Bitcoin’s complexity paradox: How layer-2 scalers became AI's main target
A string of incidents involving Coldcard, Lightning and Liquid highlights how AI is changing the economics of finding bugs in bitcoin infrastructure.…
Circle to acquire Tazapay to expand USDC cross-border payments
Tazapay processes $25 billion in annualized volume and offers payout rails across 100plus markets, extending Circle’s USDC payments reach. Source:Cointelegraph
U.S. oil prices reach highest level in over three months after Saudi Arabia says civilian and energy sites struck
A spokesman for the Saudiled coalition fighting in Yemen said 73 people were injured in attacks by the Houthi rebels. Source:MarketWatch
Cronos executes controversial blockchain rollback to recover crypto worth $111 million
Validators rolled back nearly two hours of blockchain history to recover user assets. But the attackers still managed to get away with $9.19 million before…
Bitcoin slips to $78,800 as BNB and DeFi tokens buck the selloff
Bitcoin fell 0.42% since midnight UTC to $78,874, but the CoinDesk 20 rose 0.2% and the memecoin index gained 0.41% as BNB Chain tokens rallied. Source:CoinDesk
Ledger CTO urges AI bug hunter responsibility, warns against ‘attention farming’
Ledger and Trezor said researchers have a responsibility to publish their findings if vendors fail to fix bugs within an agreed disclosure window.…
Robinhood chain to generate $160M in annual fees by 2028: Bernstein
Growing demand for tokenized stock trading may drive the Robinhood chain’s annual fees to $160 million by 2028, predicted analysts from Bernstein.…
New Bitcoin whales spark sell-side risk as unrealized gains hit $9B
Unrealized gains by whale speculators hit their highest levels on record last week, per data going back to 2016. Source:Cointelegraph
Tracking cocoa may be just the beginning for PwC, Merck, Hashgraph provenance system
The firms say their combination of physical authentication, digital traceability and enterprise process design has no precedent in supply chains, and cocoa is…
U.S. stocks usually stumble after Fed hikes, but these markets tend to climb, says Citi
The relative returns for Japanese and U.K. equities reach between 2% and 3% on average following the first interestrate raise in a hiking cycle by the Federal…
Goldman Sachs flips on oil-price forecasts and says $120 Brent could be next.
In the span of just three months, Goldman Sachs analysts have gone from lowering their oilprice forecasts to hiking them. Source:MarketWatch
‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans sells his L.A. home, but at $1 million under asking price
Chris Evans has taken a $1.01 million hit on his Los Angeles mansion, selling the property for $5.38 million as he bids farewell to California and makes his…