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CoW Swap, a decentralized exchange used by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, paused its protocol after suffering a front-end attack.

Visa joins Stripe and Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered as the first external validators for the Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain.

Jackrong, the developer behind Qwopus, has released Gemopus—a family of Claude Opus-style fine-tunes built on Google’s open-source Gemma 4, putting all-American AI in your pocket and on your potato PC.

Former Wall Street banker Kevin Warsh, worth well over $100 million, also invested in numerous tech startups—including a “reversible male contraceptive solution.”

Bernstein’s analyst argued that prediction markets will be driven less by big league bets as institutions become more involved.

Tether’s self-custodial wallet aims to simplify crypto transactions with email-like identifiers, supporting stablecoins and Bitcoin alike.

Goldman Sachs filed an application for an ETF that seeks to generate income for investors by selling options tied to Bitcoin’s price.

Nous Research’s open-source AI agent is the first with a built-in learning loop—it creates skills from experience, gets better the more you use it, and runs on terminal.

A fake Ledger Live app on the Mac App Store duped more than 50 users, swiping more than $9 million in a new crypto scam.

Banks and crypto firms remain divided even as White House data says a yield ban wouldn’t do much for lending.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire reiterated plans for its stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain to launch in mainnet “soon.”

Bitcoin just hit its highest price in over two months, with Ethereum and other top coins rising faster as crypto bears get liquidated.

The Frankfurt exchange operator’s investment values Kraken at $13.3 billion, as TradFi giants race to secure footholds in crypto.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are pumping. DeFi is winning. Saylor is buying big. And Kraken is getting extorted.

Bitcoin’s push towards $75K comes amid declining bearish options flow and spot buying, with analysts leaning slightly bullish.

Victims of the $4 billion OneCoin scam can petition for the opportunity to recover funds from over $40 million in forfeited assets.

The crypto exchange will distribute a record $1 million Cronos (CRO) fighter bonus pool at the upcoming UFC fight at the White House.

SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and NEC have formed a new company to build physical AI for robots and machines, backed by $6.7 billion in government funding.

StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson said the firm building on Ethereum slashed its headcount in a move to prioritize revenue.

MiniMax M2.7 rivals Claude Opus on key coding benchmarks, but the Chinese AI lab updated commercial terms shortly after releasing the weights on Hugging Face.

The SEC released a new, permissive policy on DeFi interfaces Monday that was immediately celebrated by crypto industry leaders.

A Polymarket trader walked away with $252,000 in profits after taking advantage of the UFC’s latest “scoring error.”

Crypto exchange Kraken says it’s being extorted over stolen customer data, but won’t yield to the criminals or negotiate.

Claude Mythos could be a potentially massive cybersecurity threat, according to early testing from the UK’s AI Safety Institute.

Three years after his Horizon Worlds avatar became a global meme, Zuckerberg is back at the avatar game, this time with a realistic AI clone.

Institutional crypto investors posted their strongest weekly inflows since January, with Bitcoin and Ethereum demand rising as XRP investments cool.

Tron founder Justin Sun, a major investor in the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, lashed out at the company over the weekend.

A hacker exploited a Polkadot bridge, minting $1.1 billion worth of DOT tokens before making a tiny fraction of that tally by selling it.

The world’s largest Bitcoin mining pool operator expands into the privacy-focused Zcash token with rapid network adoption.