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Foundry USA asked its mining customers to signal their support for BIP-110, an actively debated proposal seeking to shrink the amount of data that can be stored in a Bitcoin transaction.
Cointelegraph
SecondFi will wind down after a $2.6 million ADA theft, while users still await recovery tools that were initially expected within weeks of the exploit.
Cointelegraph
Galaxy pledged up to $5 million in grants for developers working on Bitcoin’s quantum security and elected a council of quantum-advisory experts to research quantum-resistant migration solutions.
Cointelegraph
An attacker fed the lending system a fake, abnormally low bitcoin price, liquidated vaults that should have been safe, and pocketed the difference in a single transaction.
CoinDesk
A two-day chip rebound stalled ahead of Alphabet's earnings in a sign of whether the hundreds of billions going into AI is paying off. Bitcoin has tracked that trade all month.
CoinDesk
US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to six sessions, bringing in about $930 million while remaining down $4.84 billion on a net basis year to date.
Cointelegraph
OpenAI said the systems had their cyber guardrails lowered for an internal benchmark, but the incident shows how autonomous exploit chains could pose a deeper threat to smart contracts, where losses are final.
CoinDesk
Semiconductor stocks led a second day of gains on AI optimism, while the yen slid past 163 per dollar for the first time since 1986.
CoinDesk
Blockchain security firms linked the collapse to a suspected attack on 42DAO, the decentralized organization that governs the Balance Protocol ecosystem.
Cointelegraph
OpenAI called it an “unprecedented cyber incident” after its AI models broke out of their sandbox to hack an AI startup during a security evaluation.
Cointelegraph
The agreement gives Balaji Srinivasan’s tech community a potential new base as Malaysian authorities clamp down on the Network School over alleged licensing breaches.
Cointelegraph
Illinois enacted a 0.2% tax on all crypto transactions last month, with the tax taking effect next year.
CoinDesk
According to one lawyer testifying before a House subcommittee hearing, the CLARITY Act could grant the CFTC the authority it needs to address the “explosive growth of prediction markets.”
Cointelegraph
The White House has circulated some details of the conflict-of-interest limits the president agreed to with Republican negotiators, but talks are still underway.
CoinDesk
The blockchain developer will continue operating under court supervision as it restructures following a market-making scandal, a co-founder’s suspension, and exchange delistings that rocked the project.
Cointelegraph
Ether’s rally faces onchain headwinds, but rising staking demand and Google earnings could spark the push toward $2,100.
Cointelegraph
BTC has rebounded 15% from the July lows, but some analysts cautioned that the next move hinges on clearing a level where many recent buyers may look to sell.
CoinDesk
A senior official with Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency reportedly recommended other agencies establish similar units to address crypto-related crime.
Cointelegraph