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Behind Bitcoin's Trillion-Dollar Market Cap: A 41-Person Development Team and a Fragile Funding Ecosystem

Bitcoin, with a peak market cap of $2.5 trillion, is maintained by only 41 core developers, supported by a fragile funding ecosystem of approximately $8.4 million annually. This decentralized development model relies on a small group of sponsors and donors, including organizations like Blockstream, Chaincode Labs, MIT DCI, Spiral, and OKX, among others. Despite Bitcoin’s massive valuation, its core development is highly centralized in Western countries, with 71% of code contributions coming from just 15 developers. Key challenges include over-reliance on a few donors—such as Jack Dorsey—funding instability during market downturns, and a significant lack of representation from Asian developers. The report calls for greater support from profitable crypto businesses to ensure sustainable development and broader geographical participation in maintaining the Bitcoin network.

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Behind Bitcoin's Trillion-Dollar Market Cap: A 41-Person Development Team and a Fragile Funding Ecosystem

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Sentient Launches Open-Source AI Research Agent SERA-Crypto to Tackle the 'Hallucination Crisis' in the Crypto Industry

Sentient Labs, one of the largest open-source AI platforms with $85M in funding, has launched SERA-Crypto—an open-source AI research agent designed for crypto and Web3. It delivers on-chain analytics, tokenomics insights, and protocol risk assessments within 30 seconds, complete with verifiable citations and reproducible reasoning chains. SERA-Crypto addresses the reliability issues of general AI models in finance, particularly critical in crypto where inaccurate information can lead to significant financial loss. Unlike generic models, it uses real-time data (updated within 24–48 hours), parallel tool integration, and structured reasoning to ensure accuracy and depth. Key advantages include temporal relevance, deep research capabilities, data consistency, and support for use cases like wallet risk alerts, exchange integrations, and DAO proposal analysis. It integrates over 50 data endpoints and is built on Sentient’s SERA architecture, optimized for blockchain and DeFi. The model was trained on 220K+ users and 22M+ queries and will be open-sourced in phases. Sentient is backed by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures.

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Sentient Launches Open-Source AI Research Agent SERA-Crypto to Tackle the 'Hallucination Crisis' in the Crypto Industry

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Seed Round Secures $500 Million, It Aims to Be the 'Apple' of Payment Blockchains

Stripe's Tempo blockchain, a fork of Ethereum optimized for fintech applications, is now live on testnet. Backed by a $500 million seed round from Stripe and Paradigm, it aims to become the "Apple" of payment blockchains through vertical integration and a closed-architecture approach. Key innovations include: TIP-20, a stablecoin standard with prioritized transaction lanes; low, predictable gas fees payable in any stablecoin (converted automatically via a built-in AMM); and native smart accounts enabling batch payments, gas sponsorship, scheduled transactions, and passkey authentication. Unlike Ethereum’s open, permissionless validator set, Tempo uses a private, permissioned consensus mechanism (Simplex BFT) and is fully EVM-compatible. Its design prioritizes user experience, security, and commercial adoption over decentralization, targeting the payments industry as its primary market. The code is open-sourced under Apache/MIT licenses.

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Seed Round Secures $500 Million, It Aims to Be the 'Apple' of Payment Blockchains

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