SEC Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda described the NFT sales as a “common phenomenon” in the world of creators.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong cautioned the United States Commodities and Futures Trading Commission to avoid taking enforcement actions against DeFi protocols.

Californian Assembly Member Ash Kalra labeled the bill as a “common sense requirement” to help protect the work of actors, artists and entertainers.

Mark Karpelès was seemingly drawing parallels to Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent antics, claiming to have gotten through 20,000 pages of evidence in pre-trial detention with only a “simple calculator.”

The launch comes just weeks after Chinese authorities began accepting applications for public-facing AI systems.

Assets will be sold off weekly, with special handling for BTC, ETH and "insider-affiliated tokens."

The measure received 535 votes for with 57 against and 60 abstentions in a plenary session.

The animated series, accessible only to NFT holders, had a cast that included Vitalik Buterin, Gary Vaynerchuk and Hollywood A-listers.

The name HTX represents the exchange, the blockchain project Tron and the company’s 10th anniversary.

Adobe, IBM, Nvidia and five other companies have joined the initiative, unveiled in July, aimed at preventing the misuse of AI’s capabilities for harmful purposes.