When GPUs Give Crypto the Cold Shoulder: Nvidia’s Latest Drama Unveiled

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Arbitrum’s much-anticipated announcement with Nvidia—like a lover’s quarrel—was halted without explanation.
Nvidia, with the coldness of an old Petersburg winter, keeps crypto projects outside its AI accelerator hearth.
Some dream of a thaw; others read the frozen silence as final.

Arbitrum (ARB) had dreams, big dreams—like a young clerk ready to shout into the vast void. Promised was an embrace from Nvidia, that mighty titan of silicon realms, naming Arbitrum its sole Ethereum confidant in the hallowed Ignition AI Accelerator, kin to the grand Inception program designed for promising AI prodigies.

But just as the vodka was poured and the speeches rehearsed, the music stopped.

“Pause the celebration,” they said. But why? The answer hid behind silken shadows, unspoken, as if the gods themselves ordered a hush. A Nvidia herald merely whispered so to CoinDesk, leaving Arbitrum to wonder, like Olga at the opera, what twist fate had conspired.

This tableau of rejection, etched plainly, reminds us that crypto and Nvidia walk parallel roads, never quite meeting, like two old friends embittered by time. The Inception Accelerator’s rulebook, stamped with as much finality as a bureaucrat’s seal, names crypto as the unwelcome guest.

This chilly posture isn’t new. It’s the legacy of Nvidia’s “crypto hangover”—a term Jensen Huang chose with a grim smile, recalling the fraud and folly of ICO booms which left unsold GPUs gathering dust like forgotten novels on a dusty shelf. The fine paid was a quiet admission of past missteps.

Fast forward to 2023, when Michael Kagan, Nvidia’s CTO, voiced the company’s verdict with the bluntness only geniuses possess: “Crypto doesn’t bring anything useful for society.” His disdain was as clear as the North Sea, refusing to veil the belief that crypto is the spoiler of humanity’s hopes—unlike its cousin AI, who dazzles like a newly discovered star.

At their 2024 Graphics Technology Conference, Nvidia’s stage transformed into a salon of the intellect. Huang appeared alongside Illia Polosukhin, whose paper on Transformer models brought AI from dream to reality. Yet, the brief mention of blockchain was a mere footnote, the true conversation steeped in AI’s promise—crypto had no invite.

When Huang declared, “We got programmable humans, we got programmable proteins, we got programmable money,” it was a flourish—a poet’s exaggeration rather than a true confession of affection for crypto’s cause. The house remains closed, curtains drawn tightly against the prying eyes of token dreamers.

Whisperings continue in shadowed halls, hopeful murmurs for a crack in the door, but the silence and sealed gates remind us of a simple truth: Nvidia’s ballroom is reserved for AI, and crypto, alas, waits outside in the cold. 🥶

For now, the message is as clear as winter ice—crypto, you may knock, but tonight, you shall not enter.

2025-04-25 10:31

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