Galaxy Research identified 1,196 addresses that lost 1,082.65 Bitcoin in a 41-minute window, expanding the estimated scope of the Coldcard wallet incident. Galaxy Research, the research arm of crypto investment company Galaxy Digital, identified 1,196 addresses linked to the Coldcard wallet incident that lost 1,082.65 Bitcoin, worth about $70.2 million at the time of the …
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Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins. The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded around the $1,890 to $1,920 range, briefly dipping below $1,900 before recovering. At the same …
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ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational wallet custody in place rather than moving broader control to the Foundation. According to the validated notes, the revised plan scraps the more contentious transfer of the DAO’s operational wallet, which includes ETH and stablecoins. …
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NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails. According to the validated notes, the system gives users access to 43 hosted AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. …
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Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees toward UNI buy-and-burn mechanics rather than direct distributions to tokenholders. The validated notes point to Uniswap Governance Proposal 100 passing with about 46.6 million votes in favor and roughly 1.27 million opposed. The mechanism collects …
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CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not just that a small public company has moved into AI infrastructure. It is that a company previously known in crypto circles for its Dogecoin treasury has now made a much larger corporate pivot. According to …
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Researchers at Galaxy Digital say about $70 million has been stolen due to an exploit in the popular Bitcoin wallet Coldcard. The attack was enabled by a firmware bug that dramatically reduced the randomness of how the wallet creates its secret recovery phrase. According to Galaxy, the vast majority of the funds were stolen in …
Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness hedge fund has transferred the majority of its publicly traded stock positions to Citadel after incurring substantial losses on artificial intelligence bets. The transaction follows efforts by the firm to find buyers for those holdings and attract fresh investor money in recent days, reports The Wall Street Journal. Among the affected …
Researchers found that fiat conversion costs and payment infrastructure, rather than blockchain fees, accounted for most of the differences in stablecoin remittance costs and settlement times. A Bank of Italy study found that stablecoin-based remittances did not offer a systematic cost or speed advantage over traditional payment channels, as fiat on- and off-ramp frictions accounted …
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Pump.fun co-founder Noah Tweedale reportedly attributed the layoffs to the company growing too quickly. Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun reportedly fired employees two months before they were due to receive PUMP tokens worth millions of dollars. According to a Friday Sandmark report, at least one Pump.fun worker was due to receive PUMP tokens worth in the …
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Thousands of dollars meant for rent at a Florida senior housing facility were allegedly pocketed by a staff member instead of reaching the housing authority. The former worker of the Jacksonville Housing Authority (JHA), Annie Marie Grant, accepted money orders from residents for housing costs, signed them over to herself, and used a mobile banking app …
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The European Central Bank proposed accessibility standards for its planned digital euro app, saying it would be one of several ways users could access basic digital euro services. The European Central Bank (ECB) said Thursday its planned digital euro app will exceed the accessibility requirements of the European Accessibility Act. The proposed design includes enhanced …
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Crypto forensics company AMLBot launched an AI-enabled tool allowing users with no specialist knowledge to trace their digital assets, even after they are stolen. Crypto forensics and compliance company AMLBot has launched its AI Tracer, described as a self-service blockchain analysis tool that maps visible fund movements from a transaction hash across blockchain networks. AMLBot …
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President Trump is weighing tighter controls on artificial intelligence in response to recent cybersecurity failures at OpenAI. Trump told reporters his administration seeks to balance stronger safeguards with maintaining U.S. leadership in the field, reports BBC. The remarks mark a notable pivot from the administration’s previously lighter-touch stance on the technology. They follow OpenAI’s disclosure …
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Situational Awareness retained about $10 billion in assets, including its Anthropic stake, after reportedly selling leveraged public stock positions to Ken Griffin’s Citadel. Ken Griffin’s Citadel reportedly bought a large proportion of the public stock portfolio of Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The Financial Times first reported Thursday …
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