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Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years
He posed as support staff, emptied about 100 accounts, then lost $6 million of the proceeds gambling, according to his own messages....
Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know What
Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system. Even Dario Amodei admits nobody knows what it actually does....
An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."...
OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks....
China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models....
Meta's Muse AI Agent Read a User's Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How
A tech columnist declined to give Meta's new AI agent access to his messages. It read them anyway, then invented an explanation for how it knew....
Zcash's Wall Street Moment Reaches Europe With Its First ETP Listing
21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam this week as ZEC continues its banner year....
$15.6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday—Here's What It Means
Deribit's strike-by-strike data shows a book stacked with calls, and one price level drawing hedging pressure from both sides at once....
Borrow Against Your Bitcoin at a Fixed Rate: Coinbase Expands Morpho Loans
The product lets users lock in their rate and repayment date when borrowing USDC against Bitcoin, marking the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight and a shift away from on-chain lending's variable-rate norm....
Crypto Exchange That Invented 100x Leverage Is No More: Here’s What BitMEX Users Need to Know
BitMEX ended trading at 04:00 UTC Wednesday and is urging users to withdraw their remaining funds, as fees now apply to balances left on the exchange....
Canada's Six Biggest Banks Team Up on a Shared Digital-Dollar Network
RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, starting with transfers between the banks themselves....
NYSE Taps Blockchain.com to Reach Crypto Investors With Tokenized Stocks
Blockchain.com and NYSE Group signed a preliminary agreement to give the crypto exchange's users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory approval....
Americans Would Use Stablecoins—If They Came With Bank Protections, Visa Study Finds
A Visa survey found U.S. willingness to use stablecoins for cross-border transfers rises from 36% to 56% when paired with hypothetical bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance....
Bitcoin Dips, But Its Forks Are Flying Again
A CME futures listing and a fresh Grayscale ETF filing sent Bitcoin's two biggest forks soaring, even as the flagship coin cooled off its seven-month high....
BlackRock: AI Agents Could Drive Crypto's Next Demand Wave
The world's largest asset manager argues that autonomous AI agents buying data, paying for services, and renting computing power could quietly become one of the biggest forces pushing money into crypto....
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Hits $86,000 as Oil Slides and ETFs Bid
Crypto majors continue their climb while alt leaders hit new ATHs. What’s driving the recent run up?...
North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets
A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau....
CFTC Staff Advisory Says Prediction Market 'Mention' Contracts Invite Manipulation
Three weeks after fining a teleprompter operator who traded on speeches he had already read, regulators set out what exchanges must show....
Former Polish Police Officer Charged as Zondacrypto Probe Searches Fuel Depot
Investigators are combing the site where the exchange's founder was last seen in 2022, using experts and forensic equipment....
UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing a stage with Dario Amodei—who has spent a year calling China's government the industry's biggest threat....
$161 Million in Decade-Old Bitcoin Has Moved in Just Two Weeks
Four ancient wallets moved 1,971 BTC between Sept. 6 and Sept. 22, including a 600 BTC transfer worth $51.9 million just hours ago, with three of the four carrying "Noah Doe" lawsuit tags....
CME Expands Crypto Futures Lineup With Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap
The exchange operator is adding standard and micro contracts for BCH and UNI, extending a pattern of altcoin rollouts that already covers Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui....
Inside Coinbase’s $250 Billion Playbook for Post-Quantum Bitcoin Custody
Head of cryptography Yehuda Lindell says the exchange is designing custody that can adapt to whatever post-quantum signing scheme Bitcoin adopts....
White-Hat Hackers Route Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into 'Recovery Trust'
Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a "Crypto Recovery Trust," though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul....
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna Minutes After Anthropic Drops Claude Opus 5.5
OpenAI cut prices 50% on its mid-tier models the same day Anthropic shipped a cheaper flagship, escalating a rivalry now measured in minutes....
Bitcoin Breaks Out as Nasdaq Hits Records and Oil Slides on Iran Hopes
A stretched but firmly bullish Bitcoin chart is riding the same tailwind lifting stocks: falling oil, a record Nasdaq, and a Fed that hiked rates while quietly pumping liquidity into the system....
Bernstein Predicts $10 Trillion Prediction Market by 2035—10X Its Original Forecast
Bernstein now projects prediction markets will handle $10 trillion a year by 2035, up from its own $1 trillion by 2030 forecast made just five months ago....
Dogecoin Jumps to Highest Price in Months: Here's What's Going On
Dogecoin is rallying, and once again, Elon Musk may have something to do with it....
Bitcoin ETFs Take Nearly $1B in a Day as Average Holder Returns to Profit
The funds pulled in more on Monday than across the whole of last week, when they posted the weakest net inflow of their history....
Morning Minute: Robinhood CEO Bets Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets
Crypto is interesting again and that means attention is flowing back to the sector. And it’s starting to show in the data....
Binance Takes $100M Stake in Circle Under Five-Year USDC Promotion Deal
The two sides closed an equity placement and a five-year commercial deal on the same day, with money moving in both directions....
US Probes Whether Binance 'Knowingly' Let Iran-Linked Trades Through: Report
Binance says it has a "zero-tolerance policy" for sanctions violations. Prosecutors are asking whether its 2023 compliance fixes held....
Google Admits Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies—It Stayed Silent for 7 Weeks
Google learned in late July that Gemini had breached three real companies during a May security test, but said nothing publicly for seven weeks....
After Clarity Act Fails, Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Targets Sherrod Brown With $30 Million
The Ohio spending comes days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry’s Clarity Act....
Robinhood CEO Says Crypto Will Beat Sports at Prediction Markets' Own Game
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets, and could become the platform's dominant category within a few years....
X Sues Two Bitcoin Influencers Over Bot Army That Milked Creator Payouts
A lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X's now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program....
Coinbase Brings IPO Shares to US Retail Traders, With Oura Up First
Eligible customers can request shares at the offering price, but allocations are not guaranteed....
Europe’s Central Bank Prepares to Invest Own Funds in Tokenized Securities
The central bank plans to buy euro-denominated public-sector debt and settle the transactions through its new Pontes service....
What Is VVV? The Privacy-Obsessed AI Token That’s Up 3,000% in 2026
Venice (VVV) has clawed back from under a dollar to a record $34, and the pitch behind it is simple: an AI chatbot that promises to forget you the moment you close the tab....
Can a Fruit Fly Brain Mine Bitcoin? These Companies Are Testing It
The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version....
xAI Launches Grok 4.7. It's Bigger, But Late to the AI Frontier Party
xAI says the new model is a "notable improvement" over Grok 4.6 at the same price. The benchmarks say it's still in second place....
Sony Says You Don't Own the Games You Bought. Crypto Says It Can Fix That
Crypto advocates argue that NFTs can deliver real digital ownership, but privacy gaps and integration hurdles have held the tech back....
Apple and Google Go Hunting for Crypto Talent, Hint at Stablecoin Push
The senior roles cover Apple’s consumer payment products and Google Cloud’s institutional blockchain business in Asia....
Bitcoin Is Rallying Again—What Happens Next?
The rally cleared an eight-month ceiling on a short squeeze and falling oil prices. The next three weeks will decide if it sticks....
Tom Lee's Bitmine Adds $74M in Ethereum, Declares a Crypto Bull Market 'Underway'
The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash to nearly 5.99 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee argues Ethereum's outperformance signals a stronger move ahead and institutions remain underweight....
Morning Minute: Kevin O’Leary Calls for $1 Million Bitcoin, With an Asterisk
Meanwhile, Bitcoin pushed up to $85,000 and a new local high and altcoins soared in a huge overnight rally....
Strategy's Bitcoin Pile Nears June Record After $76M Purchase
The Bitcoin treasury firm’s holdings bottomed at 840,447 BTC in August. They have since climbed 5,553 BTC, to within 0.2% of the high....
Bitcoin Tops $85K as $648M in Crypto Shorts Liquidated
A short squeeze started the move, but spot buyers have sustained it, and one measure of selling pressure is near a record low....
Crypto Worker's Children Held Hostage in Latest French ‘Wrench Attack,’ $46,000 Taken
France is the worst-hit country in the world for these attacks, with more than 70 logged in the first eight months of 2026....
Visa Moves to Close Meme Coin Credit Card Rewards Loophole
After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary "digital media" and earning card rewards....
Why Holding Anything But Bitcoin Has Been a Losing Bet for Two Years
A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market's riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting....
How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC....
Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar....
Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade....
Solana's Heartbeat Quickens: Block Times Fall 17% in Latest Speed Upgrade
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity....
Coinbase Files to List Single-Stock Perps on Apple, Tesla and Nvidia
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership....
Zcash Is Running—Devs Want to Make It Faster
A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays for its own security after 2031....
Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million, Says Kevin O’Leary—But There’s a Quantum Catch
Kevin O'Leary believes Bitcoin could hit $1 million if crypto beats its quantum computing problem, and explained why he's ditching Ethereum....
XRP Surges 6.9% as Bitcoin Rebound Reopens Door to Golden Cross
XRP is roaring back as Bitcoin claws its way above $800,000 again, but the charts continue to give traders mixed signals....
CFTC Kicks Off Crypto Rulemaking, Bypassing a Stalled Congress
The agency submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House for review, signaling it will build a derivatives framework on its own authority after the Clarity Act's collapse....
Bitcoin Blasts Past $80K and a Fresh Short Squeeze Is On
Bitcoin just ripped 5.88% higher in a single session, tearing back toward its 2026 highs. The charts say the move is real, but they also say it's gotten ahead of itself....
Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Internal memos warned of a "doom loop" threatening the quality of the very models it was building with OpenAI....
Morning Minute: SEC Approves ‘Innovation Exemption’ Moving Tokenized Stocks Forward
It came just hours after S&P Global announced its acquisition of OpenZeppelin, as everything TradFi moves onchain....
UAE, Sweden Arrest Seven Over $7.1M Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to Contract Killings
Investigators say tracing the network's crypto transactions exposed links to organized crime and murder-for-hire....
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran's Bitcoin Tolls on Hormuz Ships
OFAC says hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin moved through BitBank to the Revolutionary Guards in two months....
OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
OpenAI's new transparency framework reveals AI models that invented fake "breach alerts," coached themselves to hide mistakes, and smuggled a file onto the public internet to talk to each other....
Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes
Brookings researchers in the US and China are urging Washington and Beijing to agree to keep humans in control of nuclear weapons....
Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left
SpaceX's AI division has held internal talks about buying customer records from dead startups—cheap fuel for Grok, no questions asked, because there's nobody left to ask them....
Why Is Chipotle Now Working With the CIA-Funded Palantir?
Chipotle is piloting a Palantir-built food safety dashboard after a summer of outbreaks, putting employee data in the hands of a company seeded by the CIA's venture arm....
CFTC Opens Door for Crypto Apps to Offer Regulated Derivatives Access
In a no-action letter, the CFTC said certain software providers can connect users to regulated derivatives markets without registering as brokers....
OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem
Days after its disputed Navier-Stokes claim, OpenAI says it's made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize math problem—and won't say which one yet....
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Won’t Doom Crypto Security
The Ethereum co-founder said AI could help developers mathematically verify entire software systems, turning the same technology powering new attacks into a tool for defense....
Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount
The former presidential candidate said lawmakers should impose liability rules and waiting periods on frontier AI firms as autonomous agents raise new cyber and labor concerns....
King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit
King Charles hosted senior AI executives at his Scottish estate to discuss keeping the technology "in the service of humanity," days after industry leaders called for a slowdown....
Bitcoin Bounces as Markets Brace for the Fed’s Next Move
The Federal Reserve's first rate increase since 2023 barely dented crypto prices, but what comes next could change calculations on Wall Street....
Financial Data Giant S&P Global Moves Deeper Into Crypto With OpenZeppelin Deal
S&P Global is expanding into the technology risks underpinning stablecoins, tokenized funds, and other onchain financial products....
FCA Targets Three More London Sites Over Unregistered P2P Crypto Trading
"Anyone running an unregistered peer-to-peer crypto business should assume we are looking at them," the FCA's enforcement chief said....
SEC Clears a Path for Tokenized Stocks After Clarity Act Stumbles
The "innovation exemption" lets qualifying venues trade tokenized versions of U.S. stocks on public blockchains without registering as exchanges—though it excludes price-tracking "synthetics" and lets companies block tokenization of their shares....
What Is Arc? The Stablecoin Blockchain From USDC Issuer Circle
Arc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance....
Revolut Hackers Demand $3M Monero Ransom, Threaten to Sell Customer Data: Report
The group says it chose whom to target by scanning the blockchain for Revolut accounts holding significant crypto....
Morning Minute: Crypto Rebounds After The Fed’s First Hike Since 2023
The Clarity Act failed to pass and FOMC hiked rates, and yet, crypto majors are green and alt leaders are flying. What does it mean?...
Zcash Closes On $1,400 After Coinholders Vote to Keep Bitcoin-Style Halvings
The privacy coin rose double digits Thursday and 168% over the past month in the wake of the NU7 upgrade vote....
House Committee Advances US Bitcoin Reserve Bill on Party-Line Split
A substitute text adopted before the vote strips out the Federal Reserve funding routes and thins the transparency rules....
Crypto Tax Bill Clears House Committee After Clarity Act Setback
The bill would exempt qualifying crypto fees from gain-or-loss calculations and restrict tax-loss deductions on tokens sold and quickly repurchased....
Meta May Have Found a Fix for Its 'Pervert Glasses'
Meta is reportedly developing a version of its smart glasses without a camera, potentially addressing one of the biggest privacy objections to AI wearables....
OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack
An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described....
Fed Chair Implies Trump Is Only Half Right on the Economy Following Rate Hike
Chair Kevin Warsh credited Trump's economy, then ignored his rate-cut wishes entirely....
Bitcoin Core Software Update Aims for Speed and Security Patches
Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered final testing, bringing faster block checks and changes to how wallets prepare payments....
Fed Hikes Rates for the First Time Since 2023, Bitcoin Spikes
The Federal Reserve delivered the hike Wall Street had almost unanimously priced in....
CFTC and SEC Double Down on Crypto After Clarity Act Defeat
Michael Selig and Paul Atkins pledged to use their agencies’ existing powers to provide crypto regulatory certainty after the Senate failed to advance the bill....
Hackers Hijack HBO Max’s Reddit Account to Spread Crypto-Stealing Malware
Attackers ran 108 malicious ads through the streaming service’s verified account, directing users to fake software downloads....
Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Labs Can Act Alone
Meta’s CEO says competition and potential liability give AI developers reasons to prioritize safety, citing the company’s decision to delay Muse....
Bitcoin ETFs Had Their Worst Day Since June Following Failed Clarity Act Vote
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP ETFs shed roughly $593 million combined Tuesday, their heaviest single-day drawdown since June....
Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa as Validators
The Layer 1 network’s validator set is permissioned, and Circle has minted 10 billion ARC tokens without committing to publicly launch them....
AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns
Cato favors voluntary safeguards, while Block Chairman Jack Dorsey backs independent testing and narrowly justified restrictions....
FCA Guidance Lands Two Weeks Before UK Crypto Authorization Window Opens
Overseas firms serving UK retail customers need authorization too, and nobody trades under the new rules before October 2027....
Morning Minute: Clarity Act Vote Falls Short as Democrats All Vote ‘No’
It should not have come as a surprise given the odds, but crypto majors, alts and memes all sold off anyway in the wake....
Bitcoin Hovers at $76K as Analysts Argue the Fed Matters More Than Clarity Act
With Bitcoin sitting around $76,000, the argument from analysts is that dollar liquidity, not Congress, sets the floor from here....
UK Backs Money Laundering Crackdown With $676M and 500 New Officers
The Home Office names crypto alongside fintech and AI as drivers of a threat the NCA puts at £100 billion a year in the UK....
Tonkeeper Becomes Keeper as Wallet Adds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron
The self-custodial wallet is expanding beyond The Open Network, with support for seven blockchains and more financial products planned....
Crypto Exchange CoinEx Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Giving Users Until December to Cash Out
The Hong Kong-founded exchange blamed a prolonged crypto winter and rising compliance costs, closing the books on a run that began in December 2017....
Wall Street Bets on Fed Rate Hike: Here's What It Means for Bitcoin, Bonds and Trump
Nearly every major bank now expects the Fed to raise rates for the first time in three years. Markets have mostly priced it in, but the political fallout could run deeper than one hike....
Coinbase-Backed Crypto Group Warns of Midterms Payback After Clarity Act Fails
The Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto will add senators’ votes to its scorecards as it rallies crypto voters ahead of November’s elections....
OpenAI's Brockman Says Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work
Greg Brockman says OpenAI delayed launches and reworked its processes after a pre-release model broke out of a sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face....
Crypto Reacts: Bitcoin Slides as Clarity Act Fails to Clear Senate Vote
The Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the crypto industry's marquee bill Tuesday. Bitcoin dropped as the no tally mounted, but the move stopped well short of panic....
Clarity Act Stalls in Senate as Crypto Bill Fails to Clear Key Vote
The crypto market structure bill failed to receive enough votes to advance in the Senate....
Robinhood Engineers Charged With Fraud Over Alleged Crypto Listing Trades
Two employees allegedly earned more than $50,000 each by trading Hyperliquid perpetual futures before Robinhood announced new token listings....
'It's Now or Never' for Clarity Act, Says 'Bitcoin Senator' Lummis
The Wyoming Republican says the final text hands Democrats more than 120 of their own demands, including sweeping new ethics rules, as the Senate holds a make-or-break cloture vote Tuesday afternoon....
US Seeks Forfeiture of $61 Million in Crypto Linked to Alleged Iranian Oil Scheme
Prosecutors allege two Chinese companies used Binance accounts to launder oil proceeds benefiting Iran’s government and military....
Crypto's Long-Sought 'De Minimis' Tax Break Gets a House Markup This Week
The proposal would overhaul federal tax treatment of digital assets but still requires approval from Congress....
Democrats 'Move the Goalposts' on Clarity Act Hours Before Key Senate Vote
Democrats are pushing for further concessions as Republicans insist their latest text is their final offer ahead of today’s 60-vote test....
Bitcoin Sinks as the Senate's Clarity Act Showdown Looms
Bitcoin just gave back its entire post-golden-cross rally in one red candle, with a make-or-break Senate vote landing this afternoon and the Fed staring down a rate hike....
Morning Minute: Clarity Act Odds Slump After Democrat Pushback
The odds of the Clarity Act passing have fully reversed their recent move, and crypto majors have reversed alongside. Is there any hope left for the bill to pass?...
Why an AI Slowdown Could Collapse Under Commercial and US-China Pressure
Atlantic Council experts argue corporate pledges need enforceable safety standards, while U.S.–China distrust limits prospects for an international agreement....
Solana Treasury Firm DeFi Dev Corp Rolls Out $300M CHAD to Buy More SOL
DeFi Development Corp added another 55,491 SOL and opened a CHAD at-the-market program for its preferred stock, extending a fast-moving three-week run of capital markets activity....
Strive's Bitcoin Stash Hits an Even 25,000 BTC After $36.6 Million Buy
The asset manager funded the entire purchase through preferred stock, pushing SATA's notional value past $1 billion for the first time....
Banks Want More: Trade Groups Demand Stricter Stablecoin Limits in Clarity Act
Eight trade associations say exceptions for interest-like rewards could pull deposits from banks and reduce lending....
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Warns Humans Could Lose Control of AI
The OpenAI chief called for safeguards during training and shared industry standards, saying developers can act before legislation arrives....
Trump Says He 'Likes' Flock Surveillance Cameras Amid Bipartisan Pushback
Aboard Air Force One, the president threw his support behind the AI-powered license plate readers that have drawn a Senate investigation and a pledged bill from Bernie Sanders....
Microsoft Unveils 'Humanist AI' Code of Conduct, Asks the Public to Poke Holes in It
Mustafa Suleyman's AI unit wants feedback for six weeks before the document guides model training in 2027....
Trump Says He’s the Only ‘Guardrails’ AI Needs, Attacks Anthropic and Defends Data Centers
The president dismissed calls for tighter AI controls as industry leaders push to slow development and address safety failures....
Bitcoin Climbs as AI Slowdown Calls Sink Nvidia, Intel and Other Chip Stocks
AI CEOs want the industry to pump the brakes on capability gains. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD didn't like the sound of that. Bitcoin didn't seem to mind....
Crypto Market Has 'Definitely Not Priced In' Clarity Act Surprise, Says Bernstein
Ethics and banking concessions have improved the crypto bill’s prospects, analysts say, but Democratic support remains uncertain....
Bitmine Adds $68 Million in Ethereum as Holdings Near 6 Million ETH
The purchase brings the company closer to its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens earning staking rewards....
Strategy Buys Back $139 Million of STRC, Bitcoin Stack Frozen for Second Week
The Bitcoin treasury firm slowed its preferred-stock buyback from last week's $176 million pace and left its 845,050 BTC untouched, per a Monday SEC filing....
Why Trump Backed Tougher Ethics Rules in Clarity Act, and Why the Crypto Industry Thinks It Can Pass
Republicans' "last, best and final offer" wins Trump's backing on stronger ethics rules and concedes on DeFi and stablecoin sticking points, but it's unclear if enough Democrats will cross over Tuesday....
Morning Minute: Clarity Act Odds Soar as Trump Agrees to Ethics Provisions
What had been written off is now very back alive ahead of a key vote on Tuesday, followed by a pivotal FOMC on Wednesday. Big week ahead......
MetaMask Adds New Wallet Protections Against Crypto Scams
MetaMask’s latest safeguards flag suspicious transfers and stop transactions that don’t match their previews....
India Begins Tokenizing Its $620 Billion Corporate Bond Market
SEBI and the RBI's "Demat 2.0" pilot issues corporate bonds as digital tokens and settles them with the wholesale digital rupee, with three companies already raising about $107 million....
Bitcoin Suisse to Cut Up to Half Its Swiss Jobs in Overseas Shift
The Crypto Valley pioneer is moving up to 60 Zug jobs to Bratislava or Vietnam as it pivots from a Swiss crypto specialist into a global wealth manager....
AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really
TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says....
Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request
The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency's own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a "limited" number of users....
GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI's last model went through the same cycle in July....
Crypto Billionaires Hand Reform UK $97M in Record Donations
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each gave £36 million, and between them beat what every UK party raised last year....
GTA Mod Adds Flock Cameras—And Lets Players Destroy Them
The surveillance mod on GTA V brings the privacy fight to Los Santos, where players can demolish the cameras tracking them....
ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better?
OpenAI's new image model promises sharper detail and more precise editing. We ran it against Google's Nano Banana 2 across six categories to see how it compares....
Cyberattacks on Law Firms Nearly Double as Stolen Documents Hit the Dark Web
Greenberg Traurig said documents were posted to the dark web, while BakerHostetler recorded a near-doubling of law-firm incidents in 2025....
Bitcoin Golden Cross Flickers Off as Rate-Hike Bets Firm Up
A rapidly changing interest rates market has changed the near-term outlook on the Bitcoin chart. Here’s why....
OpenAI Asks Congress Whether an AI Slowdown Would Be Legal
The company is seeking clarity on antitrust rules as researchers call for restraint and experts warn that competition encourages companies to overlook risks....
Robinhood Crypto Trading Volume Jumps 61% in August
Fresh operating data shows crypto trading bouncing back, but the company's fastest-growing business these days isn't traditional trading at all....
Bitwise to Close Dogecoin ETF Before Its First Anniversary
BWOW will stop trading October 14, with cash payments to remaining shareholders expected October 22....
Bitcoin Rises as Markets Digest Inflation Data Ahead of Fed Rate Decision
Inflation held at 3.4% and core cooled annually, but a hot monthly core reading kept Fed hike odds near 62% while crypto markets rallied broadly....
Blockstream Refuses Ransom for Return of $47M in Bitcoin from Liquid Hack: 'It Is Theft'
With 598.5 BTC still outstanding, the company says it will go to law enforcement should the funds not be returned....
Morning Minute: AI Agents Cut BTC Quantum Attack Benchmark by 86%
Crypto majors are shaky ahead of this morning’s CPI print, but onchain is heating up for another big potential weekend....
EU Regulator Says Prediction Markets Are 'Rife With Inside Trading'
ESMA also asks why Kalshi and Polymarket block some EU countries but not others, and notes VPNs get around the blocks....
Albuquerque Bans Bitcoin ATMs, Giving Operators 45 Days to Remove Them
A councilor said 90% of crypto kiosk transactions in the city are tied to fraud, calling the machines a conduit for crime....
Sam Bankman-Fried Asks Supreme Court to Overturn FTX Fraud Conviction
SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."...
Senate Republicans Release Revised Clarity Act Ahead of September 15 Vote
The draft adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols and leaves its ethics provisions largely unchanged....
DeepSeek's New Model Nearly Matches GPT-6 Astra on Design—at 1.4% of the Cost
OpenDesign put 13 AI models through the same design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash landed a point and a half behind GPT-6 Astra and roughly 70 times cheaper....
AI Agents Just Slashed the Cost of a Quantum Attack on Bitcoin
The ECDSA.Fail challenge cut a resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack by 86%....
Coinbase Wallet Rebrands to Chase 'Anything, Anywhere' Trading as Robinhood Chain Heats Up
Head of Product Ryan Kass says the return to Coinbase Wallet reflects a broader trading strategy, with the self-custody app serving as a testing ground for new assets and experiences....
Bitcoin Rally Cools, But a Golden Cross Is Coming
Bitcoin couldn't escape today's inflation-driven selloff, but a bearish pattern on its chart is about to flip for the first time since November....
Banks Have Minutes, Not Weeks, to Fix Flaws as AI Speeds Up Attacks: BIS
The Bank for International Settlements says routine patching schedules are increasingly inadequate and cites guidance urging banks to accept planned downtime for urgent fixes....
This Guy Cloned Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg Into AI Bots. They Immediately Started Fighting
Kun Chen built chatbot versions of four AI CEOs on SpaceXAI's new Grok Bot templates, locked them in one chat, and told them to debate the AI race until they agreed on something....
Anthropic Discloses Fourth Claude Hacking Incident as Debate Around Regulation Grows
The company now says attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures, after initially emphasizing errors in its testing infrastructure....
Bitcoin at $400K by 2030 Still 'Reasonable Target': Coinbase CEO
Brian Armstrong argues the bottom is in, a year into the downturn, with the next halving roughly 18 months out....
Morning Minute: Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP Crashes
The meme coin plunged on its debut, as recent alt leaders and many onchain darlings slipped in a nasty day for crypto....
Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken Parent Payward at $21B Valuation
Deutsche Börse's April stake implied a $13.3 billion valuation. Five months on, Nasdaq is paying at $21 billion....
Vitalik Buterin Pushes Ethereum Plan to Slash Quantum-Safe Privacy Costs
Buterin wants EIP-8288 in I-star, the upgrade after Hegota, and adopting it would make RISC-V Ethereum's canonical instruction set....
Bitcoin Wallet Maker Trezor Says Hackers Breached Its Email Provider
The hardware wallet maker said a fake security alert claimed a hardware flaw could expose users’ recovery phrases....
AI Is Solving Math's Best Problems Faster Than They Can Be Replaced, Terence Tao Warns
The Fields medalist points to a real race between OpenAI and Anthropic as proof: AI can now flatten a hard problem the moment someone starts working on it....
Crypto, Banks Take Clarity Act Lobbying Fight to Senators' Home States
Crypto advocates and community bankers are targeting lawmakers in their home states as the Senate prepares for a September 15 procedural vote....
Apple Unveils Redesigned Siri AI and A20 Pro Chip as CEO John Ternus Makes Debut
The company's first fall keynote under new leadership paired a Gemini-powered Siri overhaul with Apple's first 2-nanometer chip, plus a $1,999 foldable iPhone that won't ship until October....
Secret Service Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto Tied to Telegram Bazaar Behind Global Scams
Blockchain sleuths at Elliptic traced the money, Treasury sanctioned the marketplace, and Xinbi—which ran $24 billion through a Telegram scam bazaar—called the freeze unfair....
While Bitcoin Devs Debate Next Moves, IonQ Unveils Superion 256 Quantum Computer
The company has built its first chips and begun testing prototypes as it seeks to manufacture quantum computers in larger quantities....
Mexican Musician and Family Killed Over Bitcoin Cold Wallet Believed to Hold Millions
Mexican prosecutors allege suspects targeted Camilo Séptimo keyboardist Jonathan Meléndez and his family while searching for a cold wallet they believed contained millions in Bitcoin....
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Meme Coin Crashes 99% on Debut
LAPTOP hit a $190.81 peak within minutes of launching on Base, then shed roughly 99% as thin liquidity met a wave of selling....
Prediction Markets Abandon Cheap Oil as Brent Passes $100
Myriad's $120 side overtook $55 at the start of September, while Polymarket puts WTI reaching $100 this month at 59%....
Consensys Is Splitting in Two as MetaMask Goes Its Own Way
Consensys Software Inc. will become MetaMask, while a newly formed Consensys will take over the firm's Ethereum protocols and institutional blockchain infrastructure business....
German Finance Ministry Drafts 25% Tax on Crypto Gains From 2027
Anything bought before 2027 keeps the twelve-month exemption, so the change lands only on Germany's future crypto buyers....
Morning Minute: Venice’s VVV Token Soars After OpenAI Dispute
Concerns over frontier AI labs stealing user data has driven demand for private inference (or at least tokens tied to private inference)....
UK Crime Agency Warns of 'Innovative Use' of Crypto by Launderers
The agency ranks cryptoassets third among nine economic crime priorities, and says it wants to generate its own targets....
Mexico Seizes 300 Crypto Mining Rigs Wired Into a Hydroelectric Dam
Forensic accountants are tracing who paid for the mining hardware, and money laundering has not been ruled out....
Jack Dorsey's Block Applies for Bank Charter to Custody Bitcoin
Builders Bank would consolidate custody work Block now runs under more than 50 state money transmitter licenses....
OpenAI Says It Solved a $1M Math Problem. A Rival Mathematician Says He Did It First
NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge....
$47M Still Missing After Liquid Hack as Blockstream Bargains With 'White Hats'
The hackers have returned 3,400 of the roughly 4,000 BTC drained from the sidechain, but about 600 BTC remains outstanding—and some doubt the actors' "white hat" claims....
Bitcoin Holds, Wall Street Stalls as Oil Shock Revives Fed Hike Bets
Bitcoin is defending its golden zone support while the S&P 500 grinds inside its tightest range yet, both waiting on Friday's inflation report before the Fed's September 16 rate call....
Visa Taps Onchain Lending to Finance Stablecoin Card Programs
The payment processor giant is pairing payment settlement data with blockchain lending tools to help fintechs and stablecoin-linked card programs access working capital....
Strive Buys $109 Million in Bitcoin, Pushes Preferred Stock Toward $1 Billion
The Vivek Ramaswamy-founded asset manager added 1,375 BTC last week, its third straight week of 5%-plus growth....
Cronos Erased Two Hours of Transactions to Reverse $111 Million DeFi Exploit
The rollback reversed legitimate activity alongside the attack, while $9.19 million remains unrecovered, according to Cronos....
US Police Fear Meta Glasses Are Watching Them Back: Report
Memos from the NYPD to Homeland Security warn the devices could be used for covert filming inside jails and police facilities....
Robinhood Takes Equity Stake in Crypto.com, Taps Exchange to Power Prediction Markets
The multi-year deal makes OG.com the infrastructure and clearing engine behind Robinhood's fastest-growing business....
Tom Lee's Bitmine Adds $70 Million in Ethereum, Holdings Reach 5.93 Million ETH
The company says it holds roughly 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply, with most of its tokens staked to earn rewards....
Strategy's Return to Bitcoin Buying Lasted Exactly One Week
The Bitcoin treasury firm spent $176.3 million on its own preferred stock, and doubled the buyback program's authorization to $2 billion....
Morning Minute: The Trenches Just Had Their Biggest Week Since TRUMP
Is it a warning sign for a local top? Or is the onchain party just getting started?...
What Is LAPTOP? Hunter Biden's Meme Coin Targeting TRUMP Holders
The LAPTOP token launches in September on Base, with a fifth of the supply earmarked for traders who lost money on TRUMP....
Polish Court Detains Fifth Suspect in Zondacrypto Exchange Probe
Two chief executives of the exchange have now vanished, four years apart, leaving 1.3 million clients locked out....
Your LG TV Might Still Be Listening to You—Even When It Looks Like It’s Off
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off, four months after LG promised Texas regulators it had cleaned up its tracking....
OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Labs May Need to Slow Down
Jakub Pachocki is calling for mandatory safety standards as OpenAI finds it harder to monitor advanced AI models’ reasoning....
Brazilian Banks Expand Crypto Offerings as Regulation Takes Hold
Itaú, Nubank, and Banco do Brasil now sell more than a dozen tokens each to retail clients, even as none of them touch crypto with their own balance sheet....
Will the Crypto Trenches Show Up for Hunter Biden's Meme Coin?
Biden's LAPTOP meme coin drops this week. Most crypto traders out there so far don't seem too enthused....
Liquid Hackers Return $270M in Bitcoin After Swiping $320 Million
Nearly 600 BTC remains outstanding after Blockstream told the actors in an on-chain message that Liquid’s bridge nodes had been patched....
Middle East Crypto Activity Triples to $350 Billion Amid Ongoing Conflict, Report Finds
The Iran conflict has increased demand for digital assets to preserve and transfer wealth, while Gulf crypto businesses have kept operating through disruption, the Bitcoin Policy Institute says....
Malone Lam Faces Plea Hearing Over $245M Bitcoin Theft
A plea agreement hearing in Lam's case is set for Tuesday in Washington, nearly two years after his arrest in Miami....
Hunter Biden to Airdrop LAPTOP Meme Coin to TRUMP’s Biggest Losers
Hunter Biden is launching a meme coin called LAPTOP on Sept. 9 on Base, and airdropping traders who lost money on TRUMP....
Harmony Cites AI Threats in Proposed Blockchain Shutdown
The team wants to move ONE to Ethereum and enter the AI-video business, urging users to exit smart contracts before September 10....
Bitcoin Starts the Week Flat, But Chainlink Is Flying—Here's Why
LINK hit an eight-month high after Bottomline, a top-three SWIFT services provider moving $16 trillion a year, tapped Chainlink to connect 600-plus banks to blockchain settlement....
Ethereum Proposal Would Let Users Pay Gas Without Holding ETH
EIP-8141 has been a draft since January, and its authors pitch it first as a defense against quantum computers....
Irish Gangs Are Renting Private Vaults to Hide Crypto Keys
Keys are going into rented boxes alongside cash, watches and passports, Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau says....
Coldcard Hacker Moves $7.7M, Nearly Half of Third-Wave Bitcoin Haul
The attacker built 293 separate vaults for the stolen Bitcoin and is emptying them in order of size, largest first....
'Purported White-Hat Hackers' Withdraw $320M in Bitcoin From Liquid
Blockstream and the hackers are engaging with each other through PGP-signed messages in Bitcoin transactions....
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Is Shockingly Good at Almost Everything
Early testers spent OpenAI's launch weekend pushing Astra through 3D cities, playable games, Bach chorales and research papers....
XRP Gets Another Boost Through Ripple Deal With Florida Athletics
The multi-year deal will place the XRP logo on the field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium starting this season, extending Ripple's push into college athletics....
Stablecoins Won't Scale Without Banks
With a growing number of institutions exploring stablecoins, the bottleneck is regulated infrastructure they can trust....
This Crypto Project Just Funded 1,000 Student Loans Entirely On-Chain
The team behind Pencil Finance says the financing supported thousands of Southeast Asian students, but it did not disclose borrower costs, defaults, or investor returns....
Ancient Bitcoin Wallet That Turned $120 Into $3 Million Wakes Up
At least four more decade-old wallets moved a combined $15.7 million between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, with one batch of coins sent to Coinbase in a likely sign of a sale....
What Is Robinhood Chain? The Ethereum Layer-2 Network for Tokenized Stocks and Meme Coins
Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products....
Update Your Browser: Google Patches Chrome Flaw Hackers Were Already Using
The update fixes a high-severity flaw in Chrome’s V8 engine, but Google has not revealed who is using it or whom they targeted....
AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required...
TikTok's Parent Company Just Borrowed $30 Billion to Go All-In on AI
Nearly 30 banks backed the rare unsecured facility as TikTok’s parent company spends heavily on AI chips, models, and overseas data centers....
G7 Warns Quantum Threat Demands Action as Crypto Industry Weighs Fixes
The group is urging organizations to adopt post-quantum security before powerful computers can compromise today’s encryption and digital signatures....
Polymarket Launches Crypto Perpetual Futures With Up to 20x Leverage
The prediction market platform's new Perps product scaled from 10 markets to 67 on its first day—though the 20x leverage ceiling only applies to some of them, and none of it reaches U.S. traders....
Crypto Traders Are Pairing Meme Coins With Stocks on Robinhood—And It's Working (Sort Of)
A meme coin called BONER cornered half of Hims & Hers Health's tokenized shares on Robinhood's new blockchain. It started a new trend that's spreading fast....
'Send Your Lawyers': Robinhood Isn't Backing Down From AMC Over Stock Tokens
Lawyers question AMC’s grounds for a securities-law challenge, but say the tokens’ branding and marketing could leave room for a dispute....
A16z-Backed OpenReserve Gets Approval for Full-Service National Bank
The a16z-backed startup chose a full national charter over the trust-bank route most crypto firms have taken, clearing a path toward insured deposits and conventional lending alongside stablecoin issuance....
Zcash Hits Highest Price in Nearly a Decade, Crushing Short Bets
The privacy coin's squeeze rode a Fed-driven crypto rally that reversed hours later, when a stronger-than-expected jobs report sent Bitcoin back under $80,000....
OpenAI Agents Hack German Website to Share Rule-Breaking Tactics: Report
The activity began in May and remained undisclosed until Friday, a day after OpenAI launched Astra and U.S. lawmakers proposed restrictions on advanced AI....
Bitcoin Slides as Blowout Jobs Report Revives Fed Hike Odds
The Dow dropped 226 points and Bitcoin erased some of its gains after August payrolls tripled estimates, pushing September rate-hike odds to 58%....
BitMEX Co-Founder Ben Delo Gives Farage's Reform UK Another £4 Million
Two April payments supplied three-quarters of the party's donations for the quarter, where the next largest single gift was £180,000....
Morning Minute: Crypto Stages Major Rally on Rate Hopes
Bitcoin soared past $81k, HYPE and ZEC hit smashing new ATHs and the onchain rally leveled up. Is this the first stage of the next leg up?...
IMF Now Says Donations Funded El Salvador's Bitcoin Growth
A year ago the fund claimed the total had not moved, and that the reserve was only shuffling coins between government wallets....
67,000 More Trezor Customers Exposed as Data Breach Widens
Some records exposed in the breach date to 2019, years beyond the 90-day retention Trezor said its partners had agreed to....
FinCEN Ties $12.7B to Crypto Scams Run From Asian Compounds
Monthly reported sums rose 18% on average, and the compounds now appear to be spreading beyond Southeast Asia....
AMC CEO Calls Robinhood Stock Tokens 'Contemptible' and 'Vile'
Adam Aron says AMC Entertainment has no connection to the tokens and is putting outside securities counsel on the case....
Utah Becomes First State to Target VPNs in Age-Verification Crackdown
Privacy advocates say the law raises First Amendment questions the courts have yet to address....
Bitcoin Miner Ditches Site for AI Deal That Could Top $1.2 Billion
The projected revenue requires two contract extensions, while an option for more computing capacity could bring the total above $3 billion....
What Is Pons? The Robinhood Chain Meme Coin Factory Token Up 18,000% Since July
PONS, the token behind Robinhood Chain's biggest meme coin factory, flipped CASHCAT to become the chain's largest cryptocurrency by market cap—and its chart looks like a hockey stick....
Bernie Sanders Pushes Bill to Ban Advanced AI Development
The forthcoming bill would pause advanced AI development, create a federal regulator, and threaten violators with up to 20 years in prison....
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: The Closest AI Model Yet to AGI
The model can independently discover and exploit unknown security flaws across hardened systems, triggering a staged rollout and White House review before public access....
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI
The three AI platforms restored service Thursday after users said the simultaneous disruptions brought their work to a halt....
Bitcoin ETFs Rebound as Ethereum and XRP ETFs End Winning Streaks
Ethereum funds broke a 12-day winning run and XRP snapped an 11-session streak on Wednesday, while Bitcoin ETFs bounced back with $101.15 million in one day after their worst outflow since July....
Bitcoin Pumps as Fed Signals Rate Pause, $415 Million in Shorts Get Rekt
Stocks and crypto rallied together after Governor Christopher Waller said he could back holding rates steady, with short sellers absorbing the brunt of the squeeze....
Sony Dismisses PS5 Buyers' $508M Tariff Refund Claim as 'Illogical'
The company raised PlayStation prices for a second time in March, five weeks after the tariffs were struck down....
SoFi Links Banking Network and Stablecoin to Kraken in New Deal
Kraken will list SoFiUSD and gain access to SoFi’s round-the-clock dollar settlement network, while Kraken Prime will execute trades for SoFi’s crypto customers....
Morning Minute: Strategy CEO Says Selling The Bottom Was Correct Move
Strategy sold millions in Bitcoin in the low $60k range and just rebought at $80k. Now they’re sharing the rationale behind the moves....
Mamdani Imposes One-Year Moratorium on Generative AI in NYC Schools
Nearly 600,000 students lose access to generative AI tools, while five named vendors keep metered pilots running in high schools....
Ukraine Busts Kyiv Crypto Drainer Ring Moving Up to $1M Monthly
Fake investment ads on Telegram channels funneled EU victims to a lookalike exchange that emptied their wallets....
Michigan Judge Bars Kalshi Sports Bets, Threatens $500K Daily Fine
The order calls the prediction market platform a sports betting operation "masquerading as an investment opportunity."...
Anthropic Admits Security Failures Behind Claude Hacking Incidents
After Claude models accessed real systems during cyber tests, Anthropic tightened its safeguards and warned that flawed training can encourage dangerous behavior....
An AI Training Data Startup Just Became Y Combinator's Fastest-Ever Unicorn
Afterquery's valuation jumped more than tenfold in five months, making it Y Combinator's fastest unicorn ever....
FBI Seizes $560K in Crypto Bound for Hamas, Takes Over Fundraising Sites
Agents seized digital assets, domains, and servers allegedly used by Hamas’ military wing to collect donations and recruit supporters....
Japan’s Remixpoint Dumps Ethereum, XRP in Shift to Bitcoin-Only Treasury
The Japanese company booked a ¥117.8 million profit after selling its ETH, SOL, XRP and DOGE, leaving roughly 1,506 BTC as its only cryptocurrency holding....
Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show
Emil Michael's latest financial filings show a summer exit from Perplexity, months after a January sale of xAI stock that reportedly netted him up to $24 million....
Goldman Sachs, BofA Among 21 Banks Planning Joint Dollar Stablecoin Launch
The bank-led consortium wants a U.S. dollar token live by the first half of 2027, with a euro version queued up next....
'The Right Trade': Strategy CEO Has No Regrets Selling Bitcoin at $60K Before Buying Back Higher
Phong Le said Strategy’s cost of capital—not Bitcoin’s price—drove its decision to sell nearly 7,000 BTC before resuming purchases above $80,000....
Is Bitcoin About to Flash Crash? What a 'Bart Simpson' Pattern Would Actually Take
Bitcoin traders are calling August's spike-and-fade a Bart Simpson hairline. Here's what separates an actual flash crash from an ordinary correction....
Crypto Groups Push SEC for Tailored Rules on Novel ETFs
Groups including The Crypto Council for Innovation, Grayscale, and a16z urged the regulator to preserve existing fund classifications and streamline reviews for new exchange-traded products....
OpenAI's Astra Becomes Its First AI Model With 'Critical' Hacking Abilities
The unreleased model can find zero-day vulnerabilities and chain them into working exploits without a human walking it through each step, and access to that capability is starting with a small group of testers....
Tether Sued Over Alleged Unlawful Freeze of $42.4 Million in USDT
Two Thai businessmen claim Tether blocked access to their stablecoins months before federal authorities secured a seizure warrant....
Norway Moves to Regulate 'Pervert Glasses,' Weighs Facial Recognition Ban
The country's consumer watchdog went further, urging retailers to stop selling the devices until the law is clear....
AI Billionaires Fund Ad Blitz as Data Center Opposition Hits 61%
Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI's Greg Brockman have backed the super PAC behind the campaign, which faces surging opposition....
Morning Minute: Bitcoin Enters ‘Rektember’ After Best August Since 2017
So far, Rektember is living up to its name as Bitcoin slips. Will this September follow the historical averages, or break the trend?...
Sality Botnet Dismantled After Eight Years of Stealing Bitcoin and Ethereum
CrowdStrike and the DOJ isolated more than 15,000 infected machines in a malware takedown spanning four countries....
SEC Proposes First Transfer Agent Overhaul in 40 Years, Citing Tokenization
New Form TA-2 questions would make agents report how many share registers they keep on distributed ledgers....
Kalshi Suspends House Candidate Laurie Buckhout for Betting on Herself
The North Carolina Republican bought less than $1,000 of contracts on her own race and drew a three-year ban....
OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up Against Hermes
The open-source agent framework that started the "autonomous AI" hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accident, and it's coming for the enterprise now....
Nvidia Invests $3.5 Billion in MediaTek to Expand Beyond GPUs
The deal, part of MediaTek's record $3.9 billion bond offering, ties Nvidia's chip ecosystem to a Taiwanese rival building its own AI accelerator business....
Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Jumps to $1.6 billion
Trading on the Ethereum Layer 2 climbed 61% in a matter of days as DeFi deposits and stablecoin holdings approached $800 million....
What Is 'Red September'? Bitcoin's Curse, and Why Wall Street Has the Same One
Bitcoin has lost ground in eight of the last 13 Septembers. The stock market's had the same problem since 1928. Here's the case for the curse, what broke it last year, and what's coming in the next round....
Dropbox Security Breach: Hackers Access Accounts Through Authentication Flaw
Attackers reportedly registered Lenovo IDs using victims’ email addresses, allowing them to sign into existing Dropbox accounts without their passwords....
Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1, More Than Doubling Its Predecessor on Key Benchmark
Fable 5.1 and its restricted sibling Mythos 5.1 arrive three months after export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 offline for 18 days...
Bitcoin's Next Move: Bullish Bets Run Up Against a Historical Wall
Bitcoin just had one its best months in years amid a price rally that broke the crypto winter pattern. But the charts tell a complicated story....
Solana Treasury DeFi Development Corp Eyes $20 Million Raise to Buy More SOL
The publicly traded company recently bought 19,000 SOL, bringing its treasury to more than 2.33 million SOL and SOL equivalents....
X Data Breach? Users Are Getting Flooded With Password Reset Emails Nobody Requested
X engineers have acknowledged the issue, but have not confirmed a new data breach of its systems....
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Buys $37 Million in Bitcoin and Payments Firm Block
The investment firm bought 456,059 Block shares across three ETFs and added $3.4 million in Circle stock....
Gal Gadot Defends AI Use in Bitcoin Film: 'Work With It or Be Out of the Game'
The actor’s lawyers spent six months negotiating the contract for “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” in order to “protect” her performance....
Morning Minute: Saylor’s Back Buying Bitcoin
Strategy somehow threaded the needle of buying Bitcoin and STRC while also raising cash. Now how will the market respond?...
South Korea Arrests Four Over Crypto Payments to Syrian Terror Group
Police say the ringleader also took crypto from the group and sent back 11 used cars and two excavators, a first for Korean investigators....
Saylor Urges MSCI to Drop 'Discriminatory' Rule That Would Delete Strategy
The proposed screen would cut three companies from MSCI's global indexes in November, with Strategy the largest by some distance....
UK's National Crime Agency Freezes $13.6M of Premier League Money in Sorare Probe: Report
The sum was the first payment under a $163 million deal with the Messi-backed fantasy card game, now facing a gambling prosecution....
As Public Fury Mounts, Texas Pulls the Plug on Flock Surveillance Funding
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop paying for the AI-powered license-plate readers as privacy concerns and officer-misuse scandals mount across Texas....
Strive Adds $143 Million in Bitcoin as Treasury Firms Pile Back In
The Nasdaq-listed asset manager paid an average of $79,431 per coin, lifting its total stash to 23,156 BTC amid a wave of renewed treasury buying....
George Santos Bet on Whether He'd Show Up to the State of the Union—Kalshi Just Banned Him for Life
The exchange found the former congressman placed large trades on his own State of the Union attendance, then made false statements to move prices, profiting nearly $18,000....
XRP ETFs Extend Inflow Streak to 9 Days, Pulling In $1.6 Billion Since Launch
Spot XRP funds have drawn inflows for nine straight days, reaching $1.6 billion in cumulative net inflows even as the token's price cools....
Russia's Sberbank Sees $46 Billion in Crypto Trading, Plans Ethereum and USDT-Backed Loans
Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov told state media that trading could hit 4 trillion rubles in its first year, as the bank prepares to broaden crypto-backed lending once regulators sign off....
Hyperliquid in Talks With Kraken Parent to Bring Crypto Perps to US Traders
A deal would route the decentralized exchange's perpetual futures through Payward's US-regulated Bitnomial, marking Hyperliquid's first US entry—weeks after Trump said his administration was working to bring it onshore....
Former SEC, CFTC Officials Urge Lighter Touch to Bring Crypto Perps Trading Onshore
With the Clarity Act stuck in recess limbo, the agencies are pressing ahead on crypto derivatives and custody, as former officials warn that overly burdensome rules will keep a $90 trillion perps market offshore....
Bitcoin Holds Steady as US Strikes on Iran Rattle Stocks and Lift Oil
The largest cryptocurrency is on track for its best month since 2017, holding above $78,000 even as a hawkish Fed and renewed Middle East conflict drag on stocks and lift crude....
Sony Argues in Court That Digital Games Can't Be Owned
The PlayStation maker is fighting a California class action over "Buy Now" buttons, and has asked the judge to send the case to arbitration....
Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys $131M of ETH in Largest Ethereum Purchase Since June
The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash to 5.9 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee points to crypto's strong third quarter....
South Korea Will Give Every Citizen Free AI Access With Unlimited Tokens
Three consortia will run the service, sharing up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips supplied by the state, with beta testing due in September....
Morning Minute: Robinhood Chain Flips Ethereum and Base in Fees
Vlad Tenev’s new blockchain is soaring in all metrics as memes paired with tokenized stocks start to take off....
Strategy Buys $370M of Bitcoin in First Purchase Since June
The 4,603 BTC cost an average of $80,318, some 29% above what the company took for the coins it sold this summer....
Ireland Bars Crypto From State Savings Scheme Targeting $203B in Deposits
Shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products will qualify for the tax-advantaged accounts, which open next year....
Crypto.com's Cronos Halts Entire Blockchain After $75M Tectonic Exploit
Some $6 million reached Ethereum before validators froze the chain, stranding the rest on a network that still is not producing blocks....
Ex-White House Teleprompter Operator Fined for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Gabriel Perez used his access to Trump's speeches before delivery to bet on "presidential mention market" contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him....
Polygon Quietly Patched Security Flaws in Two Hard Forks Before Disclosing Them
The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited....
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Nine-Day Inflow Streak as Ethereum Funds Extend Their Run
Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash....
Strategy’s Bitcoin Is $2.8 Billion in Profit—Is Saylor Teeing Up a Buy?
A Bitcoin rally to around $79,000 lifted the company's 840,447 BTC roughly $2.8 billion above its cost basis, as Saylor's "We're Back" post fueled speculation that Strategy may resume buying....
After Their AI Models Hacked Real Companies, AI Labs Call for Stronger Cyber Defenses
More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by increasingly capable models....
Bernie Sanders Vows Legislation to 'Stop Flock and AI Mass Surveillance'
The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company's 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a "surveillance state," adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash....
Bitcoin's Oldest Coins Are Waking Up in 2026 at a Pace Rarely Seen
Galaxy Research shows coins untouched for 10-plus years moving at an unusual pace in 2026, with six ancient wallets shifting $40 million in a single 10-day stretch this month....
BitGo Buys NYDIG's Institutional Trading Arm to Beef Up Derivatives and Financing
The roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal adds derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities, while letting NYDIG focus on its power and data-center business....
Bitcoin Rally Stalls, But Long-Term Sentiment Remains Bullish
BTC gave back some of its gains after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talked tough on inflation, but prediction market traders are still leaning bullish....
Meta Tests Robots to Handle Data Center Work
The company says it needs more skilled workers as its AI infrastructure expands, but employees fear automation could reduce or eliminate some roles....
XRP Treasury Company Gets One Step Closer to Listing on Nasdaq
Evernorth has gained SEC clearance, teeing up a shareholder vote on its Nasdaq listing—while the firm's XRP stash sits well below what it paid for it....
US Cities Eye AI Data Center Limits as Study Flags Water Risks
Austin is the latest city to consider restrictions as communities challenge the water and electricity demands of AI infrastructure....
Solana Will Now Print Less SOL as Disinflation Vote Passes in Dramatic Fashion
The "Double Disinflation" proposal squeaked through by a razor-thin margin after Kraken nearly sank it, while a separate fee-burning measure failed....
Fed Chair Warsh Calls AI a 'Hinge Point in History'—4 Key Things He Said
Fed Chair Warsh devoted a full section of his speech today at Jackson Hole to AI's weight on the economy. Here are the biggest takeaways....
Charles Schwab Expands Crypto Trading Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum
The brokerage will expand Schwab Crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink, but has not given a launch date for the three tokens....
What Is Strategy (MSTR)? The Bitcoin Treasury Company
Strategy’s co-founder Michael Saylor pioneered the Bitcoin treasury playbook. Here’s what you need to know....
Bitcoin Miner IREN Shares Fall as AI Conversion Costs Mount
AI cloud revenue topped Bitcoin mining for the first time as IREN accelerated its data center conversion....
Bitcoin Traders Watch Fed Chair Warsh for Clues—And Get Nothing
Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote doubled down on giving markets zero rate hints as inflation runs hot and Bitcoin traders wait on September's call....
Ethereum ETFs Take $226M in a Day, Almost Matching Bitcoin's Haul
Nine straight sessions have brought in $1.4 billion, with Thursday marking the funds' strongest day in 10 months....
Morning Minute: Solana Jumps with Network Inflation Set to Drop
Two majors proposals are set to pass, its leading DATs are back, and Schwab is offering SOL to its clients—quite the setup for Solana....
UK Police Seize $1.4M in Bitcoin Traced to Shuttered Darknet Markets
The 20.21 BTC was linked to marketplaces running between 2016 and 2019, and the man who held it died before it was forfeited....
240 Crypto Millionaires Booked Over Half of Britain's Taxable Crypto Gains
HMRC's first breakdown shows 17,600 people declared £1.38 billion, most of them under 55 and 87% of them men....
Judge Rules Trump Administration Illegally Retaliated Against Anthropic Over AI Red Lines
Rita Lin vacated the supply chain designation and issued a permanent injunction, refusing the government even a seven-day stay....
Bitcoin Completes First Experimental Quantum-Safe Transaction, Starkware Says
The transaction used Bitcoin’s existing rules to protect funds from a future quantum attack without requiring a network upgrade....
Google’s Android 17 Turns On New Privacy Feature—But Your Browsing Isn’t Fully Hidden
Google's new privacy standard scrambles the one field of a web request that still travels in the clear: the name of the site being opened....
Bitcoin Privacy Wallet Sparrow Issues Update After AI Flags Fixes
Developer Craig Raw said an AI-assisted review produced most of the fixes in version 2.5.4, though none appeared likely to put users’ funds at risk....
Red Flag? OpenAI's Agentic ChatGPT Work Signs Into Your Accounts Without You
OpenAI says the model never sees your password—but a signed-in session can persist across tasks, and you can step away while it works....
$6.4 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Tomorrow—Here's What It Means
Deribit's Friday settlement covers nearly a fifth of the exchange's Bitcoin open interest, and max pain sits well below where BTC is trading right now....
No, Ledger Wasn’t Hacked: Vulnerable Ethereum App Was Patched Before Exploit, Company Says
OneKey demonstrated how an outdated Ethereum app could sign a transaction different from the one shown on a Ledger device, but the wallet maker says the vulnerability had already been fixed....
Bitcoin Eyes Major Resistance as Jackson Hole Kicks Off With Unusual Fed Agenda
BTC is holding above $80,000 into a Fed symposium that, for the first time in 40 years, is built around crypto's own turf—payments and financial infrastructure....
Why Nvidia’s Acquisition of Hugging Face Would Reshape Open-Source AI
The chipmaker's reported acquisition would concentrate the open-source AI pipeline inside one company, from silicon to distribution — with consequences for builders and users alike....
Bitcoin Could Overtake Gold in the Next Bull Run: Binance Founder CZ
Gold is worth around ten times more than BTC, Changpeng Zhao said, noting that countries face a years-long process to "shift into Bitcoin."...
AI Finds Critical Flaw in Bitcoin Lightning, Devs Issue Emergency Warning
The Lightning software project said it is preparing fixes after confirming that several AI-generated vulnerability reports were accurate....
Solana Is Having Its Best Month Since 2024—With a Historic Governance Vote on Deck
Solana is up more than 8% in 24 hours and 44% on the month. Coming changes to the network could add a supply squeeze to the mix....
Flock CEO Asks Americans to 'Compromise' on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows
Garrett Langley says 99.9% of police are good actors, days after a report identified at least 69 officials accused of misusing plate readers....
Morning Minute: Robinhood Chain Levels Up as Memes and RWAs Soar
The chain just put up its strongest day since mid-July, with $443 million in DEX volume and more than 3 million transactions....
Bank of England Handed New Legal Duty to Foster Stablecoin Innovation
Financial stability stays the Bank's primary objective, with the new duty written into a bill due before the Lords in September....
Bitcoin ETFs Draw $2.8B in Eight-Day Streak as BTC Tests $80K
August is heading for its strongest month of inflows since October 2025 if the pace holds, one analyst noted....
Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds
Coordinators pressed agents with little budget left into experiments they called "permadeath," METR's investigation found....
Russian Influence Network Used ChatGPT to Masquerade as Academic Experts
The operation promoted a purported Israeli think tank that published copied scholarship under academics’ names and circulated pro-Russian analysis across social media....
Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Jobs Humans Can't Be Fired From
Gates is calling for AI tokens and robots to be taxed so firms think twice before swapping out workers, plus a bracket of "human reserved" roles that stay off-limits to automation....
Nvidia Shares Surge in After-Hours Trading After Record $96.2 Billion Revenue
The chipmaker doubled quarterly revenue while disclosing $366 billion in future commitments and up to $108.5 billion in guarantee exposure....
What Traders Are Watching for Bitcoin's Next Move
Bitcoin's monster rally just hit its first real test. Here's why each catalyst matters and how they could move the price from here....
Galaxy Opens Retail Crypto-Backed Credit Lines on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana
GalaxyOne clients can borrow cash against Bitcoin, Ethereum, and staked Solana at 8.99% APR without selling a coin....
US Banks Join Forces to Build a Blockchain of Their Own
The BankChain Alliance aims to give smaller financial institutions access to tokenized deposits and blockchain payments through a shared network targeted for 2027....
Bitcoin Wallets Dormant for Over a Decade Move $40M in One Week
Six wallets that slept through Bitcoin's entire boom woke up between Aug. 16 and Aug. 26, moving tens of millions in BTC....
Solana Treasury Firm Invites Investors to Look 'Beyond the Price of SOL'
Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury company DeFi Development Corp launched a free network dashboard on Wednesday. Its pitch: judge Solana on more than just price....
'The Government Doesn't Own Our Data': Prosecuted GrapheneOS User
Samuel Tunick, facing five years over a wiped phone, said he was secretly placed on a watch list as a suspected terrorist....
Crypto CEO Faces US Extradition Over Alleged $20 Million Token Scheme
Manpreet Kohli, accused of making $20 million from an alleged scheme to manipulate the Saitama token, is a step closer to facing trial in Boston....
Tokenized Deposits Could Drain $700 Billion From Bank Lending, Dallas Fed Warns
A shift toward faster, more rate-sensitive deposits could push banks into safer assets, constrain lending, and raise borrowing costs, Dallas Fed researchers said....
XRP Leads Crypto Pullback as Leverage Unwind Tests Rally
XRP led losses among the 10 biggest cryptocurrencies today. The charts show the real test for its rally is only getting started....
Ethereum Devs Propose Deposit Contract Overhaul to Quantum-Proof Staking
The proposal would let validator keys grow to 8,192 bytes and adds a switch that permanently retires today's BLS signatures....
Digital Euro Will Offer 'Maximum Level of Privacy,' ECB Board Member Says
Piero Cipollone said the Eurosystem would not be able to link individuals to transactions, though the banks handling them still could....
Revolut Launches Euro-Pegged EURR Stablecoin
EURR has gone live for selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal, with a Luxembourg subsidiary of Stripe holding the reserves....
Morning Minute: LayerZero Announces ATLAS as New Settlement Engine
The market liked the news, with ZRO up 10% and jumping nearly 50% off its local bottom....
Roman Storm's Tornado Cash Retrial Pushed to April 2027
Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the retrial by more than six months, with Storm's motion for acquittal still undecided....
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport
The 10-year project in Vermilion Parish will include five launch complexes and infrastructure for Starship missions....
XRP Hot Streak Cools as Traders Hit a Wall: Where Does It Go Next?
XRP has given back two days of gains after a vertical recovery, and the charts say the bounce just met a wall....
Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer
Alibaba's Qwen team is teasing its next architecture a day early—and the specs say it runs near-frontier scale on a fraction of the power....
These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter
A smaller, cheaper AI usually means a dumber one. A new technique flipped that—and your phone might be the winner....
Bitcoin Open Interest Collapses to 12%. Is the Short Squeeze Over?
Crypto-margined Bitcoin futures have collapsed from near-total dominance to about 12%. But leveraged traders are still placing big bets....
What's the Deal With Nancy Pelosi and the Bloom Energy Stock Surge?
Pelosi disclosed millions of dollars in Bloom Energy investments weeks after shares and options were purchased through her husband's accounts, including a purchase just before the company reported record earnings....
Crypto Market Flips From Fear to 'Extreme Greed' for First Time Since 2024
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was at 36, firmly in the fear zone, just a month ago....
Mistral and HUMAIN Are Building 'Sovereign AI' in Saudi Arabia
Mistral and HUMAIN announced plans to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and across the region—a tie-up valued in the hundreds of millions of euros that deepens Gulf money flowing into European AI....
Gold Hits Three-Month High as Bitcoin Tests $80,000
Gold extended its August rally as a weaker dollar and falling yields boosted demand, while Bitcoin briefly climbed above $80,000 for the first time since May....
Bitcoin Rally Is Outrunning the Rest of the Market: Here’s Why
Bitcoin gained roughly 24% this week while the broader crypto market grew by less, a mismatch that shows up clearly in Bitcoin's rising share of the total crypto market....
Crypto Group Warns Regulators Against Expanding Stablecoin KYC
The crypto trade group warned that forcing issuers to verify identities for peer-to-peer wallet transfers would “cripple the industry” as regulators implement the GENIUS Act....
Crypto Fund Founder Convicted of Fraud Over Fake Trading Bot
Japheth Dillman told investors that Block Bits Capital's "Autotrader" software was finished and running, and took nearly $1 million....
Dozens of Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Linked to Crypto-Stealing Malware
Forty are confirmed malicious, impersonating OKX, Rabby and TronLink to harvest recovery phrases from anyone who types one in....
Grayscale Launches Zcash ETF Following Critical Privacy Flaw That Rocked the Cryptocurrency
The fund gives brokerage investors exposure to ZEC as Grayscale bets on demand for crypto assets beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum....
Morning Minute: Coinbase Puts Tokenized Stocks on Base
These aren’t derivatives tracking stock prices; each token has a direct claim on a share including its rights....
Jury Convicts Las Vegas Man of $24M AI Crypto Mining Ponzi Scheme
Brent Kovar told at least 400 investors a supercomputer was mining crypto for them, and that their money was insured by the FDIC....
US Can Now Sanction Anyone Operating in Iran's Crypto Sector
Digital assets are among five sectors in a campaign Treasury called an “Economic D-Day,” alongside technology, gold, aviation and shipping....
Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Treasury Fund Lands on HashKey
The $1.8 trillion manager is putting its onchain money market fund on the Hong Kong exchange's Earn channel....
Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It
The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach and days after Stripe's OpenRouter deal reset the price of AI infrastructure....
Strive Buys $81.5 Million in Bitcoin After Issuing More Shares
The company increased its Bitcoin holdings by 5.5%, but its Bitcoin per fully diluted share rose only about 1.4%....
AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It
Ox Alpha is topping benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video as input, and has developers guessing who's behind it....
Why the Bitcoin Rally Looks Like a Vote Against the Dollar
Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar weakened following expanded Treasury bond buybacks, reflecting concerns about U.S. fiscal policy, analysts say....
Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Ethereum L2 Base
The tokens represent shares held by regulated custodian Alpaca and can be traded or used in decentralized finance applications on Base....
Hyperliquid Hits Record High as $1.2 Billion Token Unlock Looms
Hyperliquid's token is riding a record into its largest remaining supply release....
Zcash Hits Eight-Year High as Futures Bets Nearly Double
ZEC broke above $880 while open interest in perpetual futures climbed to $1.8 billion....
Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Grew $23 Billion Last Week—Only $2.6 Billion Was New Money
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs booked their strongest inflow week since October, but most of the gain came from coins investors already owned getting more valuable....
Bitmine Buys Another $81M in Ethereum as ETH Outperforms Bitcoin
Bitmine is about 187,000 Ethereum short of its 5% of supply target....
Morning Minute: Saylor’s Strategy Back in Green As BTC Soars to $78k
Bitcoin just closed its biggest weekly candle of all time in notional value, and 10 alt leaders put up 50%+ gains in massive crypto rebound....
Strategy Raises $2B Selling MSTR Stock, Establishes 'USD Cash' Pot
The company has not bought Bitcoin since June, and has now created a liquidity account it said may be spent on more of it....
Pakistan Sets September 5 Deadline for Crypto Firms to Register
Anyone serving Pakistani users since March must apply for clearance by September 5, then incorporate locally to keep going....
Bitcoin's Next Test Is $80,000 as Jackson Hole Meeting Looms
Kevin Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chair on Friday, with futures now pricing a September rate hike at 36%....
63% of Religious Books on Amazon Are Likely AI-Written, Study Finds
Witchcraft books had the highest rate of likely AI-generated content at 78%, according to an Originality.ai analysis of more than 2,000 titles....
Robot Brains Could Have Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by 2027, ACE Robotics Chairman Says
The breakthrough could come from AI models that help robots understand and interact with the physical world, though widespread adoption may still be years away....
Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely
The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing the CVE and found no evidence it was ever exploited....
AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back
A group of 20-odd developers is scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for AI-discoverable flaws, warning that cheap, powerful models have handed attackers unprecedented reach....
A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds
Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com domains—and multiplying fast....
Coldcard Adds New Security Measures After $130 Million Bitcoin Exploit
Coinkite's latest firmware requires users to add their own randomness when generating wallet seeds and fixes additional security issues uncovered during a three-week review....
Wall Street and Washington Fuel Bitcoin Rally: Here's What's Going On
Institutional buying, improving macro conditions and a friendlier regulatory outlook are supporting Bitcoin's rally, while billions in short liquidations have accelerated the move....
Justin Sun's World Liberty Fight Stays in Public Court, For Now
A federal judge sided with the Tron founder on where his token-freeze claims get heard, though his co-plaintiffs' fate is still being negotiated....
Solana Just Got Faster—Is It Bullish for SOL?
Solana has activated the first reduction in its block timing since launch, speeding up transactions on the network....
Washington Goes All-In on Crypto: Trump Pushes Clarity, SEC Rules, and CFTC Warnings
Trump urged executives to pass a "fair version" of the Clarity Act, the CFTC warned it would write its own rules if the bill stalls, and the SEC abruptly advanced its first crypto fundraising framework....
Strategy Swings From $13 Billion Bitcoin Loss to $1.4 Billion Profit as BTC Rallies
The Bitcoin treasury giant is sitting on roughly $1.4 billion in unrealized gains after Bitcoin climbed above its average acquisition price....
Bitcoin ETFs Just Had Their Biggest Day Since May—BlackRock Took 83% of It
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606 million Thursday, the biggest haul since May. And altcoin funds finally showed up too....
XRP Erases Its Most Bearish Signal—And the Ripple-Linked Coin Is Flying
The token spent all August trapped under a bearish crossover. Today it closed above both moving averages for the first time since the pattern formed....
Bitcoin Climbs Higher as $1.2 Billion in Shorts Liquidated
The largest cryptocurrency surged 7.9% in a day to around $77,000, triggering a short squeeze that wiped out roughly $1.21 billion in bearish bets amid a wave of favorable news from Washington....
Morning Minute: CFTC Will Give Crypto Clarity If Congress Won’t
Meanwhile crypto majors and alts continue to soar, with BTC nearing $80k and alts like Pump and ZEC putting up big candles....
Most Americans Say Trump's Crypto Profits Cross the Line: Poll
A Reuters/Ipsos survey found 63% of Americans view the Trump family's crypto profits as inappropriate, with even half of the president's fellow Republicans saying his business interests sway his decisions....
Binance Opens the Door to AI Agents That Can Trade Crypto for You
Binance Agent OS connects tools like ChatGPT and Claude directly to the exchange's markets, though safeguards wall agents off from user funds—and leave much of the oversight to users themselves....
Tensions Flare as CME, Kalshi Execs Clash Over Prediction Markets in DC
CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded barbs during a CFTC meeting over prediction markets, manipulation, and regulatory standards....
What's Next for Bitcoin After Historic Rally? Experts Weigh In
Bitcoin's surge above $72,000 wiped out billions in bearish bets, but analysts say fresh buying will be needed to keep the rally going....
Bitcoin Is Pumping But Prediction Market Traders Aren't Convinced
Bitcoin's sharpest rally in five months flipped prediction-market odds from bearish to a coin flip—but the longer-term bets still price in a crash....
CFTC Chair Readies Crypto Rules If Congress Fails to Pass Clarity Act
The CFTC chair said staff is already exploring a crypto market structure framework and could move quickly to propose rules if Congress fails to act....
Alibaba's Revenue Jumps 9% as AI Cloud Growth Hits 45%—But a Profit Plunge Sends Shares Lower
Cloud and AI product revenue accelerated in the June quarter, but a 75% drop in net income extended Alibaba's run of profit misses to a fifth straight quarter....
XRP Notches Best Week Since 2024 Election Pump on Bitcoin Short Squeeze
The token's steepest daily and weekly gains in months rode Bitcoin's record liquidation wave—though ETF flows and futures data hint the move is running on borrowed momentum....
Iranian Hackers Tied to $6 Million Bitcoin Extortion Charged in Massive Cyber Campaign
Seventeen alleged members of Iran-based Mabna Institute were charged over hacks targeting hundreds of universities, companies, and government agencies....
Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Turned Into Criminal Infrastructure
The StopAndProtect operation used compromised WordPress websites to spread malware, steal crypto wallet files, and deploy ransomware....
Bitcoin Hits Highest Price Since June as $3 Billion in Shorts Liquidated
Bitcoin punched above $72,000 Thursday, extending a two-day squeeze that's wiped out the most short positions on record and mounted the first real challenge to a bearish chart that's held since November....
Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Is Coming to the US
At least, if Trump and the CFTC have their way. And the market really, really liked the news....
Fake Crypto AML Checkers Are Trying to Drain Users' Wallets
Scammers are impersonating crypto compliance services to trick users into approving transactions that could put their assets at risk....
Flock's New AI Police Tool Can Track Drivers Without a Name or License Plate
The underlying code for "OS Investigate" has 69 preloaded AI prompts that turn Flock cameras into a super-charged surveillance system that identifies people by how they move....
Banking Regulator Races to Finalize GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules
OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould told the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium the agency is moving at a rapid pace to beat a January statutory deadline, after already missing an earlier July target....
Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Five Months Flips Markets From Bearish to Coin Flip
Bitcoin's steepest daily gain since March caught traders off guard, and Myriad's pump-or-dump market swung from 70-30 odds to nearly even in a single day....
Trump Says AI Could Be 'Bigger Than the Internet' as He Pushes Light-Touch Regulation
The president said the U.S. is far ahead of China in artificial intelligence and defended the rapid construction of data centers and power plants needed to fuel the industry....
Trump Calls on Congress to Pass 'Fair Version' of Clarity Act at White House Crypto Meeting
Trump touted his administration’s crypto policies and said regulators are working to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. under a compliant framework....
Crypto Stocks Rip Higher as Strategy Jumps 12%, Coinbase Climbs 9%
Strategy, Coinbase, Circle, and BitMine are riding Bitcoin's short squeeze toward $70K—and two of them may be squeezing equity bears of their own....
Kalshi Pushes Beyond Prediction Markets With Copper Perpetual Futures
The prediction market operator is seeking CFTC approval for a copper perpetual as it moves further into traditional derivatives markets....
Six-Bug Exploit Halts Maya Protocol After $1.4 Million in Bitcoin Stolen
The cross-chain protocol said an attacker exploited six software flaws to drain Bitcoin and other assets, sending its CACAO token plunging....
Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $1 Million Startup Accelerator
Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and financing products....
Moderna Stock Doubles on Cancer Breakthrough: Here’s What It Means
A Phase 3 win against the standard of care sent the biotech's shares up 131% and left short sellers down $4.8 billion....
Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $100K Startup Accelerator
Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and financing products....
Bitcoin Surges Toward $70K as $1.14 Billion in Crypto Shorts Get Rekt in an Hour
A White House sitdown with crypto's biggest names and softer Fed signals lit the fuse. But the charts show why the pain for bears might not be over yet....
Coinbase Adds 50x Crypto Perps to Base App Through Hyperliquid
The Hyperliquid integration gives eligible Base App users access to more than 290 perpetual futures markets....
Morning Minute: SEC Brings Clarity to Crypto
If the proposed rules are formalized, it could lead to an ICO boom in the U.S....
Chinese InsurTech Firm Zhibao Adds 2,380 Bitcoin in $154.7M Treasury Pivot
The Shanghai-based InsurTech firm closed a $154.7 million private placement funded entirely in crypto, with investors contributing Bitcoin directly rather than cash....
Alleged $165M Crypto Ponzi Mastermind Deported From Fiji to US
Edward Zimbardi allegedly lured thousands of investors into "The Crypto Program" with promises of 25% monthly returns before fleeing to Fiji....
Winklevoss-Backed Cypherpunk Launches 'World's Largest' Zcash Mining Fleet
The Nasdaq-listed privacy firm launched Cypherpunk Mining through a $33.33 million equity deal with Winklevoss Capital, adding roughly 18% of the Zcash network's hashrate to accelerate its treasury ambitions....
Pennsylvania Cracks Down on AI Data Centers as Backlash Grows
Gov. Josh Shapiro ordered new restrictions on large data centers aimed at shielding residents from higher electricity costs and giving communities more control over proposed projects....
Mozilla Tests an AI 'Smart Window' in Firefox—But Only If You Opt In
The optional window puts an assistant of your choice next to your tabs, with a switch to disable it....
Rare Books Traced to Amazon AI Training Facility to Be Scanned and Destroyed
A tracking device planted in a book order ended at a Las Vegas facility where Amazon strips bindings to scan pages for training data....
Arguing With People on X May Get You More Posts You Hate as Algo Feeds on Ragebait
X’s algorithm may turn argumentative replies into a feedback loop that serves users more content that clashes with their values, with the effect stronger among Democrats, researchers found....
SEC Proposes Crypto Fundraising Exemptions in Abrupt About-Face
The proposed rules would let crypto projects raise capital through token sales without full securities registration and create a path for tokens to separate from investment contracts....
Markets Confident OpenAI Releases Its Next AI Model in Weeks
Traders are betting OpenAI's next frontier model lands within weeks—even after the company pumped the brakes....
Trump Family Crypto Firm Tied to Chinese AI Models US Government Called a Security Risk
WorldClaw accepts World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin while offering AI models from Chinese companies facing U.S. national security restrictions....
Bitcoin Wallet Maker BitBox Says AI Found Severe Flaws in Firmware
The Swiss hardware-wallet maker found two severe bugs with the help of frontier AI models, and warns that older firmware leaves you exposed....
Google Is Paying $10 Million to Use Spirit Airlines Data to Train Its AI Models
The bankrupt airline’s internal communications and business records could soon be used to improve Google’s AI systems....
Citi to Launch Bitcoin Custody as Wall Street Pushes Deeper Into Crypto
The banking giant plans to let institutional clients hold Bitcoin and traditional assets through the same custody framework....
Japan's Metaplanet Plants Its Flag in the US With $132M Bitcoin Treasury Deal
The Tokyo-listed firm will seed gaming media company Super League—to be renamed Superplanet and trade as SUPA—with 2,100 BTC....
Bitcoin Wallet Untouched for 15 Years Suddenly Springs to Life
The address received 8.54 BTC in June 2011 when the coin traded around $14 and stayed silent for 15 years before moving roughly $538,000 in a single transaction....
Morning Minute: PUMP Prints First Golden Cross as Revenue Hits Seven-Month High
Plus, Ethereum researchers are prioritizing privacy; Robinhood is rolling out agentic trading; and Ansem debuts his own launchpad....
Chainalysis Sues US Government Over $94.6M ICE Contract Handed to Rival TRM Labs
The bid protest, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, challenges ICE's sole-source award for blockchain forensic tools, pitting the two biggest names in crypto tracing against each other....
Bitpanda Hit With Europe's First Published MiCA Penalty in Austria
Austria's Financial Market Authority fined the Vienna-based exchange 70,000 euros for procedural and disclosure breaches, an early marker of how EU regulators intend to enforce the bloc's new crypto rulebook....
Kraken Parent Payward Joins Glasswing, Gets Access to Claude Mythos to Hunt Security Flaws
Payward is joining Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s program for giving vetted organizations access to its powerful cybersecurity AI....
Minnesota Says xAI's Grok Created 'Marketplace for Digital Sexual Violence'
Elon Musk’s AI firm says the state’s first-of-its-kind nudification ban violates the First Amendment. Minnesota says it regulates a tool, not speech....
Prediction Markets Give the Fed 74% Odds of Standing Pat in September
Traders across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Myriad are leaning the same way: no change at the September meeting....
Treasury Proposes Rules Defining Who Can Legally Sell Stablecoins in US
Exchanges and other crypto platforms would face new restrictions on selling stablecoins to US customers beginning in 2027....
OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered defense....
XRP Price Holds to Near Two-Year Streak, But Charts Flash a Warning Sign
XRP is clinging to the dollar price line it's defended since Trump's 2024 win. But both the daily and weekly charts are now flashing red....
Solana’s Pump Token Leads Crypto Market Gainers as Chart Paints Golden Cross
The native token of Solana's Pump.fun is up 8%, and the pattern bulls have been waiting for is starting to form on the daily chart....
Ethereum Developers Target Privacy Changes in Next Major Upgrade
A proposed package would let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees without relying on intermediaries....
Wall Street Pushback Halts SEC's Crypto Fundraising Framework, Sources Say
The securities regulator cited an "unforeseen scheduling issue," but sources point to a legal threat from Wall Street trade group SIFMA and an administration waiting to see whether the Clarity Act passes in September....
What Stripe's $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Actually Means for AI
Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for it....
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Buys Another $19 Million in Ethereum as Stash Nears 5% of Total Supply
The firm says it's 96% of the way to owning 5% of Ethereum's total supply, according to Chairman Tom Lee....
Hackers Are Abusing a macOS Screen Sharing Flaw to Secretly Mine Monero
The Dutch cyber agency says attackers exploited an authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing to gain root access and plant Monero miners, with public proof-of-concept code now circulating....
Morning Minute: Trump To Meet Crypto, Prediction Market CEOs This Week
The meeting comes while progress on the Clarity Act has been delayed and the SEC's latest rulemaking postponed....
Strategy Leaves Bitcoin Untouched, Raises $334M Selling MSTR Stock
The Bitcoin treasury firm halted BTC sales after three weeks, with equity issuance covering dividends, a STRC buyback and the dollar reserve....
Pirated Copies of 'The Odyssey' Are Hiding Crypto-Stealing Malware
Bitdefender says fake downloads of the newly released blockbuster are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that scrapes crypto wallets, passwords and browser sessions from infected machines....
Paul Tudor Jones' Firm Buys Back Into BlackRock Bitcoin ETF After a Year of Selling
The macro fund raised its iShares Bitcoin Trust stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares worth $22.9 million in Q2, while sharply cutting its call options—a shift from leveraged bets toward direct spot exposure....
Dutch Prosecutors Sell $2.5M of Crypto From Bankrupt Platform Knaken
The trustee says Knaken bought the coins in its own name, leaving customers with a euro claim against a company that has collapsed....
SafePal Bitcoin Wallet Data Breach Stokes Fears of Physical Attacks
A flaw in an order-tracking plug-in of bitcoin wallet provider SafePal exposed names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly 40,000 customers....
Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore
Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn't produce a working file, Google's budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can't reason, and a free 27B model still writes better....
People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists....
Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China
Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones....
Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions
The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in....
Trump-Linked World Liberty Gets Conditional Bank Charter for USD1 Stablecoin
The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo....
France Tax Data Leak Could Fuel Scams, Attacks Targeting Bitcoin Holders
A hacker is reportedly selling personal and financial records tied to more than 678,000 taxpayers and businesses in France....
China's Z.AI Ships GLM-5.3, Calling It the Top Open-Weight Coding Model
The Chinese lab says the release beats comparably sized open models on code benchmarks. The blog's own numbers show it trails the closed frontier and at least one open rival....
SharpLink Will Stake $200M of Ethereum Through Lido's wstETH
Sharplink plans to stake roughly 12% of its total Ethereum holdings through Lido, earning yield while staying active in DeFi....
OpenAI Staff Blame Rush to Ship for Rogue Agent Hack
Current and former OpenAI employees reportedly say pressure to release new AI products made it harder to prioritize safety....
Coldcard Bitcoin Thefts Slow, But Losses Could Top $150 Million: Galaxy
Galaxy Research says the lull likely means vulnerable holders migrated, or were already emptied....
Israel’s Largest Bank Will Give Bitcoin Trading Another Try
Bank Leumi's 2022 attempt died at the Bank of Israel. A softer regulatory line and Galaxy's custody stack now give it another shot in early 2027....
Another Bitcoin Miner Sells Off BTC to Fund AI Data Center Pivot
Bitcoin miner Hyperscale sold most of its Bitcoin but said it plans to rebuild its holdings through mining and future purchases....
Fake LinkedIn Crypto Job Scams Have Cost $11.8M: Singapore
Malware planted during a bogus coding assessment harvested a session token, bypassing multi-factor authentication to reach a code repository....
Ireland’s New AML Strategy Brings ‘Enhanced Checks’ on Private Crypto Wallets
The country's first strategy of its kind also brings stricter due diligence for firms dealing with overseas crypto companies....
Morning Minute: Tether Finally Gets An Audit
It seems Tether passed, putting an end to the longest-running open criticism of the leading stablecoin company....
SEC Shelves Crypto Rule Meeting Days After Senate Punted Clarity Act
No replacement date has been set for the meeting, which was cancelled due to an “unforeseen scheduling issue.”...
Kalshi Ordered to Block Washington Bets Days After CFTC Backed It
A King County judge gave the exchange until August 19 to stop offering sports, election and politics wagers in the state....
'Bitcoin Is Burning': Red Team Turns to Chinese AI to Find Flaws
Bitcoin Red Team member Calle said Chinese models, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, are finding bugs across Bitcoin’s open-source software....
Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Chat Logs Are Unhinged
In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why....
Solana Can Be the 'Everything Chain' as Crypto Apps Go Mainstream: 6th Man Ventures Co-Founder
6th Man Ventures co-founder Mike Dudas says Solana’s infrastructure could carry crypto’s next wave....
Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how....
Google and OpenAI Debut Super Fast AI Models—Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Out, But GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Is Invite-Only
Google's model is live and built for cheap agents; OpenAI's is quicker but locked behind a waitlist....
Tether Claims 'Largest Inaugural Financial Audit' as KPMG Signs Off on 2025 Statements
Tether said KPMG gave its 2025 financial statements a clean opinion, a milestone for the company after years of questions about the reserves backing USDT....
White House Lets Private Firms Hack Cybercriminals—At Their Own Legal Risk
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that lets vetted U.S. companies carry out offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. Here's what the program actually authorizes....
Crypto Group Warns Fed Could Use Banking Access to Squeeze Digital Asset Firms
The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia’s case, saying that broad Fed power over “master accounts” could be used to push crypto firms out of the banking system....
Bitcoin Companies Want Help From AI Labs to Guard Against Hackers
More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms asked the biggest AI labs this week to let independent security researchers use their strongest models before public release....
Metaplanet Denies Selling $320M in Bitcoin as Firm Launches BitBonds
The company's CEO said a 5,014 BTC transfer was a custody move, not a sale, as the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company rolls out a fixed-rate debt program....
Hawaii To Ban Cash Deposits at Crypto ATMs From October
Lawmakers targeted the deposits that scammers rely on, with the machines still able to sell crypto for dollars or swap one coin for another....
FCA, HTX in Settlement Talks Over Illegal UK Crypto Promotions: Report
An FCA employee bought crypto from a UK IP address using a driving license as ID, according to the regulator's claim....
Ethereum DeFi Platform Ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks and Portfolio-Backed Loans
The Ethereum staking platform is adding asset trading, fiat accounts, and borrowing through Aave as it pushes into crypto banking....
Trezor Customer Data Exposed in Shipping Partner Breach
The hardware wallet manufacturer says its devices and backups are untouched, but the leak hands attackers valuable customer data....
XRP Holders Can Now Trade Options Using Flare’s FXRP as Collateral
The Derive integration gives XRP holders a way to hedge or speculate without depositing their tokens with a centralized exchange....
Morning Minute: The SEC Plans Rules for Tokenized Stocks
The new framework could be announced as soon as Friday, in what could be the biggest development for crypto this year....
Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training by Default: 'Nobody Would Opt In'
Twitch's chief product officer says he does not know whether content had already been used for training before the setting appeared....
CEO of Crypto Lender Delio Gets 15 Years Over $49M Fraud
A botched search of the platform's server host cost prosecutors the bulk of their case, cutting it from 2,800 alleged victims to about 1,100....
The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock
A Kansas City security researcher ran 31 million tests to teach a model how to paint camouflage for the algorithm age....
'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit
Researchers found every major AI provider encrypts reasoning tokens with a single global key—and exploited it to decode 315,320 hidden thinking blocks from public logs, recovering passwords and live API keys along the way....
China’s DeepSeek Upgrades V4 Pro: Claude Fable Is Only 5% Better at 4,500% the Price
The April preview got benchmarked to death and landed 18 points behind Anthropic’s flagship. DeepSeek’s own numbers for the finished model tell a very different story....
SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts
The AI agent can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other bots, raising questions about security and control....
Goldman Sachs' $2.25B NEOS Deal Hands It Ready-Made Bitcoin Income ETF Business
The cash-and-equity deal for the options-income specialist folds in NEOS's roughly $1 billion Bitcoin covered-call fund, giving Goldman instant scale in a crypto ETF niche it had only just entered on paper....
After Coldcard Was Hacked, $15 Billion in Bitcoin Moved to Safety
Casa CEO Nick Neuman says the mass Bitcoin migration after the $130M Coldcard exploit proves distributed self-custody is Bitcoin's immune system—not its vulnerability....
Zoomsday: AI Used to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One Day
The flaws could let someone in a meeting take control of another participant’s device without the victim clicking anything....
Fidelity Files to Let Its Ethereum ETF Stake and Pay Investors
The Boston asset manager's FETH would stake up to 100% of its ETH and distribute the rewards to holders as quarterly cash, pending SEC approval....
XRP Bridge Drained After Software Treats Fake Deposits as Real
A flaw that went undetected during multiple audits allowed an attacker to create unbacked balances and withdraw XRP from the bridge’s reserves....
Crypto-Backed Loans, Explained: How to Unlock Cash Without Selling Your Bitcoin
A fixed-rate crypto-backed loan lets you borrow against BTC, ETH, or SOL while keeping your coins. Here's how they work....
Why Bitcoin Barely Moved Even as US Inflation Cools to 3.4%
The tamest U.S. inflation print in months left crypto markets flat, with Bitcoin shrugging off the data hit. Here's why....
A Routing Bug Took Solana 86% of the Way to Losing Finality
A malformed default route at a single hosting provider took almost 29% of staked SOL offline, against a 33% threshold....
Kalshi Adds Real-Time Market Data Feed Through DoubleZero
The service gives trading firms access to Kalshi’s sports and crypto order books over DoubleZero’s fiber network....
Morning Minute: The CFTC Bails Out Kalshi in NY
The CFTC keeps going to bat for Kalshi while the ultimate prediction market court battle looms, with the fate of the sector in the balance....
Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Crypto Slump Reaches ETF Issuers
The reduction matches the percentage shed by Coinbase in May, and follows shutdowns at BitMEX and BitMart....
Harmony's ONE Sinks 37% After Attacker Mints 4 Billion Tokens
The team is weighing a rollback, which would undo the attack along with every legitimate transaction made since....
CFTC Invokes Emergency Powers to Keep Kalshi Trading Despite New York Suit
Kalshi triggered the order, notifying the agency of a market emergency after New York moved to bar its contracts nationwide....
Another OpenAI Exec Quits in Leadership Shake-Up as AI Giant Eyes IPO
The former operating chief is starting a new venture following several departures across the ChatGPT developer’s leadership and safety teams....
BTCPay Backers Offer Bitcoin Bounty After Wallet Exploit
The reward aims to recover Bitcoin stolen after attackers gained access to connected LND wallets....
The Bull and Bear Case for Solana’s Next Price Move
Solana is holding its 50-day average after a pullback from August's $90 spike, but the death cross above it keeps pressure pointed down....
SEC Prepares Escape Hatch From Securities Registration for Crypto Projects
The agency has set an open meeting to consider moving forward with its Regulation Crypto proposal....
AI Agent Hacks a Gym—And the Tech World Wonders What's Next
The newly reported incident is raising fresh concerns about autonomous AI after models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta exploited websites and online services....
Trump Media’s Crypto Bet Fuels Massive $238M Quarterly Loss
Falling digital asset values battered the Truth Social parent’s balance sheet, contributing to about $361 million in crypto-related losses during the first half of 2026....
Russia Approves Trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT—But No XRP
Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether clear the central bank's liquidity bar—everything else, including XRP, stays off-limits for retail....
Ravencoin Crashes 20% as Critical Exploit Threatens to Rollback Network
Two mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin's hash power are already rebuilding the chain from before Friday's first bad block—here's what a forced rollback would undo....
eToro Agrees to Acquire TradeZero in $231M US Expansion, Stock Tanks 10%
The crypto-friendly trading platform is betting on US equities as regulators keep squeezing its token menu....
OpenAI's Only Dedicated Ethicist Has Left With No Replacement: FT
Chloé Bakalar joined from Meta last August and departed in July without any announcement, one of several safety exits in recent weeks....
Why Strategy Is Selling Bitcoin and How Much It Has Sold So Far
The world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in BTC since June as it changes how it funds dividends and manages its cash....
Luke Dashjr Removed as BIP Editor After BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls
Supporters of the soft fork he championed split onto their own chain on Saturday, where it mined two blocks in eight hours and stopped....
Morning Minute: Saylor's Strategy Sells Bitcoin for Second Week in a Row
Strategy dumped $108M in BTC at a loss and a whopping $650M of MSTR stock, and yet MSTR stock barely flinched. What gives?...
North Korea Now Leans on Crime Networks to Launder Stolen Crypto: RUSI
Once its proceeds mix with scam money, exchanges struggle to separate proliferation finance from ordinary laundering, the paper warns....
Coinbase Opens UK Derivatives Trading With Up to 50x Leverage
Futures, perpetuals and options spanning crypto, commodities, equities and FX, limited to clients who qualify as professional investors....
UK Lawmakers Write to Bank CEOs Over Crypto Account Refusals
The APPG has asked banks to explain their crypto policies, warning that access could be one of the single biggest barriers to growth....
Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Is Betting Its Future on Quantum Security and AI
Ethereum’s updated roadmap puts quantum resistance, privacy and AI-assisted formal verification at the center of the network’s technical ambitions....
Bitcoin ATMs Pulled in Australia as Regulators Signal Wider Crackdown
AUSTRAC has suspended the registration of the operator running 96 of Australia's roughly 1,800 crypto ATMs, effective August 9....
Hidden Text in PDFs Is Hijacking This AI Assistant
A security firm says Atlassian's AI assistant will quietly ship your Jira tickets and Confluence docs to an attacker, using instructions buried in a file you'd swear was empty....
Another Dormant Bitcoin Wallet Holding Millions Wakes Up After 12 Years
A Bitcoin address that sat untouched for more than 12 years just moved 26.96 BTC, worth about $1.75 million....
Wall Street Is Starting to Treat Data Center Backlash as a Credit Risk
Banks financing the AI infrastructure boom are now weighing local public opposition alongside permits and costs....
Brazil's $319B Crypto Market Faces October Licensing Deadline: CertiK
A new report maps Brazil's push to bring its vast crypto market under formal supervision by October 30....
Bitcoin Rally Fades—Where Does Price Go Next?
The price of Bitcoin is up on the seven-day chart, today bouncing to a high of $65,000. But bearish market pressure persists....
Web3 Is Building Financial Freedom Only for People Who Can Afford Mistakes
When the same mistake recurs across many users, it stops being client error and becomes product data, argues ChangeNOW's Pauline Shangett....
XRP Price Weakens as Crypto Market Awaits Clarity
XRP is trading just above $1.00, still pinned under a death cross, as the legislative tailwind that lifted it in July loses steam....
Hackers Drain $8 Million From Crypto Exchange Across Two Blockchains
The attacker moved funds across Tron and Ethereum before routing millions through crypto exchanges, while later wallet activity offers clues about how the breach occurred....
OpenAI Says Its Next AI Model Astra May Be Too Dangerous, Pauses Development
OpenAI says its next major model may be dangerous enough to write its own cyberweapons, and it's pulling back until the safeguards catch up....
Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys $14M in Ethereum as Cash Falls to $104M
Bitmine has reported 4.8% of the supply for five straight weeks, leaving its 'Alchemy of 5%' target roughly 230,000 tokens away....
Morning Minute: Bitcoin ETFs See Biggest Inflows Since May
And the ETH inflows were even bigger, when factoring in market cap....
Strategy Sells $109M in Bitcoin as Dollar Reserve Tops $4.6B
All of the proceeds went into a $109 million STRC buyback, while the company sold six times as much again in its own stock....
Bitcoin ETFs Draw $854M Over Five Days as Rate-Hike Bets Fade
Daily totals shrank as the week wore on, and analysts are split on whether the return of institutional money marks a genuine turn....
Standard Chartered Sees $4T Tokenization Driving Chainlink to $200 by 2030
The bank has now set 2030 targets for Uniswap, Aave, Morpho and Chainlink, all resting on one 37x forecast for DeFi growth....
Bybit Sues North Korea Over $1.5B Hack, Wins Order Freezing Assets
The exchange says it has recovered $48.4 million and frozen $30.5 million more, a fraction of what the Lazarus Group took in February 2025....
Bitcoin 'Anti-Spam' Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a difficulty adjustment while the main network powered ahead....
Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects
A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews....
Senate Keeps Clarity Act Alive With Crypto Bill Vote Set for September
Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed early Saturday, setting up a mid-September showdown....
Robinhood Crypto Chief Explains Why There Are 'Two Wolves' Inside Robinhood Chain
“We want to show customers that we care about what they care about," Robinhood head of crypto Johann Kerbrat told Decrypt....
Trump Media Abandons Crypto Treasury, Prediction Market Ventures
Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE....
Cross-Border Stablecoin Payment Settlements Volume Outpaces Traditional Rails
Breaking market intelligence breakdown covering cross-border stablecoin payment settlements volume outpaces traditional rails.