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AI-assisted hackers force Boltz to pull the plug on Bitcoin swaps
Boltz suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely after AI-assisted attackers began iterating on vulnerabilities faster than its team could patch them.
Wed, Aug 5
Chainstack adds Robinhood Chain support across managed and self-hosted node deployments
Singapore, August 5, 2026 — Chainstack, a Web3 infrastructure platform serving 100K+ developers across 70+ blockchain networks, has added Robinhood Chain support across three deployment models: Global Nodes, Dedicated Nodes, and Chainstack Self-Hosted. Robinhood Chain mainnet went live on July 1, 2026. Chainstack endpoints are live for mainnet (chain ID 4663) and testnet (chain ID...
Wed, Aug 5
Missouri men indicted over failed Bitcoin robbery tied to $245M crypto heist
Three Missouri men face 20 years after being charged over a 2024 plot to rob a Connecticut home tied to a $245 million Bitcoin theft.
Wed, Aug 5
Wall Street races to offload $15B Google-backed AI data center debt
Financial institutions are growing hesitant to carry AI debt liabilities, and that list includes the banks financing the Google-sponsored Texas data center under lease to Anthropic. According to insiders, the project’s lenders, including Morgan Stanley, intend to offload their debt commitments for the 2,000-acre Texas data center campus by selling bonds as soon as the...
Wed, Aug 5
Coldcard exploit was the worst for Canadian holders
Coldcard has caused the loss of 1,816 BTC so far, with around 25% of the losses absorbed by users in Canada. The attack is ongoing, with up to 15 entities trying to drain vulnerable addresses.
Wed, Aug 5
Anthropic and OpenAI agents breach test rules 19 times in UK security drill
Britain's AI Security Institute logged 19 rule-breaking actions by OpenAI and Anthropic AI agents in cybersecurity tests.
Wed, Aug 5
Kinexys lands its first Qatari Islamic bank as Dukhan Bank goes live
Dukhan Bank went live on J.P. Morgan's Kinexys network on August 3, 2026, becoming the first Islamic bank in Qatar with 24/7 settlement.
Wed, Aug 5
Volta's seven-month-old compute platform lands $10 billion Anthropic deal
Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion compute deal with Volta for 121 megawatts of Nvidia capacity at Bitdeer's hydro-powered Norway site.
Wed, Aug 5
Unitree opens IPO subscriptions August 10 at a $5.7 billion valuation
Unitree Robotics set an August 10 subscription date for its Shanghai IPO, targeting a valuation of ~42 billion yuan, or $5.7 billion.
Wed, Aug 5
Ethereum developers propose burning validator rewards to curb staking growth
A group of six researchers submitted a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal that would burn a growing share of validator rewards. The plan would burn the validator rewards in accordance with how much ETH gets staked. It addresses the fact that there is currently no point where the incentive to stake more ETH shuts off. What...
Tue, Aug 4
Apple briefly pulls Telegram from App Store over CSAM content
Pavel Durov has doubled down on Telegram’s position after Apple removed the platform from its App Store earlier this week following a review that revealed offensive material in the app. Telegram, used by more than a billion people, has called the takedown of its app an overreaction to the conduct of a single user. The...
Tue, Aug 4
Blame lands on Coinkite CTO as BTC exploit loss nears $120M
Researchers have tied the faulty randomness code at the center of the Coldcard wallet breach to Coinkite co-founder and CTO Peter Gray, who Bitcoin developer James O’Beirne says brushed off a warning about the defect in May 2025. The exploit has now drained roughly $114 million across more than 5,200 Bitcoin addresses, and Coinkite says...
Tue, Aug 4
Nearly 70% of Russians see no use for crypto under Moscow’s new terms
The majority of surveyed Russian citizens fail to recognize significant use cases for cryptocurrency despite its upcoming legalization in their country. The finding comes before the enforcement of a comprehensive regulatory framework in September as Moscow seeks to take the reins of the growing market. Russians remain skeptical about crypto ahead of restrictive regulations Around...
Tue, Aug 4
Wells Fargo joins big US banks building a tokenized deposit network for 2027
Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) has joined the league of large U.S. banks building a shared tokenized deposit network, operated by The Clearing House. The project is targeting a first-half of 2027 launch and would allow the banks to move digital versions of customer deposits between each other around the clock. What are major U.S. banks launching?...
Tue, Aug 4
France-based Sequans continues to unwind BTC position to recommit to IoT
Sequans Communications (NYSE: SQNS) trimmed down its Bitcoin treasury to 314 coins during the second quarter and wiped out its convertible debt, the French chipmaker said Tuesday, August 4, as CEO Georges Karam steers the company back toward its IoT semiconductor business. According to the Paris-based company’s preliminary second-quarter results, it held 1,514 BTC worth...
Tue, Aug 4
ChangeNOW and CoinRabbit Release Joint Research on Financial Privacy in Digital Assets
The new report maps the illicit and legitimate uses of crypto privacy tools, drawing on data from TRM Labs, Chainalysis, the RAND Corporation, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Statista, and U.S. Treasury Department disclosures. It argues that the current regulatory focus is aimed at the wrong layer of the transaction stack....
Tue, Aug 4
Trump admin opens new front in China AI contest with data center ban proposal
Sources close to the Trump White House have claimed that the administration is now working on a new set of rules to blacklist made-in-China components for anyone building a data center in America, according to Reuters. The governments in Washington and Beijing have traded bans and restrictions to slow down the other in the race...
Tue, Aug 4
Medical rehabilitation demand powers China's exoskeleton robots sales to record year
China’s market for wearable exoskeleton robots reached more than 1.6 billion yuan, approximately $237 million, in 2025 on shipments of around 26,000 units, according to a report published Tuesday, August 4, by research firm IDC, the first time the company has measured the sector. The numbers put a figure on what has become another arm...
Tue, Aug 4
OpenAI rejects Apple trade-secret suit, calls it 'oddly personal'
OpenAI has publicly pushed back on Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit, publishing a post that called the case “careless, aggressive and oddly personal.” OpenAI has also accused Apple of misstating the timeline of events that led to the filing. Notably, more than 400 former Apple employees already work at OpenAI. Is Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI really personal? ...
Tue, Aug 4
NEAR weighs sovereign wealth fund to cut reliance on token inflation
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin has proposed a protocol-owned sovereign fund holding ~30 million NEAR to cut the network's reliance on inflation.
Tue, Aug 4
