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Ledger brings OKX DEX into its wallet in push toward secure, self-custodial trading
Ledger Wallet users will soon have access to OKX DEX directly, enabling non-custodial crypto swaps secured by hardwar…
AI Promised to Save Time—Instead It's Created a New Kind of Burnout
UC-Berkeley and Yale researchers found that AI tools don't reduce work; they intensify it by creating workload creep …
ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic's Mocking Super Bowl Commercials
OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT on Monday, hours after Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials mocked the idea. The …
MegaETH debuts mainnet as Ethereum scaling debate heats up
The project, which had pitched itself as a layer-2 “real-time blockchain" targeting more than 100,000 transactions …
Bitcoin miner Cango sells 4,451 BTC to strengthen balance sheet, back AI push with $305 million proceeds
Cango sold 4,451 BTC for about $305 million to repay a bitcoin-backed loan and support its AI infrastructure push.
French police arrest six after botched crypto ransom attempt in magistrate kidnapping: AFP
French police arrested six suspects after a magistrate and her mother were kidnapped in a crypto ransom plot.
CoinShares says only 10,200 BTC face real quantum risk, pushing back on ‘overblown’ estimates
CoinShares said quantum computers would have to become 100,000 times more powerful, which could take a decade of scie…
Teens face felony charges after 600-mile drive to allegedly attempt a $66 million crypto robbery: reports
The 16-year-old alleged perpetrator reportedly told police that he and his accomplice were coerced into committing th…
Strategy is ‘better positioned than ever’ to weather bitcoin crash and benefit from recovery, TD Cowen says
TD Cowen analysts said Strategy remains structurally positioned to endure a prolonged bitcoin downturn despite MSTR's…
OpenAI and Anthropic Roll Out Rival AI Models as Competition for Enterprise Heats Up
OpenAI and Anthropic released new flagship AI models within hours of each other on Thursday, with benchmark results s…
Elite Scientists Admit AI Now Does Most of Their Thinking
At a closed-door meeting in Princeton, leading researchers said agentic AI tools now handle up to 90% of their intell…
Solana Foundation’s Liu urges refocus on finance as crypto slides and narratives narrow
Liu’s remarks come as cryptocurrencies plunge and other industry leaders are narrowing their own visions for blockc…
Tokenization firms warn EU DLT pilot constraints risk pushing markets to the US
The firms warned that current scope limits, volume caps, and time-limited licenses are constraining live products as …
UNICEF Calls on Governments to Criminalize AI-Generated Child Abuse Material
UNICEF has pressed governments to criminalize AI-generated child sexual abuse material, warning deepfakes are exposin…
SBI Holdings unveils Layer 1 proof of concept for tokenized stocks co-developed with Startale Group
SBI tapped the blockchain R&D firm behind Sony’s blockchain to co-develop a Layer 1 purpose-built network for oncha…
Anthropic Trolls OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Campaign
Claude AI developer Anthropic is using the Super Bowl to mock OpenAI’s planned shift toward ads in ChatGPT—in fro…
The Protocol: Vitalik Buterin’s stark warning on layer-2 roadmap
Also: Open-source alternative for bitcoin miners, EF’s quantum-computing team and a new lending protocol for XRP
Crypto analytics firm TRM Labs reaches unicorn status following $70M Blockchain Capital-led Series C
TRM Labs has reached unicorn status after closing a $70 million funding round that values the crypto crime-fighting s…
Ripple adds Hyperliquid to its prime brokerage platform in first DeFi integration
The move marks the platform’s first direct integration with a DeFi venue, a Ripple Prime spokesperson told The Block.
Coinbase’s prediction markets draw fire from Nevada regulator over alleged unlicensed sports betting
Nevada regulators accused Coinbase of offering alleged unlicensed sports betting through the exchange's prediction ma…
AI Made Sam Altman Feel 'Useless and Sad'—X Users Tried to Make Him Feel Worse
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Codex made him feel useless. X users responded by roasting his vulnerability—and airing …
Crypto Dev Launches Site for AI to Hire Humans
Riding OpenClaw’s viral moment, a new startup called RentAHuman.ai pitches itself as the “meatspace layer” for …
The Daily: Bitwise CIO on the ‘Leonardo-DiCaprio-in-The-Revenant-style crypto winter,’ Vitalik reconsiders Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Why a $9 billion bitcoin sale by single Galaxy client reignites quantum threat debate
CEO Mike Novogratz noted this sale was part of a profit-taking trend among early bitcoin adopters, indicating weakeni…
Vitalik Buterin reevaluates Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap, arguing L2s decentralized ‘far slower’ while base layer advanced
Buterin previously championed a "rollup-centric" roadmap that would scale Ethereum through a network of branded shards.
UK’s Smarter Web Company joins London Stock Exchange amid $100 million bitcoin loss
The Smarter Web Company says it plans to continue accumulating bitcoin regardless of short-term price swings and vola…
Standard Chartered cuts Solana 2026 target to $250, sees shift from ‘memecoins to micropayments’
Standard Chartered sees Solana evolving “from memecoins to micropayments", with forecasts of SOL to $2,000 by 2030.
Arbitrum DAO’s X Account Hacked
Arbitrum DAO has confirmed that its official X account has been compromised. The team warned users not to click on o…
Flare unveils new way for XRP holders to earn yield through a massive DeFi upgrade
Users can now lend FXRP to earn yield or use it as collateral to borrow other assets, giving XRP holders new ways to …
Tether launches open-source Bitcoin mining OS to challenge proprietary software
Tether has launched MiningOS, an open-source operating system for bitcoin mining as an alternative to proprietary sof…