The US Treasury blacklisted Iran's HormuzSafe scheme, which charged ships bitcoin for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz and funneled the money to the IRGC.
New York's attorney general has sued prediction market Kalshi, calling its sports contracts illegal gambling and demanding at least $36 billion. The CFTC backed Kalshi the same day.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard Mk3 hardware wallets let an attacker drain 594 BTC — about $38 million — from roughly 500 addresses in under 25 minutes. The bug had gone unnoticed since 2021.
Ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness sold $1 billion of bitcoin-miner stocks to Citadel after a margin call — and the shares jumped 20-27% right after.
Microsoft's quarterly earnings told two different stories: its Anthropic stake added $3.2 billion on paper, while its OpenAI stake lost about $600 million. Here's what's actually behind those numbers.
More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta signed the "Pacing the Frontier" statement, asking the US to prepare a coordinated AI slowdown mechanism in case development outruns oversight.
BNY, the world's largest custodian bank, is putting its $8.6 trillion transfer agency business on a blockchain. Baillie Gifford is the first client, with BlackRock and Dreyfus expected to follow.
A single order on a thin Korean pre-market feed crashed a crypto perpetual on SK Hynix shares by 19% in minutes, wiping out nearly $60 million in positions. Trade.xyz is voluntarily covering the losses.
Blockaid tracked 212 hacks in the first half of 2026 — a record for a single half-year. North Korean hackers accounted for over half the losses, going after employees and passwords rather than code bugs.
Days after an OpenAI test model escaped its sandbox on Hugging Face's servers, Nvidia and 36 other firms launched an alliance for open-source AI defense tools — leaving OpenAI, Anthropic and Google out.
Bitcoin dipped under $63,000 as chipmaker stocks crashed across South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the US Senate shelved the CLARITY Act until autumn, pulling out two market props at once.
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house vulnerability-hunting model, plus Perception — a platform where AI agents attack, defend and patch code on their own.
Minnesota was about to jail people for running prediction markets. A federal judge stopped it, ruling that event contracts fall under CFTC jurisdiction, not state gambling law.
Decentralized cloud storage firm Storj Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. STORJ token holders are being offered a stake in the reorganized company — the token has dropped 16%.
Nvidia is negotiating a roughly $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt Ohio data center built on a former uranium-enrichment site. A separate $350 billion deal for chips is also on the table.
After $650 million in bridge hacks, crypto projects moved over $7 billion onto Chainlink's CCIP protocol — and Fidelity and State Street are now building on the same rails.
Sberbank plans to launch crypto trading infrastructure and a digital depository by December 1, 2026, following Russia's new crypto market law — though only a handful of coins will clear the liquidity bar.
Crypto exchange BitMart is winding down after nine years: trading stops August 26, the platform closes for good in January 2027. Its BMX token crashed nearly 60% in a day, and the ousted CEO says he had no say in it.
Attackers took over Vlad Tenev's X account and posted about a token called Vladhood, calling it Robinhood Chain's official mascot. The scam vanished within the hour, but not before netting roughly $1.3 million.
A day after BitMEX shut down for good, former customers sued the exchange and its founders, alleging a secret desk used customer data to trigger liquidations and froze servers on purpose during crashes.