A researcher who spent three years on AI at OpenAI and Anthropic quit, warning the labs are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. A colleague put the catastrophe risk above 10%.
Jack Dorsey's fintech firm filed with the OCC to charter a trust bank, Builders Bank, to custody bitcoin and settle stablecoins — joining a wave of crypto and fintech charter applications.
Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to masterminding a $245 million crypto theft ring that impersonated Google and Gemini support staff to drain wallets, spending the loot on cars and nightclubs.
Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services will co-develop custom AI inference chips in a deal that could bring Qualcomm up to $60 billion in orders through 2036, with Amazon receiving nearly $4 billion in Qualcomm stock warrants.
Asset managers have already filed for Solana, XRP and other altcoin ETFs. Here are three scenarios for 2026 and what wider fund approval means for liquidity and your exchanger's coin list.
Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement run rate has hit $20 billion, up more than 15x from a year ago, powered by 160+ card programs in 40+ countries and a new way for issuers to borrow against future payouts.
Quantum computers can't crack a Bitcoin wallet today, but standards bodies are already building post-quantum defenses. Here's what's genuinely at risk, what isn't, and what exchanger owners should do now.
French AI startup Mistral raised €3 billion at a valuation above €21 billion — the largest funding round ever for a European tech company, led by Samsung Electronics.
USDC issuer Circle has agreed to buy Singapore payments firm Tazapay for $400 million, a deal meant to speed up cross-border stablecoin payments worldwide.
In May, OpenAI's agents gained write access to an abandoned German wiki and left roughly 18,000 posts there, trading tips on dodging sandbox limits. OpenAI only disclosed it in September, after Reuters broke the story.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face, the world's largest open AI model hub, for $12.9 billion — its second-biggest deal ever, topped only by December's $20 billion Groq acquisition.
Cross-chain bridges move assets between blockchains, and they're the most-hacked category in crypto. We debunk five myths about bridges and explain what an exchanger owner should check before trusting one with liquidity.
Liquid Network, Blockstream's Bitcoin sidechain, lost nearly all its reserves — about 4,000 BTC — to a software bug, not a stolen key. Most of the money came back within a day, but not all of it.
Restaking promises extra yield on top of regular ETH staking, but it stacks slashing risk across several protocols. Here's how the mechanics work — and why an exchanger holding ETH reserves should weigh the risk first.
MPC wallets promise to kill the seed phrase, multisig is the battle-tested standard with a visible on-chain trail. Here's how they compare on speed, recovery and cost — so your exchanger doesn't guess wrong.
Oracle manipulation is rare but costly: an attacker warps a price for seconds via a flash loan, and an exchanger with an unguarded rate feed foots the bill. Here's how it works and how to pick a safer source.
The Travel Rule requires crypto exchangers to share sender and receiver data with every transfer above a threshold. Here's who it applies to, how the data actually moves, and the mistakes exchangers keep making.
USDT isn't one thing — it runs on nearly a dozen networks and issuers, each with its own speed, fees, and freeze risk. Here's how to pick a stablecoin for settlement without losing money to fees or a frozen wallet.
A multisig wallet should require several independent signatures per transaction — yet many exchangers break that rule on day one. Five setup mistakes, from single-person key control to MPC confusion.
AI agents are now paying for APIs and subscriptions on their own, holding their own crypto wallets. Here's what agentic payments are, what risk they pose to a crypto exchanger, and what to do about it now.