Aethir halts bridge exploit, promises compensation after $90K loss
Aethir said it halted a bridge exploit on its Ethereum-linked contracts, limiting losses to under $90,000 after PeckShield estimated $400,000 in damages.
Covenant AI exits Bittensor over ‘decentralization theatre,’ TAO drops 18%
Covenant AI said it was leaving Bittensor due to its overreaching control on subnets and their large-scale TAO token sales, but Bittensor’s founder denied all allegations.
Hong Kong grants first stablecoin licences to Anchorpoint and HSBC
Hong Kong has issued its first stablecoin licences, approving Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC’s Hong Kong banking arm under the HKMA’s new regime.
The fake website that led to an arrest: Inside the CoinDCX impersonation case
Inside the CoinDCX impersonation case: How a spoofed site triggered fraud claims, legal action and a court ruling that cleared the real platform.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF inflows $269M, marking a 5-week high
Fidelity and Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETFs also saw a combined $68.2 million in inflows, while four other Bitcoin ETFs also tallied inflows on Thursday.
Japan approves bill to classify crypto as financial instruments
The Japanese Cabinet reclassified crypto as a financial instrument and will enforce insider trading bans and annual disclosure mandates for issuers.
CZ hopes in 5 years people stop talking about crypto and just use it
Some industry insiders speculate the crypto sector may be just one market cycle away from full-scale mainstream adoption.
Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado arguing its AI rules restrict speech
The AI company argued that such rules would force it to feed its AI chatbot Grok with data aligned with Colorado’s political views rather than striving to be “maximally truth seeking.”
x402 protocol adds usage-based pricing for AI compute requests
The upgrade from flat fees to variable pricing is designed to support the use of AI agents for LLM inference, compute and data queries.
Bitcoin can be made quantum-safe without a protocol upgrade: Researcher
However, it could cost users between $75 and $150 per transaction in GPU computing power, limiting its practical use.