissionless privacy tool called Privacy Pools has gone live on Ethereum, offering users a way to obscure transaction details while proving their funds haven’t been linked to illicit activity. Launched by Ethereum builders 0xbow.io on March 31, the tool uses “Association Sets” to batch transactions into private pools, while screening out potentially criminal […]