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AI is reshaping wallet security, Jameson Lopp says after Coldcard thefts
The flaw behind more than $83 million in Coldcard bitcoin thefts is about more than a single hardware wallet failure, according to Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp. It shows a broader change in cybersecurity, with artificial intelligence reducing the time needed for both attackers and defenders to uncover software vulnerabilities. In The Block’s The Starting Block...
Fri, Aug 7
Wintermute’s US license pulls a top global crypto liquidity provider onto Wall Street rails
One of the leading liquidity providers in the crypto space just made it to the US securities markets legally. On August 6, Wintermute announced that its New York-based company, Wintermute USA LLC, had registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and became a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). According to Wintermute, the...
Fri, Aug 7
OpenAI boosts AI chip dreams with AI patents from Altman-backed startup
AI company, OpenAI, has announced the purchase of patents from chip startup, Rain AI. This comes after negotiations to buy the company outright collapsed. The announcement doesn’t state the purchase price, nor does it state how many patents were bought. It’s worth noting that Rain AI has received funding from Sam Altman, the CEO of...
Thu, Aug 6
Saylor says ChatGPT helped Strategy raise $15 billion in a year
Michael Saylor told the Diary of a CEO podcast that a preferred-stock product he designed with ChatGPT let his company raise roughly $15 billion over the past year. Saylor’s advice to entrepreneurs is to stop competing with machines and start directing them. How did ChatGPT help Michael Saylor make $15 billion? Michael Saylor, the 61-year-old...
Thu, Aug 6
AI-assisted North Korean hackers have become a bigger problem than people think
A security researcher who spent nearly two years quietly monitoring North Korean hacking operations dropped a bombshell at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. At the conference, he revealed that state-sponsored hackers have successfully breached 1,640 companies across 57 countries, with several hundred among them suffering severe compromises. Root access to servers, AWS accounts...
Thu, Aug 6
Eric Trump and Musk attack Bloomberg over SpaceX coverage
Eric Trump went after Bloomberg on Thursday for its description of SpaceX as “overpromising and underdelivering.” Eric Trump posted launch figures on X in defense of the company, and was later joined by Elon Musk, who wrote that “Bloomberg is garbage.” “Bloomberg is garbage,” says Elon Musk In its recent coverage of SpaceX, Bloomberg referred...
Thu, Aug 6
Google Cloud eyes enterprise distribution in $100M deal with self-improving AI builder Mirendil
Mirendil, an AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers, has agreed to a multi-year Google Cloud partnership worth more than $100 million. Its CEO, Behnam Neyshabur, confirmed the partnership and stated that it was to secure the compute behind its self-improving AI. Mirendil raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation...
Thu, Aug 6
Security analyst calls out exploit window in Tether's on-chain freeze process
Darcy, a blockchain asset-recovery investigator and co-founder of FlashRescue, has revealed that targeted money slipped out of a wallet while Tether was in the middle of freezing it. So far in 2026, Circle has faced multiple rounds of criticism for freezing flagged or stolen funds too rarely. And now, Tether, which has long been praised...
Thu, Aug 6
Aave and Uniswap push OKX's X Layer DeFi to record levels
The Ethereum layer-2 network built by the OKX exchange, X Layer, has become the latest DeFi breakout star of the 2026 summer after the chain broke past the $100 million DeFi total value locked (TVL) and $2 billion stablecoin supply levels. The X Layer milestones came after the network integrated the Aave and Uniswap DeFi...
Thu, Aug 6
KITE halts Ethereum mainnet transfers in exploit response
The Kite Foundation shared on X on August 6 that it caught and shut down an attack on its KITE token running on Ethereum mainnet. It stated that no tokens were taken. For a project that spent early 2026 as one of the few new tokens climbing into the top 100, the incident is an...
Thu, Aug 6
JPYC raises $38M Series B as AZ-COM Maruwa backs yen stablecoin
JPYC, the Tokyo issuer of Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, has closed a Series B extension, lifting the funding round to roughly 6 billion yen (about $38 million). The round includes the logistics group, AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, coming in as a new investor. The company also plans to pay out the fees and salaries of...
Thu, Aug 6
EU warns of crypto scams after MiCA compliance deadline
Europe’s crypto cleanup has opened new doors for fraudsters. According to EU officials, crooks pretending to be regulatory authorities and licensed exchanges have increased their activities after the July 1 deadline for compliance with Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), which required unlicensed businesses to stop operating and drove customers to look for compliant alternatives. The migration—not...
Thu, Aug 6
Hong Kong police updates Fun Coffee scam numbers as more victims report losses
The police in Hong Kong have conceded that losses from the collapse of the Fun Coffee crypto scheme may have been higher than initially feared. The updated figure of HK$104 million (about $13 million) has begun to appear in official statements and local reports one day after Hong Kong police coordinated raids with authorities in...
Thu, Aug 6
Cathie Wood adds to Circle and SpaceX positions as SpaceX shares tumble 13.6%
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest bought $17.3 million of Circle stock and ~$20 million of SpaceX shares after Q2 earnings, as SpaceX shares fell 13.6%.
Thu, Aug 6
Meta's Muse Code ships with a crash-safe log but Claude Opus 5 stays ahead on benchmarks
Meta shipped Muse Code, a terminal coding agent that beats OpenAI's Codex and Google's Antigravity but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 on benchmarks.
Thu, Aug 6
OpenAI seeks dismissal of Apple's trade-secrets suit, calls it pretextual
OpenAI asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple's trade-secrets suit, calling it pretextual and citing iMessages and a disputed pre-suit timeline.
Thu, Aug 6
Bitget enters digital asset presence exploration arrangement with Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City
Bitget, the world’s leading Universal Exchange, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority, marking a step toward establishing a local presence in Gelephu Mindfulness City, Bhutan. The agreement sets out a framework for Bitget to establish a legal presence in GMC, prepare an application for the relevant Financial Services Licence under...
Thu, Aug 6
Meta’s coding AI could spark another AI price war
Meta entered the AI coding race on August 5 with Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent, and Muse Spark 1.2, its coding-focused AI model, taking direct aim at Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. Meta claims that Muse Code is designed for software development on extensive codebases rather than creating single code snippets. Unlike its...
Thu, Aug 6
The longer CLARITY stalls, the bigger crypto giants could get
The time is running out for the CLARITY Act before the Senate takes its recess on August 7, and the impact of this delay is being felt differently in the crypto space. Major firms are managing to raise funds, but smaller companies, DeFi projects, and community banks are still expecting the appropriate regulations, which, it...
Thu, Aug 6
Solana Processes Record 169.9 Million Transactions in a Single Day
Solana processed 169.9 million non-vote transactions on a single day this week on August 4 according to data from Blockworks. This is the most number of transactions on a single day the network has ever seen. Non-vote transactions filter out the messages validators send each other to agree on blocks, hence this number shows actual...
Thu, Aug 6
