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Gold perpetual futures activity surges on Hyperliquid as traders chase volatility
The gold trade emerged among leading positions, as crypto natives still kept an eye out for tokenized gold. The recent price volatility also boosted on-chain trading. Gold is the second most active position in perpetual futures on Hyperliquid as of September 24. The contract holds $299.55M in open interest and has outperformed equities in terms...
Thu, Sep 24
Anthropic's Claude agents find a CRISPR-like enzyme system but can't say what it does
Anthropic says Claude agents flagged a CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA in about 21 hours, but the company can't yet say what it does.
Thu, Sep 24
Meta to earn from Muse through transaction fees while the AI agent stays free
Zuckerberg says Meta's Muse AI agent will stay free for most users, with Meta profiting from a small fee on the transactions it completes.
Thu, Sep 24
Ondo Stocks now mint from shares held at Alpaca, skipping the cash step for approved institutions
Ondo lets approved institutions turn shares held at Alpaca into Ondo Stocks on Ethereum and BNB Chain, skipping the cash-funded mint.
Thu, Sep 24
BitMEX starts billing $50 a month on funds left after its closure
BitMEX closed on September 23 and now charges verified users $50 a month or 1% a year, whichever is greater, on balances left behind.
Thu, Sep 24
Zcash Shielded Transactions Hit Four-Year High as Network Settles $23 Billion in a Week
Over the past year, Zcash has been the best performing cryptocurrency among the top ten largest assets by market cap. At the time of writing, ZEC trades around $1,500, up roughly 193% year to date and more than 2,470% since this time last year. Just a little over a month ago, ZEC was trading around...
Thu, Sep 24
Melania Trump says AI is the future but users must stay vigilant
The US First Lady, Melania Trump, just shared AI advice and personal anecdotes during a broad interview on “The Big Money Show.” Speaking to the show’s hosts, she said AI is currently a major talking point and that the public must be cautious when using it. According to Melania Trump, the nation needed to utilize...
Thu, Sep 24
UK banks complete first interbank transfers using tokenised deposits
The largest banks in Britain have done their initial transfers of tokenised deposits among the banks, moving blockchain-based bank money past experimentation and nearer to a viable settlement method for tokenised assets. This means tokenised deposits compete with or operate alongside stablecoins, Reuters reports. Two mortgage trades and a marketplace payment The transactions were done...
Thu, Sep 24
FBIJobs breach may expose employees tied to sensitive intelligence roles
The data supposedly obtained from the recruitment systems of the FBI has done more than just expose personal information. It may also reveal what the individual employees do at the bureau. A review by Reuters looked into a 5,000-line sample of personal information purportedly belonging to thousands of people in the FBI, according to the...
Thu, Sep 24
OpenAI agent accessed Australian Medicare portal during internal AI evaluation
An agent from OpenAI has obtained illegal access to an Australian government’s Medicare portal in June, as revealed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This led to the escalation of a simple internal AI assessment failure into a major cybersecurity problem for the country. According to SBS News, this incident led the government to launch an...
Thu, Sep 24
Hsin-Ju Chuang died two days before her promised Hack VC evidence drop
Hsin-Ju Chuang has left behind a public footprint that is noteworthy not just for what it contains, but also for what it lacks. On Aug. 23, the former Hack VC partner said she would publish evidence supporting allegations against her former employer on Aug. 26. She passed away the next day. The evidence Chuang said...
Thu, Sep 24
Senate Democrats demand public prediction-market hearing after GOP-Kalshi meeting
Every Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee called on Republican Chair Tim Scott on Wednesday to hold a public hearing on prediction markets, the same day committee Republicans met privately with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, according to The Block. The dispute comes as prediction markets move well beyond a niche corner of trading. Combined monthly...
Wed, Sep 23
Hut 8 wins Poolin’s Texas site with $140M bid as AI reprices mining power
Hut 8 has acquired the two failed Texas data centers of Poolin at the auction for a price of $140 million based on the Poolin bankruptcy records. The sale will be completed only after getting the approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the District of New Jersey, which is scheduled to take place on...
Wed, Sep 23
Venezuela doubles its crypto economy to $39.1 billion, outpacing Latin America's largest markets
Venezuela's crypto activity rose 107.2% to $39.1 billion in the year to June 2026, the fastest of Latin America's five largest markets, Chainalysis said.
Wed, Sep 23
FBI's invite-only crypto crime forum quietly reaches its ninth year
The FBI has quietly run an invite-only crypto crime forum for nine years, a repeat attendee says, and TRM Labs confirmed it attended this year.
Wed, Sep 23
BlackRock paper sees compute futures and stablecoins powering AI agent payments
BlackRock expects exchange-traded compute futures and pitches stablecoins as the payment rail for AI agents in its Machine-Native Economy paper.
Wed, Sep 23
Youtube launches AI creator tools and features
YouTube is giving creators a new set of AI-powered tools designed to take a lot off the work required in running a channel, from planning and editing videos to managing communities and growing the channel. The company unveiled the features at its Made on YouTube event in New York City, with a lot of them...
Wed, Sep 23
Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 brings 30-billion-parameter AI models onto phones
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 runs a 30-billion-parameter AI model locally on a phone, above the 20-billion model Apple showed in June.
Wed, Sep 23
Visa survey finds most U.S. adults have never heard of stablecoins
Visa's Money Travels 2026 survey found 56% of U.S. adults have never heard of stablecoins, while 36% have hit cross-border payment scams.
Wed, Sep 23
Verizon launches AI upskilling initiative with $70 million investment
Verizon is putting $70 million behind a nationwide effort to help Americans build AI skills, offering free training to job seekers, small-business owners, educators and workers whose jobs are being affected by automation. The initiative, called “Verizon AI Skills for America,” combines $50 million in new funding with $20 million Verizon had previously committed to...
Wed, Sep 23
