Ethereum's top sandwich bot lost $7.5M in a counter-MEV trap
The most notorious sandwich bot on Ethereum lost $7.5M after an attacker spent weeks planting 66 fake token contracts that tricked it into signing its funds away.
June 21, 11:16
4 min.
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Fable 5 got banned. Days later, OpenRouter built a clone for half the price
OpenRouter launched Fusion — a compound AI that fires prompts at Gemini, DeepSeek, and Kimi in parallel. On benchmarks, it nearly matches the banned Fable 5 at half the price.
June 21, 08:49
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CZ Wants Satoshi's 1M Bitcoin Frozen After a Quantum Upgrade
CZ proposed freezing Satoshi's 1M BTC if coins stay unmoved after Bitcoin's quantum-resistant upgrade. The crypto community is split: market protection versus property rights.
June 21, 06:08
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Google Lost a Nobel Laureate and the Transformer Inventor in One Week
John Jumper, Nobel laureate and AlphaFold creator, is leaving DeepMind for Anthropic. Days earlier, Transformer co-author and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI.
June 20, 18:00
4 min.
Amazon Plans to Sell Trainium3 AI Chips Directly to Data Centers
Bloomberg reports Amazon is in early talks to sell Trainium3 chips directly to data centers — pivoting from cloud-only to hardware vendor and taking the fight to Nvidia.
June 20, 15:21
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CFTC Permanently Bars Celsius Founder Mashinsky from US Markets
The CFTC just resolved its first case against a crypto lending platform: Alex Mashinsky, who is already serving 12 years in prison for fraud, is now permanently banned from US commodity markets.
June 20, 12:08
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Bitcoin miner HIVE lands $220M sovereign AI deal with Bell Canada
HIVE Digital's GPU unit BUZZ HPC signed a $220M, three-year cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, placing 2,304 NVIDIA Blackwell chips behind Canada's sovereign AI push.
June 20, 09:23
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Baseten closes $1.5B round as AI inference valuation hits $13B
Baseten closed a $1.5B funding round at up to a $13B valuation — just five months after its $300M Series E. Annualized revenue tripled in a single quarter as AI inference demand soars.
June 19, 19:40
3 min.
G7 Puts North Korean Crypto Hackers on the Nuclear Threat Agenda
At the G7 summit in Évian, world leaders placed North Korean crypto theft on the global security agenda. DPRK hackers have stolen $6.75 billion since 2020, funding Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
June 19, 16:55
4 min.
Franklin Templeton Files ETFs That Reinvest Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin
Franklin Templeton filed for two ETFs where dividends from U.S. large-cap stocks are automatically reinvested into Bitcoin instead of being paid out. Launch is planned for September 1, 2026.
June 19, 13:06
4 min.
CryptoBandits Steals Crypto via USB Drives, Hides Behind Tor
Microsoft has detailed CryptoBandits, a Windows trojan spreading via USB drives since February 2026. It swaps wallet addresses in the clipboard and exfiltrates seed phrases over the Tor network.
June 19, 10:50
4 min.
Ethereum Foundation Has Lost Two Directors in a Row
Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director and board member, resigned from the Ethereum Foundation effective immediately on June 18 — the eighth senior leader to leave in five months.
June 19, 06:01
4 min.
Kentucky Sues Kalshi and Polymarket Over Alleged Illegal Gambling
Kentucky's attorney general filed lawsuits against Kalshi and Polymarket, calling them illegal sportsbooks. The platforms hold federal CFTC approval but states say that doesn't override gambling law.
June 18, 19:51
4 min.
Capital B Shareholders Back a €105B Bitcoin War Chest
French Bitcoin treasury firm Capital B won 95%-plus shareholder approval for up to €105B in financing to expand its Bitcoin holdings. The company holds 3,139 BTC today and targets 1% of all Bitcoin supply by 2033.
June 18, 16:33
4 min.
Fidelity and State Street Race to Manage Stablecoin Reserves
Fidelity launched a GENIUS Act-compliant reserve fund for stablecoin issuers, a day after State Street did the same. The $320B stablecoin market could hit $4 trillion by 2030.
June 18, 14:18
4 min.
CME Is Suing the CFTC Over Kalshi's Perpetual Futures Green Light
CME Group plans to sue the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures. CEO Terrence Duffy says the product is legally a swap — and expects to file Thursday.
June 18, 11:13
4 min.
France's Quantum Deadline Puts 1.92M Bitcoin at Structural Risk
France's ANSSI will stop certifying products without quantum-safe encryption from 2027. According to Glassnode, some 1.92M BTC—nearly 10% of supply—faces structural risk by 2030.
June 18, 07:35
4 min.
Fed Holds Rate, but 66% of Traders Now Bet on a Hike
In Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting as Fed Chair, the committee voted 12-0 to hold rates at 3.5–3.75%. The shift: nine of eighteen officials now forecast a hike before year-end, lifting futures odds to 66%.
June 17, 18:42
3 min.
U.S. Congress Moves to Block Fed CBDC Until 2030
The U.S. House and Senate struck a bipartisan deal on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which bans the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030. Private stablecoin issuers stand to gain.
June 17, 15:11
4 min.
Binance Faces EU Ban as Greece Set to Reject Its MiCA License
Greece's markets regulator is set to reject Binance's MiCA license application. Without it, the world's largest crypto exchange would lose access to all 27 EU member states by July 1.
June 17, 12:11
4 min.