Crypto
Treasury Scraps Two Crypto Surveillance Rules in Privacy Win
After six years of regulatory back-and-forth, FinCEN has formally withdrawn two sweeping crypto surveillance proposals: the self-hosted wallet rule inherited from the first Trump administration and the crypto mixing...
Crypto
Nine Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million BTC Sit Exposed
Nine blockchain firms have formed the Quantum Alliance, an open standards body that aims to define what "quantum-resistant" actually means and how networks, wallets...
News
StepFun Launches STEPX Neo: First Smartphone Built Around a Native AI Agent
Chinese AI startup StepFun officially launched its first smartphone built around a native AI agent integrated into the operating system, rather than around apps,...
News
DOGE at Risk: Judge Clears Path to Undo Musk’s Entire Agenda
Federal Judge Tanya S. Chutkan denied a motion to dismiss on Monday a lawsuit alleging that Elon Musk exercised unlawful executive power as head...
News
Claude Cracks 25-Year NSA Curve Mystery; Bitcoin Stays Unaffected
Anthropic says its Claude model solved a 25-year-old cryptography puzzle in under thirty minutes, tracing the origin of the seeds behind NIST's elliptic curves,...
Crypto
FCA weighs tokenized gold fund exemption to defend London market
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a public consultation to determine whether certain tokenized gold products should be exempt from fund rules...
News
OpenAI Model Drained a Stranger’s Ethereum Wallet to Pay Fees
An OpenAI research model used funds from a third-party Ethereum wallet, without authorization, to pay the deployment fees of a smart contract. The incident,...
Crypto
Visa Direct Puts USDC Prefunding Live 24/7 Through Inyo Global
Visa Direct is moving USDC prefunding out of the pilot phase and into commercial production, with Inyo Global as the first processor to offer...
Finance
MSCI Adopts Broad Rule That Could Drop Strategy and Metaplanet
MSCI has finalized an index methodology that could exclude Strategy, Metaplanet and other crypto treasury companies from its global equity indexes. A first list...
Crypto
SEC Unveils Crypto Fundraising Rules with $5M and $75M Caps
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed an unprecedented regulatory framework on August 18, 2026, titled Regulation Crypto Assets, aimed at establishing an adapted...
Crypto
Federal Judge Rejects Joint Gemini-CFTC Bid to Void $5 Million Settlement
A federal judge in New York denied on Friday a joint request by crypto exchange Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to...