Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval for Trust Bank Behind $2.6B RLUSD Stablecoin
The federally supervised bank will manage RLUSD’s reserves and offer custody, as banking groups fight crypto charters in court.
Zcash co-founder calls to stop funding ‘over $125M’ grants program
Sean Bowe says ZCG has enough money to keep funding projects and wants its share of new ZEC redirected to a reserve for the network.
Data center backlash is uniting America
If there’s one issue that seems to activate all kinds of voters in 2026, it’s data centers. The rapid buildout of these massive server storage facilities – and the infrastructure construction and expenses that come with them – has sparked local opposition in communities across the country and become a major issue in many congressional … Read more
Acer is bringing a Predator gaming handheld to the US for the first time
It’s been several months since Acer unveiled its Predator Atlas 8 gaming handheld, but now we finally know that it’s coming to the US, and how much it’ll cost. The Intel Arc G3 Extreme variant – the more powerful of the two models announced in May – will be available exclusively at Best Buy on … Read more
Now is the time to accumulate bitcoin, Galaxy says
Galaxy argues improving price trends, resilient ETF demand and rising U.S. debt support bitcoin’s recovery towards its previous high.
Bloom bot hackers loot $953K faster than you can microwave popcorn
Bloom pledged to reimburse nine traders after $953,000 was drained from 48 wallets, saying no private keys were accessed or compromised.
Sony’s Soneium Brings Access to $549 Million Royalties Fund Onchain
Soneium, the blockchain entertainment ecosystem developed by Sony Group and Startale Group, is expanding into tokenized intellectual property investments through a collaboration with Asseto, bringing eligible users access to royalty-linked exposure from a $549 million fund managed by global private markets investment firm Partners Group. The initiative introduces two products, ipUSD and IP Vault, through … Read more
An AI label alone no longer wins lenders, JPMorgan says
As default insurance on several AI-linked firms hits record costs, companies must show they can finance investment, service the debt and eventually mint cash, JPMorgan says.
How CarePods Is Approaching Healthcare Staffing in Michigan
Every year, Michigan healthcare facilities face significant staffing overhead costs that could be streamlined through better technology. Legacy agencies charge substantial markups. Gig platforms have raised concerns about treating nurses fairly. And regional facilities, the ones serving communities outside Detroit and Grand Rapids, have staffing needs shaped by smaller local clinician pools, commuting conditions, and … Read more
Binance files for Brazil crypto license ahead of Friday deadline
The exchange is delisting 22 crypto assets for Brazilian users and hopes talks with the central bank will allow it to restore some services.
Solana bug reports now cost 1 SOL as AI floods security teams with spam
Researchers must now permanently burn 1 SOL for every submission after a monthlong contest drew 809 reports, with AI believed to have helped generate or write nearly all of them.
Bitcoin ETFs claw back $110M after $774M exit
US spot Bitcoin ETFs remained in the red for October, with about $202 million in net outflows for the month despite Monday’s rebound.
Ethereum fixes Glamsterdam bug that could have sent staking deposits to builders
Developers initially rejected the change before reversing course, as testing delays gave them more time to examine a flaw in Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade.
The Idea You Reveal to AI Today Could Be the Weapon That Destroys Your Moat Tomorrow!
Your competitor does not need to breach your firewalls, plant malware on your workstation, or bribe an insider to steal your corporate secrets. The most lethal weapon that could wipe out your competitive moat tomorrow is the very architecture, logic, and unpublished research you freely disclose today while innocently chatting with centralized AI models! Consider … Read more
X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused
Whose hand is behind this travesty?
Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants funding, citing $125 million treasury
Sean Bowe’s proposal would send the committee’s 8% share of newly created ZEC to a reserve for future miners. The committee would keep the money it has already received.
MOSS_image_MAX_ULTRA_hires_lora_test Explained: A LoHa Adapter for MOSS-Image-Base
Overview MOSS_image_MAX_ULTRA_hires_lora_test is a LoHa adapter for Comfy-Org’s MOSS-Image-Base, intended to improve text-to-image generation at 4 megapixels and above. Its maintainer is comfyanonymous. Best use cases Use it with its MOSS-Image-Base model for high-resolution text-to-image generation, particularly at 4 MP or higher. The stated training mix includes anime and photographs at 3.5–10 MP. Limitations The … Read more
A simple semantic layer a retrieval agent can call
An agent that answers questions about a company’s numbers has to return a figure it was allowed to say, taken from a definition someone signed, and show where that figure came from. The failures are concrete when that constraint is missing. The model invents a metric name. It averages two rows because the question said … Read more
Ripple gets a final go-ahead to launch its own U.S. national trust bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has approved Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on X.
RedotPay weighs confidential US IPO filing by year-end: Bloomberg
The stablecoin payments company previously disputed reports that its US listing had been delayed.
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.
Keystone breach deepens: Hackers stole key used to verify wallets as genuine
Keystone initially disclosed a leak of customer information but has since disclosed that hackers also stole a key that could allow counterfeit wallets to pass authenticity checks.
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
Ripple wins final US approval for national trust bank
The approval clears the way for Ripple to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody.
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in … Read more
Canada’s Draft Stablecoin Rules Cap Redemption Fees at 1% and Ban Yield
Ottawa opened a 60-day consultation on draft rules requiring one-to-one reserves and fast redemption from stablecoin issuers, while keeping the ban on paying holders interest.