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Crypto trader Frogman loses $4 million to a wallet drain on TOKEN2049's opening morning
Tokens drained from trader Frogman's Solana wallet were sold in four equal lots within nine minutes, and he says his phone and email show no breach.
Wed, Oct 7
BlackRock's ETHA drives a sixth straight day of ether ETF outflows as bitcoin funds add $119M
Spot Ether ETFs lost about $408 million over six straight sessions through Tuesday, while spot Bitcoin funds took in $119 million, led by IBIT.
Wed, Oct 7
Meta turns AI on ads that steer users to child abuse material off Facebook and Instagram
Meta now checks where an ad leads as well as what it shows, using new AI tools to catch ads that point people to child abuse material.
Wed, Oct 7
OpenAI, Anthropic, AMD and others are committing more than $1 billion to Trump’s Genesis Mission
OpenAI, Anthropic, AMD, and other technology companies are putting more than $1 billion behind President Donald Trump’s Genesis Mission, giving the White House a serious private-sector boost for its AI science push. Trump is expected at an artificial intelligence summit (AI) tomorrow, where the administration plans to unveil those commitments alongside more than $100 million...
Wed, Oct 7
BitMine nears 5% ETH cap as Lee says it may sell staking rewards
BitMine Immersion Technologies has bought Ethereum every single week since June 30, 2025, becoming the most dependable source of demand the token has. BitMine’s Chairman, Tom Lee, has announced that the long-running accumulation of ETH by the company will end once it holds 5% of the supply. Will BitMine stop buying Ethereum? BitMine’s Chairman, Tom...
Wed, Oct 7
Moody's agrees with S&P, hands Sky the same junk grade for the same reasons
On October 7, 2026, Moody’s Ratings scored Sky Protocol a B3 issuer rating with a stable outlook. This happens to be the first-ever rating the agency has assigned to a stablecoin protocol. This is an important move to institutional investors who may be sitting on the fence as regards USDS, because it gives the dollar...
Wed, Oct 7
Florida after court injunction to restrict teens from accessing Meta's Facebook, Instagram
Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier has asked a state court on Wednesday to order Meta to remove all children under 14 from Facebook and Instagram and switch off all features the state claims keep teenagers scrolling. The request, filed in Pasco County Circuit Court, would hand Florida minors and their parents sweeping new limits on...
Wed, Oct 7
Polymarket CEO calls 100x token chasing "hot potato"
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan has said that traders who are hunting the next 100x token are playing a game of “irrational exuberance and hot potato.” He said this on Wednesday, October 7, at the ongoing TOKEN2049 Singapore event, and his warning is aimed at the retail speculators that his prediction market is trying to win...
Wed, Oct 7
Europol finds the quantum risk to crypto sits in exposed wallets, while blockchains hold up
Europol says crypto will not collapse under quantum computing, but wallets whose public keys are already on-chain must move funds before any attack.
Wed, Oct 7
Daniel Rhyne jailed 32 months over 20 BTC ransom demand on his employer
A former engineer who locked his New Jersey employer out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, about $750,000, got 32 months in federal prison.
Wed, Oct 7
Danaher to launch AI-powered lab for drug discovery in 2027
Danaher Corporation has announced that it will build its first AI-powered autonomous laboratory meant to design, build, and test custom antibodies with minimal human intervention and with plans to reach full operating capacity in early 2027. Danaher supplies different instruments and reagents for drug developers and academic researchers, and the new lab is aimed at...
Wed, Oct 7
Anyone can now check files against Google's SynthID AI watermark, applied to 180 billion images and videos
Google opened its SynthID AI detector to everyone in English after watermarking over 180 billion images and videos and 240,000 years of audio.
Wed, Oct 7
Elon Musk rules out TSMC in Terafab AI operations
Elon Musk has said Tesla and SpaceX will build and operate Terafab, the semiconductor plant he is developing in Texas, putting to rest speculation that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) could take over the project and its operations on any scale. Musk posted the comment on X in reply to a video, days after telling...
Wed, Oct 7
Tether moves into Kazakhstan's "CryptoCity" one month after Binance
The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) and the Alatau City Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with USDT issuer, Tether, to explore frameworks for a tenge stablecoin and real-world assets tokenization. The deal announced by the stablecoin issuer on Wednesday, October 7, adds a new name to Kazakhstan’s push to become Central Asia’s...
Wed, Oct 7
Genius Group restarts its bitcoin treasury with a 10-coin purchase
Genius Group, the Singapore-based education company that once held 440 bitcoin, has started buying again. The company will be starting its reserves from scratch after it sold all 440 coins it held to clear debt. Is Genius Group holding Bitcoin? Genius Group (NYSE American: GNS) said on October 6 that it acquired 10 bitcoin for...
Wed, Oct 7
Microsoft and Nvidia partner to unveil AI-powered surface laptops at San Francisco event
Microsoft will launch its Surface Laptop Ultra line of laptops at a San Francisco event on Wednesday, a new line of premium Windows PCs using Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip and built to support AI agents directly on the device instead of operating them on the cloud. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang...
Wed, Oct 7
Cardano built a freeze button for stablecoins it doesn't have yet
The Cardano Foundation is getting ready for a future where issuers of regulated tokens can freeze or seize stablecoins, funds and bonds issued on the blockchain, as confirmed by the compliance toolkit. Per Cardano, the toolkit that went live on mainnet on Wednesday will allow issuers to screen recipients and also block sanctioned wallets on...
Wed, Oct 7
AMD still exploring Samsung Foundry partnership, CEO Lisa Su says
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is still considering a foundry partnership with Samsung Electronics, CEO Lisa Su said in Seoul on Wednesday, as the chipmaker works to secure the memory supply needed for its next generation of AI accelerators. Su met with Jun Young-hyun, Samsung’s vice chairman and head of its Device Solutions division, at the...
Wed, Oct 7
EU weighs broad corporate levy to tax Big Tech without angering Trump
Brussels is looking at a way to pull more money out of Apple, Google, and Meta while giving Washington no reason to retaliate against it. The country is considering including the tech giants in a flat levy placed on every large company operating in the bloc. Is the EU going to impose more taxes on...
Wed, Oct 7
Bank of Russia greenlights country’s first crypto exchanges and depositories
Bank of Russia has authorized several entities to join the country’s recently regulated cryptocurrency market, making them the first legal providers of digital-asset services. Two major state-owned banks are among the approved participants, a clear indication that Moscow intends to keep the expanding industry under strict government control. Central bank clears Russia’s first crypto trading...
Wed, Oct 7