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Putin offers Africa crypto payments as a way around the dollar
Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting African countries should start to settle using cryptocurrencies for the sake of their financial sovereignty. Meeting leaders from the region, he insisted such transactions can’t be stopped and urged his colleagues to take advantage of them like his sanctioned nation. ‘No one can cut you off’ – Putin touts...
Thu, Oct 29
Vitalik Buterin says AI still can't judge what new writing argues
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has found an area where humans still have a leg up over AI, pointing out an apparent weakness in working out the core argument of newly published literature that has not yet been extensively covered in its training. Vitalik wrote in July that AI was overtaking humans one capability at a...
Thu, Oct 29
Arbitrum One daily addresses jump 3.5x to 1.09 million, most since mid-2024
Arbitrum One logged 1,087,999 daily active addresses on Oct. 28, up 3.5x in a day and its most since July 2024, while transactions rose about 1.7x.
Thu, Oct 29
Polymarket faces Australia’s binary options wall as ASIC signals strict scrutiny for any applicant
Australia’s corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has received no applications from prediction market operators. ASIC’s chair told a parliamentary hearing that any applications from prediction markets that do arrive will be judged like binary options, a product the country already bans through 2031. Why is Polymarket being compared to binary options? ...
Thu, Oct 29
Samsung stock falls after record quarter as payout details slip to January
Samsung Electronics shares fell 4.13% on Thursday despite a record 107.44 trillion won Q3 profit, as shareholder return details slipped to January.
Thu, Oct 29
US sanctions North Korean IT worker network in Russia weeks after Texas laptop farm raids
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) named 10 people and one company on a blacklist targeting a scheme to place fake North Korean IT workers inside American companies. The October 28 action targeted the Russia-based intermediaries responsible for funneling the North Korean IT workers’ crypto wages into cash for Pyongyang. The move...
Thu, Oct 29
Morpho and Arc lead growth apps as DeFi users and liquidity shift in October
DeFi liquidity contracted by 7% in October, ending a three-month expansion streak. Liquidity also shifted between chains and protocols, with growth for selected DeFi apps.
Thu, Oct 29
Canadian crypto scammer gets 25 months for $13M Bitcoin theft
Trenton Richard David Johnston, a Canadian facing more than five years in prison for his role in a $13 million crypto theft, has received a 25-month sentence handed down by a Miami federal judge. The October 26 sentence came in at less than half the 51 to 63-month sentence that prosecutors were looking for. Johnston,...
Thu, Oct 29
Bitwise lifts bitcoin target to $1.6 million, sees 34.3% yearly gains beating US stocks
Bitwise projects bitcoin will compound at 34.3% a year through 2036, about five times the 6.7% forecast for US stocks, and raises its target to $1.6M.
Thu, Oct 29
Singapore police find spying hardware inside Ledger wallets from local shops
Singapore police found malicious hardware in Ledger wallets bought from local stores, with at least two cases and about S$3.5 million lost.
Thu, Oct 29
Payments could be the daily hook crypto super apps need, ChangeNOW’s TOKEN2049 panels suggest
Payments could give crypto apps the frequent use that token swaps alone often lack, speakers argued during four panels hosted by ChangeNOW at TOKEN2049 Singapore. The discussions brought together representatives from MetaMask, Trezor, WalletConnect and other firms to examine how crypto products could reach a wider audience. Payments emerge as the everyday anchor for super...
Thu, Oct 29
Fake batch root drains zkLink Nova's Ethereum escrow down to 0.001 ETH
An attacker used a forged batch root to drain zkLink Nova's Ethereum escrow to about 0.001 ETH. Blockaid put the loss at ~$786,000 so far.
Thu, Oct 29
BNB Chain’s Jenner Hardfork Goes Live on BSC Testnet With Dedicated Payment Lane
BNB Chain has activated its Jenner hardfork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) Testnet today. The Jenner hard fork brings three key upgrades to the chain that together improves payments, RWA and DeFi on the network. The headline upgrade is Payment Lane, which reserves a slice of every block for payments, such as simple BNB...
Thu, Oct 29
Solana co-founder warns firms opposing tokenized stocks to go private
The co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, contends that U.S. public corporations must evolve alongside digital assets. Those that refuse to allow their shares to be traded on-chain should withdraw from public markets entirely, he said. At the moment, tokenized stock trading is absolutely booming, but a growing list of household-name companies want absolutely nothing to...
Thu, Oct 29
Google stock plunges 10% after Alphabet’s $127.6 billion quarter disappoints Wall Street
Google stock dropped more than 10% after Alphabet (GOOGL) delivered a $127.58 billion third quarter that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. Revenue grew 25%, but spending on artificial intelligence left investors worried about cash. Alphabet’s AI bill keeps getting bigger Analysts surveyed by LSEG had expected $128.22 billion in sales and adjusted earnings of...
Thu, Oct 29
Former DOJ antitrust chiefs launch FluxCap to bring AI to plaintiffs
Big lawsuits often require big budgets, putting smaller legal teams at a disadvantage. Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki, the former heads of the antitrust division of the US Justice Department, think that AI can help get around this disadvantage. Hence, FluxCap was born, a legal AI startup specifically for the use of plaintiffs’ lawyers and...
Thu, Oct 29
Oracle caps new financing at $20B as AI spending tests cash flow
Oracle is setting a limit on its borrowing or increments it will incur through investors for its AI growth. On October 28, 2026, the company declared that any new borrowing will be restricted to $20 billion until the end of financial year 2030. In addition, Oracle anticipates a minimum cash flow of $30 billion in...
Thu, Oct 29
Volt Typhoon used Silent Train network in four confirmed zero-day campaigns
Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs researchers revealed that China-linked hacking group Volt Typhoon used a covert network called Silent Train in four confirmed zero-day campaigns. The hackers targeted platforms that manage entire networks, not just individual computers. Compromising one of these systems could give them access to telecommunications, defense, and other critical infrastructure networks. The researchers...
Thu, Oct 29
Ray Kurzweil builds an AI replica meant to speak for him after death
Ray Kurzweil, a 78-year-old futurist, is creating an artificial intelligence clone of himself that can talk, think, and learn from interactions, but he plans to keep it conversing with people even after he dies, reports The Information on Tuesday. The clone, named RAI, is a collaboration between Kurzweil Technologies, the company owned by him, and...
Thu, Oct 29
Anthropic ships Claude Enterprise cost tools as AI ROI doubts persist
On October 28, 2026, Anthropic launched three new features of Claude Enterprise. With these, organizations get insight into how employees use Claude, the cost incurred in using it, and whether they find it useful. This announcement is made against the background of growing pressure for organizations to demonstrate the efficiency of their AI investments. What...
Thu, Oct 29