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Coinbase CEO Expects AI Model Costs to Fall 99% for Most Use Cases
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said AI model costs for most workloads could fall by 99% over the next 12 to 18 months …
Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto's Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn't Ready
The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover crit…
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 t…
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
The product is built on Payward's xStocks framework, the tokenized equities platform Kraken acquired through its purc…
Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not
Anthropic's new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a…
Ethereum Foundation cuts and departures aren't a crisis, Joe Lubin says
The Consensys leader told CoinDesk the Ethereum Foundation's role should be narrower and more focused on stewarding t…
HTX to delist Trump-linked USD1 after saying World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked addresses
The move follows World Liberty Financial's apparent freeze of HTX-linked on-chain addresses, citing UK sanctions comp…
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 …
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.
Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets
Crypto exchanges are seeing the weakest retail-driven activity in years, but some of the biggest platforms are findin…
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…
Securitize clears SEC registration statement hurdle, sets path to NYSE listing as SECZ
Securitize's SPAC merger is expected to close shortly after a CEPT shareholder vote, if approved, later this month.
Crypto Council for Innovation launches coalition to push for regulatory clarity on vaults
A new coalition is forming, focused on crypto vaults, an increasingly popular mechanism for depositing digital assets…
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…
South Korean police investigate local Polymarket users on illegal gambling charges: report
South Korean Polymarket users could be subject to a fine of up to 10 million Korean won, which is worth around $6,495.
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…
Aptos powers B2B stablecoin corridor pilot between MENA and Africa
The pilot could enhance cross-border trade efficiency, but regulatory variability and adoption challenges may impact …
JPMorgan, Citi-backed consortium plans to launch tokenized deposit network in early 2027: WSJ
The initiative would enable tokenized deposits to move instantly and support around-the-clock settlement, the Wall St…
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 …
White House crypto adviser Witt defends Clarity Act, calls it ‘pro-law enforcement’ as lawmakers race to pass bill
The White House's top cryptocurrency adviser, Patrick Witt, called the Clarity Act a "pro-enforcement bill," despite …
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.
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…