Martin Young

Rhea Finance and the Russia-linked Grinex exchange were hacked for a combined $21 million over the past two days.

“When we hit it, it will be vicious, so we have to prepare for that eventuality,” said former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on a potential US Treasury market crisis.

The amount of capacity and the type of compute it was trained on is “abundantly available in China,” said the Nvidia CEO.

It may be appropriate to attempt to mitigate the extent of the freeze as much as possible, even at the cost of greater complexity, said BitMEX.

It is the second long-term social-engineering attack this month, after the $280 million exploit of the Drift Protocol.

The authors described it as a “private incentive to upgrade” because lost or frozen coins will make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more.

Bitcoin falling to the $50,000 level is being seen as the “last significant accumulation zone” before any sustained recovery, says LVRG Research director Nick Ruck.

A broad hope for a US deal with Iran to end weeks of conflict has spurred investor confidence in riskier assets.

Almost everyone has a hard time paying their bills every month, said crypto YouTuber Michaël van de Poppe, on why retail may be absent this cycle.

Bitcoin mining is becoming more centralized while AI may move the opposite way, driven by edge computing and open-source models.

Some LLM routers are “secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds,” warns researcher Chaofan Shou.

Japan tightens oversight with insider-trading bans and new disclosure rules as crypto markets attract more institutional participation.

A proposed workaround could enable quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without a protocol change, but high compute costs limit real-world use.

“In our view, the equitable balance here cuts in favor of the government,” said a panel of judges from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Visa is rolling out a platform that helps merchants make their product inventories discoverable and purchasable by AI agents.

Ethereum could see $850 billion in “new flows” by 2030 if the trend continues, according to Token Terminal.

AI models have reached a level of coding capability that rivals or exceeds that of most human experts at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, Anthropic said.

The Bitcoin community has a “history of contentious debates over protocol changes,” said Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl.

The Solana Foundation and Web3 security firm Asymmetric Research unveiled a new security initiative called STRIDE, along with a real-time incident-response network.

Security researcher Taylor Monahan listed at least 40 decentralized finance platforms she claims have been infiltrated by North Korean IT workers at some stage of their lives.

US President Donald Trump threatened Iran could be "living in Hell" if it doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz, though he also told reporters that a deal with Iran is getting close.

CryptoQuant data shows there are 8.2 million Bitcoin currently at a loss, which is still under the amount of Bitcoin at a loss during the 2022 bear market.

Circle, known for issuing stablecoins including USDC and EURC, is expanding into the Bitcoin space, targeting institutional users.

The legislation “embraces innovation, protects participants and empowers internet-native communities to compete with big tech incumbents,” said a16z’s Miles Jennings.

The AI and crypto company has added to a pattern of Bitcoin treasuries offloading this year, with Michael Saylor's Strategy bucking that trend.

A shallower Bitcoin drawdown than previous cycles "indicates a maturing market with reduced volatility and stronger institutional confidence," said Nick Ruck, director of LVRG Research.

“There’s a myth in mainstream media and social media that insider trading doesn’t apply in the prediction markets … That is wrong,” said CFTC enforcement director David Miller.

New research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked startup, says quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality.

CertiK has advised ordinary users “who are not security professionals, developers, or experienced geeks” against installing and using OpenClaw.

Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 Base said it will be upgrading its chain to allow AI agents to use it the same way developers or traders would.