PANews reported on October 26th that biodefense startup Valthos secured $30 million in funding from OpenAI Startup Fund, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund, according to Decrypt. The company's AI system can update medical responses based on the speed of biological threats, enabling researchers and government agencies to identify and respond to pathogens as quickly as possible. Valthos was founded in New York last November by Kathleen McMahon, former head of life sciences at Palantir Technologies; Tess van Stekelenburg, a former computational neuroscience researcher at the University of Oxford; and founding artificial intelligence engineer Victor Mao, formerly a research engineer at Google DeepMind.PANews reported on October 26th that biodefense startup Valthos secured $30 million in funding from OpenAI Startup Fund, Lux Capital, and Founders Fund, according to Decrypt. The company's AI system can update medical responses based on the speed of biological threats, enabling researchers and government agencies to identify and respond to pathogens as quickly as possible. Valthos was founded in New York last November by Kathleen McMahon, former head of life sciences at Palantir Technologies; Tess van Stekelenburg, a former computational neuroscience researcher at the University of Oxford; and founding artificial intelligence engineer Victor Mao, formerly a research engineer at Google DeepMind.

                                                                               Wormhole’s native token has had a tough time since launch, debuting at $1.66 before dropping significantly despite the general crypto market’s bull cycle.                     Wormhole, an interoperability protocol facilitating asset transfers between blockchains, announced updated tokenomics to its native Wormhole (W) token, including a token reserve and more yield for stakers. The changes could affect the protocol’s governance, as staked Wormhole tokens allocate voting power to delegates.According to a Wednesday announcement, three main changes are coming to the Wormhole token: a W reserve funded with protocol fees and revenue, a 4% base yield for staking with higher rewards for active ecosystem participants, and a change from bulk unlocks to biweekly unlocks.“The goal of Wormhole Contributors is to significantly expand the asset transfer and messaging volume that Wormhole facilitates over the next 1-2 years,” the protocol said. According to Wormhole, more tokens will be locked as adoption takes place and revenue filters back to the company.Read more