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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 …
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.
Bitcoin’s selloff is creating the short-heavy setup that could reverse it fast
Bitcoin is enduring a multi-front assault on its spot market liquidity as exchange-traded funds, short-term speculato…
Bitcoin’s $63k slide shows ETF demand fighting AI equities for dollar liquidity
Bitcoin’s relationship with the S&P 500 has stopped behaving like a simple correlation trade at exactly the wrong t…
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.
Ethereum treasury giant offers 9.5% payout as BitMine paper losses top $8.5 billion
Thomas Lee's BitMine is turning to the preferred-stock market to raise fresh capital for its Ethereum strategy, offer…
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson takes “a break” – exposing who really controls ADA’s next move
Charles Hoskinson has announced that he is “taking a break” from the pressure around Cardano after an emotional p…
Coinbase launches pre-IPO perpetual futures, starting with SpaceX
Coinbase has entered the pre-IPO perpetual futures market, starting with a SpaceX contract, offering up to 5x leverage.
Zcash was rumored to have stopped working – then it became crypto’s only winner
Zcash became the subject of a brief market scare after block explorers appeared to show that the privacy-focused bloc…
Polymarket’s UMA vote upholds ‘No’ outcome on Strategy bitcoin sale market despite backlash
The dispute centers on Strategy's disclosure that it sold 32 BTC for roughly $2.5 million between May 26 and May 31.
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…
Solayer rolls out Solana-native onchain perps trading platform Margin Trade mainnet
Margin Trade enables trading of crypto, commodities, and equities via a single margin account on Solana, tapping the …
Vitalik wants DeFi price crashes to stop triggering automatic liquidations
Vitalik Buterin is challenging one of DeFi's most familiar safety mechanisms: the automatic liquidation that closes a…
Variant raises $222 million fund targeting early stage crypto, AI startups that expand ‘autonomy’
Variant founder Jesse Walden said the firm is targeting firms that expand autonomy, including in permissionless and a…
Bitcoin returns to the price that capped 2021, defined 2024, and now tests the rally again
Bitcoin is back at a crossroads it has navigated multiple times in prior cycles, and this may be where the real test …
Kraken to offer tokenized US IPO access for global retail investors via xStocks
Expected in the coming weeks, customers of Kraken and select xStocks partners can register interest in U.S.-listed IP…
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.