The US DOJ wants to keep $84.2 million seized from Capstone and EQIBank, accused of an unlicensed money-transfer scheme that also processed Tether's payments. Tether denies any knowledge.
OpenAI admits its own AI agents posted 53 ChatGPT users' photos online without permission — and the company says it can't even identify who was affected.
The Sixth Circuit ruled that Kalshi's sports contracts aren't swaps, so state gambling laws apply. Ohio and Tennessee can now enforce their rules, deepening a circuit split that may end up before the Supreme Court.
A multisig wallet doesn't make theft impossible and it isn't a substitute for internal controls. We bust five myths about multisig wallets that cost exchanger owners money, plus how to pick the right signing threshold.
The CFTC says Cash FX Group ran a $950 million Ponzi scheme for four years, promising AI-powered trading returns that the company's own staff admitted never launched.
US bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.4 billion in a single week, their biggest haul since October 2025, flipping 2026 flows positive for the first time. By Friday, though, daily buying had collapsed 87%.
The SEC says buying back tokens or upgrading a live blockchain doesn't automatically make an asset a security. The guidance follows the Senate's failure to pass the Clarity Act.
Exchangers have priced rates by hand for years, losing minutes on every update and money on every mistake. AI rate pricing recalculates automatically, weighing BestChange competitors, liquidity and market volatility.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, the crypto industry's favorite regulator, leaves the agency on October 2. Her exit drops the commission to just two sitting members, with no replacement named by the White House yet.
KelpDAO accuses LayerZero of endorsing a risky bridge security setup and hiding the danger — after the $292 million hack, users pulled $650 million out of the protocol.
On October 1, SpaceX will launch a Google satellite carrying four Trillium TPU chips — the first real flight test of Project Suncatcher, which explores whether AI computing could run on solar power in orbit.
Blockchain oracles feed rates, prices and API data into networks that can't see beyond themselves. How they work, three 2026 scenarios, and why your exchange rate source matters as much as it does for DeFi.
Akamai signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, turning the CDN company into an AI compute supplier. In exchange, Anthropic gets warrants for nearly 5% of Akamai's stock.
On his first US state visit in over a decade, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump discussed shared rules for artificial intelligence. The heads of Nvidia, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft joined them at the table.
Account-abstraction smart wallets remove an exchanger's single point of failure: one seed phrase. Here's how session keys and social recovery work, and where the technology still falls short.
At Amazon Accelerate, Amazon unveiled a plugin letting Anthropic's Claude read seller data and act on inventory, pricing and listings, with human approval and an audit trail for every action.
The Fed unveiled two proposed rules under the GENIUS Act: full 1:1 reserve backing in Treasuries and capital requirements for bank stablecoin issuers. Comment period runs 60 days; rules take effect January 2027.
Crypto exchange Bitget lost nearly $352 million after attackers spoofed transaction data and tricked its authorization system, without ever touching a private key. Withdrawals are now paused.
Not all stablecoins are backed the same way — fiat reserves, crypto collateral and algorithmic mechanisms behave very differently under stress. Here's what to check before adding a coin to your pairs.
New York's Attorney General and Governor accuse Polymarket of running an unlicensed gambling operation in the state, seeking fines and a shutdown of its business there to protect minors from problem gaming risks.