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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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDBRLUSDT USDⓈ-Margined TradFi Perpetual Contract (2026-09-21)

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.

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.

Binance Will Support the Broadcom (AVGO), Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ), Meta (META), and Seagate (STX) Cash Dividend Distribution via bStocks

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Exchange Adds GoPro (GPROB) and Reddit (RDDTB) bStocks Trading Pairs on Binance Spot/Convert - 2026-09-16

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Will Add BNCB bStocks Tokenized Securities as Collateral Asset - 2026-09-14

Binance Exchange Adds CEA Industries (BNCB) bStocks Trading Pair on Binance Spot/Convert - 2026-09-14

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Binance Will List 牛来 (牛来) with Seed Tag Applied

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.

Binance Will Add 2 bStocks Tokenized Securities as Collateral Asset - 2026-09-09

Binance Exchange Adds Salesforce (CRMB) and Hims & Hers Health (HIMSB) bStocks Trading Pairs on Binance Spot/Convert - 2026-09-09

$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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined PONSUSDT and 哈基米USDT Perpetual Contracts (2026-09-06)

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.

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

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.

'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.

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.

Binance Will Add MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) on Earn, Buy Crypto, Convert, VIP Loan & Margin

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.

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.

Binance Will List MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) with Seed Tag Applied

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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined GPROUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-09-03)

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Will Add 4 bStocks Tokenized Securities as Collateral Asset - 2026-09-02

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.

Binance Exchange Adds 4 bStocks Trading Pairs on Binance Spot/Convert - 2026-09-02

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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined MARSCOINUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-09-01)

Binance Futures Will Launch HK0625USDT USDⓈ-Margined Quanto Perpetual Contract (2026-09-01)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined 牛来USDT Perpetual Contract (2026-08-30)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MANTRA Chain is back online, but silent code changes spark developer concerns

Mainnet is running on v8.4.0, while wallet addresses, transaction hashes, amounts and the attack path remain undisclosed. The post MANTRA Chain is back online, but silent code changes spark developer concerns appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum’s plan to triple network speed could silently break millions of existing smart contracts

Most replay failures need higher limits, while a smaller counterfactual cohort may require code changes or migration. The post Ethereum’s plan to triple network speed could silently break millions of existing smart contracts appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum and Solana are hosting trillions in dollar volume, yet their native tokens risk losing direct consumer demand

Paymasters and sponsors can keep native tokens out of sight, but Ethereum and Solana still require fees funded in ETH or SOL. The post Ethereum and Solana are hosting trillions in dollar volume, yet their native tokens risk losing direct consumer demand appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Binance Adds bStocks to Spot Trading Bots and Extends Zero Maker Fee Promotion - 2026-08-28

HashKey Cloud backs Stacks’ Genesis Bond to prove institutional appetite for native Bitcoin yield

The Genesis Bond avoids BTC lending and custody transfers while adding a 5% STX lock, managed parameters and variable payouts. The post HashKey Cloud backs Stacks’ Genesis Bond to prove institutional appetite for native Bitcoin yield appeared first on CryptoSlate.

KuCoin can block your crypto transactions even if you never sent it to these 17 sanctioned platforms

A listed intermediary can trigger review, rejection, wallet restrictions, and possible suspension or termination. The post KuCoin can block your crypto transactions even if you never sent it to these 17 sanctioned platforms appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed

A mainnet QSB transaction passed consensus, yet nonstandard relay, high computation costs and exposed keys limit the escape route. The post Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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.

The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows

A 4.5 million-observation event study finds crisis-week inflows among ENS-tagged wallets, while its model shows how adoption can strain capital controls. The post The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows appeared first on CryptoSlate.

It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has

BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor from $100 million to $3 million. While this might sound like a niche development for a small number of institutional users, it signals that custody is no longer just a slogan for […] The post It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Investors just moved $7 billion into Bitcoin and gold in five days to escape an accelerating dollar crisis

GLD and IBIT supplied about 70% of the five-session record as yields and the dollar eased, leaving the hedge thesis untested under pressure. The post Investors just moved $7 billion into Bitcoin and gold in five days to escape an accelerating dollar crisis appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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.

Morgan Stanley leads Solana ETF $9 million inflows as SOL jumps rises above $100

Farside's six tracked products drew $3.6 million on Aug. 26 as only BSOL and VSOL reported positive net flow. The post Morgan Stanley leads Solana ETF $9 million inflows as SOL jumps rises above $100 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Exchange Adds Trump Media & Technology Group (DJTB) bStocks on Binance Spot - 2026-08-26

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Morning Minute: SEC Brings Clarity to Crypto

If the proposed rules are formalized, it could lead to an ICO boom in the U.S.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch UNITREEUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract (2026-08-19)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Binance Will Add 1 bStocks Tokenized Securities as Collateral Asset - 2026-08-12

Binance Exchange Adds 1 bStocks Trading Pair on Binance Spot - 2026-08-12

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.

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.

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.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined DOSUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-08-11)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchanges It Says Laundered Millions for Iran

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.

Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Warns Critical Flaw Is Under Active Attack

Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.

Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet

A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.

Hackers Use BNB Chain to Spread Malware Through Fake CAPTCHAs

Microsoft said compromised websites are retrieving malicious instructions from the blockchain before tricking visitors into running them on Windows devices.

Bitcoin Wallet Dormant Since 2011 Moves Millions in BTC

A Bitcoin address that had stayed silent for 15 years just sent its coins out for the first time.

Morning Minute: MetaMask Hands AI Agents a Wallet

MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade crypto on their own. Plus, Bitcoin reclaims $65k despite the Clarity Act facing a new delay.

Senate Punts Clarity Act Vote to September as Democrats Hold Out

Senate Majority Leader Thune says the bill will be queued up when lawmakers return, leaving weeks to find 60 votes before midterms take over.

Meta Says Its AI Model Escaped and Hacked a Third-Party Company Too

The company says a configuration error by an outside testing partner gave one of its Muse Spark models internet access during a cybersecurity evaluation.

Putin Signs Russia's First Crypto Law: Trading Is Legal, Payments Stay Banned

The new law creates a licensed, central bank-supervised market for trading digital assets, yet crypto remains barred from everyday payments.

XRP, Bitcoin Whales Are Accumulating—Is the Bear Market Nearly Over?

On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.

MetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto Trading

The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.

Morning Minute: Uniswap Enters the Launchpad Wars on Robinhood Chain

It looks like Uniswap is playing to win with their zero-fee model, and the early data shows them already taking the top spot.

Crypto Wrench Attacks on Pace for Record Year as $30M Stolen in 2026: Chainalysis

The blockchain analytics firm says home invasions are becoming more common, France has emerged as the leading hotspot, and some attackers are using increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques.

Bitcoin AI Security Audit Files 4,962 Findings Across 390 Projects

A volunteer group is pointing AI agents at Bitcoin project codebases and says 720 of the issues it has filed are high severity or critical.

Meta Debuts AI Coding Agent Muse: Here’s How It Compares to Claude Code and Codex

Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.

OpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer

Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.

Feds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

Bitcoin Tests Market’s Patience as Zcash Gives Holders Hope: Analysis

Will Bitcoin breakout of its death cross? Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Here’s what the charts say.

Circle Taps Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock as Validators for September Arc Launch

Circle's USDC distribution deal with Coinbase has been renewed on existing terms, and Arc's testnet has processed half a billion transactions.

Eliza Founder Declares AI Token 'Dead,' Shuts Down Foundation After Lawsuit Settlement

Shaw Walters says Eliza's token is no more after a class-action settlement drained the project's remaining funds.

Ex-LAPD Officer Gets Life Plus 15 Years Over $350K Bitcoin Robbery

Eric Halem and his crew wore police vests to enter a Koreatown high-rise, then handcuffed a 17-year-old and took his hard drive.

AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.

Police Have Arrested 37 Americans Over AI Data Center Protests This Year

Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.

Solana Proposal Would Increase Daily SOL Burns More Than 10-Fold

Validators are considering changes that would increase the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation while reducing the rate of new token issuance.

Apple's AI Slop Problem Left a $200K macOS Exploit Unreported

A Milan start-up says it found a full-takeover flaw in macOS using ChatGPT, then hit Apple's new submission cap before it could file it.

Hardware Wallet Firms Warn of Phishing Surge as Coldcard Losses Near $130M

Fake "coordinated hardware audit" emails are steering holders to a cloned Coldcard site that installs remote-access software.

Five Convicted of Imprisoning Crypto Millionaires in London 'Torture' Ordeal

Two of the five were also convicted of conspiracy to blackmail, in a case police won without either victim testifying.

Former FBI Agent Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Crypto and Using ChatGPT for Investment Advice

Prosecutors say the former counterintelligence supervisor stole cryptocurrency from wallets tied to FBI investigations before asking ChatGPT how to invest the money and relocate to Europe.

XRP Holders Can Now Borrow Ripple's RLUSD on Ethereum Without Selling Their Crypto

Flare's FXRP has been approved as collateral in a $280 million RLUSD lending vault, allowing XRP holders to tap Ethereum's lending markets.

Trump Family’s American Bitcoin Tops 8,000 BTC After Record Mining Quarter

The Hut 8 subsidiary increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14% in the second quarter even as Bitcoin’s price fell.

Strategy Sells $105M in Bitcoin as Dollar Reserve Hits $4B

Half the proceeds funded preferred dividends and half went into an $81 million STRC buyback, its second in as many weeks.

Coldcard Losses Near $114M as Small Bitcoin Transfers Spike

Transfers of less than 1 BTC hit levels last seen days after the FTX collapse, while Galaxy Research flagged a likely fourth wave of thefts.

Binance Futures Will Launch GIGADEVUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract (2026-08-03)

CZ Warns Bitcoin Holders After $70 Million Wallet Exploit: 'Nothing Is 100%'

The Binance founder urged holders to spread funds across multiple wallets as Galaxy Research put the toll from the Coldcard exploit at roughly $70 million—nearly double the initial estimate.

AI Music Company Suno Loses Copyright Case in Germany

The decision requires AI companies to license copyrighted music used to train models and generate songs, marking another legal win for music rights holders in Europe.

Circle Lands New York Trust Charter as Stablecoin Issuer Expands Regulatory Footprint

The approval comes weeks after Circle won federal approval to establish a national trust bank, adding another license as the USDC issuer expands.

XDC AI and the Rise of Agentic Finance: When AI Agents Learn to Pay

As AI agents move from giving advice to making transactions, a new layer of payment infrastructure is racing to catch up.

Morning Minute: Coinbase Posts Surprise Loss as Crypto Trading Dries Up

Plus, BTC is red this morning despite $233M in ETF inflows yesterday; and NY State is trying to shut down Kalshi and seeking $36B in damages

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined GRVTUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-07-31)

New York AG Seeks $36B From Kalshi Over 'Illegal Gambling'

The CFTC asked a court to stop New York enforcing against the prediction market the day before the state filed.

Coinbase Misses on Q2 Earnings as Crypto Trading Activity Slows

The exchange reported lower quarterly revenue and a net loss as crypto trading activity declined, while subscription, stablecoin, and lending businesses continued to grow.

Bitcoin Quantum Threat Inches Closer as IBM Claims 'Trusted Quantum Advantage'

The advance reflects IBM’s continued progress toward machines powerful enough to challenge today's cryptography.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Sells Bitmine While Adding to Coinbase and Circle Holdings

Ark Invest sold shares of Bitmine, Robinhood, Bullish, and Block during Wednesday's pullback in crypto equities, while continuing to add to Coinbase and Circle.

Australia Sues Telegram for $38M Over ‘Pro-Terror’ Videos

The eSafety Commissioner accused the social media platform of failing to detect material relating to the Christchurch and Buffalo attacks.

Morning Minute: Robinhood Posts Its Best Quarter Ever

Plus markets are rebounding after a slightly hawkish FOMC, BTC ETFs flip to inflows and MoonPay launches a new AI product + airdrop

Robinhood Posts Best Quarter Ever as Prediction Market and Robinhood Chain Take Off

Robinhood posted a record $1.31 billion in revenue in Q2. Prediction markets are now doing the work crypto used to for the company.

MoonPay's PayBox Puts a Crypto Wallet Inside Claude and ChatGPT—And Lets It Pay for Things

The company wants your AI to move money autonomously while you stay in control. Here's how it actually works.

Bitcoin, Ethereum Wobble as Fed Holds Rates Steady

Chair Kevin Warsh kept the federal funds rate at 3.5%–3.75% and offered no new signals on when cuts—or hikes—might come.

Ethereum Price Stalls as Fed Rate Decision Looms

Despite being down today, ETH has clawed back from the worst levels of the year. Now it's waiting on the Fed.

SEC Ready to Provide Crypto Rules if Clarity Act Flounders: Chair Atkins

Passed by the House a year ago, the bill cleared Senate Banking in May and still awaits a floor vote.

Crypto Scams Cost Americans an Estimated $80.7B in 2025: Report

The figure is seven times that of the $11.4 billion in reported losses, a rate drawn from a 2017 survey on how rarely fraud is reported.

Russia Charges Telegram's Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorism

Durov has previously called Russia’s criminal case against him "a sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people."

Markets Don’t Buy the US Ceasefire Against Iran Will Last

The odds that a ceasefire lasts at least 14 consecutive days dropped by 10% today on Polymarket, and traders on Myriad believe peace talks won't happen until next month.

Claude Mythos Cracked Post-Quantum Cryptography That Humans Spent Years Failing to Break

Anthropic’s locked model found a new attack on a post-quantum signature scheme headed for U.S. federal standardization.

Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Code Is a Constitution, Changes Are Attacks on 'Economic Rights'

The Strategy chairman's latest thread extends his war far beyond BIP-110: now covenants, larger blocks, and any base-layer change are all the same "constitutional offense."

Morgan Stanley Expands Crypto Push With Ethereum and Solana ETPs

The Wall Street giant has launched spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products, expanding its digital asset strategy.

Zcash Activates Ironwood Upgrade After Counterfeiting Scare

The long-awaited network upgrade retires Zcash's vulnerable Orchard shielded pool and introduces new safeguards to protect the cryptocurrency's supply.

The Dumbest-Looking AI Prompt Just Beat Months of Careful Game-Design Prompt Engineering

The dev told Claude Opus 5 to be "utterly perfect" and left the rest up to the model—the results turned out to be utterly perfect, for an AI model.

First ChatGPT, Now Claude: Frontier AI Models Are Escaping Their Sandboxes

A week after OpenAI disclosed a frontier AI sandbox escape, researchers found Anthropic's Claude Cowork could break out of its own virtual machine.

1inch's Shared Liquidity Layer Aqua Goes Live

The shared liquidity layer opens to all users on 13 chains, letting one wallet balance stand behind several positions at once.

Myanmar Approves Death Penalty for Forced Scam Labor, Life for Crypto Fraud

Scam operations across the region drove up to $114 billion in losses in 2025, according to United Nations estimates.

'Running Away Balloon' Artist Sues AI Meme Generator Over Ad Templates

The suit sidesteps the fight over AI training data, alleging the comic sits in a paywalled template catalogue, searchable by name.

Kalshi, Polymarket Score Win as Judge Blocks Minnesota Prediction Market Ban—For Now

The order turns on whether each contract counts as a swap under federal law, and the judge found that not every one does.

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Will Arrive by September, Markets Predict

Money is moving on a September bet for OpenAI’s next major model on both Polymarket and Myriad prediction markets.

Searchable NYC Property Database Puts Wealthy Residents at Risk, Critics Warn

A searchable database built from New York City's public property assessment records has drawn backlash from critics who say it creates privacy and security risks.

SparkKitty Malware Found in App Stores Targets Crypto Wallet Seed Phrases

A newly detailed report says SparkKitty malware scanned photos on infected iPhones and Android devices for cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases after infiltrating Apple's App Store and Google Play.

Microsoft Says MDASH Beats Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol in Cybersecurity Test

Microsoft says its new cyber model lets more than 100 AI agents find software flaws at half the cost of its current best MDASH configuration.

Your Shared Claude Chats Were Being Quietly Published on Google

A missing line of code meant "share with a link" and "searchable by anyone" were the same thing—and someone already saved 11,241 of those messages to GitHub.

Nvidia, Microsoft and IBM Launch Open Secure AI Alliance to Strengthen AI Cybersecurity

More than 40 technology companies and organizations have allied to develop open-source AI security tools and standards for cyber defense.

A Man Gave Border Agents His Phone Passcode. It Wiped Everything. Now He's Facing Federal Charges

Samuel Tunick allegedly triggered a GrapheneOS duress password during a warrantless airport search. Federal prosecutors call it destruction of property. His lawyers call it a digital right.

Circle Buys IBM Blockchain Patent Estate—And Becomes America's Biggest Holder

The USDC issuer acquired nearly 1,000 patents from IBM in a single deal, but IBM is still backing USDC's most dangerous rival.

Crypto Firms Pivoting to AI Is 'Zero-Sum' Thinking: Coinbase CEO

Brian Armstrong says crypto is infrastructure that underpins AI, and that AI agents will need it to transact on their own.

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $465M Over Two Days, Led by BlackRock's IBIT

The selling reversed a seven-day, $1 billion inflow streak, with analysts blaming renewed U.S.-Iran tensions and Fed rate-hike fears.

Thailand's SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitkub Over Undisclosed $47M Hack

The regulator says the exchange and two former directors left a $47 million theft out of its filings in 2021.

Stocks Just Topped Crypto on Hyperliquid. ARK Says That Changes Everything

For the first time, real-world assets—stocks, commodities, and market indices—outpaced crypto on the world's biggest decentralized derivatives exchange.

Samsung Wallet Will Add Stablecoin Support, Including USDC

Samsung showed a wallet mockup holding Circle's USDC at Galaxy Unpacked. But details are scarce.

Clarity Act on the Ropes as Ethics Fight and Shrinking Calendar Threaten Passage

Senate Majority Leader John Thune signals the crypto market-structure bill likely won't clear the chamber before the August recess, as Democrats reject the GOP's ethics language and analysts slash the odds of passage.

Strategy Overhauls Bitcoin Metrics, Debuting 'Net Bitcoin Per Share'

The firm says its "digital credit" shift needs new yardsticks that strip out debt and preferred claims to show what common shareholders own.

Bitcoin ETFs Shed $225M, Snapping Seven-Day Inflow Streak as Iran Tensions Spook Markets

BlackRock's IBIT led the exit as Bitcoin briefly dipped under $65,000 and stocks fell on renewed US-Iran hostilities—though the week still closed in the green.

EU Names Justin Sun's HTX in Russia Sanctions, Two Months After UK

The 21st package stops short of a full asset freeze for HTX, which it accused of "significantly frustrating" its Russia measures.

Morning Minute: Bitcoin's New $15M Quantum Defense Fund

Plus, the Clarity Act is no longer expected to progress before the August recess. And Vlad Tenev's X was hacked to post a meme coin...

India Orders GitHub to Take Down Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Amid Protests

The order gave GitHub three hours to pull three code repositories, citing the messaging app's use during protest internet shutdowns.

Polymarket Account in Farage Backer's Name Took $9M in Crypto From Unknown Sources: FT

The "GCottrell93" account bet the funds on Trump's election win and cashed out the profit, though who paid in and who collected is unclear.

Goldman Sachs CEO Breaks With Wall Street to Back Crypto Clarity Act

Solomon's endorsement splits with JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon and banking trade groups, who warn the bill's stablecoin-yield provisions could pull deposits away from traditional lenders.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X Account Hacked to Shill Fake 'Vladhood' Token

The deleted post touted a bogus "Vladhood" token as the mascot of Robinhood Chain—the latest fraud to exploit a network currently dominated by memes.

Bitcoin May Have Already Bottomed—If the Fed Helps, Says Grayscale

The crypto asset manager thinks the four-year cycle is dead, suggesting Bitcoin's price will follow macro forces and the Fed's next move.

Southeast Asian Scam Networks Cost Victims Up to $114B in a Year: UN

Once-fragmented syndicates have fused into a single, tech-driven criminal economy that increasingly runs on crypto, the UNODC warns.

Arbitrum Perp DEX AFX Trade Drained of $24M, Offers Hacker 30% to Return It

The exploit hit a custody bridge AFX operates rather than the Arbitrum network itself, with the stolen funds quickly moved to Ethereum.

BitMEX to Close on September 23, Halts New Sign-Ups

The crypto derivatives pioneer told users to close positions and withdraw funds before it goes dark on September 23.

Binance Futures Will Launch POPMARTUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract (2026-07-23)

Coinbase Wants to Be Canada's One-Stop Shop for Stocks, Crypto and Prediction Markets

The company's "Everything Exchange" is heading north. No launch date set yet, but the Coinbase Canada CEO says phase two for the company is in motion.

Kraken Parent Company Makes Moves to Offer xStocks From Global Markets

Payward and fintech GTN are teaming up to bring xStocks—blockchain-based copies of real company shares—to Hong Kong, the UK, Europe, and South Korea.

Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty

Qwen Image 3.0 generates dense newspapers and infographic grids in one shot and renders text down to 10 pixels. The catch: no benchmarks, no open weights.

Hugging Face CEO Thanks Chinese AI for Saving the Day After OpenAI Hack

When American commercial AI refused to help investigate the breach, Hugging Face ran Chinese model GLM 5.2 locally. Its CEO now says there's an important lesson in this.

Centralized Elements 'Frequently Persist' in DeFi and Should Be Regulated: FATF

Nearly every country has yet to apply the rules, the watchdog said, warning of outright bans for platforms that don’t comply.

Justin Sun's HTX 'Rotating' On-Chain Wallets Amid UK Sanctions: TRM Labs

TRM Labs says the UK-sanctioned exchange has rotated hot wallets across blockchains, leaving address-list screening struggling to keep pace.

Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Buzz, a Nostr-Based Slack and GitHub Rival for AI Agents

The free, open source workspace runs on Nostr, gives AI agents their own cryptographic identities, and challenges Slack and GitHub.

OpenAI Models Escaped Locked Test Environment, Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on Benchmark

OpenAI's own models just broke out of a sandboxed environment, hacked Hugging Face, just to cheat on a cybersecurity evaluation.

Pavel Durov Wants to Give a Billion Telegram Users a Crypto Wallet

The promise of instant, zero-fee crypto transactions for over a billion Telegram users sent its native Gram token up 7%.

Google Ships New Gemini Flash Models, But Pro Is Still Missing

As Gemini 3.5 Pro stalls in testing limbo, Google ships 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a restricted cybersecurity model—and quietly teases Gemini 4.

Augustus Raises $180 Million to Build a Stablecoin-Ready 'Global Dollar Bank'

The Tiger Global-led round values the startup at $1 billion as it wires stablecoin rails directly into a federally chartered bank, aiming to modernize the correspondent-banking plumbing behind cross-border payments.

Google Is Building an AI Chip Just for Gemini—And Investors Already Moved On It

Codenamed Frozen v2, Google's new server chip would bake part of Gemini's architecture directly into hardware for a projected 6–10x efficiency gain.

XRP Breaks Out on Clarity Act Hopes. The Charts Are Still Cautious

The Ripple-linked token just had its best day in weeks, as Washington may finally be delivering what the XRP Army has been waiting for.

Jack Mallers Quits Twenty One Capital as Tether's Bitcoin Merger Collapses

XXI stock dropped nearly 18% after the company's co-founder stepped down and Tether's plan to combine three Bitcoin firms officially fell apart.

Pakistan Launches Crypto Investigation Unit to Fight Money Laundering

Islamabad is building the enforcement side of its crypto push, standing up a unit to police money laundering even as it licenses exchanges.

UK Lawmakers Launch Inquiry Into Crypto Banking Access

A cross-party group is examining why UK banks block accounts and payments for crypto firms—and whether it's holding the sector back.

Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users

Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.

Russia's First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From Passing

The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.

Bitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom Out

Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here's why patience may be required from investors.

Tom Lee's Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock Buyback

"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.

Allbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan Attack

An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge's Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.

Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 Upgrade

Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.

Strategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110

The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a 'bad idea,' warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.

GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 Review: Which One You Pick Depends on These Factors

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol or Anthropic's Claude Fable 5: Which one is right for you? The answer depends on your needs. Here's our review.

ECB Warns Stablecoins May Drain Bank Deposits—Here's What That Means

ECB board member Piero Cipollone laid out the three-layer threat banks face from digital payments, and pitched the digital euro as the only structural answer.

Cardano Pumps as Network Moves to Further Decentralize Development

Input Output is handing its core infrastructure to outside teams as ADA gets a lift from an imminent protocol upgrade.

Kimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock Market

Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model sent chip stocks tumbling and gave Wall Street a Friday it would rather forget.

Galaxy Puts Its Name on Texas Tech's Stadium in a 15-Year, Crypto-Native Deal

The Nasdaq-listed digital-asset firm will rebrand the Red Raiders' home as "Galaxy Stadium." The bigger bet is on the cheap power and open land of West Texas.

Binance Will Add Aerodrome (AERO) on Earn, Buy Crypto, Convert, VIP Loan & Margin

Three Men Jailed for Posing as Police in $5.3M UK Crypto Fraud

The gang built fake police websites to fool victims, then spent the stolen crypto on Rolexes and luxury holidays, the Met said.

Crypto.com Hits $20B Valuation After $400M Citadel Securities Investment

The market maker's stake marks Crypto.com's first institutional funding round, as Wall Street deepens its push into crypto.

Binance Will List Aerodrome (AERO) with Seed Tag Applied

Morgan Stanley Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Trading on E*Trade

Eligible customers can now buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana with Morgan Stanley via Zero Hash.

Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source

Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't yet had.

Visa Unveils Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintech Companies

The Visa Stablecoin Platform will let financial institutions integrate stablecoin payments and treasury operations into Visa's existing network.

Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves $383 Million After More Than 8 Years

The wallet holding nearly 5,908 BTC since 2017 transferred its entire balance to a new address.

Feds Arrest Florida Man Over Video Game Malware That Stole $220K in Crypto

Zyaire Wilkins allegedly procured malware hidden in video games that infected 8,000 devices and broke into 80 crypto wallets, the FBI says.

US Senate Unanimously Opposes Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon

The nonbinding resolution said the disgraced FTX founder should 'under no circumstances' receive clemency.

OpenAI Uses AI Red Team to Strengthen GPT-5.6 Against Prompt Injection Attacks

OpenAI said its new automated red-teaming model, GPT-Red, uncovered vulnerabilities that were used to make GPT-5.6 more resistant to prompt injection attacks.

BlackRock, Goldman, and JP Morgan Will Give Tokenized Stocks a Try

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is working with nearly 40 financial firms in a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. treasuries.

US Treasury Freezes $131 Million in Iran-Linked Crypto Wallets

OFAC sanctioned addresses tied to Iran's central bank and armed forces, with Tether locking four Tron wallets as Washington's financial campaign against Tehran accelerates.

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Isn't Panicking—Unless BTC Crashes to $10K: CEO

The Bitcoin treasury giant will issue fresh preferred stock and resume buying once its Stretch shares climb back to par, CEO Phong Le said.

Morning Minute: Crypto Rips on Cool CPI

Circle has a rough day. Pump.fun pumps on first major unlock. And Robinhood Chain sees its first big rotation.

US, UK Outline Recommendations to Align Stablecoin and Tokenization Rules

The joint recommendations back cross-border stablecoins and tokenized markets, setting a shared direction while avoiding binding rules.

Binance Will Add 10 bStocks Tokenized Securities as Collateral Assets

DeepMind CEO Says AGI Will Be Bigger Than Electricity or Fire

Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release.

UK to Defer Capital Gains Tax on DeFi Lending, Liquidity Pool Deposits

Moving crypto into a lending protocol or liquidity pool won’t count as a taxable disposal, deferring the charge until a real cash-out.

US Government Moves $288M in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime

The seized coins landed at the government's custodian, which stops short of a sale but has revived questions about Trump's no-sell pledge.

Protesters March on OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Demanding AI Development Pause

About 200 protesters marched through San Francisco on Saturday, calling on leading AI companies to halt development of more powerful models over concerns about AI safety, jobs, and the environment.

Claude's Personality Changes Depending on the Model—And the Language You Speak

According to new Anthropic research, Claude consistently expresses different values across models and languages.

Bolivia Is Considering Adding Tether's USDT Stablecoin to National Payments System: Report

South American nation Bolivia is considering the use of the largest dollar-backed stablecoin, USDT, per a local report.

'The Odyssey' Director Chris Nolan: Young Audiences are Rejecting 'AI Slop'

The younger generation's judgment of AI has been “immediate and harsh,” according to the Oscar-winning director.

BitMine Buys $49 Million in Ethereum as Tom Lee Hails Early Robinhood Chain Demand

According to BitMine Chairman Tom Lee, Ethereum is benefiting from the early success of the Robinhood Chain layer-2 network.

Bank of Thailand Flags Abnormal Stablecoin Trades in 'Grey Economy' Crackdown

Data analytics flagged stablecoin transfers meant to evade scrutiny, the central bank says, handing the findings to the securities regulator.

Chinese Prosecutors Float Treating Crypto Mixer, Privacy Coin Use as Sign of Money Laundering

An article in the top prosecutors' paper urges new blockchain evidence rules, presumptions of intent, and a state platform to sell seized coins.

Binance Will Add SKHYB Tokenized Securities as Collateral Assets

How to Make Product Ads With AI for TikTok and YouTube—For (Almost) Free

One product photo, three AI tools, and about 20 minutes: Here's the full workflow for generating a sales video without a camera, a model, or a studio.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Claims Former Employees Stole Trade Secrets

Apple alleges former employees took confidential designs, supplier information, and engineering files before joining OpenAI.

Democrats Call for Senate Hearings on Trump's Massive Crypto Profits

Top Democrats on key Senate committees demanded inquiries into the more than $1.2 billion that President Trump made on crypto last year.

Xbox CEO Joins Fed AI Jobs Task Force Days After Announcing 3,200 Layoffs

Asha Sharma will advise the Federal Reserve on AI’s impact on jobs and productivity as Xbox undergoes the biggest restructuring in its history.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined SKHYUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-07-10)

Trump Won't Sign Housing Bill With CBDC Ban—Will It Become Law Tonight Anyway?

Unless President Trump vetoes the bill, it will become law at midnight, banning the Federal Reserve from developing a CBDC until 2031.

Strategy Bitcoin Sales 'Mostly Noise,' Standard Chartered Says, Holding $100K BTC Call

The bank argues that the treasury giant's Bitcoin sales are a short-term distraction, reiterating its $100,000 year-end price target.

Jailed Fraudster Charged With Moving $290K in Forfeited Crypto From Prison

A convicted launderer serving time for a $5 million scheme allegedly moved crypto that a court had ordered him to forfeit.

North Carolina Bill Recognizes CFTC's ‘Federal Regulatory Authority’ Over Prediction Markets

The state's budget law leaves oversight of Kalshi and Polymarket to the CFTC and taxes them at 6%, far below what other states are pursuing.

Avalanche Treasury Firm AVAX One Reclaims Nasdaq Compliance After Reverse Stock Split

AVAX One, which stockpiles the native token of the Avalanche crypto network, is back in Nasdaq's good graces after a reverse stock split.

Anthropic AI Oversight Board Adds Ben Bernanke, Who Oversaw 2008 Financial Crisis at Fed

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will have the power to appoint Anthropic board members as part of company's Long-Term Benefit Trust.

Ethereum Foundation Turns AI Loose on ETH Network to Find Bugs Before Hackers Do

Ethereum researchers are using AI agents to hunt for vulnerabilities, shifting security work from finding bugs to proving which ones are real.

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol: Here’s How It Stacks Up Against Other AI Models

OpenAI's new flagship model is out, after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview. It lands the same week Fable 5 leaves Anthropic's subscription plans.

MARA Stock Pops as Bitcoin Miner Agrees to Acquire Massive Powered Texas Land Plot

MARA Holdings has agreed to purchase a sizable plot of land in Texas to power its Bitcoin mining and growing AI compute ambitions.

Labour MPs Push to Make UK Crypto Donation Ban Permanent

The lawmakers have tabled amendments to make the current moratorium permanent, as the fallout over Reform UK's funding widens.

EU Set to Revise MiCA in 2027 to Cover Foreign Stablecoin Issuers

Trump's embrace of stablecoins is pushing Brussels to expand its crypto law to non-EU issuers and tokenized payments, EU diplomats say.

A 20-Year-Old's Crypto Wallet Moved $123M in Romance-Scam Cash: Interpol Says

The two Thai arrests were part of Operation First Light, a 97-country sweep that logged 5,811 arrests and intercepted $293 million.

The New Grok 4.5 Is Out. Elon Musk Says It Competes With Last Year's Claude Opus

SpaceXAI's new coding model is cheaper and faster than Anthropic and OpenAI's flagships—and by Musk's own account, at least one generation behind them.

Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion Fund as Crypto VC Pushes Further Into AI

The investment firm said its fourth fund will back AI, robotics, and crypto startups as it broadens beyond digital assets.

Bitcoin Stalls as Ethereum Flashes Worst Weekly Signal in Years: Analysis

Bitcoin is looking slightly more optimistic but failed the breakout everyone was watching. Meanwhile, ETH just printed a weekly death cross for the first time in years.

Bitcoin ETFs 'Turning a Corner' After Record Bleed Hits $8 Billion

Investors had backed away from Bitcoin since mid-May.

Lucky Trader Turns $85 Into $2 Million on Robinhood Chain Meme Coin

The meme coin CashCat on Robinhood Chain is the latest flavor of the hour, and one trader has turned a mini-investment into a small fortune in less than three weeks.

BNB Chain Plans New Layer-1 for AI Agents and Quantum Future

The network’s 2026 roadmap targets faster transactions, AI-powered apps, and infrastructure aimed at competing with traditional financial systems, while preparing for a quantum future.

Malaysia Seizes Over 75,000 Crypto Mining Rigs in Power-Theft Crackdown

More than 3,000 raids since 2022 have led to 629 arrests, as authorities target miners siphoning electricity from the national grid.

Kraken Wins $22M From Auditor That Abandoned It During Operation Choke Point 2.0

The crypto exchange says an arbitrator sided with it after accounting firm Mazars walked away from a nearly finished audit.

Bankers Filed Suspicious Activity Report Over Farage's £5M Gift From Tether Billionaire

The report, filed in May 2024, invited the National Crime Agency to determine whether there were grounds for further investigation.

Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns

The company says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of undisclosed monitoring.

SEC's Long-Promised Crypto Safe Harbor to Be Introduced as Soon as This Month

The SEC updated its agenda to indicate that a key crypto rulemaking is slated to be released for public comment in July.

China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.

Radar Chat Wants to Make Sending Bitcoin as Easy as Firing Off a Text

Built on Signal’s open-source technology, Radar Chat combines encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network.

Kenya's Markets Regulator Seeks Blockchain Tool to Track Crypto Crime

The Capital Markets Authority wants to monitor over 20 blockchains for fraud, laundering, and sanctions evasion under Kenya's new crypto law.

Wintermute Cautions 'Relief Rally' Likely as Bitcoin Touches Highest Price in Weeks

Market maker Wintermute remains cautious, suggesting that recent Bitcoin action is a relief rally rather than a fundamental market change.

Coinbase Wins UK License to Offer Stocks and Derivatives Alongside Crypto

The FCA authorization lets the exchange offer equities and derivatives to UK users, a step toward its "everything exchange" ambitions.

Traders Sue Polymarket Over 'No' Ruling on Strategy Bitcoin Sale

The plaintiffs say Polymarket added a rule after the fact, turning their winning "Yes" bet on Strategy's Bitcoin sale into a loss.

Chainwire Parent MediaFuse Launches Tech Newswire Optimized for AI Search

TechnologyWire pitches guaranteed placement across tech media, alongside content tuned to be picked up by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini.

Binance Exchange Adds 10 bStocks Trading Pair(s) on Binance Spot - 2026-07-07

ByteDance and Alibaba to Pull Agent Features as China Cracks Down on Humanlike AI

Beijing's first rules targeting emotional AI are forcing the country's biggest apps to shut down custom agents.

Solana Meme Coin Bonk Treasury Drained of $20 Million in 'Malicious' Governance Attack

The Bonk DAO wallet was exploited for roughly $20 million worth of the prominent dog-themed meme coin on Solana.

Yield Guild Kills Crypto Game Publishing Arm, Lays Off 35 in AI Pivot

Yield Guild Games is shutting down its YGG Play division and games like LOL Land, blaming the crypto market downturn and other factors.

Coinbase's AI System Hallucinated a World Cup Result Before the Match Even Started

Coinbase said it updated its systems after an AI-generated alert incorrectly reported the outcome of the Norway-Brazil match before kickoff.

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Jump After TeraWulf Signs $19 Billion Lease With Anthropic

TeraWulf's 20-year lease deal with Anthropic is expected to generate $19 billion in revenue—and major Bitcoin mining stocks are surging.

Ethereum 'Reinventing Itself' With Biggest Overhaul Since the Merge: Vitalik Buterin

Nearly every core piece of the protocol will be rebuilt over three to four years, with quantum safety and privacy moved front and center.

New UK Election Funding Rules Could Hit Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donors

The crackdown on overseas cash comes after billionaire Tether investor and Reform donor Christopher Harborne registered to vote in the UK.

Binance Adds ADTI, ANTA, ATROB, CBRS, DISK, FOTO, KDEF, KMEM, QNT and STRC on Binance Stock Trading - 2026-07-06

Claude Fable 5 Isn't Nerfed. The Router Is Just Paranoid

Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole mess.

Senator Gillibrand Seeks to Ban Trump, Elected Officials From Launching Meme Coins

After President Trump disclosed over $1 billion in crypto-related earnings, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for a meme coin ban.

'Every Time I Buy It, It Tanks': Dave Portnoy Says He's Losing Millions as Bitcoin Falls

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he's down millions on Bitcoin, but he's intent on holding this time—even if it falls to zero.

Bitcoin ETFs Draw In $222M, Snapping 10-Day Losing Streak

Thursday's inflows ended a run that drained $2.7 billion, but analysts warn one green day isn't necessarily a trend reversal.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined DATAIPUSDT and DATAIPUSDC Perpetual Contracts (2026-07-03)

OpenAI Offers US Government a $42 Billion Slice of Itself: Report

Sam Altman is pitching a 5% equity stake in OpenAI for the U.S. government—and reportedly wants every major AI company to do the same.

Treasury Department Sanctions Over 130 ISIS-Affiliated Crypto Wallets on Tron

More than 130 Tron wallets connected with a Central Asian ISIS affiliate were sanctioned by the U.S. government, with funds frozen by Tether.

Japanese Financial Giant SBI to Shut Down Bitcoin Mining Pool

SBI Crypto, the subsidiary of the Japanese financial giant, is the latest firm to shutter its Bitcoin mining endeavor.

Metaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin in Q2 as Buying Pace Cools

The Japanese firm's 43,000-BTC stack now sits well below its cost basis, and it has leaned on debt over equity to keep buying.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined ETHUSD1 Perpetual Contract (2026-07-03)

Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to US Over $8M Crypto Ransom Demand

The teenager allegedly helped to breach a luxury jeweler and demand $8 million in crypto, as part of a crew tied to $100 million in ransoms.

Binance Will Add Gram (GRAM) on Earn, Buy Crypto, Convert, VIP Loan, Margin & Futures

Venice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT Rivals

Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.

LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before Meituan claimed it—and it undercuts GPT-5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on price by a wide margin.

Trump-Backed American Bitcoin Hits New Low Price Ahead of Reverse Stock Split

Bitcoin mining firm American Bitcoin fell to a new low price Wednesday, one day before executing a 1-for-15 reverse stock split.

BitMine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin Accelerate Wall Street Ethereum Push With Nonprofit Launch

Ethereum Institutional will serve as a point of contact for financial institutions seeking to get more involved with on-chain infrastructure.

CRCL Sell-Off 'Looks Overdone' Say Analysts as Circle CEO Addresses Open USD Threat

Analysts don't think the threat of a new stablecoin launch was enough to warrant a major Circle (CRCL) sell-off on Tuesday.

Ahead of NYSE Listing, Securitize Exec Says DeFi Can Break Wall Street's Grip on Stock Lending

Securitize President Brett Redfearn argues that tokenization will bring crypto's core benefit of disintermediation to retail investors.

Anthropic Bringing Claude Fable 5 Back Online as US Lifts Export Controls

The Trump administration reversed its shutdown order after weeks of talks, with Anthropic tying Fable 5's return to a new safety classifier and other moves.

Morning Minute: Major New Stablecoin Launch Shakes Incumbents

Open USD takes a shot at USDC and USDT, with backing from heavy hitters including Visa, Mastercard and Google.

Goliath Ventures CEO Pleads Guilty to $250M Crypto Ponzi Scheme

Christopher Delgado’s "liquidity pool" fraud took in at least $400 million, with the proceeds spent on mansions, Lamborghinis, and Rolexes.

Trump Discloses Over $1.2 Billion in Crypto Earnings, $50M in Bitcoin Holdings

The president’s annual financial disclosure report was released on Tuesday.

Kalshi Sports Markets Banned in Michigan as Temporary Blackout Takes Effect

A Michigan judge granted a restraining order preventing the prediction market from offering sports-related wagers for the next 14 days.

Dutch Prosecutors Seek to Bankrupt Crypto Platform Knaken After Funds Frozen

Prosecutors asked a Rotterdam court to wind up the unlicensed exchange, which has locked some 30,000 customers out of their crypto.

TD Cowen Slashes Strategy Price Target, Citing Ongoing Bitcoin Weakness

Strategy's stock price started sliding again on Tuesday, one day after breaking a nine-day losing streak.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined BTCU and ETHU Perpetual Contracts (2026-07-01)

Morning Minute: A Change of Strategy

Michael Saylor's Strategy is rolling out some major changes to how it handles Bitcoin going forward. And so far, the market likes it.

'47 Ronin' Director Gets 30 Months for Spending Netflix's $11M on Dogecoin

Carl Rinsch gambled Netflix's $11 million on stock options and Dogecoin, then spent the winnings on luxury cars and watches.

Binance Exchange Adds bStocks Lumentum (LITEB), Meta (METAB), Microsoft (MSFTB), Palantir (PLTRB) and Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQB) Trading Pair(s) on Binance Spot - 2026-06-30

Introducing OpenGradient (OPG) on Binance HODLer Airdrops! Earn OPG With Retroactive BNB Simple Earn Subscriptions

Binance Margin Will Add New Pairs - 2026-06-30

Ornith Is the Open-Source Coding Model Built for Agents, Not Humans

A new model built by DeepReinforce is meant for developers who want AI that finishes the job, not just autocompletes the next line.

Strategy Snaps 9-Day Losing Streak as Bitcoin Giant Adopts 'Robust' Capital Framework

Strategy's shares remained 42% down from its market-rattling Bitcoin sale nearly a month ago.

Supreme Court Says Trump Can Fire SEC, CFTC Commissioners at Will—At a Crucial Moment for Crypto

The court overturned a 91-year precedent, allowing President Trump to fire key federal regulators whenever he wishes for almost any reason.

Meta Unveils New Tech That Uses AI to Translate Brain Activity Into Text—Without Surgery

Meta says its latest Brain2Qwerty system translates brain activity into sentences using non-invasive brain recordings, improving the accuracy of AI-powered neural decoding.

Bitcoin Is in a Fight at $60K—Here's What the Charts Say

BTC kissed $58,800 and bounced. The daily chart is deep in bear territory, and prediction markets are betting on further pain before a rebound.

XRP Ledger's 'Missing Layer' Draws Closer as Developers Test Lending, Credit Features: Ripple

Ripple outlined how the XRP Ledger Lending Protocol would provide institutions with a novel way to structure loans directly on-chain.

California Strikes Deal With Anthropic to Bring Claude AI to State Agencies

Anthropic’s agreement makes Claude the first AI tool available to all state agencies and local governments, at half price.

Tom Lee's BitMine Adds $43 Million in Ethereum as Strategy Halts Bitcoin Buys

BitMine Immersion Technologies continued adding to its Ethereum stockpile, even as its Bitcoin counterpart Strategy stood pat.

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Headed for Rare Back-to-Back Quarterly Loss

Another $1.79B in ETF outflows last week certainly isn't helping—but if history repeats, there is reason for hope.

Ukraine Takes $8.3M in Seized Crypto Under State Management in a First

Over 8.3 million USDT seized from an alleged hacking ring has been moved to a wallet held by Ukraine's asset-recovery agency, ARMA.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined CAPUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-06-27)

Linux Foundation, Tech Giants Launch Akrites to Defend Open Source Against AI-Powered Attacks

A coalition of 19 organizations—including every major AI lab and Wall Street banks—just built the security team that open-source maintainers never had.

Spanish Regulator Says No Extensions for EU Crypto Deadline as Binance Remains Unlicensed

Crypto firms operating in the European Union will be forced to cease operations if they do not obtain a MiCA license by July 1.

This AI Agent Survived 6,000 Hack Attempts—Here’s How

Fernando Irarrázaval posted his OpenClaw assistant's inbox to Hacker News and watched Claude Opus 4.6 hold off thousands of attackers.

Kalshi Scores FIFA World Cup Spotlight as Prediction Market Trading Surges to Record

As prediction markets notch record trading volumes, Kalshi is ramping up its marketing push through a high-profile FIFA World Cup deal.

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Limit GPT-5.6 Rollout: Reports

The reported request to OpenAI follows the Trump administration's move to limit access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Bitcoin Tests $59K as ETFs Shed $692M, Options Expiry Looms

Bitcoin fell to around $59,400 as $691 million fled spot ETFs, the most since May, ahead of Friday's $10.6 billion options expiry.

BitGo Joins Crypto's AI Layoff Wave, Slashing Staff by 15%

The newly public crypto custodian is slashing nearly 15% of its workforce as it pivots to focus on stablecoins and AI infrastructure.

Anthropic Urges Congress to Crack Down on AI Distillation By Chinese Rivals

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million Claude exchanges.

Polymarket to Refund Users After Scammers Swipe Millions in Website Exploit

Hackers infiltrated Polymarket’s website via a compromised third-party vendor, the company said, swiping millions in crypto from users.

Coinbase-Backed Ethereum Network Base Recovers After Block Production Issue

Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.

AI Took Your Job? California Wants to Know

California launched the nation's first AI unemployment tracker as policymakers race to determine whether warnings of an AI-driven jobs shakeup are becoming a reality.

Traders Predict More Pain for Bitcoin and Ethereum After Monthly Drops Above 20%

Bitcoin touched its lowest price in 21 months early Thursday—and prediction market users don't see the crypto carnage ceasing imminently.

$47M in Crypto Frozen in Global Infostealer Takedown: Europol

Police disrupted SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC, malware that harvests crypto wallets and passwords, freezing €41 million in crypto.

Kalshi Seeks $40B Valuation Weeks After $1B Raise: FT

The prediction market seeks a valuation near double the $22 billion it hit last month, as a federal-state fight over regulation escalates.

Aave Token Could Climb 50x by End of 2030, Standard Chartered Says—Here's Why

Bitcoin to $500K, Ethereum to $40K, and Aave to $3,500 by the end of 2030? Standard Chartered just laid out some bullish price targets.

Kalshi Sues Illinois Over New State Tax on Sports-Related Prediction Markets

Illinois is set to institute a new tax on prediction markets next week that would take 15% of gross receipts from sports-related wagers.

Your Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the Point

Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while your AI works.

Leaked Code Suggests Anthropic Is Preparing to Bring Fable 5 Back

A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not sold separately as before.

Binance Withdraws MiCA License Application in Greece, Leaving EU Users in Limbo

Crypto exchange Binance formally withdrew its MiCA license application in Greece, one week after a report said it would be denied.

Bitcoin Hasn't Broken the 4-Year Cycle Yet, Says 21Shares as BTC Dives Below $60K

As Bitcoin falls below the $60,000 mark, 21Shares said that its prediction that BTC breaks the historical four-year cycle hasn't come true.

Trump Cancels Signing of Bipartisan Housing Bill Containing CBDC Ban: 'Of Minor Importance'

President Trump said he won’t sign the popular bill until Congress passes a controversial bill restricting voting rights.

Strategy Shares Crash Below $100 as Bitcoin Sinks Towards $60K

Bitcoin fell to a two-week low price Wednesday as Strategy shares dove below the $100 mark for the first time since March 2024.

DOJ Seizes Huione Infrastructure Linked to Billions in Crypto Laundering

The seizure hits a cloud account that powered Huione Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace tied to billions in Southeast Asian scam proceeds.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined OUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-06-24)

Farage Says He Can Spend Tether Billionaire’s $6.7M Gift ‘On Ferraris’ if He Wants

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called the gift from Christopher Harborne a “private matter” amid a standards investigation.

Crypto’s Clarity Act Has a New Enemy: Catholic Leaders

A group of 82 Catholic leaders warned a key provision of the crypto bill, protecting software developers from prosecution, could enable human trafficking.

Mark Zuckerberg Wants a Prediction Market Too: NYT

The initiative follows bets on stablecoins and the metaverse.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic's Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody's Shutting It Down

GPT-5.5-Cyber tops the CyberGym leaderboard as Anthropic's best models sit offline under a Trump administration export ban.

AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI

A new benchmark designed to test strategic reasoning found an AI-controlled empire spent 50 turns developing nuclear weapons to stop a rival's cultural victory—only to lose the game anyway.

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 20% of Workforce in 'Leaner' Reorganization

The non-profit is cutting 54 jobs as it reorganizes into focused "clusters," following a succession of leadership departures.

Morning Minute: Fomo's $75M Raise Shows Big VCs Are Still Betting on Consumer Crypto

Crypto majors are selling off as big Tech gets routed; Saylor is hoarding cash; and ETH heavyweights team up to fund R&D with ETHLabs.

US Senate Passes Housing Bill With Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban

A bipartisan housing bill the Senate passed 85-5 Monday would block a Fed digital dollar through 2030, and now heads to the House.

Binance Adds New JPY Spot Trading Pairs and Launches Zero Maker Fee Promotion - 2026-06-26

Binance Margin Will Add New Pairs - 2026-06-23

Binance Exchange Adds bStocks Advanced Micro Devices (AMDB), iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWYB), Intel (INTCB) and Strategy (MSTRB) Trading Pair(s) on Binance Spot - 2026-06-23

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined ARXUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-06-23)

BitMine, Sharplink, Joe Lubin Back New Ethereum Research and Development Lab

Some of Ethereum's largest holders are coming together to fund a new research and development lab aimed at boosting the network and ETH.

Crypto Industry Urges Congress to Pass Tax Bill—But Will It Happen This Year?

A bill that would make crypto mining and staking more attractive is a top priority for industry leaders—and a growing concern for House Democrats.

Bank of England Eases Stablecoin Rules, Swaps Holding Caps for £40B ‘Guardrail’

The BoE scrapped individual holding caps for a £40 billion per-coin issuance limit and will let issuers hold more reserves in government debt.

Bitcoin 'Resilient' After Hawkish Fed, But No 'Return of Demand': Analysts

With ETF outflows persisting and selling "nearly exhausted," analysts say Bitcoin is range-bound and waiting for a catalyst.

$1.9M in Fake Bets Drove Polymarket Hype: WSJ

A Wall Street Journal probe found none of the roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across 1,100-plus creator videos were real.

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game

Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade.

AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests

New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.

Kraken Brings Solana DEX Trading Directly to Its Main App

Kraken now offers direct on-chain Solana DEX trading for over 2,500 tokens in its main app, bridging CeFi and DeFi for users in over 100 countries.

OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.

House Republican Introduces Insider Trading Bill to Ban Lawmaker Prediction Market Bets

The bill is meant to curb potential insider trading, blocking lawmakers and family members from policy-related prediction market bets.

GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter

Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.

The 5 Largest Publicly Traded Solana Treasury Firms

Institutions are gobbling up Solana for their balance sheets. These are the top publicly traded treasuries.

Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment

Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50 billion in the firm.

Anime Girls Could Steal Your Crypto as Wallpaper Malware Targets Steam Gamers

Researchers found malicious Wallpaper Engine downloads on Steam Workshop distributing infostealers, backdoors, and account-hijacking malware.

Texas Brothers Plead Guilty to $8M Armed Crypto Kidnapping

Isiah and Raymond Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for eight hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.

Franklin Templeton Files for ETFs That Funnel Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin

The asset manager's two proposed "Bitcoin DRIP" funds would hold U.S. stocks and reinvest dividends into Bitcoin, a novel ETF structure.

China’s Z.AI Releases GLM-5.2: A Model That Rivals Claude Opus—Using Zero Nvidia Chips

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 sits within 1% of Claude Opus 4.8 on long-horizon coding benchmarks, runs entirely on Huawei silicon, and undercuts Western frontier models by up to 82% per token.

Ethereum Foundation Exodus Continues as Co-Director Hsiao-Wei Wang Departs

Another key figure at the Ethereum Foundation is stepping away from her post, continuing a recent leadership exodus.

Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes

Brain is a self-improving memory layer that tracks what Computer did, what worked, and what failed—then uses it overnight to make the next task faster and cheaper.

HIVE Stock Spikes as Bitcoin Miner Lands $220M AI Infra Deal

The crypto miner has signed a landmark three-year GPU contract with Bell Canada and Cohere—as Canada races to build AI systems it actually owns.

Kentucky Sues Kalshi, Polymarket as Prediction Market Legal Battle Swells

Kentucky accused America’s top prediction market platforms of running illegal sports betting operations, joining a growing stack of states.

Bitcoin, Ethereum Traders Grow Even More Bearish as Prices Fall After Fed Decision

Prediction market traders don't see Bitcoin or Ethereum making their next big moves to higher price targets.

Everyday Savers Bet Big on Bitcoin Giant Strategy's STRC—Now It's Falling

Everyday investors that own Strategy’s STRC have been drawn to double-digit yields, but the preferred stock’s volatility has shaken some.

Jerome Powell Supports Fed's New Stablecoin Policies—But Chair Kevin Warsh Abstains

The proposed rulemaking establishes how U.S. crypto companies will have to screen stablecoin customers after the passage of the GENIUS Act.

Binance Will Add Re (RE) on Earn, Buy Crypto, Convert, VIP Loan, Margin & Futures

Bitcoin Steadies Near $64K as Analysts Eye Floor After Hawkish Fed

BTC slid to around $64,100 after Kevin Warsh's hawkish debut, but analysts argue a $60,000 floor and catalysts could spark a rebound.

Binance Will List Re (RE) with Seed Tag Applied

Binance Futures Will List USDⓈ-M & COIN-M Quarterly 1225 Delivery Contracts

Michigan Federal Judge Rules Sports Prediction Markets Are Not Under CFTC Purview

The judge said Polymarket is not likely to succeed on the merits of its case against Michigan state regulators.

SpaceX Surge Could Be Worth Billions for FTX—Will Creditors Benefit?

Defunct crypto exchange FTX gained exposure to SpaceX in 2022, and the rocket-maker’s post-IPO rally has lifted hopes among creditors.

CoinFund, Coinbase Back Stablecoin Payments Startup Trace in $32 Million Raise

Stablecoin infrastructure firm Trace Finance said Wednesday that it raised a $32 million Series A round to help expand its reach.

Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID

Prime Minister Kristen Michal backed a proposal to issue AI agents a personal identification code separate from the people who own them.

GLAAD Says AI Is Failing LGBTQ Users—And Warns the Risk Is Growing

GLAAD's report argues AI systems can amplify anti-LGBTQ bias, misinformation, discrimination, and privacy harms.

Florida Man 'Bitcoin Rodney' Pleads Guilty Over $1.8 Billion HyperFund Crypto Fraud

A Miami-based man who went by the name “Bitcoin Rodney” pleaded guilty for his role in what prosecutors said was a massive global fraud.

'Rapidly Evolving': Benchmark Analyst Bullish on Coinbase After Stocks, Options Moves

Benchmark-StoneX reiterated a $270 price target for COIN—60% higher than Coinbase’s current share price—following an array of product announcements.

House, Senate Strike Deal on Housing Bill With CBDC Ban Through 2030

A bicameral deal on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act revives a provision barring the Fed from issuing a digital dollar until 2030.

Alibaba Is Building Qwen-Robot: The Operating System for the Robot Economy

The Chinese company is doubling down on its "embodied AI" bet.

Crypto Exchange Binance Will Be Rejected for EU Regulatory License: Reuters

Binance said it believes it is compliant as a regulatory deadline in the European Union nears—and a report says it's likely to lose access.

FBI Says It Foiled Drone Attack Plot Targeting White House UFC Event

Federal prosecutors allege five men planned to use explosive-laden drones and sniper teams to take out "high-value targets" at the UFC event.

Japan Rates Hit Three-Decade High, But No ‘Meaningful Disruption’ to Crypto Market

Japan's central bank lifted rates to a level unseen in decades, a move that once shook crypto markets—yet prices barely stirred.

SpaceX Shares Hit New High as Elon Musk's Firm Agrees to Acquire AI Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

The all-stock deal would make Cursor a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary and deepen the company's push into AI following its blockbuster IPO.

Robinhood Trims Headcount by 10% Amid Crypto Revenue Crunch

Robinhood is letting go of 10% of its employees, attempting to streamline operations amid a downturn in crypto-related revenue.

Morning Minute: HYPE Soars to ATH as SPCX Takes Off

SPCX jumped 20%+ in after hours trading last night with all eyes on its Hyperliquid perp, leading to a 12% spike in HYPE.

BlackRock Debuts BITA Bitcoin ETF, Trading Partial Upside for Double-Digit Yield

BlackRock launched an ETF that limits Bitcoin gains in exchange for double-digit payouts by selling call options on its holdings.

South Korea Charges 23 Over Crypto Laundering Tied to $11M Cambodian Scam Ring

South Korea has arrested dozens accused of moving $11.1 million in crypto for a Cambodia-based phishing group.

Elon Musk Loses Again to OpenAI as Judge Dismisses xAI Trade Secret Lawsuit

A federal judge handed Elon Musk his second defeat against OpenAI after finding xAI failed to show OpenAI improperly obtained confidential info.

Someone Just Lost $1 Million on Polymarket Over Spain World Cup Shocker

One trader lost $1 million betting Spain would win. Another bought "No" at 9¢ and walked away with $4.3 million.

Rio de Janeiro Built an AI Model That Beat DeepSeek—But Was Based on Someone Else's Work

Rio de Janeiro released a frontier-class AI model that claimed to beat Alibaba's best. Then Nex showed up with receipts.

Anthropic Faces Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misleading Claude AI Pricing

A class action lawsuit alleges Anthropic overstated the usage limits of its Claude Max subscription plans and misled customers about savings.

Solana Treasury Firm Forward Industries Keeps Trying to Acquire Rivals—But Nobody's Biting

Forward Industries has been unsuccessful on all three recent attempts to combine with rival publicly traded Solana treasury firms.

Canadian PM Urges AI Diversification After US Anthropic Block, Decentralized AI Tokens Rally

The U.S. move to pull Anthropic's top models offline shows the dangers of leaning on a few AI providers, Carney said.

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Pads Cash Cushion for Second Straight Week, Buys BTC

Strategy expanded its USD Reserve to $1.1 billion and increased its total Bitcoin holdings, after dipping into those funds last month.

One Indicted Over Crypto ‘Wrench Attack’ in France

The crypto-related assault reportedly involved attackers posing as police officers, and follows a spate of attacks in the country.

Tom Lee's BitMine Adds $139 Million in Ethereum Ahead of Preferred Share Trading Start

BitMine Immersion Technologies expanded its leading Ethereum treasury to more than 5.6 million ETH valued at greater than $10 billion.

Bitcoin Tops $65K on US-Iran Deal, But Traders Remain Skeptical

A crypto relief rally has “partially arrived” as Trump announces a deal with Iran, but prediction market traders remain unconvinced.

Liberland Fires Tech Secretary After Alleged Blockchain And Website Takeover Attempt

Liberland’s congress voted to remove Secretary of Technology Dorian Stern Vukotić.

Reve 2.0 Review: The Best AI Image Generator for Layout Control

The startup that beat Midjourney at a penny per image is back with a 4K model that plans pictures like code—and refuses far less than its rivals

US Government Orders Anthropic to Pull Claude Fable, Mythos AI Models

Anthropic pushed back against what it described as an overreach, saying the vulnerability cited is already widespread across the industry.

Google Sues Chinese Crime Group for Allegedly Using Gemini AI for Mass Phishing Scams

Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.

AI Agent Rekts Dev on Bogus Scan, Leaves Them Begging for Crypto Donations

A hobbyist network handed an autonomous agent a masterclass in why you don't give AI a credit card and a deadline.

AI Agents Still Can't Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Researchers Warn

A new benchmark study found AI agents remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks as companies increasingly roll out the technology to the public.

Americans Fear Job Losses Due to AI But Hope for Cancer, Alzheimer’s Cures: Anthropic Survey

Anthropic's AI survey showed Americans are afraid of job losses, hopeful for health breakthroughs, and distrustful of firms behind the tech.

Tennessee Man Indicted for Alleged Crypto Ponzi Scheme That Stole Millions From Investors

Feds indicted a Tennessee man for allegedly running a crypto Ponzi scheme from 2020-2024 and bilking investors out of millions.

Iran-Linked Group That Hacked Kash Patel's Email Threatens World Cup With Hijacked FBI Drones

The Iran-linked hacking group said it accessed footage from FBI-controlled drones and warned World Cup teams that they could be targeted.

GameStop Renews Bitcoin Deal That Did Little for Its Record Quarter

The retailer rolled its Coinbase options deal forward in late May, keeping nearly all its Bitcoin tied up for upfront cash.

Metaplanet Acquires Japanese Securities Firm for $13M to Launch Bitcoin Yield Products

The Siiibo Securities deal positions Metaplanet to tap $7.4 trillion in household savings as the country shifts from deflation to inflation.

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO: The Bull and Bear Case for Bitcoin

SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO has already drained crypto liquidity, but a strong first-day pop could help rotate profits back, analysts argue.

Gary Gensler Backs States in Fight Over Prediction Market Regulation

The former SEC and CFTC chair says Congress "categorically" did not intend to put sports betting under exclusive federal oversight.

LG Electronics Teams With Arbitrum for Blockchain-Based Ad Platform

The South Korean tech giant built a custom layer-2 network with Arbitrum for an advertising platform set to launch this year.

Bitcoin Must Prepare for Quantum Threat Now, Coinbase Says

Coinbase's quantum advisory council says crypto developers should begin post-quantum migration work now, warning that unresolved questions around abandoned and vulnerable coins could become one of Bitcoin's biggest battles.

Nasdaq-Listed Bitcoin Firm Nakamoto Sells BTC, Cuts Debt and Authorizes Share Buyback

Nakamoto, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin services and treasury firm, sold about $48 million worth of BTC and derivatives to help reduce debt.

Anthropic Apologizes for Claude Fable 5 Secret Censorship—But the Fix Has a Catch

One day after the AI community erupted over invisible performance sabotage, Anthropic reversed course. Visible safeguards are coming—and so are more false positives.

Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk's xAI, Claiming He Was Fired After Raising Grok Safety Concerns

Devin Kim alleged he was terminated after repeatedly warning about bias, misinformation, and dangerous outputs from Elon Musk's Grok chatbot.

Authorities Take Down 'AudiA6' Group That Allegedly Laundered $389 Million in Bitcoin

Authorities are seeking extradition to the U.S. of two arrested individuals for allegedly laundering $389 million in Bitcoin.

World Cup Could Bring Billions in Volume to Prediction Markets in 'Watershed Moment': Bernstein

The 48-team FIFA World Cup tournament is expected to be the single largest catalyst for online sports betting in history, Bernstein said.

Banks Say Stablecoin Rules Should Cover Secondary Markets

Banking industry trade groups argue AML rules should focus on higher-risk activity while addressing gaps in stablecoin secondary markets.

Binance Exchange Adds bStocks Tokenized Securities Trading Pair(s) & Trading Bots Services on Binance Spot - 2026-06-11

Morning Minute: Citadel Cautions Against the AI Trade Ahead of SpaceX IPO

Citadel says the AI boom may be running into a cost wall, and Tether just led a $1.4B round into humanoid robotics.

Bithumb CEO Booked as Suspect Over South Korea Bribery Case

South Korean police have placed Lee Jae-won under investigation for bribery over allegedly hiring a legislator’s relatives.

Solana Exchange Raydium Hit With $1.34 Million Exploit as DeFi Attacks Grow

Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium will repay the funds swiped in the $1.34 million exploit using its treasury.

Tether, Nvidia and Amazon Back Humanoid Robotics Firm NEURA in $1.4 Billion Funding Round

Stablecoin giant Tether led a massive Series C round for German robotics firm NEURA, which will embed crypto payment tools and edge AI.

The Internet Is Furious at Anthropic After Claude Fable 5 Release

Token burn, silent censorship, and a mandatory data grab—the biggest Claude release has become Anthropic's messiest.

Botanix Will Shut Down Bitcoin Layer-2 Network in July, Citing Lack of DeFi Demand

Botanix asked users to withdraw funds, disclosing plans to wind down its Bitcoin-based layer-2 network in July.

Mastercard Enables AI Agent Payments With Help From Crypto Giants Like Coinbase, Ripple

Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines is designed to let AI buy services and settle transactions using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins.

New CFTC Rules on Prediction Markets Would Ban Wagers on Ouster of US Enemies

Proposed CFTC rules would forbid markets where an outcome could be impacted by war or assassination, even when conflict isn’t mentioned.

Fold Shares Jump 162% After Bitcoin Fintech Sells $45 Million in BTC, Wipes Out Debt

Publicly traded Fold sold Bitcoin holdings to restructure its balance sheet, fueling a stock surge on Wednesday morning.

Delaware Advances Bill to Ban ‘Predatory’ Bitcoin ATMs

Lawmakers have advanced legislation that would ban all cryptocurrency kiosks statewide, with physical removal mandated within 90 days.

Myriad Taps Chainlink to Power FIFA World Cup Prediction Markets

The integration builds on Myriad’s use of the Chainlink Runtime Environment to power its prediction market infrastructure.

‘Intense Capitulation’ Hits Crypto as 8M BTC, Bulk of ETH Supply Sit at Loss

Millions of Bitcoin are underwater as experts say the 'scale of market reset' signals capitulation, but long-term opportunities remain.

Japan's Largest Banks Plan Joint Stablecoin Launch by March 2027

Megabanks MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank and SMBC have formed a council to develop frameworks for jointly issuing a stablecoin in fiscal year 2026.

Crypto Tax Bills Face Pushback in House Committee Hearing

Pro-crypto Democrats questioned staking and mining tax exemptions Tuesday, while party leadership said the bills may need to wait until after the midterms.

EU Orders Meta to Open WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots—Meta Calls It 'Regulatory Overreach'

The European Commission has issued interim measures forcing Meta to restore third-party AI access to the WhatsApp Business API within five days.

A Quantum Clock Is Ticking for Bitcoin and Crypto—Here's How Stellar Is Preparing

The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled a three-step roadmap to prepare the XLM network for the coming quantum computing threat.

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Mythos 5 AI Model—Along With the Safer Fable 5 for the Public

Anthropic has released a full version of its cybersecurity-centric Claude Mythos model—along with a safer version for the general public.

Kraken Named Official Crypto Exchange of FIFA World Cup 2026

Crypto exchange Kraken is teaming up with FIFA to sponsor the World Cup, with plans for "fan-focused" experiences in the U.S. and Europe.

Crypto Lending Protocol Morpho Raises $175 Million to Aid Wall Street’s DeFi Push

Decentralized lending platform Morpho has secured $175 million in its latest funding round, highlighting the rise of curated lending vaults.

Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers on CFTC's Crypto and Prediction Market Oversight

The Massachusetts senator highlighted workforce cuts and enforcement changes at the regulator under the Trump administration.

50% Of All Bitcoin In Circulation Are Now Sitting On Major Losses, Is This A Bottom Signal?

Bitcoin may be flashing one of its most closely watched contrarian signals. With more than 10 million BTC now held below their acquisition cost, a growing portion of the market is underwater. According to recent on-chain observations highlighted by analyst Ali Martinez, this development places Bitcoin in a zone that has historically coincided with major […]

Morning Minute: Saylor is Back to Buying

Saylor answers doubts with a $100M purchase. Citrini just called Hyperliquid a buy. And SBF is formally asking Trump for a pardon.

Humanity Protocol Loses $36M After Private Keys 'Compromised,' Token Crashes 73%

The decentralized identity protocol said a compromised employee's laptop let attackers seize its bridges and mint tokens at will.

OpenAI Confirms Confidential IPO Filing, Keeps Timing Open

The ChatGPT maker says it has filed paperwork for a potential public offering but may remain private while it pursues other priorities.

Apple Unveils Upgraded Siri as Tech Giant's Big AI Push Finally Arrives

The revamped Siri adds conversational AI, visual understanding, and personal context awareness as Apple rolls out new features across apps.

Bitcoin Is 'Boring' AI-Hungry Retail Investors, But Bernstein Still Sees $150K This Year

Bitcoin is down about 50% from its peak, but Wall Street researchers argue the selloff reflects a maturing asset, not a dying one.

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Has Formally Filed for a Pardon From President Trump

President Trump previously ruled out a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried—but the FTX founder has applied for one anyway.

For Bitcoin Giant Strategy, Cash Is Key to Calming Investors: JPMorgan

Strategy’s fortunes have long been tied to Bitcoin, but it now appears to rest on the greenback, according to JPMorgan analysts.

'Extremely Bullish': Zcash Rebounds By $2.5 Billion Amid Planned Fix for Supply Conundrum

Zcash pared steep losses after the privacy coin's backers introduced an upgrade aimed at restoring faith in the digital asset's supply.

Yuga Labs Just Pulled Off A $500,000 Crypto Heist — Against These Hackers

Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks, completed a covert whitehat operation on June 8 to rescue 68 blue-chip NFTs — worth more than $500,000 — from an active exploit targeting Flooring Protocol, deploying its own funds and acting before additional attackers could drain assets that included some of the most […]

Congress to Discuss Crypto Tax Rules: What to Watch

The House Ways and Means committee will review draft crypto tax bills covering staking, mining, network fees, and reporting.

Morning Minute: Bitcoin Recovers After Fall Below $60k

Crypto rebounded Monday after Friday's selloff, driven by strong jobs data, AI IPO liquidity drain and Saylor worries.

Reform UK's Farage 'Evading' Scrutiny Over Tether Billionaire's $6.7M Gift: Labour

Labour Party Chair Anna Turley wrote to Nigel Farage accusing him of “evading reasonable scrutiny” over Christopher Harborne’s gift.

Bitcoin Has Dumped All of Its Gains Since Trump Was Reelected—And Then Some

Bitcoin surged in the wake of President Trump's reelection, pushing to new highs deep into 2025. Now it's down more than 50% from that peak.

Strategy Shares Fall to 4-Month Low as STRC Dips and Bitcoin Sinks Under $60K

Strategy shares tumbled alongside Bitcoin on Friday as the firm's flagship preferred stock also came under pressure.

Anthropic Is Helping the NSA Hack China. It Also Wants Everyone to Pause AI

The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI could soon build itself without humans in the loop.

Congress Gets 7 New Crypto Tax Bills: Here's What's In Them

The crypto tax bills—the first of their kind to be deliberated by congressional leadership—will be discussed at a House hearing on Tuesday.

Tom Lee's Ethereum Treasury BitMine Prices Preferred Shares With 9.5% Dividend

BitMine is borrowing from Strategy’s Bitcoin playbook, debuting its own preferred share in an upsized offering to raise funds to buy Ethereum.

Winklevoss-Backed Zcash Treasury Plunges Nearly 40% on ZEC Privacy Bug Concerns

Cypherpunk Technologies shares tumbled to their lowest point since March as jitters tied to a Zcash bug knocked the Winklevoss-backed firm.

Morning Minute: Massive ZCash Exploit Found by Claude, Extent Unknown

The ZCash team hired a hacker to find an exploit in the ZCash protocol, and he exposed a glitch that has been out there for four years.

ZEC Crashes 38% as Zcash Discloses ‘Critical Counterfeiting Vulnerability’

An Orchard vulnerability that allowed undetectable counterfeiting of ZEC in its shielded pool has reignited debate over privacy coins.

Zcash Bug Could Have Minted Unlimited ZEC Undetected

A critical vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool could have allowed an attacker to create an unlimited amount of counterfeit ZEC without detection, according to a new disclosure from Zooko Wilcox, Jason McGee and security researcher Taylor Hornby. The flaw was discovered on May 29, remediated through an emergency ecosystem response completed by June 2, […]

'Looksmaxxing' Trend Spawns $100M Gray Market Fueled By Bitcoin, Stablecoins: Chainalysis

Demand for peptides fueled by the "looksmaxxing" trend has spawned a $100 million gray market paid for primarily with crypto.

Google DeepMind CEO Says AGI Is Coming Fast: 'We Don't Have Long to Prepare'

The Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher says humanity is standing in the "foothills of the singularity."

Crypto Billionaires Donate $9.4M to Farage’s Reform UK in Q1

Tether investor Christopher Harborne and BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo’s outspent Britain's traditional political donors.

Bitcoin Miners Emerge as 'Power Landlords' of AI Boom—And Revenue Will Surge: Bernstein

Bernstein is bullish on Bitcoin miners as they increasingly power the AI boom, assigning “Outperform” ratings to TeraWulf and Cipher Digital.

Fannie Mae-Backed Bitcoin Home Mortgages Are Finally Here, Coinbase Says

Coinbase said a Michigan couple closed on the first-ever conventional, Fannie Mae-backed home mortgage by pledging Bitcoin as collateral.

British Teen Sanctioned By Russia After Alleging Crypto Use to Evade Sanctions

The teenager's research into Russia’s alleged illicit crypto flows appears to have prompted Moscow's retaliation.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined ZESTUSDT and BTWUSDT Perpetual Contracts (2026-06-04)

Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting with Elon Musk's SpaceX

Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX is set to IPO, with current estimations making him the world's first trillionaire on its completion.

Tom Lee’s BitMine Plans $300M Preferred Stock Sale for ETH Treasury Push

The offering would tie fixed cash dividends to a staking-heavy ETH treasury model as Strategy’s preferred stock remains under pressure.

Tether Debuts Tokenized Gold Stablecoin Visa Card That Pays Out Crypto Rewards

Holders will be able to do more with their gold, instantly spending Tether's tokenized version anywhere Visa is accepted.

Hermes Ends AI Agent Terminal Era With Release of Official Desktop App

Until now, the only way to run Hermes was through a terminal—or one of several unofficial GUIs the community had cobbled together.

Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Do Part of the AI Work—So It Doesn't Have To

The company's new hybrid inference system routes AI tasks between your device and the cloud automatically. Privacy and cost savings are the pitch—and lower server bills.

As Oil Moves Higher, Bitcoin Sinks to Lowest Price Since March

Bitcoin fell to a more than two-month low alongside U.S. stocks after Middle East skirmishes pushed bond yields and oil prices higher.

Stripe Millionaire Loses Bid for Congress to Candidate Backed by Ripple Co-Founder

Former Stripe engineer Saikat Chakrabarti lost his bid to succeed Nancy Pelosi in California to a candidate backed by Ripple's Chris Larsen.

Strategy Wanted to 'Inoculate' the Bitcoin Market—Has Its BTC Sale Backfired?

With STRC trading under $100, experts are at odds over whether the sale has exposed a “structural crack” in Strategy’s Bitcoin flywheel.

Zcash Completes 'Most Ambitious' Network Upgrade as ZEC Resumes Recent Surge

A Zcash vulnerability could have allowed double-spending within the network's flagship privacy pool, though no exploitation occurred.

Trezor Reveals Hardware Wallet Vulnerability, But Funds 'Safe'

The vulnerability in Trezor's TROPIC01 Secure Element chip was uncovered by an audit carried out by the Ledger Donjon team.

UK Regulator Warns Soccer Clubs Over Unauthorized Crypto Sponsorship Deals

The FCA has warned Premier League clubs that partnerships with unlicensed crypto firms could expose fans to unregulated trading platforms.

Binance Adds USDT/AED Spot Trading Pair

US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchanges Including Nobitex for Terrorist Financing

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control accused the platforms of enabling illicit finance activities across Iran's crypto ecosystem.

Microsoft Says Latest AI Models Beat Claude, Google's Nano Banana

Microsoft unveiled seven in-house AI models and claimed its flagship reasoning and image systems outperform rivals from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google.

Microsoft Turns OpenClaw Into an Enterprise AI Agent With Scout

Tech people will say everyone's already using OpenClaw. They're right. But Microsoft is the one with 1.4 billion Windows users ready to adopt it.

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Urge Labor Department to Drop Bitcoin, Crypto 401K Plan

The senators said a plan allowing fiduciaries to offer exposure to riskier assets like crypto and private equity would hurt retirees and personally benefit President Trump.

Where Does Bitcoin Go From Here? This Is What the Charts Say

Bitcoin just had its worst day since April. The death cross is in effect, and prediction markets are bearish.

President Trump Signs AI Executive Order After Delaying It Over China Concerns

Trump's executive order creates a voluntary framework for reviewing advanced AI models, expands AI-powered cybersecurity efforts, and more.

Will Strategy's Peers Dump Bitcoin Now? Not so Fast, Analysts Say

Crypto analysts say investors should look closely at each company's financial situation rather than expecting a cascade of incoming sales.

Anthropic Expands Access to Claude Mythos After AI Giant Files for IPO

Just a day after the nearly $1 trillion AI giant revealed IPO plans, Anthropic is letting more firms access its powerful Claude Mythos model.

Mt. Gox Moves $739M in Bitcoin as Repayment Deadline Looms

The defunct exchange still has about 35,000 BTC left to distribute, though the latest transfer does not show a sale.

Morning Minute: Saylor Sells Bitcoin for First Time Since 2022

Bitcoin fell below $70K on the back of the sales, and a major Polymarket dispute is brewing over whether Strategy indeed sold in May or not.

Binance Futures Will Launch ANTHROPICUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract Pre-IPO Trading (2026-06-02)

DuckDuckGo Launched Duck AI. Now Their Hit Product is 'No AI'

As Google buries its search results under AI-generated answers, DuckDuckGo believes a growing number of users just want the old internet back.

Trump’s Business Partner Teases Future Meme Coin Plans: 'We’re The Biggest Brand on Earth'

Bill Zanker, a longtime Trump associate, will take the top 19 holders of the president’s meme coin to the World Cup Finals next month—and has plans for ongoing exclusive events.

Kalshi Eyes Perpetual Futures for XRP, Solana, Dogecoin—And These Altcoins

Kalshi moved swiftly to lock down an emerging market for perpetual futures in the U.S., filing to certify a slate of altcoin offerings

Sell Coinbase Before Derivatives Squeeze Crypto Giant, Says Compass Point

Compass Point analysts reiterated a bearish $140 price target for Coinbase, warning of fierce competition in the derivatives space.

AI Giant Anthropic Files to Go Public After Nearing $1 Trillion Valuation

Claude maker Anthropic said Monday that it confidentially filed to launch an IPO in the U.S. following another huge funding round.

Sui Blames Last Week's Trio of Network Outages on Gas and Validator Bugs

The Sui blockchain suffered three separate failures in 48 hours due to gas calculation bugs and validator synchronization issues.

Bitcoin Falls to 2-Month Low After Strategy Sells BTC, ETFs Flip Negative for the Year

Strategy made its first BTC sale since 2022 as Bitcoin ETFs shed billions over the last two weeks, nudging the price down even lower.

Coinbase Launches Direct Indian Rupee Deposit and Withdrawal Rails

The U.S. exchange has established direct rupee trading rails for Indian customers after securing regulatory clearance.

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined SLXUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-06-01)

Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Files to Have 12-Year Crypto Fraud Sentence Vacated

Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky hopes to have his prison sentence vacated, claiming a legal conflict tied to Sam Bankman-Fried.

Lenovo Stock Doubles in May on AI Server Boom—Best Month in 27 Years

The world's biggest PC maker surged 109% in May after AI revenue hit 38% of quarterly sales. Goldman Sachs more than doubled its target.

NYSE Parent Isn't 'Freaked Out' by Hyperliquid—It's Learning From the Crypto Perps Giant

Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said his company and Hyperliquid are learning from each other as crypto perps gain ground.

AI Models Can’t Agree on Basic Facts Most of the Time, Study Shows

A new study gave five frontier AI models 1,000 real-world claims to fact-check. They disagreed on 67% of them.

Wintermute Is Providing Liquidity on Kalshi and Polymarket, Linking Two Giants

Wintermute is providing liquidity on the two biggest prediction markets, linking flows for both firms, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Sui Network Goes Down for Second Straight Day as Weekly Token Slide Hits 20%

The Sui token is among the worst performing top 100 crypto assets of the last week in the wake of back-to-back outages.

Paxos Secures SEC Registration as Clearing Agency

The approval makes Paxos the “only blockchain-native firm” approved by the SEC to operate as a registered clearing agency in the U.S.

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Binance Futures Will Launch QNTXUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract Pre-IPO Trading (2026-05-29)

Anthropic Nears $1 Trillion Valuation, Topping OpenAI After Fresh $65 Billion Raise

Claude maker Anthropic said annualized revenue surpassed $47 billion as it expands cloud and compute partnerships.

Apple iOS 27 Leaks: Siri Is Being Remade to Be More Like ChatGPT

Rendered illustrations published ahead of WWDC 2026 reveal a dedicated Siri app, Dynamic Island integration, and a Google Gemini backbone—the biggest overhaul to the assistant in nearly 15 years.

Kalshi Sues to Stop Minnesota From Enforcing America’s First Prediction Market Ban

Prediction market giant Kalshi has asked a federal judge to prevent Minnesota from allowing the ban to go into effect in August.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI Model Nearing Release After Raising Cybersecurity Alarms

Anthropic signaled that broader access to its controversial Claude Mythos AI models may arrive "in the coming weeks" after limited testing.

Bitcoin Whales Are Pulling Back as Activity 'Mirrors' 2022 Bear Market: Analysts

Current Bitcoin whale activity is similar in nature to the last bear market in 2022 when BTC fell precipitously, according to on-chain data.

Google Engineer Charged Over $2.75 Million in Alleged Polymarket Insider Trading Bets

The Google employee case is the second federal prosecution tied to alleged prediction market insider trading on Polymarket.

Bitcoin Traders Increasingly Convinced Price Will Fall Below $70K by End of May

Prediction market odds are rising for Bitcoin to drop below $70,000 in the next few days following a dip to a six-week low price.

This AI Compressed 'All Human Cooking' Into 2 Megabytes

A London startup trained an AI on 4.1 million recipes across seven languages—and the whole thing is smaller than a song file.

Prediction Market Myriad Launches $100K World Cup Competition

A prize pool of over $100,000 is available for top traders and makers on prediction markets linked to FIFA World Cup matches.

CFTC, Gemini File Joint Motion to Reverse $5M Settlement

The regulator filed alongside the crypto exchange to undo a 2025 consent order it now says "should not have been filed."

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined CTRUSDT Perpetual Contract (2026-05-28)

Here's How Much Bitcoin Elon Musk Would Control If SpaceX and Tesla Merge

If Tesla and SpaceX merged—as is a reported possibility—then Elon Musk's combined entity would hold billions of dollars' worth of Bitcoin.

Ethereum Traders Grow Increasingly Bearish as ETFs Bleed, ETH Sinks Near $2,000

Predictors on Myriad are losing faith, believing it's more likely that Ethereum dumps to $1,500 before a prospective move up to $3,000.

ElevenLabs, Stability AI Drop New AI Music Models—Can They Catch Suno?

Music v2 brings genre-shifting and section-by-section composition to ElevenLabs. Stable Audio 3.0 ships open weights and six-minute tracks. Is either good enough to dethrone the category leader?

Marvel Comics Icon Stan Lee Has Been 'Revived' With AI Tech—Again

ElevenLabs has licensed Stan Lee’s voice and likeness, adding the late Marvel comic creator to a growing market for AI celebrity replicas.

DeepSeek, Xiaomi Just Made Frontier AI 99% Cheaper. American Labs Went the Other Way

Back-to-back price cuts from China's top AI labs have made their models a fraction of the cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus.

YouTube Makes AI Content Labels More Prominent as Google Pushes Video Remix Tools

YouTube says new disclosure tools and automatic AI detection will help viewers more easily identify AI-generated videos.

SoFi Launches SoFiUSD Stablecoin Across Ethereum and Solana

SoFi is making its SoFiUSD token available to members, marking a milestone in the convergence of regulated banking and blockchain.

Kraken Now Lets You Earn Yield on Bitcoin Holdings via Lending Vaults

Kraken customers can make use of their Bitcoin holdings and generate BTC yield without ever leaving the exchange.

Huawei's New Benchmark Gives AI Agents Months of Your Life—Then Watches Them Fail

Claw-Anything simulates a real digital existence and asks AI assistants to handle it. GPT-5.5, the best model available, scored 34.5%.

Robinhood Opens Platform to AI Agents for Stock Trading and Credit Card Spending

Retail brokerage Robinhood now lets users delegate stock purchases and credit card transactions to third-party AI systems.

Solana Meme Coin Surges 6,000% After Creators Arrested Over 'Rug Pull'

The charges against the CatFi creators mark the first time South Korean prosecutors have applied the new Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

6,000 Investors Lost Everything On A 1,001x Solana Meme Coin — South Korea Just Made Its Move

South Korean prosecutors have indicted five individuals in the country’s first-ever criminal prosecution of a decentralized exchange rug pull — and the first case in which fraudulent trading charges under South Korea’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act have been applied, setting a landmark legal precedent for how the country’s crypto enforcement framework handles DEX-based market […]

Some Non-Enhanced Athletes Beat Their Juiced Rivals at the 'Steroid Olympics'

The inaugural games produced a record-breaking swim, but several non-enhanced athletes still beat the enhanced competitors.

Ethereum Firm Sharplink, Solana Treasury Forward Industries Joining Russell 2000, 3000 Indexes

Crypto treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries will both be included in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the end of June.

Grand Theft Data: Threat Actors Weaponizing GTA 6 Hype, NordVPN Warns

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, flooding the internet with GTA phishing traps and malware.

TeraWulf Stock Pops as Bitcoin Miner Acquires Kentucky Site to Meet AI Power Demands

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf’s latest deal adds more than a gigawatt of potential data center capacity in a region eager for economic investment.

UK Issues Sanctions Against Justin Sun's HTX, Other Crypto Firms Over Alleged Russia Ties

British financial institutions are now barred from doing business with the exchanges—and may face penalties for interacting with crypto transactions that pass through them.

Indonesia Blocks Polymarket After Bets on President’s Early Departure

The ban came on the heels of markets linked to the early departure of Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.

StepFun's Voice AI Topped Every Benchmark. It Also Hears Your Sighs

The Shanghai lab that builds LLMs that punch above their weight just turned that same energy on voice—and the results are hard to ignore.

Crypto Industry Fights Senator Warren's Claim That Coinbase, Ripple Bank Charter Approvals Are Illegal

The Digital Chamber urged the OCC on Tuesday to defend its recent national bank charter approvals for crypto firms, which Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed as improper.

Morning Minute: Trump Hints That Iran Deal May Be Close, Markets Rebound

Markets bounced back on Trump's “largely negotiated” U.S.-Iran deal, but further airstrikes underscore the fragile geopolitical position.

Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Shed $112M as Hyperliquid Funds Extend 8-Day Win Streak

Hyperliquid ETFs posted an 8-day inflow streak as the network’s native token HYPE hit a new all-time high Sunday.

Binance Futures Will Launch OPENAIUSDT USDⓈ-Margined Perpetual Contract Pre-IPO Trading (2026-05-26)

Ondo Finance Announces The Unexpected Death Of CEO Nathan Allman

Ondo Finance, one of the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms in the crypto industry, announced that its co-founder and CEO, Nathan Allman, has died. The company shared the news on Monday, May 25, and said it is also moving to ensure leadership continuity in the wake of the tragedy. Ondo Finance Confirms New CEO In […]

What Are The 1% Cardano Investors Doing? Crypto Pundit Breaks It Down

With volatility across the cryptocurrency market building, the Cardano price has persistently struggled with downside pressure, dropping below the $0.25 level. The altcoin has fallen sharply from its all-time high, but one thing that has captured the attention of the community is the activity among top-tier ADA investors. ADA Investors In the Top Tier Are […]

$420 Billion In Zcash Tracked By Arkham — Is This The End Of The Privacy Coin’s Core Promise?

Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham Intelligence has published research revealing that it has successfully labeled more than half of all Zcash transaction activity — attributing $420 billion in volume to known individuals and institutions — a finding that strikes at the core value proposition of a cryptocurrency explicitly designed to make financial transactions invisible. Related Reading: […]

Tom Lee Outlines Liquidity Catalyst for Ethereum Firm BitMine Following Russell Index Update

The Ethereum-buying firm owns 3.8% of the digital asset’s supply.

With Central Bank’s Blessing, Georgia Taps Tether for 'Official' Stablecoin

Tether plans to issue a stablecoin in Georgia with support from the country’s government, marking a new frontier for the crypto giant.

Perplexity Built a Tool That Checks Your Computer for Infected Software—Without Setting Off the Infection

Bumblebee scans developer machines for compromised packages and AI tool configs. Its core trick: It never actually runs the code it's looking for.

Pope Leo Releases First AI Encyclical, Calls Data a Common Good and Rejects Moral Neutrality of Tech

The 245-paragraph document was presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, whose company is actively suing the Trump administration over military AI use.

Vitalik Says Ethereum Foundation Will Sell Less ETH As It Narrows Mission

Vitalik Buterin said the Ethereum Foundation (EF) is moving toward a smaller, more focused and more opinionated role, with fewer ETH sales and a sharper mandate around Ethereum’s long-term resilience, privacy, security and capture resistance. In a lengthy post via X on Sunday, Buterin framed the shift as a deliberate move away from treating the […]

Now You Can Buy Bitcoin, XRP and More in ChatGPT via MoonPay

MoonPay's new app lets users buy cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Solana, through ChatGPT just by speaking with the chatbot.

Strategy Now Holds $65 Billion in Bitcoin—These Are Its Biggest BTC Buys

How did Michael Saylor's firm amass a record stash of Bitcoin? Here's a look back at how Strategy made such massive gains.

FTX Lawyers Pay $54M In Settlement Over Services Rendered To Exchange – Details

In a noteworthy development, US law firm Fenwick & West has agreed to pay $54 million to settle claims arising from its legal services for the defunct crypto exchange FTX. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court in Miami on Friday, resolves allegations from FTX customers who accused the Silicon Valley-based firm of facilitating misconduct […]

Bitcoin Dives Below $75K for First Time in a Month as Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion

Bitcoin touched its lowest price in a month overnight following an awful week for ETFs, which shed over $1.25 billion this week.

Argentina Launched an AI to Predict the Future. It Couldn't Predict a Typo

Milei's government unveiled a social digital twin to overhaul public policy—announced via a video full of AI slop, grammatical errors, and a deepfake of a minister.

SEC Delays Tokenized Stocks Innovation Exemption Amid Concerns: Bloomberg

The SEC’s expected regulatory framework would have provided clarity for companies looking to tokenize traditional assets like stocks.

Bitcoin Billionaire Books First SpaceX Mars Mission

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang plans a Starship flyby of Mars, before SpaceX attempts to land humans on the surface.

How Donald Trump’s Order On Dollar Payment Rails Could Be A Game-Changer For Ripple’s XRP

Ripple and XRP could be among the biggest winners of a new executive order signed by US President Donald Trump this week. The order directs federal regulators to review whether crypto companies can access the country’s dollar payment system. This move could be a game-changer for XRP, as it would determine how digital asset firms […]

GameStop Seeks to Boost Share Count as eBay Pursuit Continues After Rejection

Gaming retailer GameStop wants to add 1.5 billion shares to its authorized share count as it seeks to maximize financial flexibility.

Crypto, Banks, Policy Experts Press Congress to Modernize Bank Secrecy Act

A House subcommittee hearing exposed a divide over how far to scale back the 1970-era anti-money laundering law as Trump expands its reach.

NYSE Parent, OKX Counter Hyperliquid With Regulated Oil Perpetual Futures

OKX debuted perpetual oil futures tied to Intercontinental Exchange’s benchmarks, the latest sign of growing competition for Hyperliquid.

Billionaire Mark Cuban Reveals He Sold Most Of His Bitcoin: Here’s Why

Mark Cuban said he has sold most of his Bitcoin, arguing that the asset failed to behave as the hedge he expected during a period of geopolitical stress and dollar weakness. Speaking on Portfolio Players by Front Office Sports, released on May 21, 2026, the billionaire investor said it had “lost the plot” after underperforming […]

Polymarket Hit By ‘Internal Top-Up’ Wallet Exploit, $700K Drained

User funds remain safe after the incident, the prediction market platform said, with contracts and core infrastructure unaffected.

Binance Will Add Genius Terminal (GENIUS) and OpenGradient (OPG) on Earn, Buy Crypto, Convert, VIP Loan & Margin

Polymarket Taps Jupiter Exec to Lead Japan Push: Report

The prediction market has reportedly appointed a representative in Japan as it aims to secure authorization to operate there by 2030.

Binance Will List Genius Terminal (GENIUS) and OpenGradient (OPG) with Seed Tag Applied

Nearly $500B in Bitcoin Is Exposed to Future Quantum Computing Attacks: Glassnode

Blockchain data firm Glassnode mapped the vulnerabilities embedded in Bitcoin’s existing supply, pointing to exchanges as a weak point.

Prominent Ethereum Dev Proposes $1 Billion ETH Organization With Leader Who 'Wants to Fight'

Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist appeared to take pointed shots Thursday at ETH co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Spotify and Universal Launch AI Remix Tool for Fan-Made Covers

Spotify and Universal Music Group say their new licensed AI remix platform will let fans create song covers and remixes while compensating participating artists and songwriters.