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Strategy Sets New BTC Holdings Record After $143M Bitcoin Purchase

Michael Saylor's Bitcoin treasury firm bought 1,665 BTC last week, taking its holdings above its previous record to 847,666 BTC.

14 days ago

Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks

The Gary Gensler era is long gone and now the SEC is providing clarity on what crypto protocols can and can’t do with their tokens.

14 days ago

California Bans Public Officials From Issuing Meme Coins Under New Newsom Law

Governor Gavin Newsom’s legislation bars public officials from issuing meme coins and exchanges from listing tokens tied to politicians.

14 days ago

AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know

An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.

15 days ago

Bitcoin's Quantum Problem: Three Ways Researchers Are Trying to Fix It

Three developments this week—a cost breakthrough, a new privacy design, and a custody playbook—show a field moving from theory to logistics, even as "Q-Day" remains hypotheti

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SEC Staff Says Token Buybacks Don't Make Crypto a Security—If the Network Works

New SEC staff guidance says announcing a token buyback on a functional network isn't a promise that turns the token into a security, a shift one attorney says makes securities laws look "opt-in."

15 days ago

Bitcoin ETFs Notch Seven-Day Winning Streak as 2026 Flows Turn Green

Bitcoin ETFs have drawn nearly $3 billion over seven straight sessions, erasing post-Clarity Act losses and pushing 2026 flows back into positive territory.

How Crypto Stopped Waiting for Congress and Learned to Love the Regulators

After the Clarity Act failed in the Senate, the SEC, CFTC, and the Fed moved within days to write crypto's rules themselves. Will it be enough?

AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning

An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.

Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone

Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.

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Ondo Finance: How Its Tokenized Asset Platform Works

Ondo Finance is a blockchain platform that turns assets like US Treasuries and public stocks into tokens you can hold, trade, and earn yield on, around the clock. So, I started digging into it because my brokerage account locks up every Friday at 4 pm like it’s still 1985. Ondo’…

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Crypto IRA Explained: How to Hold Bitcoin in a Retirement Account

Bitcoin has spent almost two decades as the asset people either love or dismiss. What has changed lately is where people are allowed to keep it. A growing number of savers in the US are no longer treating crypto as a side bet sitting on an exchange app – they’re folding it into…

US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether

Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.

AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds

Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.

Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs

Google's PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.

Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away

The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.

OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest

Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.

Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect

An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.

Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit

A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.

Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing

Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.

Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year

STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatility.

Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play

The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional interest.

Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo

The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows

Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.

KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit

Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different developer about it.

Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers

The Shielded Bitcoin spec hides senders, receivers and amounts, but leaves how BTC enters and exits the system to a later paper.

Federal Reserve Unveils Stablecoin Rules on Reserves and Capital

The central bank opened two proposals for comment under the GENIUS Act, requiring issuers it supervises to back tokens fully with safe assets and creating an application process for banks seeking to issue stablecoins.

Bitget Hacked as $350 Million Vanishes From Crypto Exchange Wallets

A newly created wallet drained hot and cold reserves labeled as belonging to Bitget across multiple blockchains in under an hour.

Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Chats, New Lawsuit Claims

A proposed class action accuses OpenAI of quietly routing real conversations to outside contractors through a program called Project Lily—without telling users first.

Meta's New AI Toy Is a Keychain That Watches, Listens, and Never Blinks

Muse Charm is Meta's palm-sized gadget for talking to its Muse AI agent on the go. It has cameras, a fingerprint sensor, and its own cell connection.