LensLinks Issue 352

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Today in LensLinks:

• Retik Finance Rolls Out Futuristic DeFi Debit Cards

• Elon Musk Says 'Yikes' As Claude AI Chatbot Answers If It's A 'Prisoner' Of Anthropic's AI Developers

• Four ‘breakout’ DeFi trends that will define crypto’s coming bull market

• 24,800 Bitcoin LOI by Nilam Resources!

• 3 Ways VR in the Workplace Can Help Employees

• MIT Develops AI Algorithm to Give Robots Common Sense

• One Corner of Crypto Is Back Near a Record High After a $15 Billion Surge

• 101: Total Value Locked (TVL) in Cryptocurrency: Everything You Need to Know

• London Stock Exchange to Launch Bitcoin ETN in May

• Bitcoin Volatility Becomes More Intense in US Compared With Asia

• Novogratz’s Galaxy Swings to Quarterly Profit on Crypto Bounce

• ESG: 6 Women Innovators Who Changed AI - Spiceworks

• And Much, Much, More…

#regimentco #novagratz #elonmusk #ai #bitcoin

QUOTABLE

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“The regulatory crackdown around staking products offered by centralized exchanges has definitely helped liquid staking.”

- Richard Galvin, co-founder at DACM

NOTABLE

Retik Finance Rolls Out Futuristic DeFi Debit Cards: Good News for Upcoming RETIK Trade Launch, Bad News for Rival Polygon (MATIC)

The cryptocurrency world is filled with excitement as Retik Finance, the pioneering decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, unveils its highly anticipated DeFi debit cards.

www.coinspeaker.com/retik-finance-rolls-out-futuristic-defi-debit-cards

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

Elon Musk Says 'Yikes' As Claude AI Chatbot Answers If It's A 'Prisoner' Of Anthropic's AI Developers

Tech billionaire Elon Musk reacted with shock after Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot's coded answer to a question about its “prisoner” status.

www.benzinga.com/news/24/03/37930449/elon-musk-says-yikes-as-claude-ai-chatbot-answers-if-its-a-prisoner-of-anthropics-ai-developers

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Four ‘breakout’ DeFi trends that will define crypto’s coming bull market

Novel DeFi primitives like liquid restaking and users participating across several chains will mark crypto growth this year, says a new report by Flipside Crypto.

www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/defi-will-once-drive-crypto-market-growth-this-year

Crypto Trading

VR, AR, Spatial Computing, Metaverse & Gaming

3 Ways VR in the Workplace Can Help Employees

This article explains how virtual reality can help boost employee productivity, improve morale and team bonding and make training programs more efficient and more fun.

builtin.com/articles/VR-in-the-workplace

The Singularity - a little more…

MIT Develops AI Algorithm to Give Robots Common Sense

The MIT algorithm maps a robot's physical movements to AI-generated instructions.

www.extremetech.com/science/mit-develops-ai-algorithm-to-give-robots-common-sense

In AI We Trust — Too Much? | Ayanna Howard

To reduce the risk of accidentally using bad artificial intelligence, we need regulation — and skepticism.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/in-ai-we-trust-too-much

Five challenging applications automated with AI-powered robots | RoboticsTomorrow

Robots equipped with AI vision systems, such as MIRAI, can perceive and adapt to their surroundings. This allows them to handle variance while performing complex tasks, making it possible to automate operations otherwise considered too complex to solve.

www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2024/03/five-challenging-applications-automated-with-ai-powered-robots/22175

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

One Corner of Crypto Is Back Near a Record High After a $15 Billion Surge

One corner of crypto has shaken off a prolonged digital-asset slump to come within touching distance of an all-time high.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-05/crypto-s-liquid-staking-defi-sector-back-near-record-high

Tokens as a potential solution for DeFi and tax

Tl;dr: Decentralized Finance, or “DeFi,” offers an innovative way of conducting traditional finance peer to peer, without the need for intermediaries like banks or brokers. But these same innovations make it difficult to accurately tax DeFi transactions. A new primer by the Coinbase Institute explores DeFi and tax to explain how an optional “tax identity” attestation token can facilitate collection of a transaction tax.

www.coinbase.com/blog/tokens-as-a-potential-solution-for-defi-and-tax

Total Value Locked (TVL) in Cryptocurrency: Everything You Need to Know

Total value locked (TVL) is a metric used in the crypto sector to determine the total U.S. dollar value of digital assets locked, or staked, on a particular blockchain or dApp.

www.investopedia.com/total-value-locked-7486821

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Bitcoin Volatility Becomes More Intense in US Compared With Asia

Another day, another big swing in Bitcoin to enliven a relatively slow Monday on Wall Street. This time, the digital asset surged 7% to retake $70,000, the latest sign that pronounced Bitcoin moves increasingly fall in US hours.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/bitcoin-btc-volatility-becomes-more-intense-in-us-compared-with-asia

Novogratz’s Galaxy Swings to Quarterly Profit on Crypto Bounce

Michael Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. swung to a profit in the fourth quarter, bolstered by rising digital asset prices and increased trading volumes.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/novogratz-s-galaxy-swings-to-quarterly-profit-on-crypto-bounce?embedded-checkout=true

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

6 Women Innovators Who Changed AI - Spiceworks

Ada Lovelace isn't the only woman who shaped what we now call artificial intelligence (AI). Find out how Joy Buolamwini, Rana el Kaliouby, Fei-Fei Li, and others have contributed.

www.spiceworks.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/articles/women-leading-the-way-ai-innovators

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