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Harmony plans rollback, wiping 109,000 transactions after ONE exploit
Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate rollback dispute after an exploit.
Israel’s largest crypto broker Bits of Gold hit by data breach affecting 200,000 customers
Funds and digital assets were not touched, but names, bank account details, and national ID numbers may have been exposed in what the company says was a wider global attack.
BTC price loses 200-week trend line as 2022 repeats: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin confirmed a weekly candle close below its 200-week moving average, copying the 2022 bear-market as traders warn of further BTC price downside next.
Binance gave Russian authorities client data used in terrorism financing case: Report
Reuters reported that Binance supplied transaction records and identity documents later used in a terrorism-financing case against Yuri Belenkiy.
Bitpanda fined 70,000 euros in Austria’s first published MiCA enforcement case
The fine stems from Bitpanda failing to submit a mandatory white paper 20 days before publication and omitting required disclosures in marketing materials.
Paul Tudor Jones' Firm Buys Back Into BlackRock Bitcoin ETF After a Year of Selling
The macro fund raised its iShares Bitcoin Trust stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares worth $22.9 million in Q2, while sharply cutting its call options—a shift from leveraged bets toward direct spot exposure.
Bitpanda fined in Austria’s first published MiCA penalty
The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with the decision now final.
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.
Binance handed user data to Russia that led to a Ukrainian donor's arrest
Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy.
Live updates: Bitcoin rises above $64,000 as big AI compute deals continue to roll in
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a near halt as the 60-day truce lapses with no deal, reviving the oil-price risk that has capped crypto all summer. ETF flows, meanwhile, are quietly turning.
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This […]
Greenlane’s $70M BERA treasury ends Q2 valued at $16M
Greenlane recorded a $19.1 million noncash valuation loss as BERA’s price fell nearly 76% year to date.
The bitcoin futures market looks like a crowded club with a tiny exit – and it could cause pain
The market may be facing a dangerous liquidity mismatch as futures open interest outpaces trading volume by a significant margin.
XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges
Futures open interest climbed to $2.78 billion and traders on Binance and OKX leaned heavily long, even as social sentiment hit a three-month low.
Chainalysis sues US over $95M ICE contract with TRM Labs
The sealed complaint leaves Chainalysis’ specific objections and requested remedy undisclosed as briefing continues.
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) OpenAI spokesperson Kayla Wood […]
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.
Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Investors are starting to judge crypto tokens on usage, economics and value capture rather than market-cap rank, industry executives said.
Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' order info
While the data breach exposed the personal order details of thousands of customers, all private keys, seed phrases, and crypto assets remain completely safe.
People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.
MiCA's cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union
Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate their accounts after the EU's MiCA deadline are on the rise.
The stablecoin yield clash that won't go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition
The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it's existed for generations, and their argument is gaining ground.