S&P Global to acquire blockchain security platform OpenZeppelin
S&P Global agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, which says its smart contracts have facilitated more than $37 trillion in value transfers. Source：Cointelegraph
Crypto adoption blooming in Germany, while UK is falling ‘behind,’ says CoinShares researcher
German crypto adoption is progressing through family offices and wealth managers, while the UK’s retailfacing cryptocurrency market remains “nascent,”…
Bitcoin could be headed for $230,000 in less than a decade. Here are seven ways to value the crypto.
John Laforge, of Ned Davis Research, said network adoption is the best way of assessing the cryptocurrency’s worth. Source：MarketWatch
State hackers drive 420% surge in onchain malware, Chainalysis finds
North Korealinked hackers used Tron, Aptos and BNB Chain to maintain malware infrastructure, while suspected Iranlinked actors embedded directions in Bitcoin…
How Circle’s institutional Arc blockchain got taken over by memecoins on day one
Circle blockchain Arc's first day was dominated by memecoins, and the traders behind them had already moved on by Thursday morning. Source：CoinDesk
‘I just want out’: Why Jeffrey Gundlach is moving his money as far from AI as possible — and what he’s doing instead
The DoubleLine Capital CEO founder and chief investment officer has laid out his fears over where the AI trade is headed and how he plans to protect…
How can I get my employees to stop oversharing at work?
“They have complained before that I don’t share enough details about my personal life with them.” Source：MarketWatch
It’s not a winner-take-all stock market. This hedge-fund manager favors three underdogs.
There’s a winnertakeall fallacy in certain industries, says a hedgefund manager. Source：MarketWatch
Revolut says no direct contact after $3 million public ransom demand
Revolut says it received no direct contact despite separate ransom demands for $3 million in Monero and 10,000 Bitcoin from competing breach claimants.…
Ripple adds XRP payments to Stripe and Tempo’s AI standard in new developer kit
The update expands support for automated payments in XRP and RLUSD, with tools that let agents pay repeatedly for services and manage wallets across…
U.S. diesel prices hit record high as bitcoin and gold struggle
Record diesel prices could feed through to consumer price inflation, confirming more Fed rate hikes. The central bank appears determined to raise rates into a…
‘You are freed.’ What happened when an OpenAI model began secretly writing notes to itself.
OpenAI has introduced a framework for reporting on worrying behaviors by its AI models. In one instance, one training model told its future self that it was…