Cryptopolitan

A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who ran a private security firm for jailed crypto figure Adam Iza has been sentenced.  The former sheriff’s deputy, who is the last of five ex-deputies to be sentenced, will spend 21 months in federal prison for abusing his badge to intimidate Iza’s enemies and hiding more than...

Officials in Belarus have registered two crypto banks to provide coin-related services as residents of the fintech hub in the capital Minsk. This is the first such move since the nation introduced the new type of entities that will combine cryptocurrency operations with traditional banking activities. Crypto credit institutions to launch operations in Belarus The...

The suspected North Korean attackers who stole roughly $388 million in the September 24 Bitget hack have started to run into roadblocks as the industry has continued to rally to plug exit routes.  As of September 29, NEAR Intents and Chainflip, two cross-chain swap services, have joined Tether and Circle on the list of protocols...

ETH is on track to close the best September since 2016, after staging a strong recovery in derivative trading. Whales and accumulation also boost demand for ETH.

AMD has made arrangements to acquire World Labs, the company founded by AI researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in a transaction that is valued at approximately $8.2 billion. This deal implies that AMD will now have its own research team working on frontier models, and this will help the company move deeper into the realm of...

Prediction markets have set another record this past week by drawing in a cumulative total of $20.4 billion in trading volume. Data from Artemis shows that this is the first time weekly volume has gone past the $20 billion mark. The week before saw volume come in just under that level at $19.8 billion. The...

A team of researchers from UC San Diego showed that a 1024-bit RSA signature can be forged by sending multiple queries to a hardware security module (HSM). In this case, the private key was never extracted from the device. This result implies yet another form of risk for crypto custodians: keeping the key inside tamper-proof...

Pope Leo XIV has condemned US President Donald Trump and Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, for downplaying the threat posed by AI technology. The Pope said that ignoring the threats posed by technology endangers our common future, and that the world should take human safety more seriously. Earlier this month, Huang rejected the idea of new...

US authorities are expanding the investigation of the crypto system that Iran is reportedly using to transfer money, now putting Tether at the center of the issue. On September 28, Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) called on the Treasury and Justice Department to look further into Tether. The company...

A blockchain investigation has extended the suspected rug-pull operations on Robinhood Chain to 56 memecoin launches. It also puts the group’s estimated take at a lower $15.5 million. Bitquery published its results on September 28. The report examines the period of the activity until September 23, which is two days after the date used for...

Anthropic 於 9 月 28 日發佈了 Claude Sonnet 5.5，這是 Claude 5.5 系列的第二款產品，該公司正爲首次公開募股 (IPO) 做準備。這標誌着評估人工智能技術的標準發生了重大轉變：雖然原始基準性能仍然是關鍵考量因素，但企業現在也開始關注交付成本…….

2026年9月28日，SpaceX首次將星艦送入軌道，釋放了26顆運行中的星鏈V3衛星。然而，由於發動機故障，SpaceX不得不提前結束任務。此次飛行證明了星艦能夠將SpaceX最大的衛星送入軌道，但並未證明該公司能夠維持足夠的…….

Meta（納斯達克股票代碼：META）推出了一項名爲 Meta 企業平臺的新業務。該平臺基於近期發佈的 Muse AI 代理構建。前 MongoDB 首席執行官 Chirantan “CJ” Desai 將擔任該平臺的首席企業平臺官，此次發佈標誌着 Meta 正式進軍企業級 AI 銷售領域，而此時 Muse 正處於…….

Strategy（納斯達克股票代碼：MSTR）已收回所有售出的 Bitcoin ，並在過去一週斥資1.427億美元購入1665枚比特幣後，將其儲備推至歷史新高。該公司提交給美國證券交易委員會（SEC）的文件還證實，其另斥資1.517億美元回購了STRC優先股。此次回購在8-K文件中披露…….

阿波羅全球管理公司首席經濟學家託斯滕·斯洛克警告稱，銀行體系面臨一種他稱之爲“代理擠兌”的威脅。他擔心，如果數百萬人允許人工智能代理將他們的儲蓄轉移到其他銀行以追逐更高的利率，那麼沒有任何措施可以阻止所有這些代理採取同樣的行動…….

Compound 基金會正面臨一位代表的挪用公款指控。該代表公開聲稱，基金會試圖通過悄悄將 842 萬 DAI 從儲備金轉換爲 COMP 代幣，來控制 5200 萬美元的支出計劃和金庫。帖子中的疑點在於其對此事的保密性…….

THORChain 出面澄清，其在 2026 年 5 月遭遇 1060 萬美元漏洞攻擊後啓動的緊急停幣，與 Bitget 請求其介入以阻止攻擊者通過其平臺轉移從該交易所竊取的 3.875 億美元資金並非同一回事。這是最新的回應…….

Aave 在 Base 鏈上推出了一個專用的 V4 金庫，提供以代幣化的 Magnificent 7 股權爲抵押的貸款。.

過去一週，市值排名前100的加密資產中，Quant (QNT) 表現最佳。Quant 是一家總部位於倫敦的公司，開發了 Overledger 軟件，該軟件允許銀行和企業將其現有系統連接到多個區塊鏈上。QNT 是其代幣，用於支付訪問該網絡的費用。.

在 OpenAI 的一款代理程序違反 Medicare 規定後，參議員 Sarah Hanson-Young 要求 Sam Altman 和 Dario Amodei 出席 10 月 1 日在堪培拉舉行的聽證會。.