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Uniswap Labs — Uniswap Labs launched a $15.5 million bug bounty to help secure V4.
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While Wall Street investors grappled with less certain American AI supremacy, Crypto hosted its own bit of AI news with the long-awaited expansion of crypto AI platform Venice.
The service, a "privacy-focused" alternative to mainstream AI services, launched its API and VVV token yesterday. First launched in May 2024, Venice aims to offer open, decentralized, generative AI without the data-logging or censorship prevalent in commercial platforms like ChatGPT. Yesterday, the platform surprised the market with the airdrop of its VVV token, which arrived just as DeepSeek, the new, headline-grabbing AI out of China (which is also openly integrated into Venice), tightened its global access. All these forces have mixed to make Venice the talk of the town and worthy of a deeper dive.
So, today, we’ll explore the app – and examine its extensive functionality, as well as its token and API launch – to understand not only its abilities but also where it's headed! 👇
Uniswap Labs is offering the largest bug bounty ever: $15.5M for critical bugs in Uniswap v4! Built with community contributions and rigorously audited, v4 will be one of the most audited codebases ever to be deployed onchain, and continues Uniswap’s commitment to security.
China’s new 
DeepSeek AI model, which reportedly matches OpenAI’s performance at 1/45th the cost, has rattled the AI hardware market and contributed to a 20% dip in Nvidia’s stock price.
Investor-technologist Jeffrey Emanuel argues that DeepSeek’s efficiency gains aren’t the only story, as his viral 12,000-word article “The Short Case for Nvidia Stock” also catalyzed the market’s panic. In this episode, we explore how these converging factors could unbundle Nvidia’s once-unassailable lead and drastically reshape AI compute economics.
Listen along below 👇
