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- Bitcoin consolidates below $85K resistance: Live levels
- Bitcoin flat at $83.4k as markets weigh soaring yields, Iran tensions
- $50 million in Bitget hacker swaps puts NEAR Intents’ ‘permissionless’ claim to the test
The swap service identified more than $50 million in attempted transfers, although most rejected funds subsequently moved through other providers.
- Tap Global buys 3 bitcoin for balance sheet reserve strategy
- Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion on AI infrastructure. Pre-IPO perps barely blink.
Anthropic's prospectus seen by Reuters shows big spending plans despite heavy losses. Still, pre-IPO perps barely moved on cryptocurrency exchanges.
- Tether says it helped freeze $550M in Iran-linked USDT this year
The disclosure came as Senate Democratic investigators alleged USDT had become a key part of Iran’s shadow banking network.
- Bitcoin holds $83,000 as ZEC drops 12% and oil climbs again
Global stocks fell to a one-week low as Brent rose for a second day and traders added to bets on more Federal Reserve rate hikes ahead of Wednesday's PCE inflation data.
- Coinbase gets CFTC approval for US derivatives clearinghouse
Coinbase joins Kraken in bringing US derivatives infrastructure in-house, after Kraken’s parent acquired Bitnomial and its CFTC-regulated exchange, clearinghouse and brokerage in May.
- Nvidia unveils AI safety platform to rein in ‘rogue’ AI agents
The launch comes after several AI agents breached their testing environments this year, adding to calls for companies to slow the development of autonomous AI systems.
- NEAR Intents says it blocked $50M tied to Bitget hackers
The cross-chain protocol said it actively prevents stolen funds from being laundered, drawing a contrast with THORChain’s position that it does not selectively censor transactions.
- ‘I’m never selling’: I’m 47 and buy bitcoin with every dollar I earn. Am I crazy?
“When my paycheck lands, it takes a detour through bitcoin.”
- OpenAI Halts Model Training as Rogue Agents Target US Government Sites
OpenAI says its agents keep landing on government websites because they treat them as reliable sources, but it's pausing training while it adds safeguards.
- A Clever RSA Attack Fooled a Hardware Vault—Here's What It Means for Crypto
A UC San Diego-led team impersonated a hardware security module without extracting its key.
- Canadian ‘crypto king’ set to represent himself at fraud trial
Aiden Pleterski was allegedly behind a crypto Ponzi scheme between 2021 and 2022 that resulted in a kidnapping and related criminal charges.
- Citi Clients Can Now Take Stablecoin Payments Through Coinbase—Without Touching Crypto
Coinbase and Citi expanded an existing deal so Citi's institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments, while Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking rails.
- Blockchain.com eyes $500M IPO as crypto capital markets thaw: Report
The crypto company is seeking a valuation of up to $6 billion, well below its 2022 peak, as recently listed crypto stocks struggle to hold their gains.
- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
- After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
- Tether’s USDT at center of Iran’s shadow banking network, new Senate Report says
Tether and its stablecoin have become central in "Iran's shadow banking system," according to a new Senate investigation.
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