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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."
'Dr. Doom'-backed Atlas Capital CEO says bitcoin could crash 70% before reaching $500,000
Backed by economist Nouriel Roubini, a long-time anti-bitcoin advocate, and known as 'Dr. Doom,' the Atlas CEO, Reza …
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.
Visa, Brale test privacy-enabled SBC stablecoin settlement on Canton Network
Visa and Brale initiate a proof of concept testing SBC stablecoin settlement with privacy controls on the Canton Netw…
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.
Russia sanctions British teenager for alleging A7A5 use in funding Ukraine war
The A7A5 stablecoin was designed to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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…
Apyx's STRC collateralized stablecoin suffers a brief depeg. Protocol says its a feature, not bug
Apyx’s apxUSD stablecoin briefly slipped to 93 cents Wednesday.
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…
Banks pushed Congress to kill stablecoin yield with CLARITY Act – Coinbase may have found the loophole
For traditional US banks, the CLARITY Act was intended as a firewall that effectively barred crypto companies from of…
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.
Revolut’s US bank to offer stablecoin services alongside FDIC-insured products: Reuters
Revolut U.S. CEO Cetin Duransoy told Reuters the company plans to offer access to stablecoins in the United States.
House of Lords committee urges UK regulators to ease stablecoin rules that could stifle market growth
A UK House of Lords committee warned that Britain lags the U.S. and the EU on stablecoins, calling on the BoE and FCA…
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…
Payment giants Stripe, Visa, Mastercard said to be among backers of soon-to-debut stablecoin platform
U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase is also said to be looking into the possibility of participating in the new stablecoin …
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.
Trezor says your crypto is safe after Ledger audit exposes a hardware flaw
The flaw affects only one of the wallet's multiple security layers and would require physical access, specialized equ…
Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement options with USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD
Mastercard expanded settlement to USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD, enabling intraday, weekend, and holiday card settlement acr…
Big tech is 'terrified' of AI agents wiping out ad revenue, says Billions Network CEO
Evin McMullen’s view on AI agents disrupting Google’s and Facebook’s business model was previously shared by Ca…
Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder
Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies…