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While in Buenos Aires for Ethereum Foundation's Devconnect, Filecoin Foundation presented Filecoin Onchain Cloud (FOC), a newly launched decentralized cloud infrastructure with blockchain-native guarantees.
The platform offers core services like verifiable “warm storage,” fast and incentivized retrieval, usage-based and programmable payments, and a developer SDK. Together, they enable storage, retrieval, and payment logic to be composed, monitored and monetized directly on-chain.
The goal is to reduce reliance on centralized cloud providers, giving Web3 applications, AI agents, and decentralized services a resilient, auditable foundation, moving from "storage network" to a full-fledged, programmable cloud infrastructure.
Early adopters already include projects/communities like Ethereum Name Service (ENS), KYVE, Monad Foundation, Akave Cloud, Storacha and others. They'll be using FOC to store metadata, chain data, AI/ML backups, and decentralized-web content with on-chain verifiability.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18th November 2025, Chainwire
The Layer-1 blockchain SKALE Labs has launched the SKALE network as an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Base Chain, to provide AI agents with a “better blockspace to run onchain”.
Through its “Expand” framework, SKALE brings its gasless transactions, fast finality and privacy to Base, letting AI agents run efficiently without worrying about gas fees. Instead of traditional gas fees, agents/users pay via a credit system (prepaid with $USDC or $SKL), making on-chain AI operations more predictable and user-friendly.
This is the first deployment under SKALE’s multi-chain ambition, turning SKALE into a universal “agent layer” that can sit behind many L1s and L2s while respecting each ecosystem’s liquidity and user base.
Get the best of both worlds with zero gas fees, privacy, and instant finality combined with the liquidity, depth, and reach of the Base ecosystem
South Korea's Naver Financial, the FinTech arm of IT conglomerate NAVER Corp, is merging with 두나무 (Dunamu), the parent company of crypto exchange Upbit Korea, through a stock swap. As part of the deal, the companies have agreed to invest 10T Korean won (~$6.8B) over the next five years into building a next-generation financial infrastructure combining AI and blockchain technologies.
Their vision includes expanding beyond crypto trading, aiming to integrate payments, settlements, and broader financial services into a “global framework”. They also plan to explore issuance of a won-pegged stablecoin and launch of stablecoin-wallet services, as part of efforts to build a domestic (South Korean) digital-currency market.
Naver and Upbit's $7 billion investment into AI and blockchain is poised to transform the fintech landscape, integrating these technologies to potentially enhance financial services globally. This strategic initiative not only boosts smart contract functionality and security but also sets a new standard in fintech innovation, influencing industry-wide advancements.
Biotech company Qualigen Therapeutics has shifted to a Web3 and AI-centric business, aiming to become a “the No.1 gateway” between traditional Web2 and AI-powered Web3. It rebranded to AIxCrypto and begun trading under the new ticker AIXC on Nasdaq.
The company also unveiled a “Three Driving Forces” strategy:
A trading and Web3-AI gateway (via products like “BesTrade DeAI Agent & Web3 AI terminal”).
Real-world asset (RWA) + embedded-AI (EAI) ecosystem development (including planned tokenized stock initiatives)
AI-driven crypto-asset management (e.g. via a “C10” index/treasury).
AIxCrypto Inc. today officially announced the company's renaming from Qualigen to rebrand as AIxCrypto Holdings, Inc.. AIxC will take blockchain as foundational technology and artificial intelligence as the core driving force, committed to creating a globally leading ecosystem that integrates AI, crypto and blockchain, connecting Web2 and Web3, and...
General TAO Ventures, a lead innovator in the Opentensor Foundation ecosystem, has partnered with Chainlink Labs to initiate Project Rubicon and bridge Bittensor subnet tokens to Base Chain.
Project Rubicon allows Bittensor subnet “Alpha” tokens to be converted into ERC-20 “xAlpha” liquid-staked assets that can be bridged to Base and used in DeFi. The bridge is powered by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), providing the infrastructure for secure, cross-chain transfers.
Thanks to this partnership, subnet owners and holders can access liquidity and participate in trading/staking without selling their underlying assets, enabling broader adoption and integration of Bittensor subnets into mainstream crypto/Web3 markets.
At launch, Project Rubicon covers 17 Bittensor subnets, each seeded with liquidity (Alpha token + USDC pairing), to bootstrap trading and market activity.
PRNewswire/ -- General TAO Ventures (GTV), a leading innovator in the Bittensor ecosystem, today unveiled Project Rubicon, a protocol designed to bridge...
OpenLedger is funding a $5M initiative, in partnership with University of Cambridge's Blockchain Society, aimed at advancing decentralized AI research and infrastructure. The program allows Cambridge students and researchers to build and experiment with “verifiable, permissionless” AI infrastructure, including decentralized datasets, data provenance tracking, and transparent, on-chain model training pipelines.
As part of the initiative, OpenLedger will sponsor hackathons, research challenges, and expert-led lectures to encourage innovation and collaboration in blockchain-AI. The goal is to challenge the dominance of “black-box” AI, and move toward AI systems where data, models, and outputs are traceable, auditable and contributors can be credited and compensated.
Openledger and Cambridge launch $5M grants to drive decentralized AI research with transparent blockchain tools.
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Albena Kostova-Nikolova
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