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AI Is Helping Discover Tech Vulnerabilities—And Zcash Is Just the Latest Example
Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in…
Claude Code Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Credentials From GitHub, Says Microsoft
Researchers say prompt injection attacks could manipulate AI coding agents to access sensitive credentials stored in …
CLARITY Act Momentum Slows As Approval Odds Fall To 60%
A July 4 target date for advancing crypto market-structure legislation through the Senate is now looking less certain…
Researcher who found Zcash's bug with AI adds Monero to his audit queue
Taylor Hornby, who uncovered the Orchard flaw that sent Zcash down 38%, says other privacy coins are on his list too.
Why diehard bitcoin purists aren’t sweating the massive price crash that wiped out $200 billion
Mati Greenspan, Michael Saylor and Jameson Lopp blamed the AI boom for draining capital from bitcoin. Meanwhile, Jack…
Anthropic Is Helping the NSA Hack China. It Also Wants Everyone to Pause AI
The company behind Claude embedded engineers at the NSA for offensive cyber ops, then published a report warning AI c…
AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next
After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hi…
‘Please stop the FUD’: Zcash treasury company Cypherpunk remains committed to accumulating 5% of ZEC supply
Shares of Cypherpunk Technologies plunged more than 40% following the disclosure of a critical bug that was recently …
Live updates: bitcoin falls below $62,000 ahead of jobs data as Zcash bug rocks crypto
Zcash plummeted 40% after Shielded Labs revealed a major bug that went undetected for 4 years.
BCA Warns Fed Could Be Fueling an AI-Driven Stock Market Bubble
BCA Research has warned that the Federal Reserve may be underestimating the inflationary effects of the AI boom, pot…
Zcash selloff extends past 50% amid bug disclosure as liquidations top $100 million
ZEC crashed over 50% to around $310 amid Zcash's Orchard bug disclosure and more than $116 million in 24-hour liquida…
Bitcoin in danger of dropping to $60,000, with Zcash bulls turning their backs on ZEC
AI bets are recording rapid profit-taking as Broadcom as outlook for AI-chip sales fell short of high expectations, d…
Security researcher finds Zcash vulnerability allowing ‘unlimited’ counterfeit minting; ZEC drops 31%
The vulnerability was fixed within days, and findings suggest that actual exploitation of the bug is unlikely.
Anthropic Says Claude Now Writes Most of Its Production Code
Anthropic says Claude now generates more than 80% of the code merged into production, up from single-digit percentag…
AI Is Already Developing AI, Says Anthropic—And Humans May Be Slowing Things Down
Anthropic says AI now writes most of its code and runs increasingly complex research tasks, leaving people to decide …
Google DeepMind CEO Says AGI Is Coming Fast: 'We Don't Have Long to Prepare'
The Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher says humanity is standing in the "foothills of the singularity."
Ether.fi allocates $100 million to a Plume RWA vault, giving users access to yield
The allocation comes from a mix of ether.fi's liquidity provider base and managed capital from its existing liquid va…
Chainalysis says ‘top-tier’ gray market peptide vendors turn to bitcoin and stablecoins
“To scale, the gray-market peptide trade adopted cryptocurrency as its backbone,” Chainalysis said in a report.
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Not all Ethereum layer 2s are dying, but many general-purpose chains no longer have a reason to exist
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at the state of the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem.
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Cosmos Labs acquires block explorer Mintscan, forms Korea subsidiary to expand ecosystem
Cosmos Labs has acquired Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and formed a new Korea-based subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea.
Coinbase, SpaceX, Meta join DOJ anti-scam operation that froze $3.8 million in crypto
Private-sector firms joined the DOJ's "Disruption Week," freezing $3.8 million in crypto and disrupting 1.4 million s…
The Best AI Models Still Encourage 'Harmful Intimacy' With Chatbots, Study Funds
A new study finds that leading AI models often encourage emotional attachment, portray themselves as human, and fail …
AI Lawyers Are Already Better Than Law Professors at Reasoning—Say Law Professors
Researchers found professors preferred AI-generated answers over those written by their peers, raising questions abou…
Hermes Ends AI Agent Terminal Era With Release of Official Desktop App
Until now, the only way to run Hermes was through a terminal—or one of several unofficial GUIs the community had co…
Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Do Part of the AI Work—So It Doesn't Have To
The company's new hybrid inference system routes AI tasks between your device and the cloud automatically. Privacy an…
EdgeX offers refunds and launches 200,000 USDC bounty after 71% token flash crash
EdgeX says that 174 addresses flooded a PancakeSwap pool with EDGE token sell orders during a period of low liquidity.
Ledger researchers find flaw in chip used by Trezor Safe 7; Trezor says user funds safe
Ledger's Donjon team found a laser-based hardware flaw in the TROPIC01 chip used in the Trezor Safe 7, but Trezor say…
Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure providers say
One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.