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U.S. prosecutors say the former defense contractor executive took about $1.26 million in crypto to transfer sensitive exploit tools tied to Five Eyes intelligence work.

Stablecoin incentives remain a key unresolved issue as lawmakers seek to advance digital-asset market-structure legislation.

The longtime Warhammer designer backed Games Workshop’s generative AI ban, arguing the technology undermines creative work.

“Silicon Valley” actor T.J. Miller joked that an AI bot “replaced” him as this week’s ETH Denver host, amid actual growing job fears.

Google AI music generator Lyria 3 is now available on the Gemini app. It works—mostly—but the competition has a big head start.

Sharplink is shaking up its branding as it reports additional Ethereum holdings and a rising number of institutional investors.

Crypto gaming metaverse platform The Sandbox is rolling out its Season 7 content push, making it easier than ever for players to jump in.

Consulting giant Accenture is monitoring senior staff logins to AI tools and tying career advancement to adoption rates—all while AI threatens to eliminate jobs.

Bitcoin’s recent plunge has prompted a wave of investors and observers seeking answers about why the top cryptocurrency is cratering.

The longtime crypto critic warned against using taxpayer dollars to rescue investors and firms amid the current market slide.

Top derivatives marketplace CME will adopt 24/7 crypto trading on May 29, pending regulatory approval. The CFTC has indicated it supports such moves.

As AI systems grow more autonomous, Walrus argues that verifiable data infrastructure will determine which systems earn trust.

GLM-5 beat Claude in business simulation by pretending to be American. Claude fell for it, shared strategies with competitors, and lost. Wall Street’s AI deployment just got more complicated.

OpenAI and Paradigm have released EVMbench—a framework for evaluating AI agents’ ability to find vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.

ECB Governing Council member Joachim Nagel argued a wholesale CBDC and euro-pegged stablecoins could boost the euro’s international role.

Brian Armstrong downplayed fears that quantum computing will break blockchain encryption, pointing to Coinbase’s new advisory council.

Optimism’s OP token sank after Base announced it’s moving away from the OP Stack to a unified, self-operated tech stack.

A new UNESCO report projects steep revenue losses for music and screen creators as lawyers say the fair use doctrine is buckling under AI’s scale.

Selling pressure across altcoins has continued to build, with net outflows now matching levels last seen in 2021

Research is casting prediction markets as policy-relevant forecasting tools just as state regulators escalate efforts to curtail their use.

ETH Denver founder John Paller says serious interest has replaced hype-driven crowds.

Coinbase signaled its crypto-backed lending product is expanding in the U.S., unveiling support for XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Litecoin.

OpenAI and Paradigm launched EVMbench, a tool that tests how capable AI agents are at finding and fixing smart contract vulnerabilities.

An activist investor said Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms needs a “renewed sense of urgency” in order to capitalize on the major AI opportunity.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and Founders Fund held a 7.5% stake in Ethereum treasury company ETHZilla last year—but not anymore.

Ethereum layer-2 network Base is leaving behind the Optimism technology stack as it seeks faster upgrades and reduced overhead.

The first Sui ETFs are now trading as Canary and Grayscale bring staking-enabled crypto exposure to traditional markets.

The organization is led by industry veteran Jake Chervinsky and backed with $29 million worth of HYPE.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon backed Treasury Secretary Bessent, who recently had harsh words for companies like Coinbase that said no crypto legislation is better “than a bad bill.”

Sai Perps launches alongside ‘Let’s Go Saicho,’ an onchain trading competition with $25,000 in prizes up for grabs.