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🚀 Weekly Recap (April 5 - April 12, 2025)
This Week's Web3 & Tech Surge: Crypto Wins, NFT Shifts, AI Leaps!
Wuki NFT
April 12, 2025
Web3 Highlights
This week, Web3 saw exciting integrations and expansions:
Gala and Solana launched a bridge for seamless asset transfers, enhancing interoperability (Gala X post).
The Gala ↔ Solana bridge is live.
No bridges, no barriers, just seamless movement between two thriving Web3 environments.
GalaChain is becoming truly multichain.— Gala Games (@GoGalaGames)
6:36 PM • Apr 10, 2025
Axelar connected Babylon Labs, enabling Bitcoin staking across over 72 blockchain networks, boosting ecosystem liquidity (Axelar X post).
Breaking news.
Axelar Connects @babylonlabs_io to the global Web3 ecosystem, delivering liquidity for the $BABY token and bringing Bitcoin staking to 72+ Chains 🌐
Bitcoin just got Interoped 👇
— Axelar Network (@axelar)
10:30 AM • Apr 10, 2025
Crypto Updates
Crypto news this week focused on regulatory shifts and leadership changes:
President Trump signed a resolution overturning an IRS rule on DeFi platforms, potentially benefiting crypto privacy (CryptoNotaz X post).
Trump Repeals IRS Rule Targeting DeFi – Good News for @worldlibertyfi .
On April 10, President Trump signed a new law that repeals an IRS rule which required DeFi platforms to report user data, treating them like traditional brokers.
With this change, projects like WLFI could
— Notaz.Sol 💎 (@CryptoNotaz)
11:43 PM • Apr 10, 2025
Changpeng Zhao (CZ) joined the Pakistan Crypto Council as a strategic advisor, aiming to guide Web3 and digital finance growth (pushpendrakum X post).
Breaking News : Binance Founder @cz_binance joins Pakistan Crypto Council as Strategic Advisor to guide Web3, blockchain, and digital finance growth.
— Pushpendra Singh (@pushpendrakum)
1:46 PM • Apr 7, 2025
NFT News
NFTs experienced notable marketplace and community shifts:
Magic Eden acquired the Slingshot trading app, expanding its NFT marketplace offerings (DegenerateNews X post).
BREAKING: NFT MARKETPLACE MAGIC EDEN ACQUIRES SLINGSHOT TRADING APP - PER BLOCKWORKS
— DEGEN NEWS (@DegenerateNews)
6:03 PM • Apr 9, 2025
Aavegotchi's community voted to migrate from Polygon to Base, a significant move for the NFT gaming sector (DegenerateNews X post).
NEW: AAVEGOTCHI NFT GAMING COMMUNITY VOTES TO MIGRATE FROM POLYGON TO BASE
— DEGEN NEWS (@DegenerateNews)
3:02 PM • Apr 8, 2025
AI Advancements
AI developments this week included memory enhancements and funding news:
OpenAI enhanced ChatGPT with memory capabilities, improving personalization by recalling past interactions (OpenAI X post).
Starting today, memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on your preferences and interests to make it even more helpful for writing, getting advice, learning, and beyond.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
5:06 PM • Apr 10, 2025
Mira Murati's new AI startup is reportedly seeking a $2 billion seed round, attracting prominent ex-OpenAI advisors (TechCrunch X post).
Mira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for a massive $2B seed round
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)
7:58 PM • Apr 10, 2025
Google expanded its AI Mode in Search, allowing users to ask questions using text, voice, or images with AI-powered responses (Google X post).
AI Mode is now available to millions more Labs users in the US 🚀 and we’re adding the power of Lens so you can easily search what you see. With AI Mode, you can…
✅ Ask your toughest questions and get an AI-powered response
✅ Ask any way you want, using text, voice, your— Google (@Google)
4:29 PM • Apr 7, 2025
Tech Trends
Tech news highlighted investments and acquisitions in the electric vehicle sector:
Jeff Bezos backed a secretive EV startup, generating buzz in the tech industry (TechCrunch X post).
TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assets
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)
7:48 PM • Apr 11, 2025
Lucid Motors acquired Nikola's Arizona factory through a bankruptcy auction, strengthening its manufacturing capabilities (TechCrunch X post).
EV startup Lucid Motors has emerged as a surprise winner in the bankruptcy auction for electric trucking company Nikola’s Arizona factory and other assets tcrn.ch/4idRgl8
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch)
3:42 PM • Apr 11, 2025
That’s all for this week folks!
Have a great weekend. Stay hungry, stay real and LFG 🚀
Best,
Wuki