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The stablecoin issuer is seeking to raise up to $15-$20 billion for a 3% stake. Ark Invest and Softbank are in discussions to participate.

The couple told investors “Coach Wendy” would guide crypto trades, but the platform was fake and the advisor’s identity remains unknown.

In a landmark experiment, Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used “genome language models” to write and build 16 new viruses that infected E. coli—a first glimpse of machine-made evolution.

Tech experts have highlighted privacy and security risks in the UK government’s new mandatory Digital ID card scheme.

Bitcoin miner Cipher Mining has upped the price of its convertible debt offering after announcing a $3 billion deal backstopped by Google.

OpenAI’s new benchmark shows Claude and GPT-5 matching human experts at real work tasks. The worst part? Models improved 300% in just 15 months.

Bitcoin is hovering above $109,000 following $970 million in liquidations, as core inflation hits 2.9% in August and Trump announces new tariffs.

Hypervault Finance’s social media and website are inaccessible following the incident, which saw user funds sent to Tornado Cash.

Aster’s token dropped 12% on the day following the incident, which involved the native staking token for Plasma’s stablecoin-optimized blockchain.

The lawsuit alleges OpenAI orchestrated a “coordinated campaign” to steal xAI’s source code and data center secrets.

Regulators have pinged companies after unusual market moves before treasury disclosures, though no formal actions have been confirmed.

The actor received a two-year suspended sentence after embezzling millions from her own agency to invest in crypto.

Bitcoin’s rally faces a major test as $22 billion in options expire alongside a key U.S. inflation report.

Although a book by two prominent doomers labels today’s AI arms race as “suicide,” LLMs, predictably, have shrugged off the risk.

The brothers held the family at gunpoint for nine hours until the father transferred the crypto to their digital wallets.

Anthropic protestor Guido Reichstadter’s hunger strike is still going strong after fellow AI naysayers ended their own public demonstrations.

KuCoin has filed an appeal after getting slapped with a $14 million anti-money laundering penalty from a Canadian financial regulator.

A debate simmering among Bitcoiners was escalated by Michael Saylor’s social media activity, intentionally or not.

PrizePicks gets green light for prediction markets as sports betting giants rush into the booming billion-dollar sector.

Top markets on Myriad this week include price predictions on Ethereum and Solana, and the next stop for Pudgy Penguins culture coin, PENGU.

A brutal weekly decline has pushed the crypto market into negative territory for September, keeping the seasonal curse alive—for now.

Red September arrives? Liquidations are surging as Bitcoin and other major assets bleed, with Solana and Dogecoin both down 21% this week.

Built on Anthropic’s Claude, the new bot is trained on smart-money flows across two dozen blockchains.

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle is considering enabling reversibility for transactions due to needs from traditional finance players.

Bitcoin was hovering above $111,000 as markets awaited crucial U.S. inflation data that could determine the Fed’s next interest rate decision.

Internet powerhouse Cloudflare wil debut its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, the NET Dollar, to power AI agent finance.

AIQuant promises 24/7 autonomous trading across multiple blockchains, aiming to simplify and gamify algorithmic strategies via AI.

Plasma launched its “mainnet beta,” rolled out its XPL token, and handed out tens of millions of dollars’ worth of free XPL.

Google last month signed a similar deal with sustainable miner TeraWulf.

Nearly four in five users said they would be willing to pay higher fees for an exchange they trust.