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North Koreans hackers likely behind $286 million Drift Protocol exploit: Elliptic

The blockchain analytics firm pointed to cross-chain laundering patterns and Solana-specific tracing challenges that mirror prior North Korean state-linked operations.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Quantum-Powered Crypto Mining Is Here—But It Won't Help You Mine Bitcoin

Quip Network's creators say it's optimized for mining by quantum computers—a positive, unlike the looming quantum threat to Bitcoin.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

Bitcoin miner Soluna acquires $53M wind farm to power AI facility

Soluna expanded into artificial intelligence in 2024 to shore up declining revenues from its crypto mining business, mirroring an industry-wide shift toward AI workloads.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

Crypto for Advisors: Crypto custody’s evolution

Beyond simple storage, the next era of institutional crypto will be defined by the real-time connectivity and mobility of digital assets across a fragmented market.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

AI Could Become 2,000 Times More Efficient by Copying the Brain: Study

Researchers from Loughborough University are looking into a new type of computer chip that could make AI far more energy efficient.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

Bitcoin trims big loss, stocks erase 2% decline, as Iran signals cooperation on key shipping route

In the middle of a surge higher following President Trump's overnight comments, the price of WTI crude oil quickly fell nearly $6 per barrel on the news.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

SoFi expands into institutional finance with integrated crypto services

The new platform enables companies to hold funds, move money and settle transactions in fiat or crypto within a single regulated system.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Trump Admin Backs Prediction Markets With Lawsuits Against Illinois, Arizona and Connecticut

The lawsuits, jointly filed by the Justice Department and the CFTC, mark the most forceful move yet by the Trump administration to free prediction markets from state gambling regulations.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

How a Solana feature designed for convenience let attackers drain more than $270 million from Drift

The exploit did not involve a bug in Drift's code. It used "durable nonces," a legitimate Solana transaction feature, to pre-sign administrative transfers weeks before executing them, bypassing the protocol's multisig security in minutes.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Coinbase Links Up With Linux Foundation to Launch x402 Foundation

The new group will steward an open standard for embedding payments into web interactions.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

Ether at risk of new 2026 lows if bulls fail to turn $2.4K into support

Fresh lows below $1,736 could be in store for Ether price if bulls fail to hold the altcoin’s price above an important ascending trendline.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Google Jumps Back Into the Open Source AI Race With Gemma 4

Google drops Gemma 4, a family of open models under the Apache 2.0 license, just as the U.S. open-source scene badly needed a win.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

Elon Musk's X to deploy scam kill switch by auto-locking first-time crypto mentioners

The move comes in response to a wave of phishing attacks using fake copyright emails and is the latest in an attempt to shut down crypto-linked scams on the platform.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

X mulls new rules for first-time crypto posts amid tortoise scam

An executive said the social media platform could lock accounts mentioning crypto for the first time and require verification after a scammer faked reports of a tortoise's death.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

Coinbase wins initial bank regulator nod for trust charter, boosting custody push

Coinbase’s conditional OCC approval moves it closer to operating as a federally regulated crypto custodian, pending compliance and final review.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Drift Protocol's $285 Million Exploit on Solana Raises Questions Over DeFi Security

A blockchain security expert compared Drift’s lapse in security to Ethereum network Ronin's $625 million loss in 2022.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

CFTC sues 3 states over prediction market regulatory authority

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims it "first officially recognized" event contracts in 1992 and that Congress has granted it sole authority over the market.

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· about 2 months ago· CoinDesk

CFTC sues Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut over states' sports prediction market efforts

The CFTC argued in a lawsuit that the Commodity Exchange Act gave it "exclusive jurisdiction" over all swaps, which include prediction markets.

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· about 2 months ago· Decrypt

Elon Musk's X Is Making Big Changes to Combat Crypto Scams

Will Elon Musk's X finally zap crypto scams? Here's why one exec says the changes "should kill 99% of the incentive."

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· about 2 months ago· CoinTelegraph

Polymarket expands into equities and commodities with Pyth price feeds

The prediction market is introducing price-based contracts tied to stocks and commodities, using Pyth data feeds as the "resolution source" to automatically settle outcomes.

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