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The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first.

Arthur Hayes warned that Hyperliquid’s core value driver—using trading fees to burn tokens—exposes the protocol to market share losses.

Anthropic’s new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a single prompt. We ran it through six tests, and here’s how it did.

Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in crypto too.

Researchers say prompt injection attacks could manipulate AI coding agents to access sensitive credentials stored in software development pipelines.

Bitcoin surged in the wake of President Trump’s reelection, pushing to new highs deep into 2025. Now it’s down more than 50% from that peak.

Terra Luna Classic was left behind after an epic collapse almost four years ago. But there’s a community of believers who haven’t given up.

Fallout from a bug that enabled undetectable Zcash counterfeiting shows that privacy can sometimes present tradeoffs, experts say.

Strategy shares tumbled alongside Bitcoin on Friday as the firm’s flagship preferred stock also came under pressure.

The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI could soon build itself without humans in the loop.

The price of Zcash cratered following the disclosure of a serious vulnerability for the privacy coin. Can ZEC make a comeback anytime soon?

The crypto tax bills—the first of their kind to be deliberated by congressional leadership—will be discussed at a House hearing on Tuesday.

BitMine is borrowing from Strategy’s Bitcoin playbook, debuting its own preferred share in an upsized offering to raise funds to buy Ethereum.

Bitcoin has now fallen more than 50% from its October peak, dipping below $60,000 as the crypto industry reckons with the Zcash vulnerability.

Rep. Brad Sherman warned that allowing government payments in stablecoins would “sanctify an alternative to the U.S. dollar.”

Cypherpunk Technologies shares tumbled to their lowest point since March as jitters tied to a Zcash bug knocked the Winklevoss-backed firm.

The warning from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority adds pressure to a perps market already under increasing scrutiny from regulators.

The ZCash team hired a hacker to find an exploit in the ZCash protocol, and he exposed a glitch that has been out there for four years.

Pump.fun’s GO bounty platform already has hundreds of listings following its pitch to let users “Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING.”

An Orchard vulnerability that allowed undetectable counterfeiting of ZEC in its shielded pool has reignited debate over privacy coins.

Anthropic says AI now writes most of its code and runs increasingly complex research tasks, leaving people to decide which problems are worth solving.

Rep. Bryan Steil said he’ll add language to the House congressional stock ban bill to cover prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Demand for peptides fueled by the “looksmaxxing” trend has spawned a $100 million gray market paid for primarily with crypto.

The Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher says humanity is standing in the “foothills of the singularity.”

With Bitcoin falling hard this week and down nearly 50% from peak. Strategy’s Michael Saylor is pointing the finger at the AI boom.

Tether investor Christopher Harborne and BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo’s outspent Britain’s traditional political donors.

Bernstein is bullish on Bitcoin miners as they increasingly power the AI boom, assigning “Outperform” ratings to TeraWulf and Cipher Digital.

Some of America’s biggest companies helped squash crypto fraud stemming from organized crime in Southeast Asia.

Coinbase said a Michigan couple closed on the first-ever conventional, Fannie Mae-backed home mortgage by pledging Bitcoin as collateral.

The teenager’s research into Russia’s alleged illicit crypto flows appears to have prompted Moscow’s retaliation.