Alex Gluchowski: Zero-knowledge proofs can balance data privacy and regulatory compliance for financial institutions.

Aave announced on the X platform that the first batch of externally curated markets for Aave V4 has launched, with strategies developed by @SentoraHQ. Users can borrow RLUSD, PYUSD, and OUSD in three new markets on Ethereum, using yield-generating and blue-chip assets as collateral.

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski stated that zero-knowledge proofs can help financial institutions maintain data privacy on-chain while ensuring that regulators, auditors, and security teams have the necessary access.

Coinbase announced on its X platform that it has opened up access to its AI agent. Users can select the investment portfolios accessible to the AI agent and preview orders before execution. Users can also disconnect at any time or send a connection command in the chat of a commonly used large language model to access Coinbase.

Musk stated that artificial intelligence and robots will be able to provide almost all goods and services, and value will shift towards energy, electricity, and matter, thus rendering traditional currencies obsolete.

Bitcoin's hash rate reached a seven-month high of over 1 ZH/s, and mining competition intensified despite major miners shifting their computing power to AI.