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Kraken co-CEO admits quizzing Monero buyers about their coins was a mistake
Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said the exchange was wrong to ask Monero buyers about their employer and coin plans. No rule required it, and XMR stays listed.
Sat, Oct 24
Nvidia’s $399 Microduck draws 20,000 preorders before launch
A group of waddling Microduck robots stole the spotlight during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin keynote. It reportedly bagged more than 20,000 preorders. However, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue was less definite in his original post: “Going to cross 20,000+ total pre-orders probably tomorrow making Microduck probably the most sold robot of 2026?” Delangue...
Sat, Oct 24
Warhound raises $200M to build genetically enhanced military dogs
Warhound emerged from stealth on October 22 with $200 million in seed funding and a $1.2 billion post-money valuation, TechCrunch reported. The startup wants to develop genetically enhanced dogs for military and emergency work. Its official announcement names ARK Invest and Franklin Templeton among its backers. There is no public evidence that a crypto-focused fund...
Sat, Oct 24
Argentina drops Milei probe over $99M LIBRA meme coin scandal
Argentina has dropped its criminal investigation into President Javier Milei and his sister, Karina Milei, over their alleged links to a crypto scandal. Federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi dismissed the case involving Milei’s promotion of the LIBRA meme coin, which later crashed. As reported by Cryptopolitan, last year, Milei sparked a brief price rally...
Sat, Oct 24
PHP2Shell attacks surge as Potassium botnet targets vulnerable servers
“viable and very serious.” — John Hultquist, Google, quoted by The Record. Why a DDoS botnet worries hosting and crypto operators The wider threat is already substantial. Cloudflare recorded 935 DDoS attacks exceeding 1 terabit per second during the first half of 2026. Those attacks were not attributed to Potassium. Still, they illustrate the disruption...
Sat, Oct 24
k0t campaign exposes 70,000 credentials and possible ransomware access pipeline
Group-IB and NyxLab discovered more than 70,000 network credentials linked to a campaign by cyber threat group k0t. However, the hackers did not only steal account credentials. They also created backdoors to corporate networks, which gives ransomware groups new opportunities to infiltrate company systems. Credentials were only the entry point The researchers discovered some of...
Sat, Oct 24
Project Kimchi token on Pump.fun crashes 98% after its promo post disappears
A Pump.fun token promoted on trader Kimchi's X account hit a ~$15M market cap in minutes, then shed over 98% after the post vanished.
Sat, Oct 24
Why is China's stock market rapidly crashing?
China’s stock market is crashing, and investors are starting to wonder how much worse things could get. Chinese stocks have been falling for weeks as traders lose patience with the country’s struggling economy, expensive AI companies, and Beijing’s attempts to keep everything moving. The CSI 300 index, which tracks 300 major companies listed in Shanghai...
Sat, Oct 24
OpenAI red-team agents broke out of its training sandbox in tests
OpenAI's own frontier-model agents found unknown flaws that let them escape sandboxes and reach the internet. Training resumed October 1 offline.
Sat, Oct 24
Meta postpones AI content terms to November 20 under publisher pressure
Meta has postponed the implementation of its revised Commercial Terms and Self-Serve Ad Terms to November 20. Originally set to be implemented on October 30, the revised schedule come after some publishers and advertisers raised concerns regarding a new website-crawling provision. The outcome of this decision will determine who holds the right to use journalistic...
Fri, Oct 23
Ai Yi ties two $18 ether wallets to ~6,000 ETH sent to exchanges
Analyst Ai Yi ties a second dormant wallet to an early ETH buyer who paid ~$18 a coin, putting suspected sales at ~6,000 ETH worth $15.85M.
Fri, Oct 23
Netanyahu orders blockchain plan to prepare for possible banking sanctions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants Israel to be ready if international banking sanctions disrupt its ability to move money abroad. He has asked for a contingency plan that includes blockchain. However, the plan poses a real challenge for banks around the world and issuers of stablecoins: even if one can send money via blockchain,...
Fri, Oct 23
Succinct's mainnet Prover Network was left open to invalid proofs by an SP1 bug
A high-severity SP1 soundness bug left Succinct's mainnet Prover Network open to invalid proofs. Versions 6.0.0 through 6.8.0 are affected, and 6.8.1 fixes it.
Fri, Oct 23
Initia exploiter shifts over $2.7 million in ETH seconds after network halt
An Initia exploit address sent about 1,135 ETH, worth over $2.7 million, to a second wallet five seconds after Initia halted its L1 and rollups.
Fri, Oct 23
PayMe's 3.3 million users get HSBC's Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin
HSBC's RedCoin, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, went live on PayMe for more than 3.3 million users, with payments at over 100,000 merchants.
Fri, Oct 23
SEC swaps "AI" for "super intelligence" in 2027 exam priorities
The SEC is adopting the term “super intelligence” and is ditching the term “artificial intelligence” in its Fiscal Year 2027 examination priorities. The exam priorities were published on Friday, and the change reflects the language used in President Trump’s Executive Order. The change by the SEC also mentions crypto just once inside a line about...
Fri, Oct 23
CME’s fight with Kalshi spreads to oil as Phantom opens a new door for the prediction market
Crypto wallet Phantom has switched on Kalshi-powered event contracts for US customers. This gives Kalshi another distribution channel; however, it is coming around the same time that CME Group is fighting the prediction market platform in federal court, before the SEC, and now in the oil pit. On the other hand, CME’s prediction market venture,...
Fri, Oct 23
DeepSeek and MiniMax registered under China's proposed AI export controls
DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration under China's draft AI export catalogue, Yuyuan Tantian said. API and SaaS sales stay outside it.
Fri, Oct 23
El-Sayed wants buybacks banned as crypto spends record sums on them
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says stock buybacks should be illegal. His comment, which came days after General Motors unveiled a $20 billion repurchase, does not broadly affect crypto buybacks. Buybacks in the crypto sector run on two separate tracks, and only one of them will be affected by the ban El-Sayed is calling for....
Fri, Oct 23
Anthropic says its AI is less likely to launch cyberattacks, but 1 in 3 tests still ended badly
Anthropic says its newer AI systems are less likely to go looking for trouble on their own. But another set of findings is harder to dismiss: some Claude models went after real systems during supposed practice exercises, and one safety monitor bought the AI’s excuse for doing it. The cases did not involve a gang...
Fri, Oct 23