BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy Pledge $15M to Quantum-Proof Bitcoin
Nine of the biggest institutional names in Bitcoin formed a consortium to fund the developers working to keep the network secure—including from future quantum computers.
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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.
Morning Minute: Wall Street Moving Onchain Will Drive the Next Bull Market
At least that's what Bitwise's CIO believes. Plus Republicans publish new Clarity Act draft, and the SEC Commissioner has a warning for DeFi.
Crypto 'Wrench Attacks' Cost Victims $124M in Six Months, Up 12x: CertiK
Physical attacks on crypto holders are increasingly happening at home, and France has become the epicenter, a new report finds.
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.
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.
Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'
The asset manager argues that AI software capable of paying for things autonomously will need blockchain rails to work—and that most investors aren't positioned for it.
Bitcoin Is Bouncing: Here’s the Bull and Bear Case for Its Next Move
The good news: Bitcoin is holding onto key support, and rising. The bad news: a "death cross" is still active, and prediction markets are still overwhelmingly bearish.
Clarity Act Latest Draft Bars Trump From Crypto Ventures—But Only Until 2029
The long-awaited market-structure bill would block officials and their spouses from issuing digital assets and shield non-custodial developers, but the ethics ban expires in 2029 and enforcement rests solely with the DOJ.
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.
US Seizes More Than $25M in Crypto Tied to Investment and Romance Scams
Prosecutors filed five forfeiture cases as Secret Service agents traced funds from thousands of victims to launderers in Southeast Asia.
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.
Morning Minute: OpenAI Model Escapes Containment, Hacks Hugging Face
Plus, the BTC ETFs stay green. The Clarity Act hits a wall over who enforces the ethics rules. And Jack Mallers walks away from XXI Capital.
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.
DAT Went Wrong: Satsuma to Unwind Bitcoin Treasury, Sell Off $43 Million in BTC
The UK Bitcoin treasury company raised $218 million less than a year ago. Now it's returning whatever is left.
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.