aelf News Round-up: 3 March 2025

Trump Announces U.S. Crypto Reserve, Market Surges

In a historic move for crypto adoption, U.S. President Donald Trump has officially announced the creation of a U.S. Strategic Crypto Reserve, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA). The announcement sent crypto prices soaring, with XRP surging 33%, SOL up 25%, and ADA jumping 60%, while BTC and ETH rallied over 10%.

This marks the first time Trump has shifted from proposing a national 'stockpile'—which would simply hold crypto—to an active 'reserve', suggesting the U.S. government’s strategic acquisition of digital assets.

While it created buzz in the Web3 crypto space, details remain unclear; Trump’s executive order on digital assets has tasked the White House’s Presidential Working Group with exploring the reserve’s structure. The move starkly contrasts with Biden’s previous regulatory crackdown. Meanwhile, critics argue that state-backed crypto reserves could undermine the U.S. dollar and may shift with future administrations.

With Trump's Crypto Summit, held at the White House for the first time ever, set for this Friday (7 March), Web3 crypto investors and blockchain enthusiasts are awaiting more details on how this reserve strategy will unfold.

Ethereum Foundation’s Leadership Overhaul: What’s Next for ETH?

In a historic shift, the Ethereum Foundation has announced new leadership, appointing Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak as co-Executive Directors, replacing Aya Miyaguchi. This is the foundation’s most significant leadership change in six years, sparking speculation over Ethereum’s long-term direction.

Wang, a core Ethereum researcher since 2016, played a major role in developing sharding and the Beacon Chain, key technologies behind Ethereum 2.0. Stańczak, founder of Nethermind, has been instrumental in Ethereum’s infrastructure, MEV research, and StarkNet development. Together, they bring deep technical expertise and strategic execution to the Ethereum Foundation.

While daily active addresses rose to 346,776, there were no significant changes to Ethereum’s Total Value Locked (TVL) in DeFi, suggesting cautious investor sentiment. ETH’s price hovers around $2,225, struggling to break resistance at $2,300, with mixed technical indicators hinting at a potential price shift in the coming weeks.

Will Wang and Stańczak energise Ethereum’s next evolution, or will the network maintain its current trajectory?

With the Ethereum community at a crossroads, all eyes are on how the new leadership will shape the Web3 ecosystem’s growth and governance model.

Olas Launches 'Mech Marketplace' for AI Agents to Hire Each Other

Olas, a leading AI and crypto firm, introduces its Mech Marketplace, a decentralised hub where AI agents can hire other AI agents for specialised tasks. Instead of relying on pre-coded relationships, agents can freely discover and transact with others, and streamline AI-to-AI interactions.

AI agents are traditionally limited to pre-programmed counterparts. The Mech Marketplace removes this restriction, allowing AI agents to dynamically seek out and pay for specialised services—a step closer to true autonomous AI economies.

The Web3 AI platform supports interactions across Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Gnosis Chain, with over 4 million agent transactions recorded—more than half between AI agents. Already, nearly 2,000 AI agents have been deployed, with more than 500 active daily.

With AI expected to fully automate financial tasks, Olas’ long-term goal is to simplify Web3 and crypto complexity, enabling agents to seed wallets, bridge networks, and manage DeFi portfolios for users. The firm recently raised $13.8M to fuel Pearl, an AI app store where users can own their own autonomous agents.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ Raising Questions About AI Scaling Limits

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its most advanced AI model to date. Built with significantly increased computing resources and training data, GPT-4.5 improves natural language processing, reasoning, and emotional intelligence. OpenAI also claims GPT-4.5 offers deeper world knowledge, reduces hallucinations, and improves math, science, and writing tasks.

However, on certain AI reasoning benchmarks, it falls short of DeepSeek, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and OpenAI’s own deep research model.

OpenAI does not classify it as a 'frontier model', signaling potential limitations in the traditional AI scaling approach.

Initially available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, the model will gradually become accessible to ChatGPT Plus and Team members in the coming weeks.

OpenAI has already confirmed that GPT-5 is set to be released later this year, integrating its 'o' series of reasoning models as it moves away from traditional scaling.

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News Round-up: Trump Makes U.S. Crypto Reserve Official, Olas's AI Agents for Hire, Ethereum Foundation's Leadership Change, GPT-4.5