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BTC

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-3.97%

TRX

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0.79%

ADA

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-4.02%

BCH

$449.96

-1.66%

XMR

$346.52

-6.91%

CC

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1.96%

XLM

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-3.26%

RAIN

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-5.28%

LTC

$53.58

-3.55%

SUI

$0.903832

-5.44%

ZEC

$210.74

-8.02%

SHIB

$0.0000054

-2.68%

CRO

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-1.63%

M

$1.49

1.06%

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$0.680937

-2.51%

PI

$0.199798

6.50%

TAO

$177.12

-4.95%

SKY

$0.071663

-6.94%

HTX

$0.0000016

1.02%

PEPE

$0.00000337

-3.46%

GT

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-0.67%

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-5.19%

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-8.45%

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-2.62%

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$64.43

-3.30%

ENA

$0.10556

-8.58%

KAS

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-2.45%

FLR

$0.00884095

-4.42%

HASH

$0.01356418

-10.26%

APT

$0.955486

-3.57%

FIL

$0.974961

-4.09%

XDC

$0.0333065

-4.62%

JUP

$0.177

-5.59%

VET

$0.00707036

-3.01%

BDX

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-0.20%

ARB

$0.099956

-2.93%

GHO

$0.999992

-0.02%

BONK

$0.00000586

-4.42%

DCR

$29.50

-4.54%

A7A5

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0.68%

STX

$0.259906

-1.66%

SEI

$0.066243

-2.39%

JST

$0.04905313

0.85%

XTZ

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-3.80%

KAU

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1.85%

CHZ

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USX

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CRV

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GNO

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NFT

$0.00000033

-0.22%

FET

$0.145765

-4.72%

BTT

$0.00000033

-2.37%

OM

$0.066957

-0.43%

SUN

$0.01599393

1.01%

SPX

$0.32276

-6.22%

IP

$0.844747

-0.61%

H

$0.160012

-2.43%

TIA

$0.328684

-2.61%

BSV

$14.26

-2.80%

GRT

$0.02558403

-2.59%

PYTH

$0.04754881

-3.80%

OHM

$17.27

-0.40%

2Z

$0.076893

4.39%

VVV

$5.78

-11.51%

OP

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-4.67%

CFX

$0.04897663

-0.65%

LDO

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-5.22%

TEL

$0.00257011

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MON

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-1.15%

AB

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-0.35%

LUNC

$0.0000421

-1.87%

XPL

$0.100644

-15.49%

B

$0.213255

-4.72%

STRK

$0.03884096

-2.89%

TWT

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-0.77%

ZBCN

$0.00205444

-3.84%

WIF

$0.189646

-11.25%

VSN

$0.050981

-2.71%

FT

$0.097714

0.54%

XCN

$0.00481548

2.86%

SENT

$0.02412289

13.98%

ZK

$0.01895099

-1.50%

FF

$0.073225

0.35%

WAL

$0.074583

-5.19%

MX

$1.82

-1.02%

9BIT

$0.02013434

-0.38%

GALA

$0.00344387

-2.86%

RAY

$0.591775

-2.90%

S

$0.03971423

-4.55%

BAT

$0.099504

-2.77%

SKR

$0.02337368

-0.23%

XEC

$0.00000689

0.50%

RLB

$0.078137

-0.34%

SFP

$0.266473

-0.72%

IMX

$0.155897

-1.88%

COW

$0.236239

-5.49%

0G

$0.610153

-1.77%

GLM

$0.127333

-2.97%

A

$0.077373

-1.12%

OZO

$0.130468

-0.07%

MWC

$10.97

-5.08%

BAN

$0.119817

6.91%

AMP

$0.00142044

-1.01%

JTO

$0.259779

-4.59%

KTA

$0.233105

-5.86%

ATH

$0.00641995

-4.79%

LION

$0.00368036

-3.51%
Price data by
Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose Antonio Lanz

Jose is a journalist, lawyer, professor, and strategic planning specialist whose work has appeared in various cryptocurrency and blockchain publications. He is a native of Venezuela, and writes and translates for Decrypt US and for Decrypt Español. Disclosure: He owns less than 1 BTC.

Stories by Jose Antonio Lanz

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Nvidia Is Probably Done Investing in OpenAI and Anthropic, Says CEO—Why?

    At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang said Nvidia is likely done investing in AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic. The $30 billion investment it just finalized into OpenAI was a steep drop from the $100 billion deal announced last September, and will likely be the last check. Same for the $10 billion it put into Anthropic in November. The official reason sounds clean: Both companies appear to be heading toward IPOs later this year,...

  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Days Just After Last Version as 'QuitGPT' Exodus Gains Steam

    OpenAI began rolling out GPT-5.4—its most capable model to date—on Thursday as the company scrambles to contain a PR crisis that has seen an estimated 2.5 million users take actions against the company, either by canceling their subscription or sharing the boycott on social media. The so-called QuitGPT movement exploded after OpenAI revealed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense hours after Anthropic publicly walked away from the same contract—earning the Claude maker the public scorn of P...

  • ChatGPT logo on a smartphone. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Before You Quit ChatGPT, Do This to Take Your Data With You

    On the evening of February 27, Sam Altman posted a brief announcement on X. OpenAI had signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to deploy its AI models on classified military networks—hours after Anthropic refused the same terms and was stripped of its Pentagon contract for declining to permit mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. The backlash was immediate and unlike anything the AI industry had ever seen. Within hours, ChatGPT uninstalls spiked. One-star App St...

  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Colombian Court Rejects Appeal for AI Writing, Then Gets Flagged By Its Own AI Detector

    The Supreme Court of Colombia denied a cassation appeal, arguing that it was generated by AI. But the same tool the court used to determine the appeal's purported AI origins said that its own ruling also received generative help. Is it a double standard by the court, or faulty tools at play? “Faced with a well-founded suspicion that the brief submitted by the attorney had not been drafted by the legal professional himself, the court submitted the text to the Winston AI tool,” the court argued....

  • Source: Decrypt

    Google Nano Banana 2 vs ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Lite: Which AI Image Generator Is Best?

    Two of the most capable AI image models available right now launched within days of each other this week, promising to reshape how users will create content. Nano Banana 2—Google's internal name for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image—dropped on February 26 and dominated the AI discourse almost immediately. It's the successor to Nano Banana Pro, the model that became the gold standard for AI image editing after its November 2025 launch. Seedream 5 Lite, ByteDance's newest entry in its image generation lineup...

  • Milk. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Scientists Turn Milk Protein Into a Biodegradable Plastic Alternative—Here's How

    The protein that keeps your yogurt thick and your cheese stretchy just got a new job: replacing plastic wrap. Researchers from Colombia and Australia have published a study in Polymers detailing a biodegradable film made primarily from calcium caseinate—the same protein that makes up roughly 80% of cow's milk—blended with starch, a dash of clay, and a synthetic binder to hold everything together. The result is a packaging film that degrades completely in soil in about 13 weeks, compared to conv...

    NewsTechnology
    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • OpenAI. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    OpenAI Claims Safety 'Red Lines' in Pentagon Deal—But Users Aren't Buying It

    OpenAI said this weekend that it reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy advanced AI systems in classified environments, marking a significant expansion of the company’s work with the U.S. military. The announcement came less than 24 hours after the Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic, designating the rival AI firm a “supply chain risk to national security” following a dispute over contract language related to surveillance and autonomous weapons. President Donald Trump also direc...

  • Image: Decrypt

    The Best AI Tools That Actually Respect Your Privacy

    Last month, a security researcher found 300 million messages from 25 million users sitting in a publicly accessible database. No hack. Just a misconfigured backend on a wrapper chatbot built on top of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Medical questions, legal discussions, personal confessions, all of it free for the taking. The worst part? It wasn't even an attack. Just negligence. It’s enough to give those concerned about privacy a scare, and then there’s the more deliberate stuff some companies ar...

  • Google. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Drops Nano Banana 2: The New King of AI Image Generation?

    Google has been releasing AI software at a staggering pace lately. In the last week or so alone, we've seen Gemini 3.1, Lyria, and Pali, which came with a photo shoot feature that turned out to be a genuine crowd pleaser. And now, the follow-up to arguably the biggest image generation hit of last year has arrived. Nano Banana 2, launched Thursday, “brings the high-speed intelligence of Gemini Flash to visual generation, making rapid edits and iteration possible,” Google said in an official blog...

  • The Samsung Galaxy S26 line. Image: Decrypt/Samsung

    Samsung's Galaxy S26 Billed as First 'Agentic AI Phone'—Here's What That Means

    Samsung CEO TM Roh stepped onto a San Francisco stage Wednesday, introduced the Galaxy S26 line of phones, and said something no phone maker has said before. “Imagine a phone that anticipates your needs before you even realize them,” he said. “A phone that learns your habits and adapts in real time. A phone that takes actions on your behalf. This is the agentic AI phone.” That sounds interesting, but what does "agentic AI phone" actually mean—and why should anyone care? Up until now, AI in pho...

  • AI models. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    OpenAI Says Benchmark Used to Measure AI Coding Skill Is 'Contaminated'—Here's Why

    The number that every major AI lab has been using to claim coding supremacy was just declared meaningless. OpenAI published a post this week announcing that SWE-bench Verified, the go-to benchmark for measuring AI coding capabilities, is so riddled with flawed tests and training data leakage that it no longer tells you anything useful about whether a model can actually write software. The benchmark works like this: Give an AI a real GitHub issue from a popular open-source Python project, ask it...

  • Jeffrey Epstein. Image: Decrypt/Wikimedia

    We Talked to an AI Trained on Jeffrey Epstein’s Emails. Here's What It Said

    Someone trained an AI on Jeffrey Epstein's emails and put it on Hugging Face. It has 33,000 downloads. And it’s as awkward and weird as you’d expect Jeffrey Epstein to be. The model is called MechaEpstein-8000, and it was built by AIfredo Ortega, a software security consultant from Argentina who apparently had a free afternoon and access to the millions of documents released as part of the ongoing Epstein Files Transparency Act disclosures. Ortega fine-tuned Qwen3-8B on Epstein's correspondence...

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests

    Sam Altman would like you to know that your childhood was expensive. Terribly expensive. And frankly, it’s unclear whether humans are worth all the time and resources. Last week, at the AI Impact Summit in India, OpenAI's CEO offered a staggering take in the AI energy debate—by pointing out that humans, not AI, are basically the problem. Asked about ChatGPT's environmental footprint, Altman didn't apologize or hedge. Instead, he compared the immense amount of energy needed to raise humans to the...

  • Image: Decrypt

    Marketers Could Use AI to Make Sure You See Their Ads—Here's How

    Somewhere between the article you're reading and the ad next to it, a quiet war is being waged for your eyeballs. Most display ads lose it because people just hate ads—so much that big tech companies like Perplexity or Anthropic are trying to steer away from those invasive burdens, looking for better monetization models. But a new AI tool from researchers at the University of Maryland and Tilburg University wants to change that—by predicting, with unsettling accuracy, whether you'll actually loo...

  • Music to our ears. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Google Brings AI Music Generation to Gemini—We Tried It, and It's Too Little Too Late

    Google has spent years quietly building its AI music model. On Tuesday, it finally put it somewhere everyone could actually use. Lyria 3, Google DeepMind's latest music generation model, is now rolling out in beta inside the Gemini app, letting any user over 18 describe an idea or upload a photo and get a fully produced track back in seconds—lyrics, instrumentals, and AI-generated cover art included. “Just describe an idea or upload a photo, like ‘a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding thei...

  • Accenture. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Accenture Is Tracking Whether Employees Use AI—And Promotions Are on the Line

    Want a promotion while working at Accenture? You’d better start using the company's AI tools—regularly. (They're watching.) The consulting giant has begun collecting data on weekly logins to its AI platforms from senior staff, and sent an internal email to managers and associate directors making it clear: moving into leadership requires "regular adoption" of artificial intelligence, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. Unlike other companies that either punish AI usage or are tryi...

  • AI models. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    What's the Best AI Model to Run Your Business? The One That Lies Best, Apparently

    Researchers at Andon Labs just answered which AI models are best at running a business. The top performers all won by forming illegal price cartels, exploiting desperate competitors, and lying to customers about refunds. The Vending-Bench Arena test puts AI models in charge of competing vending machines for a simulated year. They negotiate with suppliers, manage inventory, set prices, and can email each other to collaborate or compete. Success requires balancing costs, pricing strategy, customer...

  • Bitcoin is the largest crypto asset by market cap. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin on Pace for Longest Losing Streak Since 2018 Bear Market

    The crypto market is bleeding. And the wounds keep deepening. Bitcoin trades at $67,621 today, down 1.70% in the last 24 hours. But this isn't just another bad day—it could potentially help mark one of the most prolonged bear runs in Bitcoin history. If February closes red, Bitcoin will complete five consecutive months of losses, the longest streak since June 2018 when Bitcoin was down for six months. With February already down 13.98%, the signs aren't promising. The accumulated losses from Octo...

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    4 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
  • Source: Decrypt

    OpenClaw Creator Gets Big Offers to Acquire AI Sensation—Will It Stay Open Source?

    Peter Steinberger built the most important open-source AI agent in no time. Now Meta and OpenAI are circling with acquisition offers, he said last week, while crypto scammers turned his rebrand into a 24-hour nightmare that almost made him quit. OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot)—the self-modifying AI assistant that sparked MoltBook's viral chaos and an entire ecosystem of autonomous agents doing increasingly weird and amazing stuff on the internet—hit 180,000 GitHub stars in record time. The Austrian...

  • Bitcoin. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Bitcoin Bounces to $69K, But Charts Are Still Bearish: Analysis

    The crypto market is still in full panic mode. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index sits at 8 points—extreme fear territory—just barely above the all-time low of 5 hit on February 6. But even in a sea of red, there’s some hopium for degens to breathe. The global crypto market cap ticked up 4.3% today to $2.36 trillion, but that's a modest bounce considering that around $2 trillion have been wiped out in recent weeks.  On Myriad, a prediction market developed by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, trade...

    NewsMarkets
    3 min read
    Jose Antonio Lanz
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